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stlhandyman · 2 years ago

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Supreme Court, U.S FILED In The OCT 2 2022 Supreme Court ofthe United States RALAND J BRUNSON, Petitioner,

Named persons in their capacities as United States House Representatives: ALMA S. ADAMS; PETE AGUILAR; COLIN Z. ALLRED; MARK E. AMODEI; KELLY ARMSTRONG; JAKE AUCHINCLOSS; CYNTHIA AXNE; DON BACON; TROY BALDERSON; ANDY BARR; NANETTE DIAZ BARRAGAN; KAREN BASS; JOYCE BEATTY; AMI BERA; DONALD S. BEYER JR.; GUS M. ILIRAKIS; SANFORD D. BISHOP JR.; EARL BLUMENAUER; LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER; SUZANNE BONAMICI; CAROLYN BOURDEAUX; JAMAAL BOWMAN; BRENDAN F. BOYLE; KEVIN BRADY; ANTHONY G. BROWN; JULIA BROWNLEY; VERN BUCHANAN; KEN BUCK; LARRY BUCSHON; CORI BUSH; CHERI BUSTOS; G. K. BUTTERFIELD; SALUD 0. CARBAJAL; TONY CARDENAS; ANDRE CARSON; MATT CARTWRIGHT; ED CASE; SEAN CASTEN; KATHY CASTOR; JOAQUIN CASTRO; LIZ CHENEY; JUDY CHU; DAVID N. CICILLINE; KATHERINE M. CLARK; YVETTE D. CLARKE; EMANUEL CLEAVER; JAMES E. CLYBURN; STEVE COHEN; JAMES COMER; GERALD E. CONNOLLY; JIM COOPER; J. LUIS CORREA; JIM COSTA; JOE COURTNEY; ANGIE CRAIG; DAN CRENSHAW; CHARLIE CRIST; JASON CROW; HENRY CUELLAR; JOHN R. CURTIS; SHARICE DAVIDS; DANNY K. DAVIS; RODNEY DAVIS; MADELEINE DEAN; PETER A. DEFAZIO; DIANA DEGETTE; ROSAL DELAURO; SUZAN K. DELBENE; Ill ANTONIO DELGADO; VAL BUTLER DEMINGS; MARK DESAULNIER; THEODORE E. DEUTCH; DEBBIE DINGELL; LLOYD DOGGETT; MICHAEL F. DOYLE; TOM EMMER; VERONICA ESCOBAR; ANNA G. ESHOO; ADRIANO ESPAILLAT; DWIGHT EVANS; RANDY FEENSTRA; A. DREW FERGUSON IV; BRIAN K. FITZPATRICK; LIZZIE LETCHER; JEFF FORTENBERRY; BILL FOSTER; LOIS FRANKEL; MARCIA L. FUDGE; MIKE GALLAGHER; RUBEN GALLEGO; JOHN GARAMENDI; ANDREW R. GARBARINO; SYLVIA R. GARCIA; JESUS G. GARCIA; JARED F. GOLDEN; JIMMY GOMEZ; TONY GONZALES; ANTHONY GONZALEZ; VICENTE GONZALEZ; JOSH GOTTHEIMER; KAY GRANGER; AL GREEN; RAUL M. GRIJALVA; GLENN GROTHMAN; BRETT GUTHRIE; DEBRA A. HAALAND; JOSH HARDER; ALCEE L. HASTINGS; JAHANA HAYES; JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER; BRIAN HIGGINS; J. FRENCH HILL; JAMES A. HIMES; ASHLEY HINSON; TREY HOLLINGSWORTH; STEVEN HORSFORD; CHRISSY HOULAHAN; STENY H. HOYER; JARED HUFFMAN; BILL HUIZENGA; SHEILA JACKSON LEE; SARA JACOBS; PRAMILA JAYAPAL; HAKEEM S. JEFFRIES; DUSTY JOHNSON; EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON; HENRY C. JOHNSON JR.; MONDAIRE JONES; DAVID P. JOYCE; KAIALPI KAHELE; MARCY KAPTUR; JOHN KATKO; WILLIAM R. KEATING; RO KHANNA; DANIEL T. KILDEE; DEREK KILMER; ANDY KIM; YOUNG KIM; RON KIND; ADAM KINZINGER; ANN KIRKPATRICK; RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI; ANN M. KUSTER; DARIN LAHOOD; CONOR LAMB; JAMES R. LANGEVIN; RICK LARSEN; JOHN B. LARSON; ROBERT E. LATTA; JAKE LATURNER; BRENDA L. LAWRENCE; AL LAWSON JR.; BARBARA LEE; SUSIE LEE; TERESA LEGER FERNANDEZ; ANDY LEVIN; MIKE LEVIN; TED LIEU; IV ZOE LOFGREN; ALAN S.LOWENTHAL; ELAINE G. LURIA; STEPHEN F. LYNCH; NANCY MACE; TOM MALINOWSKI; CAROLYN B. MALONEY; SEAN PATRICK MALONEY; KATHY E. MANNING; THOMAS MASSIE; DORIS 0. MATSUI; LUCY MCBATH; MICHAEL T. MCCAUL; TOM MCCLINTOCK; BETTY MCCOLLUM; A. ADONALD MCEACHIN; JAMES P. MCGOVERN; PATRICK T. MCHENRY; DAVID B. MCKINLEY; JERRY MCNERNEY; GREGORY W. 