Ursula Perano
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Senate reporter @notusreports / former @politico @axios @thedailybeast / dm for email, signal, cell, etc.
Joined July 2016
Respect to the staffer who knew what they were doing here
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So stefanik:. - did a literal farewell tour through her district.- has been posting farewell on her social media for days.- gave up her spot in leadership, which has since been filled.- waited months . And now she just has to… go back… as a rank-and-file…. .
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I ***think*** cory booker is wearing an aura ring and I will admit I'd be fascinated to see the stats after this.
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Meet Douglas: a support dog outside the Senate today. I love him and he gives high-fives.
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Fetterman talking to reporters as Ossoff walks by. Fetterman stops, points at Ossoff and says, “I wish I could look like that, you know. God damn.”.
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.@AOC tells me a few mins ago that she wouldn’t outright rule out working w/ Rs to resolve the speaker battle, but McCarthy would not be a unity candidate + Ds would need more concessions than just things like committee ratios. “But, I mean, hey, if we could get some chairs.”.
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who heckled George Santos mid Santos-gaggle moments ago, in a tiff with MTG outside the Capitol steps. AOC comes up at the end: “She ain’t worth it bro”
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Fetterman on border via @hollyotterbein . "I hope Democrats can understand that it isn’t xenophobic to be concerned about the border. It’s a reasonable conversation, and Democrats should engage" - Fetterman.
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NH GOP Gov. Sununu says on CNN that it was right for Gosar to be censured and removed from committees — and that “of course” it was ok for the 13 House Republicans to vote for a BIF. “We have our priorities wrong.”.
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breaking: classified docs held by Bear found in the Big Blue House
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Exclu: Dr. Oz at a campaign stop last weekend was asked a simple question. “How many houses do you own?”. His response? — "Legitimately, I own two houses.". And well, reader, you know where this is going. The number is. not two. For @thedailybeast
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to be clear this article is based on: . - two schools.- that are private schools.- in australia.
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Shutdown averted. These bears better be F A T.
During a shutdown, many agencies such as the National Park Service are also not permitted to update websites and social media pages. That means the viral park service social media promotions of Fat Bear Week would halt.
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Paris Hilton said “legislation is hot” and I said “say no more”. Happy Halloween
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You don’t have to tweet your take on Afghanistan if you’re not actually well-versed in the Afghanistan story. It’s ok. The internet will survive without your post.
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Gonna start telling people I’ll get back to them by EOD when I really mean End of Delta.
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DC is a funny place. One day, you're 21, living in a group house in georgetown. You've got a 40-something year old random roommate and you're not quite sure why he lives there? but he's out of town a lot. Fast forward, he's the head of USAID. And the trips suddenly make sense.
NEW: USAID Dismantler Peter Marocco Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy by @BrettMmurphy @annabarryjester.
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New Sanders statement pins blame on the media for Americans’ lack of awareness of what’s in the BBB plan, says press has done an “exceptionally poor job” covering the bill and that there has been “very limited coverage as to what the provisions of the bill are”
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NEW: #PASen candidate Dr. Oz has a secret, previously undisclosed condo in NJ. And his tenants, well, are his buddies and Turkish nationalists who are linked to groups that have denied the Armenian genocide. With @WillBredderman for @thedailybeast
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Megan Rapinoe posing at the White House podium, a series
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Dressed as the most terrifying thing I could think of ahead of Election Day: the NYT needle. Happy Halloween, nerds
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Fun fact: We only included properties in this count of 10 that were listed as “residential real estate.” If Oz wants to talk about properties writ large, he also has commercial real estate, which would add eight more properties to this total (by my count)
@JohnFetterman I have 10 properties (disclosed when I announced). 2 homes. My turn: when can we debate?.
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Drove 40 minutes outside of DC to go to a chilis today. Worth every second
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Some personal news: Next week I’ll be joining @TheDailyBeast as a politics reporter, with a focus on progressives. I’m psyched to get started!.
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Dick Durbin — no. 2 Dem in the Senate — announces he will not attend the Netanyahu address tomorrow, says the PM’s strategy has been “beyond any acceptable level of self-defense”
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I am in the Hart office building for @SenThomTillis’ annual Halloween party for dogs. Will be posting my favorite costumes. Here is a starter — a dog as a spy balloon
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Congress isn’t all bad. Sometimes you find a little ducky
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Somewhere in the White House, a speechwriter staffer is about to write the most swiftie-coded monologue of their whole damn life.
*BIDEN TO HOST KANSAS CITY CHIEFS TEAM AT WHITE HOUSE MAY 31.
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The pain of your 20s is watching golf slowly grip each of your friends, one by one.
