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#caucus

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Ogie Ogilthorpe ✅

usatoday.com/story/news/politi

Where the hell are the #Fiscal #Conservatives?
“… would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion over two years, and add almost $3 trillion to the federal deficit over 10 years.”

Didn’t the #Orange motherfucker run on saving money?
Jesus Motherfucking Christ all mighty!

The #Freedom #Caucus are dyed in the wool RINOS!

USA TODAY · House Republicans advance plan for Trump's legislative agenda in dramatic turnaroundBy , USA TODAY
נאריש זשלאָב מענטש

This should go well and not at all turn into some kind of nutty conspiracy. :blobcat_thisisfine:

"A group of 21 #Jewish House #Democrats launched a Jewish #caucus on Thursday, with Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York and Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois as co-chairs. The move formalizes a group that has been getting together for decades and hopes to amp up its profile in response to the rising #antisemitism and other repercussions of the #Israel-#Hamas war.

The new caucus will “gather to share experiences, exchange ideas and advocate for the issues important to the #American Jewish community,” the group’s mission statement declares. It also promises to provide “a bridge to the other members and organizations within the House.”

forward.com/fast-forward/69452

The Forward · Jewish members of Congress create an official caucusAfter years of informal meetings, the group of House Democrats says formalizing will help address rising antisemitism.
ItsDrGrandmaToYou :verified:

Today's question: What is a #caucus ?

I am speaking directly about our U.S. DCongress (#House + #senate with focus on the House.

When elected Representatives (and Senators) have things they want to work on together, they gather together to work on them in groups called caucuses. These caucuses are voluntary. A caucus receives no federal funding to operate. A caucus has no paid staff. A caucus has no designated physical office space. A caucus can use certain resources of the Congress, but are not given any dedicated resources, such as they cannot use Congressional postage and cannot have a dedicated Congressional website, but it's okay if a caucus member makes copies out of their own office for caucus business. A caucus hopes to push the things that are important to them through Congress; however, a caucus cannot bring bills forward for passage. A caucus has no authority to bring forward legislation for consideration.

Alternatively, Congressional Committees are permanent, funded, and are specialized toward a specific topic (for example, the Armed Services Committee). These committees, in turn, can break into smaller subcommittees in order to delve deep into a specific issue. Committees are supposed to bring forward legislation for consideration of passage.

The influence of a caucus comes from bringing together a block of Congress people to vote a certain way on bills or parts of bills that are brought to a vote.

U.S. Representatives serve on 1-3 committees, but will be part of several caucuses. There are LOTS of caucuses but only 20 standing House committees.

A caucus wanting to push something through Congress can mean different things. A caucus can be a coalition, a "conference," task force, a study group, or a working group. The caucus must register with Congress (meaning there can be no secret business happening).

It can mean a caucus wants to push representation, such as the Congressional Black Caucus. The CBCF, as it's known, was formed in 1971, is bipartisan (though membership has largely been Democratic), and has the intention of promoting the end of racism and push diversity in Congressional membership. They meet and discuss everything from elections to bills being considered in the House in terms how they impact Black citizens of the U.S. This caucus has become quite influential over the decades. Latinos also have a very influential caucus.

A caucus can be formed for more short-term, immediate needs, such as seeing a specific bill through Congressional passage making certain the bill contains things they want. Perhaps, for example, Representatives of heavy agricultural states form a voting block on an upcoming farm bill based on caucus discussions.

A caucus can be formed to explore a topic. Such as exploring the elimination of government waste or homelessness. Along these lines, a bipartisan caucus has been formed to meet with DOGgiE. As you can see, there is no Congressional resources dedicated to DOGgiE, and it has no authority to bring forward legislation on its own.

I hope this helps ease people's fears. We, The People, CAN stop DOGgiE. It is not a department of our government; it has been given a caucus, which has extremely limited reach, is voluntary, and can disband at any time. It cannot bring legislation forward to be voted on.

#Politics#USPolitics#ElonMusk
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Chuck Darwin

A super PAC closely linked to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.)
is putting money into defending former House Freedom Caucus Chair #Scott #Perry (R-Pa.)
for the first time this election cycle.

Why it matters:
👉Polls suggest the race is highly competitive,
and a PAC tied to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
has already put millions into supporting Perry's Democratic opponent, #Janelle #Stelson.

Stelson has also been clobbering Perry in fundraising, besting him by more than $2 million between July and September, according to Federal Election Commission filings from both campaigns.

Driving the news:
The Johnson-affiliated Congressional Leadership Fund put more than $200,000 into ad reservations in Pennsylvania's 10th district on Tuesday, according to ad tracking firm AdImpact.

