American Politics Thread V: We're Just Biden Our Time ...

[Cannot think of a name]

By the way, there's efforts for recall in Alaska.

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Petition

Everybody was re-call fighting, it was a little bit frightening. It should be a little bit involving, but it just takes a bunch of signing.






I know that doesn't work, I'm still posting it.

[Exalted Inquellian State]

By the way, there's efforts for recall in Alaska.

Ballotpedia

Petition

Everybody was re-call fighting, it was a little bit frightening. It should be a little bit involving, but it just takes a bunch of signing.






I know that doesn't work, I'm still posting it.

I mean, in my opinion it works.

[Shrillland]

By the way, there's efforts for recall in Alaska.

Ballotpedia

Petition(also shows how many signatures still needed for recall)

We've been keeping an eye on it, all we're waiting on is for the threshold to be reached.

[Kowani]

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) claims to have secured funding to replace lead pipes in public schools, as a part of the upcoming water bill he expects to pass this week

[Cannot think of a name]

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) claims to have secured funding to replace lead pipes in public schools, as a part of the upcoming water bill he expects to pass this week

This is one of those stories where you "oh goo-wait, are we just getting to this?"

[North Washington Republic]

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) claims to have secured funding to replace lead pipes in public schools, as a part of the upcoming water bill he expects to pass this week

Right-wing media will find a way to spin this and attack Ossoff.

[Celritannia]

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) claims to have secured funding to replace lead pipes in public schools, as a part of the upcoming water bill he expects to pass this week

This is one of those stories where you "oh goo-wait, are we just getting to this?"

And parts of NY are still using wooden pipes for water supply.

The US is a nightmare when the simplest of necessary changes somehow becomes partisan and thus a hotly debated issue,

[San Lumen]

This is one of those stories where you "oh goo-wait, are we just getting to this?"

And parts of NY are still using wooden pipes for water supply.

That leak and are on the verge of collapse.

[Kowani]

This is one of those stories where you "oh goo-wait, are we just getting to this?"

And parts of NY are still using wooden pipes for water supply.

The US is a nightmare when the simplest of necessary changes somehow becomes partisan and thus a hotly debated issue,

Not quite: Cloture was successfully invoked 92-2 (Ted Cruz and Mike Lee) on the actual bill

[San Lumen]

And parts of NY are still using wooden pipes for water supply.

The US is a nightmare when the simplest of necessary changes somehow becomes partisan and thus a hotly debated issue,

Not quite: Cloture was successfully invoked 92-2 (Ted Cruz and Mike Lee) on the actual bill

I feel like Cruz hasn't voted yes on anything to date.

[Kowani]

Not quite: Cloture was successfully invoked 92-2 (Ted Cruz and Mike Lee) on the actual bill

I feel like Cruz hasn't voted yes on anything to date.

As of today, 5 things

Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense
Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense
Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative
Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic

[Cannot think of a name]

I feel like Cruz hasn't voted yes on anything to date.

As of today, 5 things

Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense
Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense
Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative
Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic

Not gonna lie, that last one is a bit of a surprise. I would have pegged him as indifferent towards the violence against Asian Americans.

[Zurkerx]

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) claims to have secured funding to replace lead pipes in public schools, as a part of the upcoming water bill he expects to pass this week

It's certainly bad that some parts of the country still use lead pipes. Also-

This is one of those stories where you "oh goo-wait, are we just getting to this?"

And parts of NY are still using wooden pipes for water supply.

The US is a nightmare when the simplest of necessary changes somehow becomes partisan and thus a hotly debated issue,

Wooden pipes? Jesus, that's got to be perhaps the cheapest material to use for pipes. Not to mention, I feel the wood would rot eventually after its treatment had worn off. We clearly can do better...

[Celritannia]

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) claims to have secured funding to replace lead pipes in public schools, as a part of the upcoming water bill he expects to pass this week

It's certainly bad that some parts of the country still use lead pipes. Also-

And parts of NY are still using wooden pipes for water supply.

The US is a nightmare when the simplest of necessary changes somehow becomes partisan and thus a hotly debated issue,

Wooden pipes? Jesus, that's got to be perhaps the cheapest material to use for pipes. Not to mention, I feel the wood would rot eventually after its treatment had worn off. We clearly can do better...

They have been in use from the mid 1800s, as far as I remember from what San Lumen said during the Saturday socials.