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SEWELL; BRAD SHERMAN; MIKIE SHERRILL; MICHAEL K. SIMPSON; ALBIO SIRES; ELISSA SLOTKIN; ADAM SMITH; CHRISTOPHER H. V SMITH; DARREN SOTO; ABIGAIL DAVIS SPANBERGER; VICTORIA SPARTZ; JACKIE SPEIER; GREG STANTON; PETE STAUBER; MICHELLE STEEL; BRYAN STEIL; HALEY M. STEVENS; STEVE STIVERS; MARILYN STRICKLAND; THOMAS R. SUOZZI; ERIC SWALWELL; MARK TAKANO; VAN TAYLOR; BENNIE G. THOMPSON; MIKE THOMPSON; DINA TITUS; RASHIDA TLAIB; PAUL TONKO; NORMA J. TORRES; RITCHIE TORRES; LORI TRAHAN; DAVID J. TRONE; MICHAEL R. TURNER; LAUREN UNDERWOOD; FRED UPTON; JUAN VARGAS; MARC A. VEASEY; FILEMON VELA; NYDIA M. VELAZQUEZ; ANN WAGNER; MICHAEL WALTZ; DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ; MAXINE WATERS; BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN; PETER WELCH; BRAD R. WENSTRUP; BRUCE WESTERMAN; JENNIFER WEXTON; SUSAN WILD; NIKEMA WILLIAMS; FREDERICA S. WILSON; STEVE WOMACK; JOHN A. YARMUTH; DON YOUNG; the following persons named are for their capacities as U.S. Senators; TAMMY BALDWIN; JOHN BARRASSO; MICHAEL F. BENNET; MARSHA BLACKBURN; RICHARD BLUMENTHAL; ROY BLUNT; CORY A. BOOKER; JOHN BOOZMAN; MIKE BRAUN; SHERROD BROWN; RICHARD BURR; MARIA CANTWELL; SHELLEY CAPITO; BENJAMIN L. CARDIN; THOMAS R. CARPER; ROBERT P. CASEY JR.; BILL CASSIDY; SUSAN M. COLLINS; CHRISTOPHER A. COONS; JOHN CORNYN; CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO; TOM COTTON; KEVIN CRAMER; MIKE CRAPO; STEVE DAINES; TAMMY DUCKWORTH; RICHARD J. DURBIN; JONI ERNST; DIANNE FEINSTEIN; DEB FISCHER; KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND; LINDSEY GRAHAM; CHUCK GRASSLEY; BILL HAGERTY; MAGGIE HASSAN; MARTIN HEINRICH; JOHN HICKENLOOPER; MAZIE HIRONO; JOHN HOEVEN; JAMES INHOFE; RON VI JOHNSON; TIM KAINE; MARK KELLY; ANGUS S. KING, JR.; AMY KLOBUCHAR; JAMES LANKFORD; PATRICK LEAHY; MIKE LEE; BEN LUJAN; CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS; JOE MANCHIN III; EDWARD J. MARKEY; MITCH MCCONNELL; ROBERT MENENDEZ; JEFF MERKLEY; JERRY MORAN; LISA MURKOWSKI; CHRISTOPHER MURPHY; PATTY MURRAY; JON OSSOFF; ALEX PADILLA; RAND PAUL; GARY C. PETERS; ROB PORTMAN; JACK REED; JAMES E. RISCH; MITT ROMNEY; JACKY ROSEN; MIKE ROUNDS; MARCO RUBIO; BERNARD SANDERS; BEN SASSE; BRIAN SCHATZ; CHARLES E. SCHUMER; RICK SCOTT; TIM SCOTT; JEANNE SHAHEEN; RICHARD C. SHELBY; KYRSTEN SINEMA; TINA SMITH; DEBBIE STABENOW; DAN SULLIVAN; JON TESTER; JOHN THUNE; THOM TILLIS; PATRICK J. TOOMEY; HOLLEN VAN; MARK R. WARNER; RAPHAEL G. WARNOCK; ELIZABETH WARREN; SHELDON WHITEHOUSE; ROGER F. WICKER; RON WYDEN; TODD YOUNG; JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN JR in his capacity of President of the United States; MICHAEL RICHARD PENCE in his capacity as former Vice President of the United States, and KAMALA HARRIS in her capacity as Vice President of the United States and JOHN and JANE DOES 1-100.

