Biden/Harris Legislative/Policy Discussions - Now with a Republican House starting 2023

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[Captain Wiggles]

Average GDP under the Trump administration? .95% 

 

GDP Trumps last year in office? -3.7%

 

Never reached that 6% he bragged oh so much about. 🤣

[Larry]

Hey, but if you:

 

1). Compare the first 2 1/2 years of each President. (Thus pretending that Trump's last year and a half didn't exist). 
2). Apply a fudge factor for inflation. (Because as we all know, the correct way to measure GDP isn't in dollars, it's in eggs). 
 

Then you get a result that you completely weren't cherry picking data to try to get. 

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The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Tuesday released nearly 200 pages of Secret Service records that it obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The group said it filed suit after the agency, a division of DHS, “failed to respond adequately” to its request last December for records about biting incidents involving the purebred German shepherd. The group said it filed the request after receiving a tip about Commander’s behavior.

Another member of the Biden crime family

[TheGreatBuzz]

That is a pretty big sign of special treatment.  A normal person would have had their dog euthanized after the 2nd time at most.

[goskins10]

37 minutes ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

That is a pretty big sign of special treatment.  A normal person would have had their dog euthanized after the 2nd time at most.

 

Unless they did something to deserve it. Like being a trump sympathizer...  🙂  

 

 

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[goskins10]

Hunter Biden should be impeached immedaitly!   Just like we need to know what Barrak Obama was doing during 9/11!!  I bet he was playing golf instead of being in the White House!

 

[Llevron]

I think its pretty clear the coke was Commanders (good dog) 

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One of the articles to be about his dog.

 

[China]

DOJ tells Texas to stop messin’ with military spouse job licenses

 

A military spouse has won a key battle in her court fight to force Texas education officials to accept her out-of-state school counseling license.

 

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman granted Air Force wife Hannah Magee Portée’s request for a preliminary injunction on July 21, after Texas refused to recognize Portée’s licenses from Missouri and Ohio, despite a new federal law that provides professional licensing portability for service members and their spouses.

 

She has also had some extra firepower in her fight, as the Justice Department filed a statement of interest supporting her request, calling Texas’s actions a violation of a new provision of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act that took effect Jan. 5.

 

The six-month-old law broke new ground in the effort to help military spouses who face onerous and often expensive processes each time they move to get certified to continue their chosen career in a new location. Defense officials have calculated there are more than 132,000 active-duty spouses in occupations like nursing and realty that require licensing, representing about 39% of military spouses in the workforce.

 

Following the Justice Department’s statement of interest filed in federal court, Hannah Portée said she was surprised by their action, and grateful. “For the Justice Department to step in and be willing to make a statement on my behalf shows they really do care about their military spouses, and that they’re actually willing to take the step to advocate for us,” she said in an interview with Military Times.

 

“I hope this case helps all states, and not just Texas, understand the significance of these new rights under the SCRA for both service members and their spouses,” said Portée, who filed the case in May.

 

The judge’s preliminary injunction in essence says Texas cannot reject Portée’s certifications based on education officials’ argument that she hadn’t worked for two years as a counselor, wrote Pitman, in his order issued in the Western District of Texas in Austin.

 

This case could also be setting precedent. Pitman noted that “no court has yet interpreted the SCRA’s license portability provision.”

 

Click on the link for the full article

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[China]

Screw Alabama and their refusal to obey SCOTUS' ruling.

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On 7/13/2023 at 10:12 AM, Cooked Crack said:

Someone try to do a negative report on Joe Biden without ending up making him look cool challenge. Difficulty level very high, apparently.

 

[Larry]

Recall once reading a story about Calvin Coolidge.  

 

Supposedly, a woman approached him at a party, and sheepishly explained that "Mr. President, I apologize.  But I just made a bet that I could get you to say three words to me."  

 

Coolidge:  "You lose".  

 

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[Fergasun]

I still am not sure why all the other 99 Senators aren't rolling through these holds.  People claim "it will take months".  Bulls... change the rules on these specific nominees, so that they go through en mass, make him filibuster it for 3 or 4 days and then break the cloture with 60 votes.

 

It's a lie they have to go one by one...

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56 minutes ago, Fergasun said:

I still am not sure why all the other 99 Senators aren't rolling through these holds.  People claim "it will take months".  Bulls... change the rules on these specific nominees, so that they go through en mass, make him filibuster it for 3 or 4 days and then break the cloture with 60 votes.

 

It's a lie they have to go one by one...

Maybe not enough votes for that? Senators seem like the sort to not want to take away their own power.

[China]

Biden’s green energy law is turning out to be huge

 

The biggest sleeper event of the Biden presidency may end up being the laughably misnamed and poorly understood Inflation Reduction Act.

 

Inflation is moderating for other reasons, but a year after its passage, the IRA is shaping up to be immensely consequential anyway. The green energy portion of the bill — the biggest chunk — is the most aggressive effort to decarbonize the US economy ever. But it’s turning out to be even bigger than analysts thought at the time.

 

Initial estimates ballparked the cost of the bill’s green energy provisions at around $385 billion over 10 years. Those green energy provisions are now likely to cost around $1.2 trillion, according to the latest analysis from Goldman Sachs and the Penn Wharton Budget Model. That’s three times the original cost estimate.