[San Lumen]

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-envir ... -epa-chief

The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Janet McCabe as the No. 2 official at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

McCabe was confirmed in a 52-42 vote, with Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) joining most Democrats to vote for her nomination. Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) was the only Democrat to vote against McCabe's confirmation.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/politics ... index.html

The Senate confirmed Colin Kahl to be the No. 3 civilian at the Pentagon on Tuesday, approving President Joe Biden's nominee for Pentagon policy chief on a party-line vote.

The 49-45 vote came one week after Vice President Kamala Harris broke a 50-50 tie on a procedural vote to advance Kahl's nomination, in the first instance that she was needed to cast a tie-breaking vote on a nominee thanks to united Republican opposition.

Harris did not have to go to Capitol Hill on Tuesday for the procedural vote to end debate and the final vote on Kahl's confirmation because of Republican absences from the Senate.

[Kowani]

Biden expected to propose $200 Billion for free preschool during Joint Address to Congress

President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan being unveiled Wednesday in a joint address to Congress.

The administration said the historic investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000. It calls for providing federal funds to help the states offer preschool, with teachers and other employees earning $15 an hour. “These investments will give American children a head start and pave the way for the best-educated generation in U.S. history,” the administration said.

The new details are part of Biden’s $1 trillion-plus package focused on so-called human infrastructure — child care, health care, education and other core aspects of the household architecture that undergird everyday life for countless Americans. It would be paid for by hiking taxes on very high-income households, in keeping with the president’s vow not to raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 a year.Before Wednesday night’s address, with details of the plan still in flux, lawmakers have been pushing to make sure key priorities are included in this next phase of Biden’s massive infrastructure reinvestment program.

A group of leading centrist and progressive Democrats is meeting late Tuesday with the White House to discuss its priority of making permanent the Child Tax Credit, which was increased to as much as $300 a month as part of a COVID-19 relief package. Right now, that benefit expires in 2022 and Biden has suggested extending it to 2025.

“We continue to push,” Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the chairman of the Banking Committee and advocate for a permanent child tax credit, said late Monday evening. “We’re hopeful. We want it to be permanent because it’s so important for so many people’s lives.”

The president’s speech and the rollout of the American Families Plan come as Biden is marking his first 100 days in the White House, a rare moment for congressional action. Democrats narrowly control the House and Senate, giving the president’s party the full sweep of power for the first time in a decade.

While Biden is determined to reach out for bipartisanship, Republicans in Congress have largely panned his proposals as big government spending and vowed to oppose them. Biden’s Democratic allies in Congress are just as determined to ensure they seize this rare alignment of political power to deliver on long-sought priorities. Administration officials said Monday that details of the proposal were yet to be finalized. But the package builds on Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, a massive investment in infrastructure that goes beyond roads and bridges to include veterans hospitals, child care centers and other developments.

The White House has portrayed its plan as a Robin Hood-style effort to tax the rich in order to spend on benefits for the middle class and poor.

It’s an argument that the hundreds of billions of dollars controlled by the wealthiest sliver of the country would lead to better results for the country if they were distributed instead to families.

In addition to extending an expanded child tax credit through 2025, giving parents monthly payments of at least $250 per child, it would provide free community college and paid family leave, among other benefits.

Funding the initiative would be a tax increase on the extremely rich, most notably a near doubling of the capital gains tax rate on incomes above $1 million to 39.6%.

Similarly, the top income tax bracket for those households earning beyond $400,000 is expected to revert to 39.6%, according to a Democratic aide granted anonymity to discuss the planning. That had been the top rate before the 2017 GOP tax overhaul approved by Donald Trump.

[Neutraligon]

Biden expected to propose $200 Billion for free preschool during Joint Address to Congress

President Joe Biden will call for free preschool for all three- and four-year-old children, a $200 billion investment to be rolled out as part of his sweeping American Families Plan being unveiled Wednesday in a joint address to Congress.

The administration said the historic investment would benefit 5 million children and save the average family $13,000. It calls for providing federal funds to help the states offer preschool, with teachers and other employees earning $15 an hour. “These investments will give American children a head start and pave the way for the best-educated generation in U.S. history,” the administration said.