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still learning to accept the new three branches of government
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New: Jim Justice is almost certainly WV's next senator. If he shows up to work is another question. Sources say Justice is chronically absent. Some are concerned for his health + doubt he’ll regularly show up to votes . That'll matter in the Senate. A lot
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New: Senate conservatives are likely to block a request to unanimously pass Sen. Duckworth's bill tomorrow, which would protect IVF at the federal level. Some Senate Rs saying Dobbs made IVF a states-rights issue . W/ @DaniellaMicaela
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Biden announcing this while gobbling ice cream is the most veep sh*t I’ve seen in years.
President Joe Biden said Monday that he hopes there will be a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war by next week.
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Washington, D.C. would never and for that I am thankful.
"Karma Chameleon" is taking over the New York Subways!
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Not saying there aren't Dem groups encouraging people to go to town halls. But just noting it's quite the commute from a major urban center or dem hub to oakley, kansas
Sen. Marshall on his town hall over the weekend: . “The sad deal was that is a a county of less than 3000 people. 85% of those people voted for Donald Trump. Almost every job there is connected to agriculture, and they were drowned out by people from urban America. So it was just.
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(after sending a media request that my entire story hinges on) Let me know. Thanks!.
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If you are the staffer who briefed Manchin on brat my DMs are open.
I’m having a brat summer at the State Fair of West Virginia – are you? 🚜🌭🟢
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Lil scoop: Mike Lawler’s personal Wikipedia account is currently banned sitewide because he made too many edits about himself, including on his own page and by adding himself to the notable alums list for his alma mater
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@savtwopointoh This is great and all but can we please discuss the orientation of your foot in the second picture because wow.
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Sanders' hand here popping in to do the most Sanders-esque motions
A fight almost broke out in a Senate hearing. Markwayne Mullin read a tweet from Teamster boss Sean O'Brien which challenged Mullin to a fight. Mullin said he was ready to settle things right here, right now. Bernie Sanders shut the scene down.
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To the staffer who just walked through the senate basement holding two uncovered pies…. what’s up
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Manchin tells me he spoke to Fetterman today about the Senate dress code change. “I said ‘John, I think it’s wrong & there's no way I can comply with that’…Wanted to tell him directly that I totally oppose it & I will do everything I can to try to hold the decorum of the Senate”.
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It’s giving Steve from Blue’s Clues.
I asked Rep. George Santos if he would sit for an interview with the House Ethics Committee. "No. Oh, with the Ethics Committee? Of course. Not with you," he told me on his way to lunch.
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New: Fetterman has a new resolution in the Senate that would strip any senator under indictment for certain crimes — like being a foreign agent — of committee seats, receiving classified info & more. Menendez's name isn't on it. But it might as well be
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If Dems magically retain the House, let it be known, Pelosi will be having the press conference of her god damn life.
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🚨New: @ninaturner is running for Congress again, teeing up a likely primary rematch against Dem Rep. Shontel Brown.
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Some happy news for the week — Sen. Amy Klobuchar announces she’s officially cancer free
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DC: please ride the metro again :). The Red Line: DC can have one train per 20 minutes IF it is nice to me :).
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Sneakers. Turtlenecks with suits. The other day I saw Rep-elect Casar in lace-up ankle boots. The zillennial/millennial fashion era of Congress is here and in this essay I will.
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give every single c-span producer a raise. i want them freaking swimming in cash.
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The three branches of government are Secretaries of State, the NYT needle and Dave Wasserman.
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A) these staffers make sure sh*t keeps running in an office that represents more than 39M people, under incredibly difficult circumstances. B) including the whole staff from COS to SA shows such a lack of knowledge on how these offices work/actually interact with their member.
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Pour one out for JD Vance’s son, who just dropped a reese’s PB cup into the crack of the senators only elevator shaft. “We lost it buddy” - dad Vance.
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If you are the Bob Menendez campaign-side staffers who poured one out at Wunder Garten in the wake of your boss' indictment, my DMs are open
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Dozens of tiktok creators are visiting the Capitol today to push against a ban on the app. Some mixed approaches from content posted. Some are stopping by member offices, talking about impacts of tiktok on income/small biz. Others much less serious (example)
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At the thrift shop. Anybody need *checks note* a huge framed map of Major DOE Laboratories and Field Facilities
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After another reporter interjected suggesting the debt limit, @AOC responded, “Yeah. A combination of things, really.”.
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baby yoda but he’s a journalist turning in a story. that’s the tweet
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Much respect to Sen. Mark Kelly’s identical twin brother, who is walking through the building tonight wearing a sticker that says “not senator kelly”.
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Can’t lie, the growing khive chaos is digging up some top-tier content.
While we were all busy watching Kevin McCarthy fall apart, we missed VP Kamala Harris doing an impression of Sen. Bennet’s deep voice during his swearing in and it’s hilarious.
