Here's how all this plays out:.House unable to elect Speaker on Jan 3 or many days after. There can be no joint session to count electoral votes before the House gets a Speaker, Jan 6 or later. If no Speaker by noon Jan 20:.Acting President Chuck Grassley.ASSUME DEER DEAD.

Saturday night @FTA_DOT confirmation news.

RT @SenateCloakroom: NOW VOTING: Confirmation of Executive Calendar #63 Marcus Molinaro to be Federal Transit Administrator.

POTUS’s visit to the Federal Reserve building today reminds me of a hilarious story about that structure. I wrote about it a few years ago in an op-ed about Amtrak (another not-quite-public, not-quite-private entity):

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Which "Neighborhood Access and Equity" grants were killed by the reconciliation bill and which survived? LA, Chicago, Buffalo, and Seattle were winners: Portland, Boston, Philly, Atlanta lose out. Link to article in 1st comment.

RT @j_amesmarriott: Probably one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century - from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Deat….

The other @USDOT modal administrator nominees may sit on the Senate Executive Calendar forever, but the @FAANews nominee has been confirmed. .

RT @frankthorp: Senate clerks finish reading 940 pages of the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' it took them 15 hours, 54 minutes and 35 seconds to….

FedEx founder Fred Smith has died

Interesting…thanks.

This is important for the House-passed EV registration fee - it is possible it reappears in a subsequent version of the Senate bill.

RT @elwasson: Cornyn tells me the Finance draft is just an opening shot.

Randy has a good point. This would be a massive scheduling pain for WMATA and Amtrak. And really confusing for people who fly into DCA and go straight to meetings in the District and get there an hour after the meeting has actually started.

RT @NateSilver538: I asked ChatGPT to invent 10 new words and they were mostly lame but "nullcraft" is pretty good.

RT @TonyBasilio: Breaking . SEC all time assist leader @Vol_Hoops Zakai Zeigler is seeking to play a 5th year with a filing today in t….

The budget scores of the reconciliation bill in a nutshell. Does not include the future reckoning of E&C Medicaid changes on income tax receipts, W&M EV tax credit changes on T&I EV registration fees, etc etc. As reported from committee, not including any later changes.

RT @USCBOcostest: Reconciliation Recommendations of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure .

I was one of the participants in the survey quoted in this new @USGAO report on how to update @USDOTFHWA federal highway formula funding criteria. .

Paging Richard Shelby. the White House wants to overturn your HMTF legacy.

In case anyone is wondering why @FTA_DOT seems uniquely vulnerable among @USDOT modes to administrative reorganization plans, it's because the law gives the FTA Administrator nothing specific to do. (All chapter 53 duties are given to the Secretary, not the Administrator.)