Stephen Spaulding
@SteveESpaulding
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@BrennanCenter at @NYULaw | Former @AmyKlobuchar Policy Director @SenateRules | @CommonCause | @HouseAdm_Dems @RepZoeLofgren | @FEC | opinions are my own 🏳️🌈
Washington, DC
Joined January 2010
RT @BrennanCenter: We know little about new forms of online political spending, such as paid promotion by influencers. As growing numbers o….
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RT @BarackObama: Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our dem….
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RT @cspan: From 1996: @USCPSC Firework Safety demonstration on a watermelon. #FireworksHurt #FourthofJuly
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RT @leedrutman: If Republicans do not pay any exceptional electoral penalty for a massively unpopular and regressive tax and spending bill,….
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A political system that requires you to have 60 Senate votes to cancel student loans or raise the minimum wage but only 50 votes to enact the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in U.S. history.
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RT @BrennanCenter: How will the Supreme Court’s rulings this term impact the future of democracy? . Join experts for a virtual discussion o….
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A bill that gives tax cuts to billionaires, deprives 17M of health insurance, and adds $3.3T to the national debt = can't be filibustered, passed w/ 50 Senate votes. The Freedom to Vote Act & John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act = filibustered, needs 60 votes.
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RT @cspan: This was the longest vote in the history of the House of Representatives (2:08pm - 9:31pm).
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RT @jbendery: For anyone who is up at 3:30am and eager to know: the House just passed the rule to begin debate on Trump's tax bill, 219-213.
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When did it become common practice for some Hill reporters to type Members’ names in ALL CAPS when tweeting out their every move?.
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RT @SphereEdIn: The Supreme Court’s major cases this term could shape the country for years. Thomas Berry (@Thomas_A_Berry), John Malcolm….
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RT @matteroffacttv: The Supreme Court is wrapping up a busy term. A legal expert explains why the Court has more emergency cases this year….
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RT @frankthorp: The Senate vote-a-rama just started vote #45, which means this vote-a-rama now has the record for most votes in vote-a-rama….
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RT @alicia_bannon: Today SCOTUS limited the scope of court orders (called injunctions) blocking Trump’s birthright citizenship order. To be….
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RT @BrennanCenter: In Trump v. Casa, @SteveESpaulding tells @CBSNews the Supreme Court went "out of its way to make it more difficult for c….
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RT @BrennanCenter: There’s a provision nestled in President Trump's 1,000 page budget bill that could ban states from regulating artificial….
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I'm old enough to remember the opposition to creating a filibuster carve-out for voting rights. Many of the same senators pushing for their priorities to pass the Senate by a simple majority objected that doing so for voting rights would "turn the Senate into the House.".
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All of this drama over the reconciliation bill is because Senate Republicans are trying to pass their agenda by a simple majority—not the 60 votes that has become the de facto threshold for most legislative business.
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RT @BrennanCenter: Strategically timed retirements from the Supreme Court undermine the perception of justices’ impartiality. Congress shou….
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