Nice move by Judicial Conference towards transparency. There was no reason for taxpayer-funded official government body to have membership secret.
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Here’s a good summary of the fossil fuel giveaways that pack the House’s ransom demand “Default on America” bill. Hmmm, who could possibly be pulling the strings?
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Sounds like an ideal case for punitive damages. Aah, the joys of honest courtrooms!
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As Kevin “Mr. Default” McCarthy rushes toward his US debt default, remember that 275 out of 315 pages of his bill are fossil fuel giveaways. It has never been more clear how subservient Republicans are to Big Oil — the political glove barely concealing the dark, oily hand.
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Very glad of my work to expose and end this sordid program.
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This is good news — the less gasoline we buy, the less money Big Oil has to corrupt Congress, the more likely we are to address climate seriously?
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I traveled to Saskatchewan with Lindsey Graham back in 2015 to see a carbon capture facility operating successfully there at a power plant. This can be done.
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McCarthy alone is still threatening default, and continues refusing to take default off the table. If there is a U.S. default it will be a McCarthy default.
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One of the greatest tricks the fossil fuel industry ever pulled was foisting onto governments the cost of the harm they cause, all while making trillions in revenue. How is it that the polluters get a pass here?
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That’s my bill. Happy to see this.
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Biden's right:
1. The one person who won’t take US default off the table is Speaker McCarthy.
2. The House ransom bill is preposterous — recession and ~800k jobs lost.
3. McCarthy didn’t come to negotiate and likely can’t negotiate given MAGA extremists.
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2⃣1⃣ MILLION.
That’s how many Americans could lose health insurance if Speaker McCarthy has his way.
This includes 10 million Medicaid beneficiaries in expansion states.
Workers and families can’t afford the #DefaultOnAmerica Act.
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We’re slashing carbon emissions here in RI.
Today, we join 7 states in adopting a new policy — by 2035, all NEW cars imported into RI will be electric.
This gets us 1 step closer to meeting our Act on Climate goals. It's the right thing to do for our economy and our health.
Today, we join 7 states in adopting a new policy — by 2035, all NEW cars imported into RI will be electric.
This gets us 1 step closer to meeting our Act on Climate goals. It's the right thing to do for our economy and our health.
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The home team with a first place finish into Newport! Congratulations to Rhode Island's own Skipper Charlie Enright, and the rest of the #11thHour Racing crew.
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Election workers are on the frontlines defending our democracy and deserve to be protected while performing their jobs.
This bill would expand prohibitions on threatening or intimidating election administrators and safeguards election records.
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NEW: I'm reintroducing the Protecting Election Administration from Interference Act. As MAGA extremists continue to promote the Big Lie, we must protect election workers and administrators against attacks and ensure the integrity of our elections.23
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Even Mitch McConnell knows default is completely unacceptable. The hostage taker here is Speaker McCarthy.
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Fossil fuel industry is the hand; Republican Party is the glove; dark money is the reason.
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The MAGA Republican debt limit hostage-taking puts polluters over people, and the proof is in the pages. 87% of their plan is devoted to giving Big Oil big favors.
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NEWS: It’s rare for the Supreme Court to overturn precedent — it’s even rarer for a justice to argue against an opinion that he wrote.
But that’s what Clarence Thomas did after a decade of gifts from a conservative legal network.
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Looks like McCarthy came to White House to threaten default, not to negotiate. So much for wanting negotiations. Everybody else willing to take default off the table.
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🔔WE ARE LIVE🔔
The Senate Budget Committee's hearing to learn from former elected officials who are taking on the #ClimateCrisis has begun.
Follow-along here:
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We cannot separate our nation’s fiscal health from the looming and potentially catastrophic risks of climate change.
We owe it to our children – and the world – to get this right.
LIVE: gives his opening statement:
budget.senate.gov/hearings/lesso
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Election Transparency Initiative, and the Foundation for Government Accountability are also right-wing billionaire front groups.
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To be precise, the “Honest Elections Project” is a “fictitious name” of the 85 Fund, and part of a network of front groups operated by Leonard Leo, into which a right-wing billionaire just dropped $1.6 billion.
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Transparency is essential for accountability. Yet, the Judicial Conference’s process remains almost entirely opaque.
To understand the full scope of the stories unfolding today, we need to know more about what happened in 2011.
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As testified before the Budget Committee, the #ClimateCrisis is upsetting insurance markets, which can upset mortgage and housing markets and trigger damage across the whole economy—like we saw in 2008.
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Today’s jury verdict is a testament to the bravery of E. Jean Carroll and all the other women who came forward. Thank goodness for honest courtrooms.
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This is not the Clarence Thomas ethics scandal; this is the Clarence Thomas ethics scandal appendage of the ongoing scheme to capture the Supreme Court for creepy billionaires, chronicled by me in multiple Scheme speeches on the Senate Floor.
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This COP should demand audited corporate climate political influencing statements.
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The number one obstacle to climate legislation in the US has been corporate America, operating through indolent or hostile trade associations and the fossil fuel industry’s vast denial and obstruction apparatus.
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“If you don’t see the straight line between Citizens United, Leonard Leo, Shelby County, and the concerted effort to take power from regular you and give it to Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo, you are not seeing the plan clearly.”
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Stand by for more on how the Conference has acquitted its responsibilities in the past.
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This ethics scandal isn’t going away; I believe regular federal judges are upset and know they could never get away with this nonsense; and the Judicial Conference is an avenue for reform.
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The #DefaultOnAmerica Act is an oily wish list written by polluters, for polluters.
In fact, 275 out of 315 pages of the MAGA bill are devoted to giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.
The D.O.A. is dead on arrival.
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So investigations need to look into the Court and its unethical (and likely unlawful) mischief and secrets; and also out at the apparatus behind the secretly dispensed funds, and examine the larger plot. They didn’t spend $580+ million for nuthin’!
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This was a big operation, and a secretive one. Much investigation is needed, but much is plain to see. In a nutshell, creepy billionaires ran an “op” to capture the Court, just like 19th century railroad barons would capture the railroad commission that set their rates.
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The current ethics scandal touches on both. Leo orchestrated $25K (and more) to the Thomas household through a Court-capture front group; Crow funded not just Thomas, but the Federalist Society, where Trump’s infamous “Supreme Court list” was hatched by the billionaires.
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It’s also important to remember that this is ‘The Court That Dark Money Built,’ by spending at least $580 million, and it wasn’t built for nothing. Getting Thomas a supermajority to do the billionaires’ bidding was the purpose of the scheme.
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It’s important for us to understand how right-wing billionaires have regularly injected money into the Clarence and Ginni Thomas household. And we will investigate. More on that later.
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