 

The soaring cost of the IRA might make it sound like Congressional Democrats who voted for the bill relied on rigged budget math to pass a law that promptly became a lot more expensive than advertised. But the added cost is also a sign of the IRA’s success, because green energy tax incentives are turning out to be way more popular than expected. The cost of the law is rising because there’s a lot more private sector investment in green energy, driven by tax breaks included in the law. Given that the law’s main purpose was to speed green energy adoption, rising costs mean a faster transition away from fossil fuels and a more muscular response to global warming.

 

Most of the green energy provisions in the IRA aren’t direct spending by the government but tax breaks for private entities that invest in green energy. And most of those tax breaks are uncapped, meaning there’s no dollar limit on the amount of tax breaks the government will allow. In other words, anybody who meets the requirements for various tax breaks will be able to get them, no matter how much the tally adds up to. The “cost” isn’t government spending, it’s foregone tax revenue over the 10-year window.

 

So initial cost estimates for the IRA relied on some guesswork about the amount of private investment that would qualify for the tax breaks. It’s that private investment that’s turning out to be far stronger than expected a year ago.

 

Click on the link for the full article

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[Larry]

9 hours ago, China said:

Biden’s green energy law is turning out to be huge

 

The biggest sleeper event of the Biden presidency may end up being the laughably misnamed and poorly understood Inflation Reduction Act.

 

Inflation is moderating for other reasons, but a year after its passage, the IRA is shaping up to be immensely consequential anyway. The green energy portion of the bill — the biggest chunk — is the most aggressive effort to decarbonize the US economy ever. But it’s turning out to be even bigger than analysts thought at the time.

 

Initial estimates ballparked the cost of the bill’s green energy provisions at around $385 billion over 10 years. Those green energy provisions are now likely to cost around $1.2 trillion, according to the latest analysis from Goldman Sachs and the Penn Wharton Budget Model. That’s three times the original cost estimate.

 

The soaring cost of the IRA might make it sound like Congressional Democrats who voted for the bill relied on rigged budget math to pass a law that promptly became a lot more expensive than advertised. But the added cost is also a sign of the IRA’s success, because green energy tax incentives are turning out to be way more popular than expected. The cost of the law is rising because there’s a lot more private sector investment in green energy, driven by tax breaks included in the law. Given that the law’s main purpose was to speed green energy adoption, rising costs mean a faster transition away from fossil fuels and a more muscular response to global warming.

 

Most of the green energy provisions in the IRA aren’t direct spending by the government but tax breaks for private entities that invest in green energy. And most of those tax breaks are uncapped, meaning there’s no dollar limit on the amount of tax breaks the government will allow. In other words, anybody who meets the requirements for various tax breaks will be able to get them, no matter how much the tally adds up to. The “cost” isn’t government spending, it’s foregone tax revenue over the 10-year window.

 

So initial cost estimates for the IRA relied on some guesswork about the amount of private investment that would qualify for the tax breaks. It’s that private investment that’s turning out to be far stronger than expected a year ago.

 

Click on the link for the full article

So, Biden passed a huge corporate tax cut?  

[China]

First on CNN: Some of America’s poorest communities are landing clean energy projects worth billions

 

Rural Mingo County, West Virginia, is one of America’s poorest counties. Nearly one-third of its residents live below the poverty line, only a third of its population is employed and countless lives have been upended by opioid addiction.

 

But this community in the heart of Appalachia scored a badly needed win this April when Adams Fork Energy and CNX Resources unveiled plans to build the nation’s largest clean ammonia production facility there.

 

The $3 billion project, set to be located on a reclaimed coal mining site, is expected to support 2,000 construction jobs and generate an influx of tax revenue.

 

This is just one example of a struggling community that has landed a major investment in clean energy since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law exactly one year ago Wednesday.

 

The $750 billion law — the largest climate investment in US history — has helped spark a boom in private investment, especially in clean energy, electric vehicles and batteries.

 

Importantly, many of these clean energy projects are set to be built in communities that really need the help.

 

Counties that have won investment in IRA-related sectors tend to be poorer than the average county, according to a Treasury Department analysis shared first with CNN.

 

For instance, almost 90% of the announced investments in IRA-related sectors are in counties with below-average weekly wages, the analysis found. More than 80% are in counties with lower college graduation rates than the national average.

 

In Mingo County, just 9% of the residents are college graduates, well shy of the national average of 36%.

 

“These communities are poised to reap huge benefits from new investment. New plants could bring people into the labor force who have been left behind,” the Treasury analysis finds.

 

About two-thirds (65%) of the announced investments in IRA-related sectors are in counties with above-average poverty rates and child poverty rates, according to the research.

 

Fayette County, Ohio, located about 40 miles southwest of Columbus, has a child poverty rate of 24.6% — well above the national average of 15.3%.

 

But last fall, months after the IRA was signed into law, Honda and LG Energy Solution unveiled plans to create a new electric vehicle hub in Marysville, Ohio. The $4.4 billion investment is expected to create 300 new jobs and support countless existing ones.

 

“The Treasury Department’s new analysis shows for the first time that investments in the clean energy economy are disproportionately benefitting communities that have been left behind for too long—communities where potential exists but opportunity has been scarce,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo exclusively told CNN in a statement.

 

Click on the link for the full article

 

I wonder if the congresscritters from WV and OH voted for the IRA?

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