Senior Exxon lobbyist captured on video names 11 senators "crucial" to company: Capito, Manchin, Sinema, Tester, Hassan, Barrasso, Cornyn, Daines, Coons, Kelly and Rubio.
Calls Manchin "Kingmaker" and says speaks with office weekly.
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Congressional defense reporter @PunchbowlNews. Ex-@POLITICO. Standard warnings. Header by Francis Chung. [email protected].
- My wife sends along this video of crowd chanting “lock him up” as POTUS introduced at World Series.
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- New: Biden has nominated former Rep. Val Demings to be a governor on the United States Postal Service Board of Governors.
- Beto O'Rourke just rushed toward the stage at Gov. Greg Abbott's press conference in Texas to confront him over gun violence.
- New: @repblumenauer; @AOC and @BernieSanders introduce a bill requiring the president declare a national emergency for climate change. blumenauer.house.gov/sites/blumenau…
- New: House passes historic self-determination legislation for Puerto Rico with Republicans voting in support. Final vote was 233-191 with 16 Republican yeses. (One member voted late.) @AOC, a main negotiator of the package, presided.
- West Virginia sports legends, including Nick Saban, Jerry West and Paul Tagliabue, endorse Freedom to Vote Act. docsend.com/view/6f9g9kvwf…
- New NEBRASKA SENATE poll: 🔴 Sen. Deb Fischer* — 42 percent 🟡 Dan Osborn — 47 percent Undecided — 10 percent Voter registration breakdown — GOP (49%); Democratic (26%), Independent (25%) cdn.prod.website-files.com/65fc824cf83568…
- NEW: House votes 220-196 to condemn Vice President Kamala Harris' handling of the border. Six Democrats join with Republicans in support: — Peltola — Golden — MGP — Caraveo — Don Davis — Cuellar
- National GOP consultant: “The way this money has been burned, there needs to be an audit or investigation because we’re not gonna take the Senate now and this money has been squandered. It’s a rip-off.”
