schatz.bsky.social
United States Senator for Hawaii. Climate hawk. Chief Deputy Whip.
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indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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This tool is amazing and gives you the numbers to explain the human impact — at the district level.
democrats-budget.house.gov/legislation/...
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Depending on how it’s written probably. We need to assume this is not subject to filibuster for organizing purposes.
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Yes good point. It’s not the dollar amount it’s the human impact.
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🙏🏼
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I’m working all weekend. But in the meantime the Senate is gaveled out. Which delays Republican nominees. Which is the point.
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Agree
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Right in exchange for gaveling out until TUESDAY at 530pm. If we did it by the book (without UC) those two nominees would be done by Friday. 30 hours from 230 ish on Thursday, then 2 more hours for SBA. Had we stayed in through the weekend they could’ve gotten 3-4 more cabinet confirmations!
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I’m happy to do this as long as tactical disagreements don’t curdle into purity tests. Seriously I sort of enjoy it and it helps to keep me thoughtful. And there are of course some things I’m just not going to put on social because that’s unwise. Stay in it.
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That’s because people are selling snake oil not because that’s what’s happening.
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Yeah trying to do those things. 🤙🏽
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I take this point. I mean I don’t think it looks like nothing but I see what you are saying. It has been rough. Just consider the possibility that you yelling at me to do procedural things is maybe not your best way to fight this either. We need to build our movement together. 🤙🏽
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This is untrue fyi the 30 hours on both plus a few hours were required.
It’s true that it was a UC. To have things go SLOWER.
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There are no military nominations pending and when they get past the cabinet those tactics are available to members, like my blanket hold on state department nominees. But alas it seems some people are very very determined to make this the thing. I just don’t think it’s the thing.
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These are military noms I promise I’m not making stuff up.
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Ok this is getting goofy. I’m trying to respond to this with my best explanations but I have to go back to the fight now.
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I’m personally working this all day every day and I don’t think putting the Senate into a quorum call cracks the top fifty useful things to do.
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Appreciate it. Get some rest. Let’s kick some ass tomorrow.
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There was a time when all nominees were subject to a 60 vote threshold. Now it’s 51. That is the main difference.
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But for the cabinet, they have the votes, and they will devote the floor time, so we can delay but not meaningfully.
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We can slow down the sub cabinet and other nominees because we can force them to spend two hours per nomination and it’s impossible to do say 1,000 noms at 2 hours each so you need UC to deviate from the 2 hour rule..
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It isn’t. Quorum is 51 and they have 53. So if we left they could just do everything without us. Again, if people are selling a magic procedural button it is snake oil.
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We forced a quorum call and that delivered a twelve minute delay and then we went in and out of executive session for ten votes. No one noticed. And then they got their confirmation on exactly the same timeframe. If someone is selling you a magic procedural button it is snake oil.
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When TB treatment is interrupted, patients are far more likely to develop drug-resistant TB, which is a catastrophe both individually (the disease becomes harder to cure) and societally (we're allowing the bacteria millions of new opportunities to develop further resistance). Many people will die.
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I’m right next to him and he’s so great!