Friday Open Thread

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1. The Republicans at "work:"  CPR Reports

   After Thursday’s morning vote, it means the House won’t be back in session, except for some minutes long pro forma sessions, until Sept. 9, a week after Labor Day.

   It also means the House will come back just three weeks before a government funding deadline….

   Republican leaders had hoped to pass all 12 individual spending bills before the August recess, but were unable to get the caucus to agree. One bill failed on the floor July 11 and of the four bills the chamber was expected to take up this week, only one passed — largely along partisan lines. Two others were pulled right before the legislative week began and one was pulled minutes before a vote, to avoid seeing it fail. In total, only five of the 12 bills have passed….

   GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert, who when Republicans took control touted that her caucus would pass 12 separate spending bills, which has not happened, was critical of her leadership’s decision to send members home early.

   “I don’t like it. President Trump almost got assassinated. We need to be here doing real work,” she told CPR News….

   House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters it wasn’t the inability to pass individual budget bills that led to canceling next week, but a number of other reasons, including the recent tumultuous weeks in American politics, the Thursday memorial service for the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, and that Republicans were still tired from last week’s convention.

   He also pointed to the campaign season and giving members time to go back to their districts. But as in all election years, Congress will also be out for the entirety of October and not be back until Nov. 12, to accommodate election year campaigning.

    

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2. I've been in the Nebraska Sandhills, South-North Dakota prairie and Minnesota Lake Country this past week (mostly) off-line with the exception of Willie's Roadhouse on XM in the background.  Anything happen while I was gone?!?  

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   1. Stunning audio leak finds J.D. Vance ‘pushing for federal response to stop out-of-state abortions’

      https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/stunning-audio-leak-finds-jd-vance-pushing-for-federal-response-to-stop-out-of-state-abortions/ar-BB1qGwPv

      “Imagine Roe vs. Wade is overturned. Ohio outlaws abortion by 2022, maybe 2024. Meanwhile, George Soros funds daily flights from Columbus, transporting predominantly Black women to California for abortions. The left would likely praise this as a triumph for diversity. That’s rather unsettling, don’t you think?”

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