All week
Tuesday 7/25
Wednesday 7/26
Thursday 7/27
Friday 7/28
Legislative action this week
- Senate investigations continue, meeting with Kushner and Manafort, nothing really new to report.
- Senate continues its hand-wringing over health care, nothing really new to report, still don't have the votes to do a repeal.
- In depth article from the Atlantic on what it's like in the Federal government without any leadership using Dept. of Energy as an example - recommended and terrifying reading.
Tuesday 7/25
- DJT may fire Sessions (source).
- GOP in Congress supporting Sessions and Mueller (source).
- New WH communications director purging staff (source).
- Senate votes to open debate on health care without really having a specific bill to debate on (source).
Wednesday 7/26
- DJT wants to ban transgender people from the military - lots of people reporting on this as if he actually put a ban into place, he has not, tweets are not laws people. (source).
- One health care repeal bill defeated, there will be more (source).
Thursday 7/27
- Scaramucci vs Priebus mud wrestling - just in case there is any doubt the White House communications director referring to the White House Chief of Staff as a "fucking paranoid schizophrenic" is not normal (source).
- Pentagon confirms no change to military transgender policy (source).
- Justice Dept. argues that the Civil Rights Act should not protect against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation - note that is already the case under current case law, but there is currently a legal challenge trying to overturn that. The Obama Justice Dept. had supporting including sexual orientation as a protected class. (source).
- Congress passes sanctions bill (source) (side note - this is the first thing Congress has managed to pass in over a month).
Friday 7/28
- Health care repeal defeated and again, and may really be dead this time (source, last attempt?).
Legislative action this week
- Legislation signed into law
- Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
- Sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3364
- Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
- 268 mostly minor bills
- Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
Maps of the week
- Sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3364