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Summary of Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act — As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on November 3, 2021 (Rules Committee Print 117-18), as Amended by Yarmuth Amendment 112 — 37.51 KB — CBO estimates that enacting this legislation would result …
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New York Times:
C.B.O. Finds Biden's Spending Bill Not Fully Paid For — The White House and Congressional Budget Office are at odds over how much revenue the Internal Revenue Service could recoup from tax cheats. — WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday evening …
Jessica Piper / Bangor Daily News:
Jared Golden to vote no on Democrats' social spending bill, citing tax break for the wealthy — U.S. Rep. Jared Golden said Thursday night that he would vote against Democrats' $1.7 trillion social spending bill in the House, citing a tax change that would mostly benefit the wealthy …
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CBO Publications:
Estimated Revenue Effects of Increased Funding for the Internal Revenue Service in H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act — This letter responds to a request for information about the revenue effects of funding for the Internal Revenue Service that would be provided by the current version of H.R. 5376 …
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Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
Full Estimates of the House Build Back Better Act — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released cost estimates of each title of the House's Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376). Before interactions, CBO's figures show the bill will add about $750 billion to the deficit over the next five years …
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
CBO delivers surprisingly good news to Democrats on Build Back Better
CBO delivers surprisingly good news to Democrats on Build Back Better
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Politico, Raw Story, New York Post and National Review
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Biden expected to replace Ron Bloom, USPS board chair and key DeJoy ally, on postal board — Bloom, a Democrat, has backed the postmaster general as the agency slowed mail delivery standards and raised prices — President Biden is expected to announce Friday that he will not renominate Ron Bloom …
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
House Democrats Roast Kevin McCarthy on Twitter for Marathon Speech: ‘Please Saw Me in Half and Put Me Out of My Misery’ — Ahead of Thursday night's House vote on the Build Back Better legislation, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) used what's known as a “magic minute” to talk for much, much, much longer than that.
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Jenny Gross / New York Times:
Kevin McCarthy Speaks for More Than Eight Hours to Delay a House Vote
Kevin McCarthy Speaks for More Than Eight Hours to Delay a House Vote
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Mary Clare Jalonick / Associated Press:
Goal in sight, Democrats confront need to sell agenda
Goal in sight, Democrats confront need to sell agenda
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
McCarthy delays swift passage of spending plan with record-breaking floor speech
McCarthy delays swift passage of spending plan with record-breaking floor speech
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: McCarthy filibusters, Biden dithers and Fauci unmasks — DRIVING THE DAY — If a “New York minute” is a few passing seconds, then the opposite is a “McCarthy minute” — something that drags on and on for hours. — On Thursday night, at 8:38 p.m. …
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CNN:
Kamala Harris' communications director is leaving the administration
Kamala Harris' communications director is leaving the administration
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Tyler O'Neil / Fox News:
Kamala Harris' comms director resigns amid growing criticism of the VP
Kamala Harris' comms director resigns amid growing criticism of the VP
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Push to Take Over the State's Elections — Led by Senator Ron Johnson, G.O.P. officials want to eliminate a bipartisan elections agency — and maybe send its members to jail. — Republicans in Wisconsin are engaged in an all-out assault on the state's election infrastructure …
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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Court bars New York Times from publishing Project Veritas memos in move called ‘unconstitutional’ — The order is temporary for now, but press freedom advocates say it violates First Amendment principles long upheld by the Supreme Court — A New York state judge ruled on Thursday …
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Judge Tries to Block New York Times's Coverage of Project Veritas
Judge Tries to Block New York Times's Coverage of Project Veritas
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Washington Post:
‘No one tells me what to do’: Sinema praises infrastructure, questions spending and inflation in wide-ranging interview — Kyrsten Sinema says she is worried about inflation. The U.S. senator from Arizona says new tax hikes could harm businesses still struggling in the wake of the pandemic.
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Chicago Tribune:
Man spotted with AR-15 outside Kyle Rittenhouse trial confirms he is a fired Ferguson police officer — KENOSHA — A man who screamed obscenities about Black Lives Matter and carried an AR-15 rifle outside the Kenosha County Courthouse while the Kyle Rittenhouse jury deliberated is a former Ferguson …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Daily Caller
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: GOP donors “furious” with McConnell — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told his colleagues this week top party donors were “furious” with the number of Republicans — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill, two sources familiar with his remarks tell Axios' Alayna Treene.
