Cabbage News Network Week #149

[kmusser]

Monday 12/2

• Impeachment moves to Judiciary Committee, i.e. they're more or less done with hearings and are writing up the articles of impeachment (source).
  
• China forbids U.S. Navy visits to Hong Kong, sanctions U.S. human rights groups (source).
  
• Google and YouTube remove DJT campaign ads for lying. Facebook: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (G, YT source, FB source).
  
• DJT renews tariffs on Brazil and Argentina (source).
  
• DoJ releases a new batch of documents from the Mueller investigation (source).
  
• Dan Brouillette confirmed as new Energy secretary (source).

Tuesday 12/3

• DJT loses his appeal to keep financial records secret, it'll go on to the Supreme Court (source).
  
• DJT probably doesn't know what climate change is (source).

Wednesday 12/4

• House releases report summarizing impeachment hearings, likely to serve as an outline for articles of impeachments, outlines two main points: DJT's Ukrainian extortion scheme, and his efforts to obstruct the impeachment process itself (source).
  
• DJT leaves NATO summit early over perceived insults (source).
  
• The 2020 Census is having serious IT and security problems (source).
  
• Administration moving ahead with plan to kick people off of food stamps (source).
  
• Senate confirms unqualified judge (source).

Thursday 12/5

Friday 12/6

Legislative update

• Legislation signed into law
  
  • Two bills supporting the Hong Kong protesters https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s1838, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s2710
  
  
• Legislation awaiting DJT's signature
  
  • 15 minor bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the House, awaiting Senate
  
  Bill funding historically black colleges and universities https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr2486
  
  • Bill against insider trading https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/hr2534
    
  • 4 minor bills
    
  • 332 total pending bills
  
  
• Legislation passed in the Senate, awaiting House
  
  • Bill condemning human rights abuses in China https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s178
    
  • 3 minor bills
    
  • 93 total pending bills

Comments

[selki]

Well, good for Google and YouTube removing DJT campaign ads for lying. I guess they're a little less evil than FB.