Cabbage News Network Week #78

[kmusser]

Status of Puerto Rico infrastructure - it's been 296 days and the island is still 5% without power.

Friday 7/13

• Justice Dept. indicts 12 Russians for hacking the DNC in 2016 in an attempt to help DJT win the election. Note that cyber attack against DNC began on the same day that DJT said "Russia if you are listening I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing"(source, full indictment - must detailed account yet of the Russian government's cyberattack on the U.S. including the Russians cooperation with DJT's campaign).
  
• ACLU sues to force government to pay costs of reuniting families that it separated (source).
  
• Administration lobbies U.K. on behalf of activist advocating anti-immigrant violence (source).
  

Saturday 7/14

• More detailed account of what it's like in one of the children detention centers (source).

Monday 7/16

• DJT says he trusts Putin more than his own government (source, source, source).

Tuesday 7/17

• DJT didn't mean anything he said on Monday (source).
  
• Dan Coats, DJT's Director of National Intelligence, confirms that our election systems are still under attack by Russians (source).
  

Wednesday 7/18

• DJT didn't mean anything he said on Tuesday (source).
  
• Putin offers up indicted Russians in exchange for Bill Browder, a crusader against corruption in Russia. DJT considering it (source).
  
• Maria Butina, go between for the Russian government and the NRA, is arrested (source).
  
• GOP strikes election security funding from spending bill (source).
  
• Senate can't decide on whether or not detention camps for immigrant children are a bad idea (source).
  
• Employee purge happening at Dept. of Veterans Affairs (source).
  
• Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke under investigation for real estate deal (source).
  
• GOP judicial nominations still cruising through the senate (source).

Thursday 7/19

• DJT invites Putin to Washington (source).
  
• Majority of GOP willing to follow DJT's lead in trusting Putin (source).
  
• GOP votes down motion to subpoena the interpreter at the DJT-Putin meeting and ask her what they discussed (source).
  
• GOP votes to oppose handing over any Americans to Putin, but votes down all other anti-Russia resolutions brought up in the Senate (source).
  
• Rosenstein says Justice Dept. will continue to fight Russian cyberattacks (source).
  
• U.S. to send military aid to Ukraine (source).

Friday 7/20

• Cohen taped his discussions with DJT regarding payments to Stormy Daniels (source).
  
• 364 immigrant children have been reunited with their parents, over 2,000 still being detained (source).
  
• Administration proposes gutting the Endangered Species Act (source).
  
• GOP gives in to DJT on bailing out Chinese telecom (source).
  
• DJT blames the Fed, EU, and China for reacting to his tariffs (source).

No map this week because I'm on vacation.

Legislative action this week

• Legislation signed into law
  
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 28 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  • Dept. of Interior appropriations https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6147
    
  • Authorization act for various intelligence agencies https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6237
    
  • 33 minor bills
    
  • 631 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • 3 minor bills
    
  • 120 total pending bills