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Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg:
Manchin Seeks Meeting With Fed's Brainard, Follow-Up With Powell — West Virginia Democrat remains undecided as Biden weighs pick — President poised to announce nominee before Thanksgiving — Democratic Senator Joe Manchin is looking to meet with Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard …
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Yair Rosenberg / The Atlantic:
The Incredible True Story Behind TV's Strangest Space Jew — The science-fiction genre has long been inflected by Jewish influences, whether audiences realize it or not. Take this past month's blockbuster Dune, adapted from the famed Frank Herbert novel. The film's main character …
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Washington Post:
Fauci's office flooded with attacks over beagle experiments — Covid chief's phone line rings 3,600 times in 36 hours after campaign by little-known animal rights group — Anthony S. Fauci was swamped by so many angry messages and threats that in late October his assistant quit answering the phone for two weeks.
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
Search for Jimmy Hoffa Leads the F.B.I. to Jersey City Landfill — A deathbed statement by a man who claimed to bury the Teamster boss' body in a steel drum brought agents to the site for an inspection. — The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, a mystery that has gripped the American imagination …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Joe Biden's Infrastructure Bill Is a Big Success — Joe Biden Is Succeeding — Voters may pummel Democrats next year but future generations will be grateful. — GUEST ESSAY — Europe Has Made a Deadly Bargain With Autocrats — The chaos at the Belarus-Poland border is partly of the European Union's making.
Wall Street Journal:
Secret Chinese Port Project in Persian Gulf Rattles U.S. Relations With U.A.E. — Alarmed U.S. officials warned Emirati government, a Mideast ally, that Chinese military presence could hinder ties; construction has halted — WASHINGTON—U. S. intelligence agencies learned this spring …
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New Republic
Moderna, Inc.:
Moderna Announces FDA Authorization of Booster Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S. for Adults 18 Years and Older — Authorization includes the use of Moderna's booster dose following primary vaccination with other authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccines — Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq:MRNA) …
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Axios:
Exclusive: Marriott refused to host Uyghur conference, citing “political neutrality” — The Marriott hotel in Prague declined to host a conference of activists and leaders from China's Uyghur diaspora this month, citing “political neutrality,” an email shared with Axios shows.
Rick Stroud / Tampa Bay Times:
Bucs' Antonio Brown accused of obtaining fake vaccine card — A former live-in chef also says Brown, who missed one game this season after testing positive for COVID, owes him $10,000. — Updated Earlier today — TAMPA — Bucs receiver Antonio Brown obtained a fake COVID-19 vaccination card …
CNN:
Trump's ire grows as DeSantis' popularity with Republicans takes off — People close to both men first noticed the palpable shift in Trump's posture toward DeSantis earlier this year as enthusiasm for the Florida governor swelled among donors and GOP operatives who praised his laissez-faire response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ed Shanahan / New York Times:
Man Is Spared Prison After Guilty Plea in Sexual Attacks on 4 Teens — The judge who sentenced the man, Christopher Belter, said that he had “agonized” over the decision but that incarceration wasn't “appropriate.” — The girl was 16 when Christopher Belter raped her, according to court documents.
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Jackson Richman / Mediaite:
Mehdi Hasan Presses Anthony Fauci on NIH's Reported Funding of Gain-of-Function Research in China — MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday night over a Sept. 9 report from The Intercept that alleged that the National Institutes of Health, which he oversees …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Even if the Steele dossier is discredited, there's plenty of evidence of Trump's collusion with Russia — In early November, John Durham, a special counsel appointed by the Trump administration, indicted a Russian American analyst who had been a contributor to the Steele dossier of lying to the FBI about where he got his information.
American Greatness:
Terror in the Capitol Tunnel — The D.C. Medical Examiner's Office concluded Rosanne Boyland died of a drug overdose but that autopsy result is highly suspicious. — In 2018, after a local news crew filmed Ryan Nichols rescuing dogs abandoned by their owners after Hurricane Florence …
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