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Here's how all this plays out:
House unable to elect Speaker on Jan 3 or many days after.
There can be no joint session to count electoral votes before the House gets a Speaker, Jan 6 or later.
If no Speaker by noon Jan 20:
Acting President Chuck Grassley
ASSUME DEER DEAD
Jeff Davis retweeted
Time to find out who the real UT is 😏
We'll see you in Knoxville on Saturday for a showdown between Texas and Tennessee! 🔥
This is some cray-cray detail reporting and makes me guess that most of these Freedom Caucus folks will not be enthusiastic supporters of the Highway Trust Fund reaitjorization bill…
New: Last night at 9:15 pm, Johnson held a meeting with members about suspending the gas tax, something Andy Harris was pushing for. It quickly delved into chaos.
Rep. Sam Graves brought in a printed out Andy Harris tweet from 2022 where he opposed suspending the gas tax, something Harris was now advocating for.
Harris got livid.
"This is fucking war!" he yelled slamming his hands on the table. "This is war!"
Rep. Clay Higgins then stood up and called Graves a "disrespectful fool."
Sources described it as one of the craziest meetings they've witnessed.
More from inside that meeting:
washingtonsun.com/congress/h…
FYI possible House vote this week on suspending federal excise tax on gasoline and thus making the Highway Trust Fund that much less solvent.
Instead of a regular issue of ETW this week, we have a special edition focusing on the changes that the 9.11 attacks brought to transportation, assembled by my colleague @profplotch with tons of expert content: enotrans.org/eno-transportat…
That means Highway Trust Fund program authorizations and funding extended through Dec. 11 in addition to regular govt shutdown being avoided
Jeff Davis retweeted
Commemorative Freedom 250 Grand Prix cards were made available at select stations this morning. Team Metro quickly identified a defect in the card technology which makes them unusable. We’ve temporarily removed all cards from the system and are making small quantities available this evening starting with L’Enfant Plaza station. We will share additional card locations as they are identified. We apologize for this inconvenience.
ICYMI over the weekend the House Budget Committee filed its report on the new budget blueprint the House will vote on this week, confirming that the budget would not allow the spending increases provided by the @TransportGOP @TransportDems BUILD America 250 Act...
The new FY27 House budget resolution does not have a reserve fund for surface transportation, meaning that the spending increases in the House's BUILD America 250 Act would violate this budget and there is no straightforward way to fix it.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approves the surface transportation bill by a vote of 62 to 2 after a 13-hour markup session
Jeff Davis retweeted
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: THE SENATE will go home until June, leaving the reconciliation bill unfinished.
THUNE just told senators in the room.
All because of the DOJ weaponization fund.
House is expected to follow suit soon.
me and @AndrewDesiderio
Had I been invited to the lunch with King Charles, I would have brought along the copy of the Senate Manual that he was given during his 1970 visit to the Capitol, which he must have accidentally misplaced because I found it in a used book store for $20
The new budget will start paring this back, but we seem to have hit peak infrastructure spending this year/next year in terms of real outlays for completed work...
Jeff Davis retweeted
The Wire ended 18 yrs ago today. It’s been taught in Ivy League schools, law schools & film schools. David Simon was interviewed by a sitting president about its lasting impact. Cited in a State Supreme Court ruling. Often hailed by critics as the best ever. Never won an Emmy.
Jeff Davis retweeted
SCOOP: NTSB board member J. Todd Inman abruptly departs safety watchdog theaircurrent.com/feed/dispa… (via @willguisbond & @jonostrower) #staycurrent
Jeff Davis retweeted
I’m honestly shocked how few people I talked to today have seen Wargames.
It’s literally about an AI nearly destroying the world when it plays a game of Global Thermonuclear War.
What would Stephen Falken think about the Anthropic / DOD fight?
