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Monday 12/3
Tuesday 12/4
Wednesday 12/5
Thursday 12/6
Friday 12/7
Legislative update
Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate - nothing new
Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
- Possible truce in the U.S.-China trade war (source, analysis).
- DJT refuses to sign G20 joint statement on climate change (source).
Tuesday 12/4
Wednesday 12/5
Thursday 12/6
- Subpeonas go out in emoluments court case regarding DJT's DC hotel (source).
- CFO of Chinese telecom Huawei arrested in Canada for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran (source).
- Stock market down over worries that the arrest will kill last week's U.S.-China trade truce (source).
- Senate confirms climate change denier to lead Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (source).
- EPA to loosen emissions requirements for coal power plants (source).
- Corporations are choosing to keep their windfalls from last year's tax cut off-shore (source).
- Government shutdown deadline pushed back two weeks (source).
Friday 12/7
- Court filings from Mueller outline Cohen's crimes on behalf of DJT in cover-up payments and cultivating Russian contacts (source).
- Mueller lists Manafort's lies about contacts with Russia (source).
- Tillerson says DJT asked him to engage in illegal activities while Secretary of State (source).
- DJT nominates Fox commentator Heather Nauert as U.N. ambassador (source).
- DJT nominates William Barr as Attorney General (source).
- DJT planning to fire Chief of Staff John Kelly (source).
- Nobody knows what, if anything, is in DJT's trade deal with China (source).
- Courts refuse to allow DJT's executive order against asylum seekers to take effect (source).
- Administration to remove Clean Water Act protections from intermittent streams, lakes, and wetlands (source).
- USDA loosens rules for school lunches (source).
Legislative update
- Legislation signed into law
- Continuing resolution keeping the government open another two weeks https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hjres143
- Coast Guard appropriations bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s140
- 16 minor bills, mostly renaming post offices
- Continuing resolution keeping the government open another two weeks https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hjres143
- Water infrastructure bill https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s3021
- 8 new minor bills
- 25 total pending bills
- 762 total pending bills
- 14 new minor bills
- 149 total pending bills