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It was a whack job theory, right? It was loony tunes. It was trashy Trump talk, surely not worthy of serious journalistic attention. The liberal Vox ran this piece 14 months ago. The conspiracy theories about the origins of the coronavirus debunked. Debunked, nothing to see here. That story got an editor s note this week.
Amid all this, a rare episode of the Senate functioning.
As we write, the Senate just finished a nearly four-hour vote to end debate on a piece of legislation they’d been working on for two weeks: the United States Innovation and Competition Act, a sprawling package to counter China on scientific and technological research and manufacturing. It wasn’t such a bad thing, though. Some senators were angry their amendment hadn t made it in, they used their leverage to hold the process up, and leaders worked out a deal to move forward. (The threat of having to work through the holiday weekend, as ever, also worked as a forcing mechanism.) The process behind this bill has been the nearest thing to the Disneyland version of the Senate called “regular order” that only its oldest members and longest-covering reporters remember. A bipartisan bill was considered and referred out of committee, came to the floor for consideration, received countless amendment votes over an extended period