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Fairly newsy Schumer speech this a.m. laying out legislative agenda - For the People Act (S1) - "Rebuild our infrastructure and fight climate change" - Boost manufacturing - immigration - Background checks - Hirono hate crimes bill — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @marianne_levine: Heinrich will introduce a CRA today that reinstates Obama era regulations of methane emissions from oil and gas indust… — PolitiTweet.org

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“Mr. president, 8-part question about the filibuster ...” — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s your filibuster question for Biden: should it take 60 or 51 votes to move legislation through the Senate ? — PolitiTweet.org

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And Grassley is raising money. Does that mean he’s running? “The reason I’m going to make a decision this fall is: One year is long enough to campaign, but if I do run for reelection, one year is not enough to raise money,” — PolitiTweet.org

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Some more news here: Sen. Ernst says in interview she will run to succeed Sen. Blunt as Republican Policy Committee chairman, the No. 4 leadership job. She'd be highest ranking woman in a while The Rs who are retiring all lead committees, so big shuffles afoot there as well — PolitiTweet.org

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Some more news here: Sen. Ernst says in interview she will run to pursue retiring Sen. Blunt as Republican Policy Committee chairman. The Rs who are retiring all lead committees, so big shuffles afoot there as well — PolitiTweet.org

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Graham's talking to Trump about laying off Thune: “I don’t know what President Trump is going to do in terms of primary endorsements. But I would hope he’ll look closely at Sen. Thune. He’s a great guy,” Graham said. “It just matters what [Thune] wants to do. I hope he runs" — PolitiTweet.org

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Thune: “We’re losing a ton of talent, a ton of experience and expertise. And so, you know, you hate to see quality people leave. And if the Democrats pursue the course they’re on right now and try and do everything by pure majority rule, obviously, it won’t be a fun place to be" — PolitiTweet.org

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Thune has $13M in bank and could one day succeed McConnell, so Rs assume he'll run. With 5 GOP senators retiring and an Intercept piece about successors, lots of buzz about McConnell too He's eying longest-serving leader record in 2023: “That’s a decision I make every two years" — PolitiTweet.org

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Blunt + Portman were set to run -- until they weren't. Now R whip Thune taking his time in announcing reelect, with Trump saying he'll support challenger Thune: "These campaigns are so long. And I think they start way too early" Newsy look at Senate GOP: https://t.co/MUBCOKIDaz — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s the crew: GOP: Cornyn, Tillis, Collins, Graham, Rounds. Murkowski and Crapo invited but couldn’t attend today. Dems: Durbin, Padilla, Sinema, Coons, Bennet, Cortez Masto, Lujan, Menendez — PolitiTweet.org

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New bipartisan group of senators met today to talk immigration, mostly about DACA and current surge at border. Convened by Durbin after series of one-on-ones with Republicans. Set to meet again soon ⁦@sabrod123⁩ ⁦@marianne_levine⁩ https://t.co/3UmhLZGhXh — PolitiTweet.org

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Sens. Collins and Murkowski were the only GOP senators to support Levine nomination — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Phil_Mattingly: The U.S. Senate, 52-48, confirmed Dr. Rachel Levine as assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Hu… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AndrewDesiderio: New: Chris Coons is emerging as a shadow secretary of state for Biden, who dispatched his fellow Delawarean to Ethiopi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jordainc It is and yes that’s my thinking as well — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a cloture vote so the final passage may be tomorrow — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate will vote in a few minutes to extend PPP past March 31. — PolitiTweet.org

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@daveweigel @JMilesColeman Joe Manchin has thoughts — PolitiTweet.org

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@bresreports @JakeSherman @jmartNYT What was it like to interview LBJ when he was a senator — PolitiTweet.org

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@JakeSherman @bresreports @jmartNYT love a good Senate regional accent — PolitiTweet.org

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He's not quite Sen. Barb, but Sen. Cardin has a rock-solid Maryland accent — PolitiTweet.org

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@igorbobic It's actually a part of the Manch-O-Meter — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Murphy: "Republicans don't want to fix our broken immigration laws, they want to distract Americans from the real story right now, which is the successful implementation" of the American Rescue Act — PolitiTweet.org

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Manchin with Dems far more often than not so far — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mkraju: Angus King has been among the minority of the members in the Senate Democratic Caucus resistant to lowering the threshold to 51… — PolitiTweet.org

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Really good primer on the modern filibuster/nuclear option dynamics from @jiwallner. https://t.co/nI4wVf3ijj — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Blunt said some Republicans wanted to put together a counter proposal that laid out how they want to see states run elections. But he said he was not for that approach because he believes states should run their own elections — PolitiTweet.org

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@igorbobic DeLete your account — PolitiTweet.org