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jimrmoore · 2 years ago

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Mime Radio interview ~ Bodecker & Neander

Tune in on August 29th for the delightful interview with Bodecker & Neander. Only on Mime Radio! Hosted by the wonderful Karen Hoyer and James Donlon. # # # # #

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#Bodecker & Neander #Comedy #Eccentric #German #Interview #James Donlon #Karen Hoyer #Michael Dias #Mime #Mime Radio #Mime Radio Interview #Vaudevisuals

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madamspeaker · 3 years ago

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There's a whole industry on Twitter among blue checks and roses, in which everything that Nancy Pelosi does, especially in relation to the CBC, is seen as pandering. I'm not saying that Nancy is flawless when it comes to what she says and does (her unfortunate misspeak at the presser after Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd being an example), but without fail, every time Nancy appears with the CBC and takes part in an event with them, she is subject to bad faith and cynical takes from those with verified accounts or roses next to their names. They assume that her actions are nothing more than performative and pandering, with it never having entered their heads that Nancy is usually there and taking part because she was asked to be. Take the Kente cloth moment last summer - Twitter lit up in indigiation at her wearing wearing it (mainly a bunch of White users being offended on behalf of Black people - also, only Nancy got the anger, no words for Steny Hoyer or any of the other White men wearing it), and to this day Nancy still gets bashed for it. No one lacerating her for it bothered to listen to the presser that day in which Karen Bass, the then Chair of the CBC, explicitedly stated that she had asked Nancy and the rest to wear the kente. When I pointed this out to someone earlier this week, I was met with this reply...

...which would seem to suggest that the anger at Nancy has little to do with being offended on behalf of Black people, and more to do with finding any damn reason to hate on Nancy Pelosi. Only a month ago, some factions of Twitter took offense at her touching Gianna Floyd's hair, again reading some cynical meaning into a gesture that anyone who has bothered to consider Nancy Pelosi beyond a talking point would know fits in entirely with how she is with children. They are totally her weak spot - she automatically goes into mother/grandmother mode around them. And then this week, we get some on Twitter getting assy because Nancy sang with the CBC yesterday when she signed the Juneteenth bill. What would they have had her do instead? Stay quiet as everyone else around her sang? They'd have said she was snubbing the CBC had she done that. No, the bad faith take is that of course she's pandering, that she's doing all this for optics - it never occurs to such Twitter users that unlike them she doesn't have some cynical angle for everything she does - that unlike them she takes her cues from her Black colleagues. The funny thing is, Twitter only took notice last year - I never heard a peep from anyone in 2019 when she went on the trip to Ghana with the CBC - she was the only White person on that codel, wore Kente (she was given her own), and Twitter ignored it. It's almost like the blue checks and roses didn't "care" about race until it was properly in the news and became something that could earn them Twitter clout and engagement. Either way, there's a whole industry now about it, in which Twitter has their hot takes on what the Speaker does, ignores that she's acting according to the wishes of her Black colleagues, and directs you to their patreon or YouTube account.

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arsonnswag · 5 years ago

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Bajo las sombras

"Las niñas sufren toda la vida el trauma de la envidia del pene tras descubrir que están anatómicamente incompletas"- Sigmund Freud

Ximena María Hernández Thomas Abril 12, 2019

En lo personal pienso que una persona debe ser reconocida por sus logros,si importar alguna inconcordancia en el término “perfecto” o “normal”y menos si esa diferencia se basa en el sexo de la persona a la que se reconocerá,no obstante,mucha gente no tuvo o no tiene la misma opinión que yo,realizando una discriminación y “discapacidad” a las mujeres en los nombramientos honoríficos y más aún si se trata de algún tema científico,matemático o hasta físico.Aunque las mujeres a lo largo del tiempo han dejado una huella, y han contribuido en nuestro presente,la mayoría de estas mujeres no han tenido un reconocimiento y han quedado en el olvido, ya sea con sus propios colegas a la hora de una premiación,sus amigos cercanos,sus familiares,sus parejas ,o inclusive ante su existencia en el mundo,dejándolas así bajo las sombras.

