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Biden’s Build Back Better bill is dead: Rep. Nicole Malliotakis By Fox News Staff Fox News December 30, 2021 Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-NY, joined ‘America Reports’ to give her take on the state of President Biden’s Build Back Better bill. REP. NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS: Well, I think the Build Back Better bill, as is, is dead. Republicans unanimously voted against it in the House. We see Senator Manchin coming out. I think there’s other Democrats, quite frankly, in the Senate who are not comfortable voting for this bill. People understand that when taxpayers pay taxes, they expect certain things…
Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde have amassed more than $100,000 in fines for defying House mask rules, report says By Sonam Sheth, John L. Dorman Business Insider December 30, 2021 Marjorie Taylor Greene and Andrew Clyde have accrued over $100,000 in fines for defying mask rules. Greene has reportedly racked up more than $80,000 in fines, while Clyde has amassed about $30,000. The fines are taken out of their paychecks, but a lawmaker told CNN Clyde found a way around paying. Continue Reading…..
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Biden says if medical team advises it, he’ll issue domestic travel vaccine requirement By Alex Gangitano TheHill December 29, 2021 President Biden said Tuesday he would impose a mandate that Americans be vaccinated against COVID-19 to travel domestically if his medical team recommends it. When asked when he would make a decision on domestic travel vaccine requirements while out for a walk in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Biden told reporters, “when I get a recommendation from the medical team.” The idea of mandating coronavirus vaccines for domestic travel has been bouncing around the administration for months, and the emergence…
In 2021, it became obvious the US bishops and the pope are singing from different hymnals National Catholic Reporter December 29, 2021 The life of the Catholic Church in this country in 2021 was characterized by an obvious, flailing culture war fit and evidence the pope is more and more determined to press forward with the reception of Vatican II in ways that will likely affect the U.S. church in profound ways. The effort by the leadership of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to pick a fight with the nation’s second Catholic president was the dominant…
‘Prodigious’: Judge David Tatel Leaves Mark on Influential Federal Appeals Court By John Fritze USA TODAY December 29, 2021 WASHINGTON — Ask a colleague about Judge David Tatel and the conversation inevitably turns to a scene in which someone else is furiously flipping through papers. It might be a courtroom story about a lawyer riffling through a legal brief in a panicked search for an answer to a question from the bench. It might be a fellow judge, opening a binder during a private meeting to parse the wording of an obscure federal statute. Already a subscriber? Sign…
The Supreme Court has upheld state and local vaccine mandates. That may not save Biden’s. By Tierney Sneed CNN December 29, 2021 (CNN)A Supreme Court that has declined to block several types of vaccine mandates is now considering whether to allow the Biden administration to require millions of Americans to get Covid-19 vaccines. While the court has been tolerant so far of vaccine mandates that have come before it — refusing to halt requirements imposed by local and state entities — those implemented by the federal government pose new legal questions that could draw hostility from the conservative…
Lawrence O’Donnell was on TV life support. Now, he’s MSNBC’s most critical anchor. By Max Tani POLITICO December 29, 2021 When his contract renewal was in doubt four years ago, Lawrence O’Donnell begged his viewers to help keep him on the air at MSNBC. Now, as the left-leaning network’s prime-time lineup is at its most unstable point in a decade, the 70-year-old anchor has inadvertently become MSNBC’s most valuable star; or, at least, its most dependable one, owing to the rare, direct line he enjoys into the Biden White House. O’Donnell is, unlike virtually anyone else in cable…
Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader, dead at 82 By Michael Lee Fox News December 29, 2021 Harry Reid, a longtime Democratic U.S. senator from Nevada who rose to serve as Senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015, died Tuesday at age 82. Reid, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2018, served in Congress from 1983 until his retirement in 2017. He announced in 2019 his cancer was in remission. He became most well-known for his use of the “nuclear option” in 2013, leading the charge to end the filibuster on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees…
Spreaker December 29, 2021 Click to View Podcast