The chairman of the D.C. Council wants to stop the U.S. Senate from acting on the district's proposed criminal code overhaul, but it's unclear whether he has that authority and the Senate is still aiming for a vote on the Republican-backed disapproval resolution.
"Our position is the bill is not before Congress any longer," Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) told reporters Monday.
But Sen. Bill Hagerty, a Tennessee Republican who sponsored the disapproval resolution, said in a statement that Mendelson's move amounts to a "desperate, made-up maneuver."
Meanwhile, some Democrats have expressed frustration over President Biden's position in support of the override. |
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Welcome to Evening Report! I'm Elizabeth Crisp, catching you up from the afternoon and what's coming tomorrow. Not on the list? Subscribe here. |
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- Michelle Obama is taking a swing at former President Trump's claims of "massive" turnout at his 2017 inauguration, saying "there weren't that many people there."
The leader of Russia's Wagner private army says a lack of ammunition being provided by Moscow could cause the Russian front line to collapse from Bakhmut.
A top aide to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) says the senator is "well on his way to recovery" as he remains hospitalized to receive treatment for clinical depression and will return to work in the Senate "soon."
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🚆 Bipartisan rail safety bill runs into GOP roadblock |
A bipartisan push to bolster railroad safety is facing surprising pushback from some top Senate Republicans who say they are not yet on board with the proposed response to the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment. |
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🛢️ Groups sue Biden admin over offshore oil lease sale
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A coalition of environmental organizations are suing to stop the Bureau of Ocean Management sales of leases in the Gulf of Mexico. In their lawsuit, the groups argue that plans are based on a "deeply flawed" environmental review. The Biden administration had previously canceled the lease sales due to contradictory court rulings, but following a provision negotiated by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in the Inflation Reduction Act requiring the sales, they are set for March 28. |
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🏅 House panel to consider GOP bill on trans athletes
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Federal legislation to ban transgender women and girls from competing on sports teams for women and girls make its debut when the House Committee on Education and the Workforce holds a hearing Wednesday.
The "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," introduced in February by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.), would amend Title IX — the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination — to recognize sex as that which is "based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth."
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🔥 Western forests three times the size of Yellowstone could be transformed by midcentury
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Hotter and drier conditions are stopping many Western conifer forests from being able to return after wildfires, according to new study has found. The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that climate change risks are turning an area of Western forests three times the size of Yellowstone National Park. |
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🌴 Bipartisan Senate bill would end Cuban embargo
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A bipartisan group of senators is pursuing legislation to end the six-decade commercial embargo on Cuba. The proposal from Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) would not affect other U.S. laws that establish Cuba's human rights-based restrictions. |
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📱 Twitter 'internal change' led to brief outage of links, Tweetdeck
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Links on Twitter briefly stopped working on Monday, leading users to an error page when they clicked on them. Service was restored around 1 p.m. |
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"The current state of play in the GOP presidential primary" — political adviser Douglas E. Schoen (Read here) "It's not NATO — Putin always has had expansionist designs" — Alexander J. Motyl of Rutgers University-Newark (Read here) |
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3 days until President Biden unveils his budget proposal. 610 days until the presidential election. |
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Noon: House meets. 10 a.m. Senate Finance holds a hearing on affordable housing. 2:30 p.m. Senate Banking holds a hearing on the federal debt limit. |
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