Cabbage News Network Week #70

Status of Puerto Rico infrastructure - it's been 240 days and the island is still 5% without power.

Monday 5/21

• More details about that Trump Tower meeting including Saudi and UAE offers to help DJT win the election, plus evidence that Erik Prince committed perjury in his testimony to Congress about said meeting (source, analysis).
  
• More about Broidy and George Nader's involvement in the above meeting and cashing in on their connections (source).
  
• Also convicted pedophile George Nader bought himself a photo-op with DJT (source).
  
• Supreme Court rules that employees may not issue group challenges to labor law violations (source).
  
• U.S. threatens Iran, Iran shrugs (source).
  
• DJT and White House refer to gang members as animals (source).
  
• DJT wants an investigation of the FBI's investigation of his campaign (source).
  
• DoJ promises to look into it (source).

Tuesday 5/22

• Congress passes roll-back of banking regulations (source).
  
• U.S. intelligence agencies renew warnings about election hacking threats, say Russia is working on this years elections (source).
  
• DHS Secretary hasn't seen her own agencies report on said election threats (source).
  
• DJT says no deal to help Chinese telecom, but there might be a deal, and Congress might block it if there is.
  
• Much about an FBI informant meeting with DJT's campaign team, which seems to be much ado about nothing (timeline of actual actions involving said informant).
  
• Farm bill fails over disagreements on immigrants (source).
  
• EPA gives up attempt to ban the press from EPA meeting (source).

Wednesday 5/23

• Ukraine paid Cohen to arrange talks with DJT (source).
  
• Former business partner of Cohen pleads guilty to tax charges and agrees to cooperate with Mueller (source).
  
• DeVos claims schools can report immigrant students, which, no, they can't (source).
  
• Back in 2016 DJT admitted to deliberate campaign to discredit the press (source).
  
• Judge rules that DJT can not block users on Twitter (source).
  
• FBI is fighting Russian hacking campaign (source).
  
• Kushner granted a security clearence (source).
  
• Senate passes bill revamping the VA health program (source).

Thursday 5/24

• DJT cancels meeting with North Korea (source).
  
• DJT endorses NFL's mandatory patriotism (source).
  
• Details come out about earlier clash between American and Russian forces in Syria (source).
  
• Administrations plans on targeting international students (source).
  
• White House officials at FBI's classified briefing for Congress about their investigation (source).

Maps of the week

• Map of Chicago from 1931
  
• Map of medieval trade routes

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • Bill rolling back financial protections https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s2155
    
  • 1 minor bill
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  
  
  • 11 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • Defense authorization bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5515 (some items to be debated therein also DJT's military parade and confirming sanctions on Chinese telecom that DJT wants to bail out).
    
  • Bill increases penalties for assaulting a law enforcement official https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5698
    
  • FAA reauthorization bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4
    
  • Additional sanctions against Iran https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4744
    
  • 13 bills dealing with the IRS, main two appear to be https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5444 and https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5445 (summary)
    
  • Bill increasing the penalties for stalking https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4203
    
  • Bill to give patients access to experimental drugs https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5247
    
  • Bill to improve security at schools https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4909 (does not arm teachers, basically appropriates some money for schools to spend on security as they will)
    
  • Bill easing emissions standards for electric utilities https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr1119
    
  • Reauthorization bill for the FCC https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4986
    
  • Bill barring political appointees from accepting civil service jobs for 2 years https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr1132
    
  • Bill gutting the ADA https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr620
    
  • Sanctions against Hamas https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr3542
    
  • 495 other pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • Bill revamping how Congress deals with sexual harassment https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s2952
    
  • Bill restoring Net Neutrality https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres52 unfortunately not likely to pass
    
  • 104 other pending bills
  
  
• Other upcoming legislation
  
  • New Authorization for Use of Military Force https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres59
    includes a provision for indefinite detaining of U.S. citizens (source).
    
  • House version of the water infrastructure bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr5895 news.