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POTUS 46.10: A New Hope

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bronconick said:
Turns they out because no one passed a budget in 2020, the Dems can use budget reconciliation twice in a year.
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Live view from Manchin's office:

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Alright so lets get COVID Relief and find some screwed up way to make the VRA a budget issue. Or Climate Change. Lets give McConnell a taste of what consequences taste like!

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aparch said:
Here for the Down Periscope references.
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And here I thought the reference would get ignored! You just know Kelsey Grammar watches that film and thinks:

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Worthless fact: I went to HS with a girl whose father was part of the crew that helped the diesel sub "run".
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Nice. Republicans usually don't **** **** like that up.
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Yeah I posted like 14 times a few days ago that Democrats had two budget reconciliation bills to use this year. Republicans had two back in 2017- and all they could muster was that sh-tty GOP tax bill, since their plan to repeal and replace (lol) the ACA went down in flames.
 
Well Reconciliation is not super easy to do so lets not get ahead of ourselves. It is limited in scope and it has some strict requirements. But damnit try.
 
Handyman said:
Well Reconciliation is not super easy to do so lets not get ahead of ourselves. It is limited in scope and it has some strict requirements. But ****it try.
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Agreed on all of that. What’s ironic (maybe just stupid) is Bernie was, for a while, against abolishing the filibuster, but wanted to pass big, beautiful legislation using budget reconciliation. Not sure where he stands on the filibuster now but it’s a moot point anyways at the moment. Now that he’s the head of the Senate Budget Committee, he’s got his chance with budget reconciliation. Go big or go home.
 
Nice try, Nazis, part 28.

A federal judge has blocked a last-minute rule issued by the Trump administration to limit what evidence the Environmental Protection Agency may consider as it regulates pollutants to protect public health.

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U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Montana ruled late Wednesday that the EPA had unlawfully rushed the regulation, saying its decision to make it final just two weeks before then-President Donald Trump left office was “arbitrary” and “capricious.” Morris delayed the rule until at least Feb. 5, giving the new Biden administration time to assess whether to go forward with it or make changes.

An EPA spokesman said Friday the agency is “committed to making evidence-based decisions and developing policies and programs that are guided by the best science.″

EPA “will follow the science and law in accordance with the Biden-Harris administration’s executive orders and other directives in reviewing all of the agency’s actions issued under the previous administration,″ including the so-called Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science rule, spokesman Ken Labbe said in a statement.

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(T)he change was so broadly written that it could limit not only future public health protections, but also “force the agency to revoke decades of clean air protections,” said Chris Zarba, former head of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board.

He and other critics said the rule jeopardized use of public health studies, such as Harvard’s 1990s Six Cities study, which drew on anonymized, confidential health data from thousands of people to better establish links between air pollution and higher mortality. The studies have been instrumental in crafting health and environmental rules for decades. The Six Cities study led to new limits on air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

Ben Levitan, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund, which challenged the Trump rule in court, said the rule’s purpose was not to promote transparency, as Wheeler and other officials argued.

“Its purpose and effect is to disregard and devalue the harm pollutants and toxics cause, and therefore deprive the public of needed protection based on those studies,″ Levitan said Friday.
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It's kind of funny how the Biden presidential thread can go long enough without a new post to fall off the front page. I guess that is what happens when the president displays basic competence, surrounds himself with people who actually know what they are doing and actually acts presidential in every public interaction.
 
The Republican plan screws half of the middle class out of stimulus checks...its a non-starter.
 
Handyman said:
The Republican plan screws half of the middle class out of stimulus checks...its a non-starter.
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Is it really that hard to figure out who does and does not need a stimulus check? Like my company has stayed open- so regardless of status, you don't need a stimulus check. Whereas restaurants have had to close- so even the $500,000 owner could use a little help- as long as all of their workers are getting help (top to bottom). Same for cinemas and gyms.

It's not as if everyone is shut down.

While there will certainly be fraud- it's roughly the same system that unemployment is there for. Figure out who is declared, what degree, and check their 2019 1040.
 
I wouldn't get one...pretty sure my gf wouldn't either and she was on unemployment part of the year.

I am not sure you are going to win back the suburbs by pretty much ignoring them with Stimulus Checks...
 
The middle class doesn't care about $1000 checks. They care about their 401(k)s and homes holding their value, and maybe tuition debt relief.
 
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