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Producer & Off-Air Reporter covering Congress at @NBCNews. Instagram: (frankthorpv) Also served as Chairman of the RTCA Exec. Committee.
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Joined February 2008
RT @news_jul: NEWS: House PASSES Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill 218-214. Two republicans voted against it:.Thomas Massie.Brian Fitzpatrick. Tru….
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RT @ryanobles: It’s a bit of a tactical error for the GOP to draw out a pre-determined outcome to the point where Democrats are now essenti….
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RT @ryanobles: NEW: Sen. Lisa Murkowski stares me down for more than 10 secs after I ask her to respond to Sen. Rand Paul’s critique of the….
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MURK votes YES on perfecting amendment. Sens Paul, Tillis and Collins are a NO. Vance will need to break this tie.
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SCHUMER just made a motion to strike the name "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" from the text of the bill, and the point of order was sustained, so it's no longer actually named that. .
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Rand just came out of Vance’s office just off the Senate floor.
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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 history. There were 44 votes during a 2008 budget resolution vote-a-rama, which had previously held the record.
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RT @brennanleach: VP Vance arrived at the Capitol moments ago, as the Senate continues their ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ vote-a-rama. Asked by @….
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Sen JUSTICE comes off the floor, says, “Still got a ways to go, who knows what the outcome will be, still got some people right on the fence…”.
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2:15am — Murkowski & Collins head to the floor as the Senate continues voting on amendments to Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.” . Murkowski and Collins both declined to say how they’d vote on final passage this hour.
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If you’re curious how the vibes in the Capitol are going, here’s what the drink cooler in the refectory looked like this morning vs what it looks like now —>
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Sen Wyden encouraged Dems to vote NO, saying, "It is a band aid on an amputation; it provides the tiny fraction of the nearly $1 trillion in cuts the bill makes to Medicaid.". But if Democrats would have all voted YES the amendment would have passed.
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Interesting group of Senators who voted YES on Sen Collins' amendment to increase the rural hospital fund paying for it by increasing taxes on individuals making $25 million or more a year (vote tally is at 22-78):. 18 GOP.Capito.Cassidy.Collins.Curtis.Fischer.Graham.Hawley.
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A woman was just arrested for protesting in the gallery of the Senate chamber as the vote-a-rama is ongoing. She says she's protesting the Medicaid cuts, saying Senators are "sitting there and acting like it's some dinner party and giggling and laughing and seeing these guys be
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RT @sahilkapur: NEW: Tucked inside the GOP mega-bill is an excise tax for solar and wind. And Republicans say they have no idea who put th….
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The 10th vote in this next tranche will be Sen COLLINS amendment to let the 2017 tax breaks expire for individuals making $25 million, and couples making $50 million, and also increase the money for rural hospitals by $25 billion.
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RT @news_jul: Sen Blackburn filed an amendment tonight to strip Sen Cruz’s 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation out of the OBBB & it h….
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Sen MURKOWSKI says they’re still working on the bill: “I think what's important for people to understand is that while we have this bill that we are voting on now, there are still pieces in the bill that are continuing to be reviewed and, and so it has not yet been, I guess,.
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RT @sahilkapur: NEW: Senate begins votes on Trump's massive bill as Republicans race toward final passage. Watch this space; we'll update t….
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