La mayoría de la población mundial conoce a Albert Einstein,Isaac Newton,Pitágoras, Neil Armstrong,entre otros,en cambio,la mayoría de la población mundial,no conoce a Valentina Tereshkova(la primer mujer en la luna)o a Gerty Cori(científica que explicó por primer vez el proceso de la glucosa) no malinterpreten,yo estoy a favor de que los hombres también sean reconocidos ,pero también¿en de acuerdo que cualquier ser humano sea galardonado sin distinción alguna ¿ y que ese premio sea un fruto de su verdadero éxito propio.,Sigmund Freud dijo”las niñas sufren toda la vida el trauma de la envidia de pene tras descubrir que están anatómicamente incompletas” una frase redactada con rencor,después de que la psicóloga Karen Hoyer refuta todas sus teorías,a pesar de eso,los psicólogos y la sociedad siguieron apoyando a Freud,y aunque sus teorías se tomaron como erróneas se le otorgó el Premio Gothel ;Mileva Maric ,fué esposa de Albert Einstein,Mileva hizo la teoría de la relatividad y ayudo en otros trabajo de Einstein,aun asi,Einstein no la reconoció ninguna vez y hasta se avergonzaba de ella,Mileva murió en el anonimato;Cuando era estudiante Jocelyn Bell Participó en la construcción de un radiotelescopio para el estudio de los quásares y descubrió la primera radioseñal de un púlsar ,sin embargo su profesor acabó llevándose el nobel;Meitner formó parte del equipo que descubrió la fisión nuclear, un logro por el cual su amigo Otto Hahn recibió el Premio Nobel y a ella ni siquiera le regalaron una sonrisa;Esther Lederberg junto con su esposo joshua desarrolló un método para transferir bacterias,joshua se llevó todo el crédito del premio nobel;Los experimentos de Isabella Karle ayudaron a clasificar la forma de la molécula,pero solo le entregaron el premio nobel a su esposo Jerome;Rosalind Franklin fotografió el adn y fue fundamental en el descubrimiento en su estructura,ni siquiera fue mencionada en la ceremonia de premiación.

La lista es larga,y lo seguirá siendo si no lo detenemos y empezamos a ver una igualdad en el hombre y la mujer,empezar a difundir los logros de la personas independientemente de cómo sea,emprender en las escuelas y cultura general los logros de todos,¿realmente queremos seguir siendo desconocidos de nuestros logros solo por nuestra identidad?.

Muchas mujeres ya han muerto en el anonimato ,esperando algun dia que su historia sea contada y que en su tumba este el premio que esperaban con tantas ansias.No repitamos la historia y no dejemos que sigamos bajo la sombra.

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Este es un escrito que ayude a hacer a una amiga, es la María de la que les había hablado en el storytime de la sopa; le ayude con la investigación de este artículo. Y pues me gustaría compartirles esta hermosa redacción de ella ;)

#articulos sopa #feminismo¿

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theliberaltony · 5 years ago

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On Tuesday afternoon, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her plans to open an official impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Although she and others in House leadership positions have resisted opening formal impeachment proceedings for months, a deluge of new calls from more moderate members of her party may have cemented her decision to move forward.

More than two-thirds of the Democratic caucus now favor beginning an impeachment investigation in response to allegations that Trump attempted to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, and may have threatened to withhold foreign aid.

This is a huge change from the end of July, when we last checked in on where impeachment stood among House Democrats. At that point, just a few days after special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before two House committees about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, 109 Democrats were in support of impeachment. Granted, more than half of House Democrats have been in favor of impeachment since early August, but that number has now risen to 179, according to the New York Times,1 which means a solid majority of the Democratic caucus now supports impeachment.

Of course, a lot could depend on how the next few days unfold — in particular, whether the White House turns over the transcript of Trump’s July 25 call with Zelensky or the whistleblower complaint (which the administration has so far refused to share with Congress, despite a subpoena). After all, some moderates have hedged saying they��d support impeachment if the allegations prove true. But if the accusations against Trump are borne out, the remaining Democratic holdouts could face increasing pressure to support the impeachment inquiry — for one thing, Democrats are still short of the 218 votes they need for an impeachment resolution.