The new details are part of Biden’s $1 trillion-plus package focused on so-called human infrastructure — child care, health care, education and other core aspects of the household architecture that undergird everyday life for countless Americans. It would be paid for by hiking taxes on very high-income households, in keeping with the president’s vow not to raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 a year.Before Wednesday night’s address, with details of the plan still in flux, lawmakers have been pushing to make sure key priorities are included in this next phase of Biden’s massive infrastructure reinvestment program.

A group of leading centrist and progressive Democrats is meeting late Tuesday with the White House to discuss its priority of making permanent the Child Tax Credit, which was increased to as much as $300 a month as part of a COVID-19 relief package. Right now, that benefit expires in 2022 and Biden has suggested extending it to 2025.

“We continue to push,” Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the chairman of the Banking Committee and advocate for a permanent child tax credit, said late Monday evening. “We’re hopeful. We want it to be permanent because it’s so important for so many people’s lives.”

The president’s speech and the rollout of the American Families Plan come as Biden is marking his first 100 days in the White House, a rare moment for congressional action. Democrats narrowly control the House and Senate, giving the president’s party the full sweep of power for the first time in a decade.

While Biden is determined to reach out for bipartisanship, Republicans in Congress have largely panned his proposals as big government spending and vowed to oppose them. Biden’s Democratic allies in Congress are just as determined to ensure they seize this rare alignment of political power to deliver on long-sought priorities. Administration officials said Monday that details of the proposal were yet to be finalized. But the package builds on Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan, a massive investment in infrastructure that goes beyond roads and bridges to include veterans hospitals, child care centers and other developments.

The White House has portrayed its plan as a Robin Hood-style effort to tax the rich in order to spend on benefits for the middle class and poor.

It’s an argument that the hundreds of billions of dollars controlled by the wealthiest sliver of the country would lead to better results for the country if they were distributed instead to families.

In addition to extending an expanded child tax credit through 2025, giving parents monthly payments of at least $250 per child, it would provide free community college and paid family leave, among other benefits.

Funding the initiative would be a tax increase on the extremely rich, most notably a near doubling of the capital gains tax rate on incomes above $1 million to 39.6%.

Similarly, the top income tax bracket for those households earning beyond $400,000 is expected to revert to 39.6%, according to a Democratic aide granted anonymity to discuss the planning. That had been the top rate before the 2017 GOP tax overhaul approved by Donald Trump.

Honestly, preschool should join the public school list with teachers trained specifically to deal with children that young.

[The Black Forrest]

Remember the Dr. Seuss book event? Next time something like that happens; people should ask Levar Burton.

https://www.comicsands.com/meghan-mccai ... -303482561

[Bear Stearns]

Remember the Dr. Seuss book event? Next time something like that happens; people should ask Levar Burton.

https://www.comicsands.com/meghan-mccai ... -303482561

what kind of after market, pop-up ridden adspam blog is this

[The Alma Mater]

Remember the Dr. Seuss book event? Next time something like that happens; people should ask Levar Burton.

https://www.comicsands.com/meghan-mccai ... -303482561

what kind of after market, pop-up ridden adspam blog is this

It's Takei's blogsite And indeed a magnificent example of capitalism.

[The Black Forrest]

I feel like Cruz hasn't voted yes on anything to date.

It's the Ron Paul path to fame and glory. Every time a bill passes, his name gets mentioned.

All that work to be a footnote.

[Kowani]

Former White House adviser Seth Andrew arrested for stealing $218,000 from charter schools he founded

[Ifreann]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/26/us-police-killings-black-americans-crimes-against-humanity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

In devastating report, human rights experts call on international criminal court prosecutor to open an immediate investigation.

The systematic killing and maiming of unarmed African Americans by police amount to crimes against humanity that should be investigated and prosecuted under international law, an inquiry into US police brutality by leading human rights lawyers from around the globe has found.

A week after the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in George Floyd’s death, the unabated epidemic of police killings of Black men and women in the US has now attracted scorching international attention.

In a devastating report running to 188 pages, human rights experts from 11 countries hold the US accountable for what they say is a long history of violations of international law that rise in some cases to the level of crimes against humanity.

They're probably right (I haven't read the report), but nothing's going to come of this. The ICC don't have jurisdiction, and will not want to touch this at all.

The ICC don't want to deal with the CIA ineptly trying to assassinate them.

[Dejado Atras]

This is perhaps the worst I’ve ever seen Tariq Nasheed sink.

[North Washington Republic]

This is perhaps the worst I’ve ever seen Tariq Nasheed sink.

I wonder what has happening before the video started...