CLF had not spent anything in the district as of this weekend, though its nonprofit arm American Action Network put $500,000 into ads supporting Perry.

Perry's primary bases of support so far have been House Freedom Action
— the political arm of the House Freedom Caucus
— and Win It Back PAC, which have spent over $600,000 and $900,000 for him, respectively.

By contrast, Democrats' House Majority PAC has spent nearly $2.5 million on ads,
on top of $2.1 million from Stelson's campaign and nearly $1 million from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Zoom in:
CLF's ad reservations were shifted from Eighteen Fifty-Four Fund,
💥a Republican group that still has nearly $2.1 million reserved in the district.


That suggests that House Republicans are poised to make a far deeper investment than their initial $200,000 ad buy.

Republican strategists have insisted to Axios that they don't see the race as competitive, but Democrats said they expected the GOP to invest more heavily there after a poll showed Stelson leading by 9 percentage points.

Between the lines:
Perry has been a thorn in the side of both Johnson and his predecessor, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), as the former chair of the House #Freedom #Caucus.

The right-wing group has led numerous revolts against leadership over government spending and the debt ceiling, even forcing McCarthy to go through 15 grueling ballots to be elected in January 2023.

But Johnson has appointed Perry to the prestigious #House #Intelligence #Committee and campaigned in his district,
with Perry's campaign saying they have gotten everything they've needed from the GOP establishment.

axios.com/2024/10/15/mike-john

Axios · Johnson-linked PAC rushes to bail out ex-Freedom Caucus chairBy Andrew Solender
Chuck Darwin

Two men recognized and exploited the anti-democratic loopholes within America’s rickety democracy
-- in order to deliver Republicans victories that they could never win at the ballot box.

Now their willfully minoritarian creations threaten the very essence of a representative democracy:

if Donald #Trump, rightwing courts, #gerrymandered state legislatures and an extreme Republican #caucus in the US House of Representatives create constitutional #chaos over the certification of this presidential election, 👉two men cleared the path.

The single-minded determination of #Leonard #Leo built a conservative supermajority on the US #supreme #court and ♦️stacked lower and state courts with Republican #ideologues that have pushed the nation to the right via the least accountable branch of government.

#Chris #Jankowski masterminded the partisan #gerrymanders that ♦️tilted state legislatures and congressional delegations across the south and the purple midwest toward extreme Republicans,
♦️ended Barack Obama’s second term before it started, and ♦️rendered elections in Wisconsinand North Carolina all but meaningless over the last decade and a half.

Leo and Jankowski understood, separately, that the courts and state legislatures were undervalued and often undefended targets for a deliberate strategy aimed at capturing important levers of power that sometimes float under the radar.

They could be Moneyball-ed, to borrow the term Michael Lewis used in his book about how the Oakland A’s made an end-run around large-market teams by understanding value that their opponents overlooked.

What Leo and Jankowski built separately would soon reinforce the other’s creation (with, of course, crucial assists from chief justice #John #Roberts), tightening the knots around meaningful elections, pushing policy to the extreme right and 💥making it nearly impossible for voters to do anything about it

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Two men have re-engineered the US electoral system in favor of RepublicansBy Guardian staff reporter
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Chuck Darwin

Senate Minority Leader #Mitch #McConnell's office has been working behind the scenes to get House 🔸conservatives to drop their demands that a short-term funding bill include an immigrant voting crackdown, 🔸

A GOP showdown is brewing ahead of the ♦️Oct. 1 government #funding #deadline.♦️

Conservatives have shown a willingness to flirt with shutdowns to push their priorities, which McConnell's team wants to avoid.

In a recent meeting with other GOP offices about a short-term spending bill strategy, top McConnell staffers argued that adding a non-citizen voting bill would 🔥backfire.

One fear is🔷 such a move would open the door for Democrats to tack on their own voting-related legislation, 🔷two GOP aides familiar with the conversation told Axios.

The ⭐️John Lewis Voting Rights Act, ⭐️a Democrat priority that seeks to restore parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, was specifically discussed as a possibility.

The big picture: McConnell staffers have urged conservatives in the Senate and the House to keep the precedent of passing clean short-term-funding bills
and argued that using a #potential #shutdown to try to score political points is dangerous before the election, sources said.

Even if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) could get a spending bill that includes the immigrant voting crackdown through the House, the measure almost certainly would be dead-on-arrival in the Democrat-controlled Senate and President Biden has said he "strongly opposes" it.

That reality helps explain the pushback from McConnell's team.

