A spokesperson for Manchin told The Hill he will vote yes on the confirmation of Tracy Stone-Manning, whose nomination would likely have been doomed without the West Virginia Democrat’s backing.
In the 1990s, Stone-Manning testified that she had sent a letter given to her by another activist threatening tree-spiking, in which trees intended for logging are spiked with metal rods. The tactic is intended to create potential damage to logging equipment but can lead to human injury as well.
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She told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which Manchin chairs, that she had “no involvement in the spiking of trees.” In 1993 she testified that she delivered the letter “because I wanted people to know that those trees were spiked. I didn’t want anybody getting hurt as a result of trees being spiked.”
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This week’s Liberal Media Scream features two ABC This Week commentators making a new argument for wide open voting some people can’t afford enough gas to get food and vote.
The Thursday Supreme Court ruling, upholding two provisions of Arizona’s voting rules which required people to vote at their own precinct and barred ballot harvesting, irked the two who cited anecdotes about difficulties encountered by poor and minority voters.
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Former President Donald Trump called out Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for not pushing to nix the Senate filibuster during his presidency, but the senator s rejection of Trump s requests ended up helping Republicans in the long run.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, published Monday, Trump criticized McConnell for not making efforts to end the filibuster when Republicans had control of the Senate, calling the Kentucky senator a stupid person for not making the move, which would have allowed the Senate majority to pass legislation without any support from Democrats.
“I don’t think he’s smart enough … I tried to convince Mitch McConnell to get rid of the filibuster, to terminate it, so that we would get everything, and he was a knucklehead and he didn’t do it.”
Calling US inflation temporary, Biden pushes more spending
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20/07/2021 - 03:24 US President Joe Biden sought to allay fears about inflation, saying the price spikes hitting Americans in their pocketsbooks was just temporary and that the economy continued to improve SAUL LOEB AFP 4 min
Washington (AFP)
President Joe Biden on Monday sought to tamp down concern about spiraling prices that threaten to dent the US economic recovery, saying the current inflation rise is temporary and not a long-term problem.
He also said one of the best ways to keep the American economy on track was for Congress to greenlight additional federal spending in the form of a major bipartisan infrastructure package, which faces a looming deadline this week in the US Senate.