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There is something so difficult for my brain to compute about tiktok infleuncers doing romanticized videos of the Capitol when I've straight up had a mini breakdown on one of those benches she passed
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"We will call it 'Congress.' Its members will be trusted with the nation's future". Wow, sir, will they pass great achievements into law?. "Not often. They'll have a lot of things called 'CRs.' Or 'stopgaps'"
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I hate DC Halloween what do you mean you can’t instantly spot Chuck Schumer’s flip phone
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you voted down a RULE which we think is BAD so as PUNISHMENT we are sending you home to be with your LOVED ONES for an extra 3-4 DAYS and we DARE you to do it again.
SCALISE says no more House votes this week after Luna et al blocked rule. He says they will bring same rule next week and dare them to block Trump agenda again.
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guys I know the news is slow but.
Kevin Costner's first wife Cindy Silva shops for groceries 30 years after their marriage ended
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So, yeah, that spike in Twitter love Rep. Cuellar’s been seeing? . Experts say it’s a troll network meant to hype him up, with many of the accounts being launched — you guessed it — within days of an FBI raid on his home and campaign office.
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Welp, I got Cory Booker’s Oura ring stats
I ***think*** cory booker is wearing an aura ring and I will admit I'd be fascinated to see the stats after this.
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.@Davidhogg111 says he & @williamlegate are launching a pillow company — hopefully within the next six months — to compete against Mike Lindell's MyPillow. Lindell tells me: "Good for them. nothing wrong with competition. ". Read on @Axios:
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Taking those impersonation guardrails very seriously I see
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the three branches of government are martin short, steve martin and selena gomez.
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Scoop: Just minutes before Cory Booker began his marathon speech on the floor (which is still ongoing), his staffer Kevin Batts was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license on Capitol grounds . w @DaniellaMicaela
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Buttigieg clapping big time as Biden gives a shout out to (you guessed it) infrastructure
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A non-Floridian friend told me last night that he almost got attacked by an alligator while visiting the Everglades because he thought he could just go up to it in his kayak. I lost it and am now sending him this powerpoint. I just don't understand
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For anyone who's been paying attention to the trial over the past 9 days. this breathing expert's testimony feels like a turning point. His responses have been very favorable toward the prosecution all day long.
Dr. Martin Tobin: "Mr. Floyd died from a low level of oxygen. And this caused damage to his brain that we see, and it also caused [an arrhythmia] that caused his heart to stop." #ChauvinTrial
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out: date night. in: voting against a cr together.
Cory Mills told me he heard other "people that you wouldn't anticipate," will oppose the CR — specifically naming Rich McCormick and Beth Van Duyne.
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Schumer on if he’d prefer Cornyn or Thune for GOP leader:. “As long as they stay minority leader, it’s fine with me”.
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Inbox: Reps. Jayapal, Cicilline, Newman, Takano and Torres have introduced a “Trans Bill of Rights” in the House, aimed at curbing anti-trans legislation that’s spread in statehouses . Some proposed protections:
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@DaniellaMicaela The thing about unanimous consent: any one senator can object. So a majority of Rs could support the bill, but if one objects, it can't pass through UC. Has to go to full vote. Still, any GOP objection will feed Dems' case that Rs are a threat to IVF
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It is:. - my first time to the White House. -my first time on White House pool duty. - my first time covering another Ursula, as Biden meets with Ursula von der Leyen. Happy Friday
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Big day of transparency for @PeteButtigieg. - Campaign says future fundraisers will be open to the press, and vows to release a list of fundraiser names. - McKinsey says it will allow Buttigieg to release a list of his former clients. Read here w/ @Axios:
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it's worth noting that @andrewyang consistently exhibits this kind of sportsmanship with his competitors as they dropout, qualify for debates, etc.
Congrats to Tim Ryan for stepping up to fight for Americans across the country. I got to spend time with Tim on the trail and he is a true patriot and family man. Made the race better - and he will continue to fight for us all. #mindfulness #SEL 👍🥊🇺🇸
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I love the Senate basement’s ambience. For instance, these are fun dangly wires
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will be thinking about this pause for the rest of the evening
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Feinstein not present for first vote in the judiciary committee markup this morning.
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Two beautiful bills stand before me, but only one can go on to be America’s Next Top Budget
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"major" is putting in some work here.
Bestselling self-help author Marianne Williamson has announced she’s running for president again, becoming the first major Democrat to challenge President Joe Biden for his party’s nomination in 2024.
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Murphy vibe check: outright pissed off. “I know that it’s easy to lose your sense of outrage… but what has happened here over the last four months is outrageous”. Negotiators missed much of the holidays with their families, spent many hours on this. Murphy still wants vote tmrw.
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