Thought *a lot* about this today
Police drag away protesters, some in wheelchairs, outside of Sen. McConnell's office after draft of Senate health care bill is revealed
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K Tully-McManus
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K Tully-McManus
@ktullymcmanus
Congress for @politico, mostly federal spending || [email protected] DM for Signal, Formerly: CQRollCall Forever: #RedSoxNation
Joined October 2010
- People are still in line all over DC waiting to vote. Curfew started at 7pm, Metro & bus service stopped Folks forced to walk home from polls in the dark after curfew while an array of unpredictable federal agencies patrol the streets Election Day in the nation’s capital.
- At least 8 senators had Apple Watches strapped on their wrists in the chamber at the start of the impeachment trial Tuesday, despite guidelines from Senate leadership that all electronics should be left in the cloakroom in the provided storage. bit.ly/36fKJRQ
- Sen. Menendez resigning Aug 20 caught my eye Unlike House members who get paid on the last business day of the month (last I checked) Senators are paid on the same schedule as Senate staff: the 5th & 20th of each month Menendez is maximizing his last few Senate paychecks 💰
- Two weeks ago I started reporting "what happens if coronavirus comes to Capitol Hill?" stories. Lawmakers & staff told me I was fear-mongering & irresponsible for suggesting that Congressional business may eventually be impacted. Ahem: bit.ly/2vINmj0
- This is real. Fellow female reporters barred from Speaker's lobby for wearing sleeveless dresses while doing their jobs. (It's hot in DC) 🙃Meet Capitol Hill's fashion police cbsnews.com/news/are-sleev…
- Replying to @ktullymcmanusNadler: “I’m deeply concerned that any member of the House would spew Russian propaganda on the floor of the House” Gohmert: Demands Nadler yield to him or rescind his comment Nadler: Does not yield.
- During the break, Sen. Susan Collins said loudly to Sens Murkowski, Thune & Tillis that she would like the first row of the press gallery to be kept empty and that reporters should only be seated from the second row back, motioning to the sparse remaining press (myself included)
- Replying to @ktullymcmanusNadler, who just handed over control of Democrats' remaining debate time to Intel Chairman Adam Schiff, just got a hearty handshake from Speaker Pelosi. He then left the chamber.
- There are more governors who’ve have apologized for black face than black governors...Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey has apologized for wearing blackface during a college skit in the 1960s, after a radio interview surfaced of her describing the incident. n.pr/32gjjK1
- Replying to @ktullymcmanusCollins sometimes speaks so softly that it is hard to hear her even when she is up close, but she made this comment loudly enough that it was heard by me from one story up (over the chatter of reporters around me and senators talking on the floor)
- Extremely Cory Booker behaviorSenator Booker now on the senate floor reading a poem written by a Senate page named Jake
- Replying to @ktullymcmanusCollins made a motion that looked like she was leaning over, mimicking a hypothetical reporter leaning over the gallery balcony, a prohibited act that has been strictly enforced during the trial.
- A lie that will never die : just now heard a staffer telling a tour that the chandelier outside the old Senate chamber is from the Titanic
