District of Columbia | November 11, 2021
Stefanik-led PAC boosts GOP women candidates to help flip control of Congress in 2022
District of Columbia | November 11, 2021
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik on Wednesday endorsed eight women running for Congress next year, the latest recruits in her effort to swell the ranks of conservative women in the House GOP.
Ms. Stefanik‘s Elevate PAC has been on a mission since 2019 to recruit and elect female candidates. She said that Republican women will be crucial to the party’s retaking the majority in the lower chamber next year.
“E-PAC’s endorsed candidates are determined to build on the historic success of last cycle, when we more than doubled the Republican women elected to Congress,” Ms. Stefanik said in a statement. “In 2020, GOP women were history makers, and in 2022, GOP women will be majority makers.”… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | November 9, 2021
Cotton, Klobuchar propose antitrust bill to block tech mergers, acquisitions
District of Columbia | November 9, 2021
A proposal to prevent large technology companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook from acquiring competitors has gained bipartisan support in the Senate.
Sens. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, and Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, introduced the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act to create a presumption against mergers and acquisitions by large tech companies.
The bill would require certain tech firms to show that any purchase of greater than $50 million does not help sustain its dominant position in the marketplace, according to Mr. Cotton’s office… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | November 9, 2021
Jan. 6 committee issues new subpoenas for Michael Flynn, Bernard Kerik, Jason Miller, others
District of Columbia | November 9, 2021
The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol issued subpoenas on Monday for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and five others linked to former President Donald Trump.
The new round of subpoenas targets people the committee deemed “advisors and allies” who the committee says promoted false claims of election fraud and “planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes.”
“The Select Committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all,” said Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
District of Columbia | November 8, 2021
Republicans Rescue Biden’s Agenda
District of Columbia | November 8, 2021
The press is full of triumphant accounts of how Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Biden saved their party, the country, and maybe the future of mankind by passing the $1 trillion infrastructure bill through the House late Friday night. It’s more accurate to say their divided party was rescued by 13 Republicans who voted with the Democrats. With their narrow House majority, Democrats couldn’t pass the bill themselves after six left-wing Members voted no. Without those GOP votes, the bill would have failed and Democrats would have suffered another political defeat and more recriminations. Instead, Democratic leaders are moving ahead fast to focus on their $4 trillion entitlement spending and tax bill that is now more likely to pass…. (Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal)
District of Columbia | November 6, 2021
Biden hails ‘long overdue’ infrastructure bill after it passes House with GOP votes: ‘Just getting started’
District of Columbia | November 6, 2021
President Biden on Saturday hailed the passing of what he called a “long overdue” infrastructure bill after it passed the House with Republican votes a day earlier — and said “we’re just getting started.”
“Folks, yesterday I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to suggest that we took a monumental step forward as a nation,” a clearly delighted Biden said at a press conference.
BIDEN, DEMOCRATS CELEBRATE AFTER $1.2T INFRASTRUCTURE BILL PASSES – DESPITE SOME ‘NO’ VOTES … (Excerpts from Fox News)
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
VP Harris to chair first National Space Council meeting Dec. 1
District of Columbia | November 5, 2021
In her first official outing as chair of the National Space Council, Vice President Kamala Harris is today visiting NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to highlight the critical role US space capabilities play in combatting climate change. In her remarks, Harris will (briefly, anyway) touch upon the importance of space and the climate crisis to national security, White House officials told Breaking Defense. Harris further will announce that the fist meeting of the council will take place Dec. 1, and will present the first imagery returns from NASA’s recently launched Landsat 9 Earth observation mission, a White House official said. The Pentagon earlier this month released a new climate change strategy, which laid out five lines of effort explaining how the Pentagon can incorporate climate change into its future planning and operations. Those efforts include enhancing cooperation with partner nations and other US agencies that can increase knowledge about climate change, contribute to resiliency, and reduce costs…. (Excerpts from Breaking Defense)