Their involvement in this latest push shows he's not taking a back seat in high-level negotiations even though he plans to step down as leader after the election.

The #House #Freedom #Caucus and other conservatives have been pressuring their leadership to attach 💥legislation that requires people registering to vote to provide a proof of citizenship 💥to any short-term spending measure.

Johnson is a big supporter of the measure, known as the ❌SAVE Act, and has signaled he's open to attaching it to a funding bill.

He told reporters Tuesday that he was "looking for every way to push the SAVE Act and to get it through the Senate."

axios.com/2024/08/25/mcconnell

Axios · McConnell’s big fear on the next budget fightBy Stef W. Kight
Chuck Darwin

“In #Kamala #Harris we have a chance to elect a president who is for the middle class because she is from the middle class,” progressive Rep #Ocasio-#Cortez said in her speech on Monday.

“She understands the urgency of rent checks and groceries and prescriptions. She is as committed to our reproductive and civil rights as she is to taking on corporate greed.”

Ocasio-Cortez issued a wholehearted endorsement of the new nominee, and she promised that, if elected, Harris would serve as a champion of the middle class.

In his own convention speech, Senator #Bernie #Sanders pledged that Democrats would use their governing power to “tax the rich”, “take on price gouging” and “expand Medicare”.

The possibility of that change has animated progressives.
“The energy is electrifying and it’s a lot of young folks,” the congresswoman #Pramila #Jayapal, chair of the Congressional #Progressive #caucus, told the Guardian.
“If you have young people, if you have progressives, Black, brown, Indigenous folks, working-class folks, that is actually the base that helps us to win because they are the ones that go door to door. They’re the ones that mobilize voters.”

To deliver on the promises that progressives are seeking, Harris may have to distance herself from Biden in certain areas, especially climate and the war on Gaza.
During his 2020 campaign, Biden embraced a sweeping climate agenda as he looked to reassure the millions of progressive voters who had not backed him in the primary.
While Biden signed the most significant federal climate bill in history, the Inflation Reduction Act, however, failed to follow through on his campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands”.

Progressives hope Harris will stick to some of the promises that Biden made as a candidate but then walked back.

“We cannot have that happen again,” #Jeff #Merkley, a senator, told the Guardian.
“We, as climate truth-tellers, have to be very present, very loud, very determined to say,❇️ ‘We will back you 1,000%, but you can’t keep expanding the fossil infrastructure.’”❇️
theguardian.com/us-news/articl

The Guardian · ‘They aren’t going to accept empty promises’: progressives back Harris with cautious enthusiasmBy Joan E Greve
Dorothea Zwölfer (sie)

Wichtige Informationen über den Zusammenhang zwischen der #Öl- und Gaslobby und den rechtsextremen und demokratiefeindlichen Kräften weltweit: >> [...] Der »#Freedom #Caucus« ist auch die Truppe, die versuchte, US-Hilfen für die Ukraine zu sabotieren , und generell jede konsensfähige Gesetzgebung im Repräsentantenhaus. Der finstere rechte Rand der #Republikaner ist ein Werkzeug der Öl- und Gasbranche – und manchmal auch eins von Wladimir #Putin. Es gibt zwischen den Kräften, die in den USA gerade versuchen, mit #Trump an der Spitze die #Demokratie auszuhöhlen und den Fossilkonzernen eine lange, fruchtbare und für die betreffenden Abgeordneten sehr lukrative Verbindung.[...]<< https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/energiepolitik-das-letzte-aufbaeumen-der-oelriesen-kolumne-a-0b24dcf3-af9f-4224-9956-02ede9d209dc@BlumeEvolution@sueden.social Stöcker hätte ihr Buch dazu auch noch erwähnen können...

#caucus#ol
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Chuck Darwin

Rep. Derrick Van Orden is done with Rep. Bob Good.

#Good, the leader of the House #Freedom #Caucus and one of eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, has been at the center of internal GOP infighting that has left their party’s agenda in tatters and their conference embroiled in a bitter civil war.

Now #Van #Orden has joined hands with a band of House Republicans angling to knock Good off in his June primary by propping up his primary opponent, John #McGuire
– a tactic long viewed as a serious breach of protocol but one that underscores the #bad #blood within the House GOP.

🥺“Bob Good didn’t come here to govern. He came here to be famous,” 🥺Van Orden, a Wisconsin Republican, told CNN.

“Bob Good’s wearing our jersey, and he’s not on the team.”

Van Orden added: “If you look at what we have NOT been able to accomplish in this Congress, it’s predominantly because of Bob Good and his ilk.”

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