Dems did the right thinghttps://twitter.com/ngrossman81/status/955629650453155840 …
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Replying to @ChiefExecBear
Disagree. Not because of specifics of the funding battles, but because of the alteration to intel funding/authorization rules. Funding gov. is good, CHIP is great, other domestic policy disagreements will come up again. But the intel provision has no business being in there.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
Was the intel funding aspect of this ever a point of contention, or was it just passively accepted by the Dem senators? You are the only person on my feed that has mentioned Intel funding and the Church committee tonight.
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Replying to @LouisCanon
As best I can tell, it wasn't a big part of discussion. Negotiations ended the shutdown and the whole Senate went to vote on the CR. Burr objected, but removing the provision required unanimous consent and others wouldn't give it. Then they passed the CR to reopen the government.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
How the heck does intel funding get put into the CR? Was that some Republican senator's doing? Was it always there as a provision?
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Replying to @LouisCanon
Reports say the language was added to the House bill at the request of OMB Director Mick Mulvaney. Beyond that, I don't know. I suspect many Members of Congress who voted for the CR decided they were done with the shutdown, and this was the bill on the floor, so they voted yes.
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