US lets people buy cars that will go 119 mph or even higher, even though the highest speed limit in USA is 85 mph. Some regulators want to change that. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

some news: today is my last day at the Austin Statesman. It's been a wild/fun ride covering the Austin tech scene the past few years. I'm grateful to everyone I worked with

I'll still be in Austin. I'll be joining Bloomberg soon to cover EVs (and yes Tesla and some musklandia still)

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Rep. Mark Amodei will be chairman of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, Rep. Tom Cole announces. That fills the last spot after a cardinal shuffle.

I think I still have VHS tape of the OJ verdict

George Santos absence looming large

Key House corridor blocked off during House votes on FISA. They have the cell phone jail out presumably for briefings.

Peak strange bedfellows on House floor today re: FISA.

New: Under Senate candidate Dave McCormick Bridgewater Associates invested in at least 20 Chinese companies that were soon after sanctioned by the US.

They include Co.'s that built fighter jets, bombers, China's first domestically built aircraft carrier:
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POLITICO: “.. no other person in America — if charged with the diverse panoply of malfeasance that Trump has been accused of — would enjoy the same procedural and structural advantages that Trump has harnessed, to great effect ..”

POLITICO Magazine

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House lawmakers will try to advance a two-year spy powers extension this week after an intraparty blowup over privacy concerns. Erik Wasson, Roxana Tiron and I report @bgov: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…