State senator tries to roll back California’s calls for a constitutional convention Democratic State Senator Scott Wiener from San Francisco says California could unintentionally support a Republican-led constitutional convention and is urging the state Legislature to hedge that ... 12/24/2024 - 5:52 pm | View Link
SEC Basketball Makes Decision on Future Scheduling: Roll Call, December 25, 2024 The SEC adjusted its schedule to accommodate the additions of Texas and Oklahoma this season. Today’s Crimson Tide ScheduleNo events scheduled until Sunday.Crimson Tide ResultsNo results.Did You ... 12/24/2024 - 5:19 pm | View Link
Beacon Hill Roll Call: Is House violating rules by letting bills die? There were no roll call votes in the House or Senate last week. Both branches spent most of their time in session listening to the farewell speeches of legislators who will ... 12/22/2024 - 6:13 pm | View Link
Washington D.C. Roll Call report Along with roll call votes this week, the House also passed: the No Congressionally Obligated Recurring Revenue Used as Pensions To Incarcerated Officials Now Act (S. 932), to provide for the halt in ... 12/20/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
CQ Roll Call staffers file NLRB complaint over return-to-office mandate The staff at CQ Roll Call has filed a complaint with the NLRB, claiming that parent company FiscalNote's return-to-office mandate is unlawful. 12/20/2024 - 5:48 am | View Link
Above: Driftglass has discovered woodworking! He made this cat-proof Christmas tree for our living room.
Driftglass and I are so grateful to be a part of the C&L family.
2024 will log ONE HUNDRED episodes of our Professional Left Podcast.
Year in review: We'll record Episode 100 for the year next week!
Buckle up, friendsit is going to be a bumpy one. 2025 is not going to start off the way we had hoped, but I want to share some of my thoughts (and a personal reflection) as we enter this tumultuous year.
Many of you got to know me in The Bad Placestarting about 10 years agowhen my son was 8.
“Five months after a jury convicted Sen. Bob Menendez of corruption-related charges that ended his political career, federal prosecutors have admitted to a series of errors that could upend the verdicts,” Politico reports.
“The missteps have handed Menendez’s attorneys just the kind of opening they’d been looking for, and they have already requested a new trial.
Playbook: “He has the money, the platform, a Republican trifecta in Washington and a radically altered information ecosystem compared to would-be government shrinkers in generations past. Trump and his allies are serious about targeting the federal government, which many MAGA figures see as full of disloyalty, for radical changes.”
“But inertia is powerful.
After the presents, breakfast, hugs, and thank yous, it's time for football!
NFL Christmas Day looks like this: at 1 p.m. ET, the Kansas City Chiefs (14-1) play the Pittsburgh Steelers (10-5).
Then the Baltimore Ravens (10-5) play the Houston Texans (9-6) at 4:30 p.m. Eastern.
Which team are you rooting on to the Super Bowl?
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WASHINGTON — The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ’s views on vaccines, accusations of sexual misconduct against Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 meeting with then-President Bashar Assad of Syria.
While some GOP senators have indicated they are all-in for Trump’s picks, others have withheld support, for now, especially on some of his more controversial nominees.