So how did we get here? The dramatic uptick in support for impeachment since July is due to two main shifts. First, during the August recess, a steady trickle of Democrats announced their support for impeachment, perhaps in response to pressure from people in their districts. And second, in just the past few days, dozens of Democrats have lined up in support of an impeachment inquiry for the first time, including a significant number from red and purple districts that Clinton either lost or won by 10 points. In fact, more than half of the Democrats who recently joined the pro-impeachment column come from districts that Democrats lost or won by less than 10 percentage points. These are the members who have the most at stake electorally if an impeachment inquiry backfires against Democrats, so their support is especially noteworthy.

More Democrats from swing districts support impeachment

Democratic House members who have announced their support for impeachment since September 13*

Name Congressional District Clinton’s Margin Antonio Delgado NY-19 -7 Elissa Slotkin MI-8 -7 Abigail Spanberger VA-7 -7 Andy Kim NJ-3 -6 Dave Loebsack IA-2 -4 Haley Stevens MI-11 -4 Elaine Luria VA-2 -3 Sean Patrick Maloney NY-18 -2 Susie Lee NV-3 -1 Angie Craig MN-2 -1 Mikie Sherrill NJ-11 -1 Lizzie Fletcher TX-7 +1 Joe Courtney CT-2 +3 Charlie Crist FL-13 +3 Josh Harder CA-10 +3 Jahana Hayes CT-5 +4 Steven Horsford NV-4 +5 Tom Suozzi NY-3 +6 Katie Hill CA-25 +7 Raul Ruiz CA-36 +9 Gil Cisneros CA-39 +9 Chrissy Houlahan PA-6 +9 Dean Phillips MN-3 +9 Ami Bera CA-7 +11 Ed Perlmutter CO-7 +12 David Trone MD-6 +15 Frank Pallone Jr NJ-6 +16 Joseph D Morelle NY-25 +16 Kathy Castor FL-14 +18 Jim Cooper TN-5 +18 Lois Frankel FL-21 +20 A Donald McEachin VA-4 +22 Debbie Dingell MI-12 +26 John Sarbanes MD-3 +31 Susan A Davis CA-53 +35 Mike Thompson CA-5 +45 Marc Veasey TX-33 +49 Hank Johnson GA-4 +53 Albio Sires NJ-8 +54 Elijah E Cummings MD-7 +56 Alcee L Hastings FL-20 +62 Gregory W Meeks NY-5 +73 John Lewis GA-5 +73

*Date that Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire announced he would not hand over a whistleblower complaint about President Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in defiance of a subpoena issued by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.

Source: The New York Times

This means the base of support for impeachment has become more ideologically diverse. For instance, if we look at the districts where House members now support impeachment, Trump lost these districts in 2016 by around 31 percentage points. But in July, his average loss in these pro-impeachment districts was 38 percentage points, showing that members from more moderate districts have joined the cause. (For reference, Trump lost the average Democratic-held seat by 28 percentage points, and he lost the districts of Democratic members who are currently not supporting impeachment by an average of 18 percentage points.)

And while some moderates have been careful to say their support is conditional on the allegations being true, some potentially vulnerable Democrats seem to be in favor of an impeachment inquiry regardless of what happens next. For example, Rep. Antonio Delgado, who represents a district in upstate New York that Trump won by 7 points in 2016, said that asking the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden was “in itself an impeachable offense.”

The new supporters for impeachment also include a significant number of Democrats from very liberal districts who had previously resisted calls for impeachment. As the table below shows, only 18 Democrats from very liberal districts continue to oppose (or remain undecided/refuse to comment) on impeachment — down significantly from the end of July:

Impeachment holdouts in very blue districts

Democratic House members who don’t support impeachment in districts that Hillary Clinton won by more than her margin (31.9 percentage points) in the average district with a pro-impeachment representative

Name CD Margin Nancy Pelosi CA-12 +78 Karen Bass CA-37 +76 Frederica S Wilson FL-24 +68 Eddie Bernice Johnson TX-30 +61 Anna G Eshoo CA-18 +53 Zoe Lofgren CA-19 +51 Adam B Schiff CA-28 +50 Jimmy Panetta CA-20 +47 Sylvia R Garcia TX-29 +46 David Scott GA-13 +44 Terri A Sewell AL-7 +41 Linda T Sánchez CA-38 +40 J Luis Correa CA-46 +38 James E Clyburn SC-6 +37 Ed Case HI-1 +33 Tulsi Gabbard HI-2 +32 Robert C Scott VA-3 +32 Steny H Hoyer MD-5 +32

Source: The New York times

Some recent switchers from the more liberal camp include Georgia civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, a Pelosi ally who called for impeachment proceedings in a dramatic speech on the House floor on Tuesday, and Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan, who had previously argued that impeachment would “tear the country apart.” It seems that for many of these Democrats, the gravity and scale of the allegations against Trump finally outweighed concerns about whether an impeachment push without bipartisan support would be too divisive, or if it would be useless to impeach Trump given that Senate Republicans are highly unlikely to vote to remove him from office. (Although there was a flicker of bipartisan energy in the Senate on Tuesday evening, when a nonbinding resolution calling on the Trump administration to release the whistleblower complaint passed unanimously.)

