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RT @MZanona: Trump said he'd rather have the Dem candidate win. But GOP leaders are brushing it aside. "The former President can do whatev… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanobles: “The three-volume report by the Cyber Ninjas, the Senate’s lead contractor, includes results that show Trump lost by a wider… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he’d rather see Ds elected than these members. GOP leaders don’t see it that way. Scalise, for instance, says two Rs who voted to impeach — Valadao and Katko — are “solid members of our conference.” Upton hasn’t decided whether to run but his colleagues want him to — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @burgessev: NEWS: McConnell warms to Herschel Walker as primary war with Trump fizzles In interview McConnell says of Walker: “He calle… — PolitiTweet.org

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Chuck Grassley, the longest-serving GOP senator in the body and who just turned 88 last week, tweets that he’s running for re-election. He told me last week: “I think I keep the same schedule as when I was 65 years old, maybe even 40 years old.” https://t.co/vShu1Ikzme https://t.co/cP0fqDadLY — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate will vote Monday at 530pET to break a filibuster and advance a bill to keep government open and suspend debt ceiling. Vote will fail, leaving Congress just three days to avoid a shutdown. — PolitiTweet.org

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The panel will put together as one package the individual pieces of the bills approved by 13  House committees this month. This committee cannot amend package. It will approve it as one bill, and send it to House Rules, which can amend it with whatever deal is ultimately cut — PolitiTweet.org

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Schiff says on CNN if any of the witnesses defy the subpoenas, he hopes they will move swiftly to enforce them and that “the Justice Department would be open to be considering potential criminal contempt charges against anyone who ignores the law.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Scavino letter: https://t.co/CXplkWgpfS Kash Patel: https://t.co/jM6Q9caRvl Bannon: https://t.co/GLis2qs0Kz — PolitiTweet.org

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Sinema: “We know we still have work to do. So it's my belief that it's our job in Congress to do this work in a way that doesn't increase prices for everyday families but gets them the support that they need.” Calls for “targeted” bill; speaks positively about climate provisions — PolitiTweet.org

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New - Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas depositions and records from: Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel. Here’s the Meadows letter: https://t.co/cE6JbWUppc — PolitiTweet.org

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer would not guarantee that the Senate's infrastructure bill will get a vote on Monday. "I think we will find out over the next 72 hours where we are," he told us — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MZanona: In an interview w/ Real America's Voice News today, Trump was asked about a report from @mkraju @arogDC & me about McCarthy fu… — PolitiTweet.org

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But Pelosi has said that she won’t bring a bill to the House floor that has a different price tag than what the Senate will agree to. So there are tons of differences to resolve before floor action will occur. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yarmuth also told @AnnieGrayerCNN the committee vote could happen Friday if the GOP allows them to have the vote then. Otherwise, it will occur Saturday. — PolitiTweet.org

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The panel’s vote will be on the legislation that has been approved by 13 House committees. The committee will bring those individual pieces together and approve it, readying it for eventual floor action. — PolitiTweet.org

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The move is an attempt by House Dem leaders to show momentum on the larger bill in a bid to convince progressives to vote for the Senate’s infrastructure plan on Monday after they’ve threatened to sink it over their concerns that the larger plan will be killed by moderates — PolitiTweet.org

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House Budget plans to meet Friday or Saturday to take up the party’s massive $3.5 trillion economic package. It is NOT the final deal bc there is no deal yet as negotiations within the party intensify. “Effectively the markup is more procedural than substantive,” Yarmuth said. — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer clarified. “Speaker Pelosi, myself, Janet Yellen, Brian Deese, and Richie Neal, and Ron Wyden,” and “this was the first time we all sat together, the two of them sat together with us, and came up with which pay fors would be acceptable to Pelosi, Schumer, Wyden, and Neal” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DaniellaMicaela: The House voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill to provide $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome.  The final vot… — PolitiTweet.org

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After Pelosi and Schumer announced their deal on a "framework" to pay for plan, I asked Pelosi to elaborate. She made clear there wasn't deal yet on the price tag, and there are a number of other major issues to sort out. "This is not about a price tag," she said https://t.co/uC8FJgt55s — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer didn’t respond when I asked if reconcilation (i.e. party-line vote) was off the table for increasing the debt ceiling. Senate GOP expected to block the bill to raise debt ceiling and avert showdown on Monday — PolitiTweet.org

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“We don’t know what they’re talking about,” Manchin said when I asked him about “framework” that was announced by Dem leaders on options to pay for package. Manchin also wouldn’t say if he was near settling on price tag to suggest. Still trying to figure out “what the need is.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Suzan DelBene, head of the centrist New Dems, tells @JohnKingCNN when asked if Pelosi should delay the Monday infrastructure vote if progressives are still threatening to sink it. "We have to have a bill passed," suggesting she's open to a delay to make sure bill isn't defeated — PolitiTweet.org

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So what did they agree to? Aide says there’s an agreement on a “menu of financing options” between House and Senate Dem leaders, chairs of House Ways and Means and Senate Finance panels. WH officials are meeting with House and Senate moderates today to talk about it — PolitiTweet.org

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I just tried to press Pelosi to elaborate on this — and she made clear there’s no agreement yet on price tag. It’s unclear exactly what they’ve agreed to still. She later didn’t say explicitly that there will be a Monday vote on infrastructure. “We take it one day at a time.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer on reconciliation: “The White House, the House, and the Senate have reached an agreement on a framework that will pay for any final negotiated agreement. So the revenue side of this, we have an agreement on.” He didn’t elaborate on what that means and took no questions — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer and Yellen join Pelosi at press conference amid debt limit standoff with GOP https://t.co/EoEMN1Jw1d — PolitiTweet.org

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Key procedural vote to keep government open and avoid default next week could be straight party lines. Collins a NO, Murkowksi hasn’t said explictily. Kennedy, who had been signaling he’s a YES bc of a disaster aid, just told me he’s “undecided.” And Bill Cassidy undecided too — PolitiTweet.org

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Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator and former senator, making the rounds in the Senate. Tells us the goal is manned mission to Mars by “late 2030s” — PolitiTweet.org