If I were House Speaker, I'd hold onto the articles till McConnell fixed the damn typos 🤓
Sarah Binder
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Sarah Binder
@bindersab
Political scientist by day (and night), GWU and Brookings, Co-editor goodauthority.org
Joined February 2010
- Trump's coattails with House GOP seem ... short. Over 90 percent of House GOP outperformed Trump in their district in 2016.
- 1/Trump's move to stop CSR payments to insurance companies hits Trump-won (red + most purple) states harder than blue.
- 1/ More thoughts on impasse over organizing Senate/committees. McConnell demands Democrats commit that they won't "go nuclear" to ban legislative filibusters. Schumer says no. The organizing resolution can be filibustered, hence McC's potential leverage. So what's going on here?
- Replying to @bindersab6/ McConnell knows that history. Schumer too. McC coming out of the 🐎🐎 gates holding up the organizing resolution (which freezes the committees with their GOP chairs and ratios from the last congress) just affirms to Dems that GOP willingness to obstruct is alive and well.
- “I’m so insulted when people say that lawmaking is like sausage making,” said Stanley A. Feder, president of Simply Sausage, whose plant here turns out 60,000 pounds of links a year.
- It's a small step - but McConnell NOT blocking Senate resolution to demand whistleblower complaint be provided to Hill intel committees is significant. Rare to see both parties stand up for Congress's institutional power.
- Minority parties thrive on dividing the majority. In that sense, McConnell secured what he sought: Manchin and Sinema's commitment to preserving filibuster undermines (for now) the credibility of Democrats' threat to abolish the filibuster should GOP block everything in sight.
- Replying to @bindersab9/ Bottom line...The majority threat to go nuclear (to the extent it is credible) has not tamed the minority party's willingness to obstruct Democrats even over the very basic organizing task for the new Congress (which puts swift action on new president's nominees at risk).
- On the 2019 House vote to update the 1964 Civil Rights act to explicitly protect LGBT individuals, just 4% of House Republicans joined every Democrat in support.Replying to @namalhotraThe majority of Republican respondents supported LGBT rights. For the sexual orientation item, the D/R/I support was 90%/74%/84%. For the transgender item, the D/R/I support was 86%/69%/79%. The SC Court's decision today is very much in line with Americans' attitudes. 4/4
- What will Jeff Van Drew get from switching parties? Leaders typically assign switchers to *better* committees, often violating seniority to jump them ahead of more senior members. BUT ... he's joining the House MINORITY party. That's like getting a better seat in the dungeon🧛♂️.
- 1/ As people react to McConnell's vow on Fox News to collude with the White House on impeachment rules and outcome, keep in mind that the impeachment context deprives McConnell of his most trusted tools for keeping the Senate in a headlock.
- 1/ McConnell wants a handshake agreement for the Democrats not to go nuclear to ban legislative filibusters this Congress. Surely McConnell knows past is prologue though. Reid-McConnell 2011 gentlemen's agreement barely lasted a year.
- Didn't the discharge papers say do not drive, operate heavy machinery, or make legislative decisions for at least 24 hours?
