All Things Biden: Is It Over Yet?

[Tero]

They can only pass one budget bill in a fiscal year with a simple majority.

Additional bills require 60 votes in senate. This saved us in the Trump era from ruin. He only passed one tax cutting bill.

Additional budget bills, or additional any type of bills?

I think the 60 is the rule without filibuster. The one budget bill a year is the exception.

[Tero]

Filibuster in Biden era:
The Senate voted along party lines on a procedural step that will let Democrats avoid a filibuster on President Biden’s coronavirus relief package and pass it with a straight majority.

Wiki
The nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the United States Senate to override a standing rule of the Senate, such as the 60-vote rule to close debate, by a simple majority of 51 votes, rather than the two-thirds supermajority normally required to amend the rules. The option is invoked when the majority leader raises a point of order that contravenes a standing rule, such as that only a simple majority is needed to close debate on certain matters. The presiding officer denies the point of order based on Senate rules, but the ruling of the chair is then appealed and overturned by majority vote, establishing new precedent.

Wiki
The point of order calls upon the chair to make a ruling. The chair may rule on the point of order or submit it to the judgment of the assembly. If the chair accepts the point of order, it is said to be ruled "well taken". If not, it is said to be ruled "not well taken".[2]

Generally, a point of order must be raised at the time the rules are broken or else it would be too late.[3] For example, if a motion was made and discussion began on it, it would be too late to raise a point of order that the motion was not seconded. If such a motion was adopted without a second, it remains valid and not having a second becomes irrelevant.[4]

Exceptions to the rule that a point of order must be raised at the time of violation include that a point of order may be raised at any time a motion was adopted in violation of the bylaws or applicable law, in conflict with a previously adopted motion (unless adopted by the vote to rescind it), or in violation of a fundamental principle of parliamentary law.[5]

The ruling of the chair may be appealed to the assembly in most cases. A majority vote against the chair's ruling is required to overturn it.

[Tero]

Filibustering 15 hours. Also makes fun of dead Carson.

[Tero]

Just for Cunt:
https://howbidenstoletheelection.com

[Cunt]

Biden is going to finally have Trump removed. He can almost SMELL it!

[Sean Hayden]

MERRICK GARLAND WANTS FORMER FACEBOOK LAWYER TO TOP ANTITRUST DIVISION

Susan Davies has spent much of the last decade working on behalf of major mergers and fending off antitrust enforcement.

AS THE FIGHT over the direction of the Biden administration’s antitrust policy intensifies, a new figure has entered the fray, scrambling the calculus: Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland. The battle so far has largely been fought out between lobbyists for Big Tech and their allies on the one hand and skeptics of monopoly power on the other.

But according to three sources familiar with the discussions, Garland is hoping to install as the head of the Department of Justice antitrust division a longtime aide who served under him during the Clinton administration and who later was the attorney charged with shepherding his ill-fated Supreme Court nomination. That lawyer, Susan Davies, however, would be a controversial pick for another professional connection of hers: Facebook. The sources for this story are unable to speak on the record for fear of angering the Biden administration, which has not authorized those involved in the discussions to speak publicly.

In 2012, Davies represented Facebook in a lawsuit brought by an advertiser, Sambreel Holdings LLC, that was effectively kicked off Facebook’s platform after the tech giant lured away all its clients and banned users from downloading it. In December, the Federal Trade Commission launched an antitrust suit against Facebook, looking to break it into its component parts and ban it from the type of anti-competitive behavior Davies defended as its counsel.

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/28/ant ... k-garland/

She's spent the last 10 years working the other side of this. But that's common among lawyers.

[Sean Hayden]

Hong Kong residents who seek to flee Chinese communist oppression could find a welcome home in the United States under President Biden.

“If they’re the victims of repression from Chinese authorities, we should do something to give them haven,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday.

That comment likely will add fuel to the rivalry between the U.S. and the communist regime, while forging a link between U.S. immigration policy and strategic competition with China. Beijing already is fuming about British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to welcome Hong Kong residents who hold British passports dating back to the city’s time as a colony of the United Kingdom.

“We’ve seen China act egregiously to undermine the very commitments it made during the handover of Hong Kong from Britain,” Blinken said in the televised interview. “And we see people who are, again, in Hong Kong standing up for their own rights, the rights that they felt were guaranteed to them.”

Hong Kong dissidents have appealed for Western protection.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poli ... -hong-kong

[Sean Hayden]

...and one to get Crumple excited

Blinken: If it further breaks deal, Iran could amass material for nuke in weeks

US secretary of state says at current rate Tehran is months away from being able to produce material for weapon, but timeframe could shorten

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that Iran was currently months away from being able to produce enough material to build a nuclear weapon. And, he said, that timeframe could be reduced to “a matter of weeks” if Tehran further violates restrictions it agreed to under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

“The time that it would take Iran to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon is down to, we think, a few months,” Blinken said, noting that he was relying on public reports and not new intelligence.

“It’s a problem that could get more acute, because if Iran continues to lift some of these restraints imposed by the agreement, that could get down to a matter of weeks,” Blinken said in an interview with NBC News broadcast Monday.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-i ... -in-weeks/

We left the agreement and continue to talk about Iran's noncompliance.

Just say that we won't tolerate a nuclear Iran and be done with it.

[Joe]

Just for Cunt:
https://howbidenstoletheelection.com

How imaginatively radical!

[Cunt]

Is everyone who has been caught lying about 'stonks', trustworthy about their reporting on other subjects?

[Sean Hayden]

Environmental Justice to Get a Boost in the Biden Administration

Environmental justice is expected to serve as a focal point of the Biden administration. Sidley Austin LLP attorneys look at how the requirement for federal agencies to consider the disproportionately high and adverse health or environmental effects of their actions on minority and low-income populations—in effect since 1994—will get renewed focus across the government and impact infrastructure projects.

In the wake of social justice movements and calls for racial justice, there is an increased interest in President Bill Clinton’s 1994 Executive Order 12898 and environmental justice more broadly, with environmental justice expected to serve as a focal point of President Joe Biden’s administration.

Clinton’s EO requires federal agencies to consider the disproportionately high and adverse health or environmental effects of their actions on minority and low-income populations.

Expected Changes to Promote Environmental Justice
Biden expressed his commitment to environmental justice during the 2020 campaign—a commitment extending to his Cabinet appointments to lead key agencies that will play a role in crafting policy.

For example, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator appointee Michael Regan created the Environmental Justice Equity Board while leading North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality. It is expected that the EPA, under Regan’s leadership, will create additional environmental justice programs, including a community notification program to provide real-time information about pollutant releases.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-we ... nistration

[L'Emmerdeur]

Environmental Justice to Get a Boost in the Biden Administration

I've been enjoying your posts on boring things in the Biden administration.

[Tero]

The oath that almost none of the Trump admin could keep. Feel free to troll your friends with it:
https://mobile.twitter.com/kim/status/1 ... 9589714944

[Hermit]

Is everyone who has been caught lying about 'stonks', trustworthy about their reporting on other subjects?

Just asking a question.

Trustworthiness of the source is not a criterion by which I determine the veracity of any one claim. So, for instance, Trump's claim right at the start of his presidency that he attracted by far the greatest inauguration crowd has not led me to the conclusion that he lies about everything else. I take every individual assertion on its own merits.

By the way, would you provide links to the sources of the lies, please?

[Brian Peacock]

Environmental Justice to Get a Boost in the Biden Administration

I've been enjoying your posts on boring things in the Biden administration.

:+1