Their latest draft legislation sets up shared federal and state oversight and says stablecoins aren’t securities, but it’s uncertain what bipartisan support the effort will find.
House GOP leaders are waving off calls from rank-and-file Republicans for changes to their debt-limit proposal.
Instead, they’re plowing ahead toward a floor vote this week, daring detractors to vote against it.
While both FBI and Justice Department leadership typically make a personal pitch to Congress for an extension of the program known as Section 702, the deepening chasm between House Republicans and top law enforcement officials has complicated that dynamic. In short, the House GOP doesn’t trust the bureau.
And it means the FBI’s typical entreaty — that keeping its powers intact is essential to national security — won’t carry much weight this time around.
A lawyer for Hunter Biden called Monday for a congressional ethics investigation into the behavior of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), alleging that she has repeatedly directed ‘unmoored verbal abuses’ at the president’s son, including false accusations of human trafficking and cavorting with prostitutes.
Wrote lawyer Abbe Lowell: “Representative Greene’s unethical conduct arises from her continuous verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of personal photos and data, and promotion of conspiracy theories about and against Robert Hunter Biden. None of these could possibly be deemed to be part of any legitimate legislative activity, as is clear from both the content of her statements and actions, and the forums she uses to spew her often unhinged rhetoric.”
huh. racketeering. remind me, is that against the law?
New analysis from Moody’s Analytics finds that Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s plan to cut spending and lift the debt ceiling “would meaningfully increase the likelihood” of a recession and result in 780,000 fewer jobs by the end of 2024 compared with a clean bill to lift the debt limit.
For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colorado.
Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the high court.
Defense technique against moms 🤣 pic.twitter.com/u4tjK4Tzhq
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 23, 2023
