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117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

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BassAle said:
may least a few GOP senators are on record supporting statehood for PR. Someone will filibuster though.


I think it should be done, but I don’t think those senate seats are a lock for democrats.
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It should be a state because it’s right. I think most people understand it won’t be a lock for D senators but that doesn’t mean Dems shouldn’t push for it.
 
Kepler said:
The contractor rule of thumb in my industry is the wrap rate (that's the total charge to the customer as a multiplier of the direct labor rate) is 2. The wrap covers the contracting firm's costs in developing and compensating the employee, plus a profit surcharge.

There are small body shops that are notorious for existing simply to cash in the wrap. And a few large companies cough Booze Allen.
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2-2.5 is the standard multiplier at my company. The term we've adopted. Many firms actually negotiate that number alone and not the base rates.
 
BassAle said:
At least a few GOP senators are on record supporting statehood for PR. Someone will filibuster though.


I think it should be done, but I don’t think those senate seats are a lock for democrats.
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Well there is nothing saying that it should only be one state. If they want it it should be done no matter who they choose to represent them.

As for GOP support I believe L'il Marco is on board...
 
Kepler said:
PR and DC. 100 is a magic number, once it's broken we can take care of a lot of unfinished business.

If the conservatives love 100 so much they can roll ND/SD and ID/MT together.
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Tying PR to DC will just fuck PR over. That guarantees PR won't get statehood right now.

DC is more complicated than PR since carving off the city proper from the federal district means the federal district still gets 3 electoral votes. That's okay with me right now because that means Joe and Jill Biden get three electoral votes, since they'd be the only remaining residents of the district, but I suspect this is something we'd want to address...
 
BassAle said:
I've heard some of the sponsors of a DC statehood bill want to tie them together, which is a huge mistake.
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I can see why DC would want to do it. But it does not make sense overall.

Every measure to right the wrongs of the EC should be enacted as soon as it becomes politically possible, and in the manner they are most simple to do. The longer we have government by dirt and shrubs rather than people the longer we will live with the looming threat of a Nazi takeover.
 
Only in America does Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley get to question Wray instead of the other way around. Only in America does Republicans get to run around committing crimes with no repercussions while Neera Tanden gets left on the side of the road, especially after all the nutjobs Trump had in his administration.
 
psych said:
Yep. Shalanda Young sounds like a better candidate anyways.
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She was an Approps committee staffer. Those are the people who actually know what is going on. They are the opposite of politicians. They are the ones who saved us from the Nazis.
 
It sounds like they’re keeping the full stimulus check cap as it was for the previous two (75k single and 150k couple), but the phase out cap will be lowered to 80k and 160k. Originally it was 100k and 200k.
 
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