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    6 Nov 2018

    My 5-point plan to improve American elections 1. No one waits more than 30 minutes to vote. 2. Election day is a holiday. 3. Nationwide automatic voter registration 4. Vote-by-mail available 5. All voting machines produce paper readouts, post-election audits are standard

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  2. 16 hours ago

    But it's notable that House Dem leadership is exempting Medicare-for-All from PAYGO. As I wrote here, whether Dems decide to do what they did with Obamacare, and fully offset Medicare-for-All, will shape the ultimate policy:

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  3. 16 hours ago

    If you're not up to speed on the House Dems' PAYGO fight, 's explainer is an excellent place to start:

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  4. 16 hours ago

    Statement continues: "Taking it out of the rules package does not address the real problem which is that it is a statutory requirement. That’s why today I am introducing legislation to repeal PAYGO and hold hearings immediately on why PAYGO is bad policy."

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  5. 16 hours ago

    "Earlier this week I received a commitment from Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern to waive PAYGO for Medicare for All and other key progressive priorities," says in a statement.

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  6. 18 hours ago

    The economy added more than 300,000 jobs last month. Trump could be taking a victory lap. Instead he's doing...this.

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  7. 18 hours ago

    Donald Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, lost the House in 2018, and his big idea now is to double down on an unpopular policy by forcing an extended government shutdown. There's this belief out there that Trump's political instincts are gold. They're not.

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  8. 20 hours ago
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    Kaden was hoping to be the next Speaker of the House, but the vote didn't go his way....Thanks to for highlighting his reaction! Who said the House floor couldn't be fun?

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  10. Jan 3

    People want meat, they want affordability, but they don't want cruelty. The equilibrium right now is producers hide the cruelty. Better laws and more exposure could push us to an equilibrium of finding ways to produce affordable meat that isn't so cruel.

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  11. Jan 3

    To note good news, when you give voters a direct voice, they vote for reforms improving the treatment of animals raised for food. Ag-gag laws are about depriving the public of the information that might lead them to demand change. It's anti-democratic.

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  12. Jan 3

    We should be allowed to see how our food is made. We should be able to bear seeing how our food is made. If the conditions in which we raise animals for slaughter are so awful they can't be seen, then they should be reformed, not hidden by the force of the state.

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  13. Jan 3

    I don't think there's anything as damning in our food system as ag-gag laws. Industrial farms torture animals so completely that they need to pass laws criminalizing exposure, and then the government does their bidding, prosecuting activists.

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  14. Jan 3

    This is the weird logic of trade wars in a globalized age: you end up having to celebrate causing damaging your own economy because you're trying to cause even more damage to someone else's economy.

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  15. Jan 3

    Jill Lepore on America's two revolutions. This conversation was a blast:

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  16. Jan 3

    This PayGo fight that’s splitting House Democrats is important. People can talk all they want about Medicare-for-All, free college, jacked-up EITC, etc. But if congressional Dems impose PayGo rules on themselves, none of that is likely to happen.

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  17. Jan 2

    Strange, cool, and hypnotic. (via )

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  18. Jan 2

    Anyway, I wouldn't predict too much off one op-ed. But I wouldn't dismiss it either. Romney knew he'd be opening himself to a lot of backlash by writing this. That suggests commitment from a prominent senator who, unlike Flake or Corker, hasn't wrecked his leverage by retiring.

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  19. Jan 2

    The other thing is: don't underestimate how difficult coordination problems in Congress are. What Romney's doing is making clear that anti-Trump R Senators can coordinate through him at moments of crisis, and that could prove important.

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  20. Jan 2

    If, say, the Mueller findings are going to lead to congressional action, Senate Republicans willing have to join with Democrats to act. I’ve never thought that particularly likely, but if Romney follows through on the signals he’s sending here…

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  21. Jan 2

    Actions ultimately speak louder than words. But Romney’s op-ed is meaningful, and a real risk from a usually risk-averse politician. He’s signaling to others in the Republican Party that he’s willing to lead internal opposition to Trump.

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