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To: Bonefish who wrote (1286474)	1/6/2021 12:45:48 AM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579788

Same trick......send everyone home and tell them they will resume counting in the AM. Only thing is the person who told them to come back in the AM doesn't even work in elections LOLOL So workers leave the building and the same ol steal happens again. PREPARE NOW. MILITARY COUP COMING, MAYBE TOMMOROW

To: Bonefish who wrote (1286474)	1/6/2021 1:13:05 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579788

Unified control of Congress means Democrats will have at least three chances to pass significant pieces of legislation, provided they can keep the party’s moderate and progressive wings on the same page. The catch? All of those pieces of legislation will be considered under the budget reconciliation rules, which don’t allow for provisions that don’t directly affect the federal budget and which require the proposals to be revenue-neutral over the course of a decade. Democrats could use reconciliation to pass major health care or climate legislation ? Biden backed both a public option for health insurance coverage and a significant investment in green infrastructure during the presidential campaign ? but it would be difficult to use the process to enact gun safety laws or large-scale immigration reform. Other ambitious pieces of legislation will still require significant cooperation from Republicans, along with consent from moderate Democrats like West Virginia’s Joe Manchin and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, to hurdle the Senate’s 60-vote requirement and avoid filibusters. Though Democrats had hopes before November, their slim Senate majority makes it almost impossible to see major filibuster reform in 2021. But control of the Senate does have plenty of other benefits: Democrats will chair major committees, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) taking over the Senate Budget Committee and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio leading the Banking Committee. Democrats will also control oversight hearings, blocking Republican plans to investigate Biden’s son Hunter and other right-wing boogeymen. The other major shift will come with nominations. Democrats and Republicans have slowly chipped away at the ability to filibuster nominees for the courts and Cabinet. This means an easier path to confirmation for potentially controversial Biden nominees, including Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick to run the White House Office of Management and Budget, whose past tweets criticizing Republican senators have drawn significant attention. It also means Democrats can respond to Trump and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s stacking of the federal courts over the past four years. And it means Biden can nominate justices to the Supreme Court without requiring GOP support ? potentially clearing the way for the retirement and replacement of 82-year-old liberal Justice Stephen Breyer. Biden has promised to make a Black woman his first Supreme Court nominee.