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After an election in which the country opted for a reset, not a revolution, moderate Democrats hold the power in the party.
The momentum of the 2018 Congressional midterm elections in which the Democrats gained 42 seats and regained their majority status in the House of Representatives lost steam in 2020. It had been expected that the 2020 elections would build on the 2018 victories and possibly lead to capturing the Senate.
The anticipated blue wave broke badly, never making it onto Congressional shores. It is destined to profoundly impact the abilities of the Biden White House and Democratic Congressional leaders to take the bold steps needed to slow and then reduce net greenhouse gas emissions in the power sector to zero over the next 15 years.
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DRIVING THE DAY
HERE’S WHAT WE CAN SAY at this early hour. If you are gambling or setting odds, there’s a damn good chance that there will be a stimulus deal reached. It could be reached today maybe! Theoretically! given that: Friday is the government funding deadline, all the leaders agree a Covid relief deal should be paired with government funding, they have said they won’t leave town until a Covid deal is notched and passed,
On Monday, The Daily Beast reported that Paul Behrends, a notorious former staffer for ex-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), died after being found near his home with severe head trauma. Rohrabacher s former congressional spokesman Ken Grubbs told The Daily Beast that Behrends died at the hospital. I did actually call Dana and he confirmed it, he said. What I ve heard is that he slipped… hit his head, and died in surgery, reported Nico Hines. Grubbs said there was no reason to think anything suspicious had happened to Behrends or that there was any link to his associations with Russia. No, no, not at all, he said.
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