Also, a bit from Schumer on that House-passed tax bill

“We could still do it. You might be able to come up with a compromise. You might have some new element that goes in there.”

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'One of my colleagues said my job was to be with whatever position was the majority position of my conference,” McConnell added. “I can tell you, if I had had a Hastert rule, we would have never raised the debt ceiling and never funded the government.”

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In other news, former Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) says he voted for Nikki Haley in Tuesday's primary, he'll prob write her name in in November and says 'there is a non-trivial, significant minority of Republicans' in PA who won't vote for Trump. inquirer.com/politics/elect…

“American prisons are hellholes,” Ossoff said. “That’s unacceptable.”

He acknowledges that it’s far from the bread&butter issues that most purple-state senators spend their time on, let alone one who will be among the most vulnerable incumbents in 2026.
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Foreign aid vote already playing out in Senate races

Sherrod Brown touting big fentanyl win + pounding Bernie Moreno for opposing the package. Took a year of work w Tim Scott

Moreno says he supports standalone fentanyl bill, criticizes Brown on border

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A LOT of Democrats on the record here saying the party would save Speaker Johnson on a motion to vacate from Nicholas Wu Daniella Diaz

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Re: Trump and Haley, it has been over a month since she left the race and there has still been no contact between them or their teams, I am told by a person familiar.

Biden just named seven District Court nominees as it gets down to crunch time on the Senate floor before the election. There are currently 42 vacancies (39 of them District) -- Schumer already set to fill one in Illinois next week

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After responding to my questions for years and years, Faiz is now on the other side of the interview.

Inside WH + Senate leaders talks with Johnson

- McConnell: Johnson 'neutralized' Trump on Ukraine
- WH aides stayed close w speaker office
- Schumer: “He wasn’t one of these people who was just angry and wanted to stick it to the other side'

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Jennifer Haberkorn

“Even if it would be a day of momentary political advantage to get out and beat the shit out of them, he didn’t,” Schumer said of the president.

Backstory: McConnell + Schumer beat the right on Ukraine together ... though some things McConnell shouldered alone

“I don’t want to take a bit away from Chuck,' McConnell told us. 'He didn’t have any Ukraine problems, I had all of them'

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Another flip: Daines votes 'yes' vote on foreign aid bill

'Weakness in the face of ruthless enemies is a surefire way to start new wars that involve American troops'

He voted against February bill and against cloture earlier today

“When you've been here as long as I have, you've had a few big moments,' McConnell said in interview. 'I don't think I've ever had a bigger one'

Schumer: 'when it became clear that Russia could be at Poland's border in a year, if we didn't help, it started changing things'

Senate leaves until next Tuesday, reclaiming its recess after all

Nature is already healing: Schumer is setting up judicial votes for next week

Final: Senate sends foreign aid bill to Biden's desk, 79-18

Bernie Sanders comes to the Senate floor to share some 'good news': Congress's approval rating is up from 10 percent to 14 percent

'The Congress is completely out of touch with where the American people are,' Sanders said, citing polls about Israel aid funding

Got it?

Rubio says the foreign aid bill is 'legislative blackmail, and I will not vote for blackmail.'

He gave a speech just now about wanting border security in there despite supporting some of the aid components to U.S. allies.