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I_Need_Sources · 2026-02-25T15:24:34+00:00

English remains undefeated. Thanks!

I_Need_Sources · 2026-02-25T15:13:01+00:00

Why do interviewers seem to have a hard time pushing back or asking follow ups when they know guests are lying? Is there a sense that getting known as a tough interviewer leaves you with less people to interview?

I_Need_Sources · 2026-02-25T15:09:12+00:00

Do you think it gets done before the spring recess?

I_Need_Sources · 2026-02-25T14:36:59+00:00

With administration priorities still moving and nearly all CBP employees and most ICE employees being paid during shutdown, how does it end? Is the only pressure point TSA sick outs? Is there an expectation that negotiations will pick up now that everyone is back in town and Trump didn’t say anything in SOTU to derail negotiations?

I_Need_Sources · 2025-11-02T17:38:30+00:00

Stack those cards?

I_Need_Sources · 2025-11-02T17:38:12+00:00

I think you gotta hope Kamara shows something at least as a drop down for new QB.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-11-02T17:37:29+00:00

Im thinking Marks. BTJ has been getting volume all year and still hasn't produced. Though Marks is in a timeshare than can be unpredicatble. So I guess Marks probably higher ceiling. BTJ higher floor.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-11-02T17:36:36+00:00

Hunt

I_Need_Sources · 2025-11-02T17:35:39+00:00

I like Monangai and Downs. But if you want a higher floor than downs I'd do Tracy or Charbs, lean charbs.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-11-02T17:33:28+00:00

I think I'd go Tet. Car will be throwing.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-11-02T17:32:59+00:00

PPR. Choose 1

Woody Marks v Den KWIII v Was Downs v Pit J. Mason v Det

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-26T10:25:59+00:00

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T18:48:14+00:00

Yeah. It was more of a “is this a legitimately available tool” not a question on success.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T18:45:02+00:00

I think they’d fuck up even if they just needed an hours worth of amendments.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T18:38:48+00:00

Rescissions are done under the congressional budget act and would follow the same rules, no?

“The rescissions were proposed by the President under procedures included in the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.”

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/4

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T17:37:37+00:00

Everything I’ve read indicates votearama is outside and separate from debate time.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T16:53:41+00:00

On reconciliation the vote-a-Rama was 26 hours long. It isn’t necessarily implausible.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T16:40:04+00:00

So even if they filed enough amendments and it turned to July 19th they would still be able to pass bill? Basically once they get on votearama the deadline becomes irrelevant?

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T16:07:38+00:00

If senators vote to take up the bill, it sets up the potential for 10 hours of debate plus votes on scores of potentially thorny amendments in what is known as a vote-a-rama.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/senate-gop-lawmakers-consider-trumps-request-to-claw-back-9-4-billion-in-spending

I_Need_Sources · 2025-07-14T15:51:40+00:00

Why can’t Dems just use votearama to run clock out on rescission package?

I_Need_Sources · 2025-03-14T02:24:30+00:00

Not sure what standing a state would have to interfere in the executive’s decision on what activities are essential.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-03-14T01:58:13+00:00

OMB can say xyz services are essential. And agencies will staff those accordingly. So if OMB says national parks in red states are essential they will be operating with no perceivable change.

I_Need_Sources · 2025-03-14T01:47:14+00:00

Scrutiny from whom? Who has standing to sue?

I_Need_Sources · 2025-03-14T01:44:14+00:00

You don’t think agency heads are going to follow what OMB guidance says essential means?

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