Opposition to impeachment among Democrats from red and blue districts has also fallen over the past few days, but there are still a significant number who do not represent very liberal districts and who haven’t yet endorsed an impeachment inquiry. Of the 64 Democrats from districts that Hillary Clinton won or lost by 10 points or fewer in 2016, more than half now support impeachment. That’s more than twice as many than at the end of July, but a sizeable chunk still haven’t gotten on board. And as the table below shows, many of these Democrats hail from districts that Clinton lost:

Impeachment holdouts in red and purple districts

Democratic House members who don’t support impeachment in districts that Hillary Clinton either lost or won by 10 percentage points or less

Name CD Margin Collin C Peterson MN-7 -31 Anthony Brindisi NY-22 -16 Joe Cunningham SC-1 -13 Kendra Horn OK-5 -13 Jared Golden ME-2 -10 Max Rose NY-11 -10 Xochitl Torres Small NM-2 -10 Matt Cartwright PA-8 -10 Ben McAdams UT-4 -7 Ron Kind WI-3 -5 Jeff Van Drew NJ-2 -5 Cindy Axne IA-3 -4 Abby Finkenauer IA-1 -4 Conor Lamb PA-17 -3 Lucy McBath GA-6 -2 Cheri Bustos IL-17 -1 Tom O’Halleran AZ-1 -1 Josh Gottheimer NJ-5 -1 Susan Wild PA-7 +1 Sharice Davids KS-3 +1 Colin Allred TX-32 +2 Kurt Schrader OR-5 +4 Stephanie Murphy FL-7 +7

Source: The New York Times

Some of these Democrats may remain wary of embracing impeachment — and that could be tricky for House leadership down the road, if they do decide to pursue an impeachment resolution. But the fact that Democrats like Delgado, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, and Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who are all from districts that Trump won by 7 points in 2016, are newly supporting impeachment could embolden other moderates to join them.

Regardless of what happens next, it’s clear that the political ground on impeachment has shifted dramatically among Democrats in a very short period of time. Even Biden, who previously said that impeachment proceedings would be a “giant distraction,” said that the House should move forward with impeachment if the Trump administration refuses to turn over information about the call with the Ukrainian president. And as FiveThirtyEight’s editor in chief, Nate Silver, wrote Tuesday, pursuing impeachment is a big risk for the Democrats, considering how unpopular it remained throughout the course of the Mueller investigation. But for the first time, the vast majority of House Democrats seem willing to take that risk.

#IFTTT #Politics – FiveThirtyEight #politics #538 #Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux

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nationaldvam · 6 years ago

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The House passed legislation on Thursday reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) over objections from the National Rifle Association and Republicans who say it will restrict gun rights by preventing people convicted of stalking or abusing dating partners from buying a gun.

Thirty-three Republicans opted to break party lines and vote for the bill backed by Reps. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), the only GOP lawmaker to co-sponsor it. Only one Democrat voted against the measure, which passed 263-158.

Congress had allowed VAWA, which provides funding and grants for a variety of programs that tackle domestic abuse, to lapse in February when it was omitted from a massive spending bill ending a partial government shutdown.

Current law forbids firearm purchases for spouses or formerly married partners convicted of abuse or under a restraining order, but VAWA’s new language expands that restriction to include dating partners who were never legally married, eliminating the so-called boyfriend loophole.

“According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on average, nearly 20 people every minute — 20 people every minute — are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. That is a tragedy and a crisis. One in 4 women experience severe intimate partner physical violence, and 1 in 7 have been stalked by an intimate partner to the point at which she felt very fearful, or believed that she or someone close to her would be harmed or killed. The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk — hear me — increases the risk of homicide by 500 percent,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on the floor during debate.

“That is why we aim to close gun loopholes by expanding the definition of intimate partners to include dating or former dating partners. It is also why this bill has language preventing anybody convicted of a misdemeanor crime of stalking from obtaining a gun.”

Democrats have alleged Republicans are prioritizing access to gun purchases over the safety of women.

