Hi. I’m a bit of a news junkie.
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Below are all the GOP lawmakers that voted against that bill:
House:
Representative James Baird of Indiana
Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
Representative Jim Banks of Indiana
Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona
Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida
Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado
Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee
Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri
Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
Representative Michael Cloud of Texas
Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia
Representative Mike Collins of Georgia
Representative Eli Crane of Arizona
Representative John Curtis of Utah
Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio
Representative Byron Donalds of Florida
Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
Representative Ron Estes of Kansas
Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa
Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota
Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota
Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina
Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho
Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida
Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas
Representative Bob Good of Virginia
Representative Lance Gooden of Texas
Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia
Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
Representative Andy Harris of Maryland
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana
Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio
Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania
Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi
Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
Representative Laurel Lee of Florida
Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona
Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado
Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas
Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Representative Tom McClintock of California
Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia
Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
Representative Max Miller of Ohio
Representative Cory Mills of Florida
Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia
Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas
Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama
Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
Representative Bill Posey of Florida
Representative John Rose of Tennessee
Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana
Representative Chip Roy of Texas
Representative David Schweikert of Arizona
Representative Keith Self of Texas
Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
Representative Claudia Tenney of New York
Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey
Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas
Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
Representative Mike Waltz of Florida
Representative Randy Weber of Texas
Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas
Representative Roger Williams of Texas
Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana
Senate:
Yeah, all vote tallies will not be released until after the polls close on Nov. 5.
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Good catch. I’ve added it to the summary. Thanks.
Wow the ads. I assumed everyone was already using some sort of ad blocker.
I think you’re overthinking this. Your original comment asked about the consequences of him saying “no,” so I outlined the legal options the prosecutor of the case has already considered and discussed. Let’s see what happens soon.
From the article, he has to put up the money in order to appeal:
Though he has vowed to appeal both cases, he must immediately grapple with the enormous sums that are at stake: To keep both judgments from being enforced while he appeals, he must put up the entire amount in either cash or bonds, according to legal experts. Usually, defendants must put up such bonds within 30 days of a final judgment to keep the plaintiff from collecting, experts said.
If he doesn’t appeal and doesn’t pay his penalty, NY has already indicated they’ll seize his assets:
New York Attorney General Letitia James told ABC News on Tuesday that she will seek to seize some of the former president’s assets if he’s unable to cover the bill from Judge Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 16 ruling.
Here’s the full combined list:
Interesting observation:
Rachel Swan, a breaking news and enterprise reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, says there are “two really visible crises” in the downtown area: homelessness and open-air drug use.
“And honestly, people conflate that with crime, with street safety,” she said. “One thing I’m starting to learn in reporting on public safety is that you can put numbers in front of people all day, and numbers just don’t speak to people the way narrative does.”
There is an interesting trend that Gen Z men are leaning more conservative, while more Gen Z women are becoming liberal :
Something strange is happening between Gen Z men and women. Over the past decade, poll after poll has found that young people are growing more and more divided by gender on a host of political issues. Since 2014, women between the ages of 18 and 29 have steadily become more liberal each year, while young men have not. Today, female Gen Zers are more likely than their male counterparts to vote, care more about political issues, and participate in social movements and protests.
While the gender gap is an enduring feature of American politics, at no time in the past quarter century has there been such a rapid divergence between the views of young men and women. The startling speed of the change suggests something more significant is going on than just new demographic patterns, such as rising rates of education or declining adherence to a religion — the change points to some kind of cataclysmal event. After speaking with more than 20 Gen Zers, my colleagues at the Survey Center on American Life and I found that among women, no event was more influential to their political development than the #MeToo movement.
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As women’s political priorities have solidified, young men’s priorities have melted into mush. Surveys consistently show that young men are far less likely than women to say any particular issue is personally important to them. A survey we conducted last year found that young women expressed statistically significant greater concern for 11 out of 15 different issues, including drug addiction, crime, climate change, and gun violence. There was not a single issue that young men cared about significantly more than young women.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-gender-gap-young-men-women-dont-agree-politics-2024-1
Some additional interesting points in the cited poll report:
This comment is so disingenuous. Your link said guaranteed sick leave was the sticking point in December 2022:
The initial agreement brokered by the Biden administration was accepted by all but four rail unions, who were holding out for guaranteed paid sick leave days. The opposing unions, though, represent the majority of rail workers. The workers and companies had until Dec. 9 to reach an agreement before they vowed to strike, which the industry estimated would cost the U.S. economy $2 billion per day.
But five months later, it was resolved:
When Joe Biden and Congress enacted legislation in December that blocked a threatened freight rail strike, many workers angrily faulted Biden for not ensuring that the legislation also guaranteed paid sick days. But since then, union officials says, members of the Biden administration, including the transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, and labor secretary, Marty Walsh, who stepped down on 11 March, lobbied the railroads, telling them it was wrong not to grant paid sick days.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/01/railroad-workers-union-win-sick-leave
Trump enablers are similar to what the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt describe in Tyranny of the Minority as “semi-loyal democrats.” Whereas “loyal democrats clearly and consistently reject antidemocratic behavior, semi-loyal democrats act in a more ambiguous manner. They try to have it both ways, claiming to support democracy while at the same time turning a blind eye to violence or antidemocratic extremism.” Levitsky and Ziblatt warn that “history teaches us that when mainstream politicians take the more expedient path of semi-loyalty, tolerating or condoning antidemocratic extremists, the extremists are often strengthened, and a seemingly solid democracy can collapse upon itself.”
Another round of student loan forgiveness announced today: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/student-debt-canceled-74k-borrowers-white-house-loan-forgiveness-rcna134635
Check out this video interview of his administration working behind the scenes to negotiate the public option with the Senate. The part you need to see starts at 1:25. In the end, it just didn’t have Senate support.
According to your link, he did try to follow through and got shut down in the Senate:
President Barack Obama envisioned a public option as a key part of his health insurance reform law, but gave up on it during negotiations with opponents in Congress. As a presidential candidate, Biden proposed adding the public option as a way to fix the shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act.
But for all the attention the public option got during the campaign, it has faded from the Democratic agenda on Capitol Hill.
With Democrats barely controlling the Senate, and universal opposition to his agenda from GOP senators, Biden has had to rely on a special procedure known as “budget reconciliation” to bypass the filibuster and pass his agenda.
EDIT: Adding this video interview of his administration talking about working behind the scenes to negotiate the public option with the Senate. Relevant portion starts at 1:25.
Yeah, the site is suspect. The article uses the Russian spelling “Kiev” instead of the Ukranian “Kyiv,” which is a giveaway that the site might be spreading Russian propaganda. Also:
Argentina seems to show a particularly interesting trend. The country has the region’s highest number of RT online readers, and, in 2014, it was one of the first countries in the region to allow RT to broadcast on public television. Current Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has since added Telesur, the Venezuelan television network, to his country’s basic national television service. Telesur now streams Russian propaganda and disinformation to 83% of the Argentine population. Given the reach of these outlets, it is an unlikely coincidence that 67.4% of Argentinian residents said in 2020 that they view Russia favorably.
Because it’s not a gift to about 4 million federal workers who would go without pay in a shutdown:
“The politicians aren’t thinking about us down here on the ground floor doing the work,” said Booth, who is also a local liaison for the American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing federal workers. “Some of us live paycheck to paycheck. You take away a paycheck, how am I going to live for the next two weeks? How can I take care of my kids? How am I going to take care of my wife? And that type of mindset ends up causing bad things to go through some people’s minds and some people can’t get through it.”
Thanks, I’ve updated the link.