Burgess Everett

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Democrats like Sen. Tim Scott but don’t like his police proposal “haven’t yet read it. But the little I know about it, it does not meet the moment or the needs of the moment,” Sen. Harris said. “so far from being relevant to really the crisis at hand” https://t.co/pIspvMvOtL — PolitiTweet.org

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Scott doesn’t read any of the news coverage about him and asks his staff to send him “only the most egregious comments” on Twitter. Sometimes he responds to racist criticism “People want to look at him as ‘the black senator,’ rather than just ‘senator,’” said Sen. Lankford — PolitiTweet.org

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Scott prefers to be under the radar and is so low-key that after he became a senator, he successfully spent several days undercover doing manual labor in South Carolina. “He is probably too good for this job,” Graham says. “It’s not really about Tim in Tim’s own mind.” — PolitiTweet.org

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“The purpose really can’t be me at this moment. The purpose is that there are literally tens of millions of Americans who’ve lost confidence in institutions that have authority,” Scott said. “His do I make sure that my experience and not myself becomes the focal point?” — PolitiTweet.org

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Tim Scott doesn’t regularly seek out the spotlight. Yet the spotlight has a way of finding him anyway. there may be no bigger moment so far for the South Carolina senator as he takes lead on police reform. But he says in introspectively: “ain’t about me” https://t.co/pIspvMvOtL — PolitiTweet.org

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I like the Obelisk of Wokeness's old stuff but their new stuff is kinda mainstream — PolitiTweet.org

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Rand introduces new bill: “After talking with Breonna Taylor’s family, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s long past time to get rid of no-knock warrants. This bill will effectively end no-knock raids in the United States" — PolitiTweet.org

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“I think probably a good politician would have deflected the question,” Murkowski said . “But I felt it was necessary to be direct. The country is is is hurting.“ ⁦@lruskin⁩ (Also if you win a write in after losing your primary, you’re a good pol) https://t.co/dOr6uxvmRZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@Phil_Mattingly there was no shoe wager — PolitiTweet.org

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People are being informed that the votes on the outdoors bill will in fact be at 1 a.m. (pending an agreement, as always). So I was wrong and jet fumes lost, a rare upset — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm told I might be wrong about this one. Wouldn't be the first time! — PolitiTweet.org

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The Senate could in theory vote at 1 a.m. but I’m taking #jetfumes over that scenario — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney says he’d be supportive of removing confederate names from bases “in some cases.” Asked about Trump’s stance he says: “not where I’d be” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @byrdinator: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy when asked if he supports banning chokeholds: “Yes.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer calls for Coronavirus Task Force, including Birx and Fauci, to brief Senate Ds: “We need to understand why these spikes are happening and how to adapt our national response. “The president was too quick to sideline the Coronavirus Task Force, Task Force” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sarahnferris: House Dems rolled out a massive package of police reforms on Monday. (The summary alone is 5 pages.) By **this weekend**… — PolitiTweet.org

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A few months ago this portrait of Sen. Blanche Kelso Bruce, a Mississippi Republican, was installed in a prominent Senate staircase (not sure where it was displayed before). Now I see it everyday. Bruce was first black senator to serve full term More: https://t.co/TbL9sL1l0u https://t.co/Xe4q1M9gDG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdamKSnider: Finally entranced by something other than Dora the Explorer or Dinosaur Train 📺 @Emma_Dumain https://t.co/UZDU1zLqiY — PolitiTweet.org

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Booker: “This Republican proposal is heavy on gestures and light on meaningful reforms that will root out the systemic injustices that are baked into our“ system Democrats seem ready to play hardball to go big. Question is whether that means waiting through the election — PolitiTweet.org

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The GOP vision, led by Sen. Tim Scott, doesn’t go nearly as far as Democrats want in federal police reform policy. But Republicans say Democrats need to accept incrementalism “There’s some common ground if you want it. If you want to play politics we’ll go nowhere,” says Graham — PolitiTweet.org

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Dems stiff-arm GOP's 'cosmetic' police reforms. Will they cut a deal with GOP or insist on going big? “I don’t think they’re going to propose anything that comes anywhere near enough to what we need to do. We need systemic change,” says Sen. Duckworth. https://t.co/lBFRTnbxgr — PolitiTweet.org

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Quarantine fatigue: Governors reject new lockdowns as virus cases spike. ⁦@AliceOllstein⁩ https://t.co/7GsYrOu2xs — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer said Cotton's resolution does nothing "We need action, not rhetoric. That is the objection" — PolitiTweet.org

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Cotton said he concludes that Schumer may be willing to "speak about this idea to defund the police since he is unwilling to cite what part of the resolution he opposes" — PolitiTweet.org

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Cotton urged Democrats "to join with us in passing this resolution which calls for justice for George Floyd and other victims of excessive use of force while also honoring the law enforcement officers who keep us safe" Schumer objected, tried to bring up House reform bill — PolitiTweet.org

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Schumer and Cotton clashing over police reform. Cotton says Dems' police reform isn't even written after Schumer objects to resolution condemning defund police — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Zachary_Cohen: Some turnover in Sen. Rand Paul's office: His longtime communications aide @SergioGor is leaving to join the President T… — PolitiTweet.org

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper just arrived at the Senate — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JakeSherman: ROMNEY: “I'm confident that we will keep the majority in the Senate. And I actually have long predicted the president will… — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWSY—McConnell says it was a “good discussion” — PolitiTweet.org