But critics, including top Republicans and gun rights groups, argue the bill is an assault on Americans' Second Amendment rights and have raised concerns the changes could prevent victims of domestic abuse from obtaining a weapon to protect themselves.

"Mr. Speaker, my colleagues and I want to find a solution that helps victims, prevents domestic violence and strengthens programs that serve vulnerable populations. We stand willing and ready to discuss ways to do that," House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-Ga.) said on the floor.

“But I cannot and will not support a bill that undermines and jeopardizes due process, that curtails prosecutorial discretion, that makes it more difficult for victims in rural areas to find housing, that could weaken programs for female victims, that could re-victimize abused women and that undercuts Second Amendment rights."

GOP leadership blasted Speaker Nancy Pelosi for allowing VAWA to expire, alleging the California Democrat has politicized what has traditionally been a bipartisan issue and that she is responsible for a clean reauthorization not making it into the February spending bill.

"We were for renewing it. Nancy Pelosi is the one that blocked it, she wanted it to expire because, like so many issues, she could use different people as pawns for her political games," House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) told reporters Thursday.

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The morning of May 18th, eight high school students and two teachers lost their lives in Santa Fe, Texas, the sixth fatal school shooting of 2018. That same night, a woman was killed on the campus of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Georgia. The students leave behind empty desks and diplomas. They all leave futures and families and friends, a painful collection of what-ifs. Each of their stories is unique, yet they each converge on a painful truth: They died at one of our schools. We said, “Never again.” But again is now. Today, we add the names of the most recent victims to our list of those we’ve lost in school shootings since Columbine. This list serves to keep our collective memory of these victims alive, but it also reminds us of the terrible human cost of gun violence; the terrible cost of insufficient support for troubled young people; and the terrible cost of our national complacency., eight high school students and two teachers lost their lives in Santa Fe, Texas, the sixth fatal school shooting of 2018. That same night, a woman was killed on the campus of Mount Zion High School in Jonesboro, Georgia.

The students leave behind empty desks and diplomas. They all leave futures and families and friends, a painful collection of what-ifs. Each of their stories is unique, yet they each converge on a painful truth: They died at one of our schools.

We said, “Never again.” But again is now. Today, we add the names of the most recent victims to our list of those we’ve lost in school shootings since Columbine. This list serves to keep our collective memory of these victims alive, but it also reminds us of the terrible human cost of gun violence; the terrible cost of insufficient support for troubled young people; and the terrible cost of our national complacency.

2018

May 18 | Mount Zion High School

The name of this victim has not yet been released.

May 18 | Santa Fe High School

Jared Black

Shana Fisher

Christian Riley Garcia

Aaron Kyle McLeod

Glenda Ann Perkins

Angelique Ramirez

Sabika Sheikh

Christopher Jake Stone

Cynthia Tisdale

Kimberly Vaughan

March 20 | Great Mills High School

Jaelynn Willey

March 7 | Huffman High School

Courtlin Arrington

February 14 | Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Alyssa Alhadeff

Martin Duque Anguiano

Scott Beigel

Nicholas Dworet

Aaron Feis

Jaime Guttenberg

Chris Hixon

Luke Hoyer

Cara Loughran

Gina Montalto

Joaquin Oliver

Alaina Petty

Meadow Pollack

Helena Ramsay

Alex Schachter

Carmen Schentrup

Peter Wang

January 31 | Lincoln High School

Ralph Kennedy

January 23 | Marshall County High School

Preston Ryan Cope

Bailey Nicole Holt

2017

December 7 | Aztec High School

Francisco "Paco" Fernandez Jr.

Casey Jordan

November 14 | Rancho Tehama Elementary School

Danny Lee Elliot

Barbara Ann Gilsan

Michelle Iris McFadyen

Joseph Edward McHugh III

Diana Lee Steele

September 13 | Freeman High School

Sam Strahan

April 10 | North Park Elementary School

Karen Elaine Smith

Jonathan Martinez

2016

September 28 | Townville Elementary School

Jacob Hall

Jeffrey Osborne

June 8 | Jeremiah Burke High School

Raekwon Brown

February 12 | Independence High School

May Kieu

2015

November 20 | Mojave High School

Taylor Brantley

February 15 | Tenaya Middle School

Benito Aguirre

2014

November 20 | Miami Carol City High School

Khambrel Manning

October 24 | Marysville Pilchuck High School

Shaylee Chuckulnaskit

Andrew Fryberg

Zoe Galasso

Gia Soriano

October 3 | Langston Hughes High School

Kristofer Hunter

August 14 | Saunders Elementary School

John A. Nieves Jr.

