Cabbage News Network Week #85

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Monday 9/3

• Administration releases 42,000 pages of Kavanaugh documents the night before hearings are to begin, still withholding about 100,000 pages (source).
  
• Dems call for hearings on passport denials (source).
  
• Dems preparing investigations into administration that they'll get to do if they take control of the House (source).
  
• DJT complains about Justice Dept. pursuing corruption charges against GOP members (source.
  
• Pentagon considering pulling counter-terrorism forces out of Africa (source).
  
• DJT skipping Asian summit meetings, leaving leadership role to China (source).
  
• State Dept. unit for fighting foreign election meddling still waiting on funding (source).

Tuesday 9/4

• Kavanaugh confirmation hearings start, Dems protest GOP blocking access to documents on Kavanaugh's record (source).
  
• Bob Woodward book describes what it's like in the DJT White House - it isn't pretty - seriously, take however f&*%d up you think this administration is and then triple it (source and summary, transcript of phone call between DJT and Woodward - I can't even).
  
• DJT thinks protesting should be illegal (source).
  
• Court orders EPA to enforce chemical safety regulations (source).
  
• NAFTA talks with Canada still ongoing (source).

Wednesday 9/5

• Anonymous NYT op-ed claims White House high level staff is working against DJT (original op-ed, Atlantic response, Esquire response, NYT summary of DJT's response).
  
• DJT and staff hunting for op-ed author (source).
  
• Justice Dept. exploring social media regulations (source).
  
• ACLU sues administration over Federal interference with Keystone pipeline protests (source).

Thursday 9/6

• Administration abandons settlement that limits how long children can be kept in detention (source).
  
• (Summary of Kavanaugh's answers and non-answers in Senate hearings this week).
  
• Summary of Kavanaugh's lies under oath (source).
  
• Senator Booker (D) releases Kavanaugh e-mails regarding racial issues in violation of Senate rules (source).
  
• Kavanaugh thinks birth control and abortion are the same thing (source).
  
• Administration seeking to block state efforts to regulate student loans (source).

Friday 9/7

Sentencing for Papdopoulos likely to be today (source).

• Mattis is in Afghanistan spinning his wheels (source).
  
• Opioid legislation moves ahead in Senate (source).
  
• EPA to reduce the value of human life in its calculations (source).

Elsewhere

• Syria and Russia close in on last rebel-held province (source).
  
  Map of the week
  

  Woodcut wall map of DC:
  
  

  
  
  No legislative action this week
  
  • Legislation signed into law
    
    
    
  • Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
    
    • Bill reducing some tariffs https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4318
      
    • 6 minor bills
    
    
  • Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
    
    • 15 minor bills, mostly dealing with TSA
      
    • 669 total pending bills
    
    
  • Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
    
    • 7 minor bills
      
    • 135 total pending bills
    
    
  • Upcoming legislation
    
    • Opioid Crises Response Act https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s2680 (summary)