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December 18, 2020 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com Today is the deadline for Congressional leaders to approve a $900 billion pandemic relief deal as well as a $1.4 trillion government funding bill before the federal government run outs of money at midnight. Speaking Thursday night during a telephone town hall event, 8th District Democrat Elissa Slotkin said it was imperative that they pass a package now. Slotkin, who is a member of the bipartisan Problem Solver�...

Problem Solvers Caucus Endorses New ‘Break the Gridlock’ House Rules Reforms December 15, 2020, 3:40 pm | in Problem Solvers Caucus Endorses New ‘Break the Gridlock’ House Rules Reforms Led by Rep. Taylor, Proposals Focus on Improving Effectiveness of Congress   WASHINGTON, DC — The Problem Solvers Caucus has officially endorsed two proposed changes to the rules of the U.S. House spearheaded by Congressman Van Taylor (TX-03) to make the House of Representativ...

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images A bipartisan group of senators on Monday introduced two stimulus bills, an effort that could be Congress’s only hope for more Covid-19 relief in the near term. The proposals include a $748 billion bill, which contains funding for 16 weeks of enhanced unemployment insurance, and a $160 billion bill, which includes money for state and local aid, as well as liability protections for businesses. While lawmakers had hoped to present one comprehensive plan, both state a...

Disbelief? because buttigieg is another one. >> as you said, the iowa caucus is around the corner, the gloves will come off. there is a war within the democratic party between the establishment democrats in the far left radicals. you will see that were more clearly right as we go into the shift in the country. >> the generation shift, the democrats reflect that shift. i know that you want to dominate the discussion, but there are other people in this world beside you. the democrats are going thr...

For president, he would say calmly you guys do your job. and i will stay out of it. it seems to me -- >> i think that is the directives that mike bloomberg left with the newsroom. certainly with the commentary section as well. he lifted up to those folks to decide. so to a certain extent this is trump trying to distract people from the real issue which he knows mike bloomberg will be a formidable threat to him in the campaign. a problem solver, mike bloomberg wants to bring quality health care t...

Benefit. so he could come in and he could be going after warren and saying she is too extreme and medicare for all is going to bankrupt us, but there is no reason to believe that thats going to redound to his benefit. it could benefit biden. it could benefit amy klobuchar. it could benefit pete buttigieg. >> alex? >> i wouldnt assume that bloomberg necessarily gets into this race and immediately goes on the attack. that when he has prepared to run for president in the past, when he was gearing u...

Which i dont think they probably would be, but if they were, it doesnt mean that youre the one that gets the benefit. so he could come in and he could be going after warren and saying she is too extreme and medicare for all is going to bankrupt us, but there is no reason to believe that thats going to redound to his benefit. it could benefit biden. it could benefit amy klobuchar. it could benefit pete buttigieg. >> alex? >> i wouldnt assume that bloomberg necessarily gets into this race and imme...

Be a regular event, saturday morning marings, but they may be, because theyre trying to move this as quickly as possible. were going to here later this morning at 11:00 from philip reeker. hes a top deputy to secretary pompeo. hes described as an independent, problem solver, worked closely be pompeo but not in his inner circle. were told not to expect some bombshells. hell go over u.s. and ukrainian connections and discussions we heard before, but they have two areas that i want to probe. first,...

Organization is so key for any candidate in this race. joe biden has a big one. thats what the international association of firefighters have been critical for democratic campaigns in the past. they are today taking their first paid advertisement on behalf of joe biden. here is "the union leader" the biggest nape innewspaper in the. the back page saying joe biden is a lot like firefighters, a problem solver who loves america, steph. >> all right. vaughn, lets talk kamala harris, struggling to ge...

Since 1969. record low unemployment for hispanic-americans. asian-americans, women in the workplace. that doesnt sound to me like a racist president. it that sounds to me like a problem solver who is willing to call out a problem for what it is. and i think donald trump to the bed best thing that baltimore has ever seen because now we know how bad they run this plac. >> yeah, youre absolutely right. back in 2011, donald trump told me that he believed unemploymen unemployment, under deployments, ...