Bryant Wilder Jr.

June 10 | Reynolds High School

Emilio Hoffman

April 21 | St. Mary Catholic School

Nina Castro

April 11 | East English Village Preparatory Academy

Darryl Smith

2013

December 13 | Arapahoe High School

Claire Davis

October 21 | Sparks Middle School

Michael Landsberry

August 23 | North Panola High School

Roderick Bobo

January 7 | Apostolic Revival Center Christian School

Kristopher Smith

2012

December 14 | Sandy Hook Elementary School

Charlotte Bacon

Daniel Barden

Rachel D'Avino

Olivia Engel

Josephine Gay

Dawn Hochsprung

Dylan Hockley

Madeleine Hsu

Catherine Hubbard

Chase Kowalski

Nancy Lanza

Jesse Lewis

Ana Márquez-Greene

James Mattioli

Grace McDonnell

Anne Marie Murphy

Emilie Parker

Jack Pinto

Noah Pozner

Caroline Previdi

Jessica Rekos

Avielle Richman

Lauren Rousseau

Mary Sherlach

Victoria Leigh Soto

Benjamin Wheeler

Allison Wyatt

October 19 | Banner Academy South High School

Terrance Wright

March 6 | Episcopal School of Jacksonville

Dale Regan

February 27 | Chardon High School

Demetrius Hewlin

Russell King Jr.

Daniel Parmertor

2011

March 30 | Worthing High School

Tremaine De Ante' Paul

January 5 | Millard South High School

Vicki Kaspar

2010

October 1 | Alisal High School

Jose Daniel Cisneros

February 5 | Discovery Middle School

Todd Brown

2008

November 12 | Dillard High School

Amanda Collette

October 16 | Henry Ford High School

Christopher Walker

August 21 | Central High School

Ryan McDonald

August 14 | Lakota Middle School

Omero Mendez

February 12 | E.O. Green Junior High School

Lawrence "Larry" King

2007

January 3 | Henry Foss High School

Samnang Kok

2006

October 2 | West Nickel Mines School

Naomi Rose Ebersol

Marian Stoltzfus Fisher

Lena Zook Miller

Mary Liz Miller

Anna Mae Stoltzfus

September 29 | Weston High School

John Klang

September 27 | Platte Canyon High School

Emily Keyes

August 30 | Orange High School

Rafael Castillo

August 24 | Essex Elementary School

Linda Lambesis

Mary Alicia Shanks

2005

November 8 | Campbell County High School

Ken Bruce

March 21 | Red Lake Senior High School

Derrick Brun

Dewayne Lewis

Chase Lussier

Daryl Lussier

Neva J. Rogers

Chanelle Rosebear

Michelle Sigana

Thurlene Stillday

Alicia White

March 2 | Cumberland City, Tennessee

Joyce Gregory

2004

February 2 | Ballou High School

James Richardson

2003

September 24 | Rocori High School

Seth Bartell

Aaron Rollins

April 24 | Red Lion Area Junior High School

Eugene Segro

April 14 | John McDonogh High School

Jonathan Williams

2002

February 20 | Washington High School

Joseph Johnson Jr.

2001

March 30 | Lew Wallace High School

Neal Boyd IV

March 5 | Santana High School

Randy Gordon

Bryan Zuckor

2000

May 26 | Lake Worth Middle School

Barry Grunow

February 29 | Buell Elementary School

Kayla Rolland

1999

November 19 | Deming Middle School

Araceli Tena

April 20 | Columbine High School

Cassie Bernall

Steve Curnow

Cory DePooter

Kelly Fleming

Matthew Kechter

Daniel Mauser

Daniel Rohrbough

Rachel Scott

Isaiah Shoels

John Tomlin

Lauren Townsend

Kyle Velasquez

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Can Republicans Keep The House And Senate

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Can Republicans Keep The House And Senate

Democrats Take The House Republicans Hold The Senate A Look At The Most Likely Outcomes Of The Next Congress

Democrats win House, Republicans keep Senate

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, right, and Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer celebrate Tuesdays election result, which puts Pelosi in line to return to the speakership.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses the crowd gathered at La Boom nightclub in Queens, N.Y., after she became the youngest woman elected to Congress.

Supporters of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrate her victory.

Sen. Ted Cruz addresses his supporters as he declares victory at his election night headquarters in Houston.

U.S. Senate candidate Beto ORourke and his wife, Amy Sanders, take the stage as he concedes.

Sen. Joe Manchin III celebrates his reelection.

People react to Tuesdays election results during a Democratic election watch party in Washington.

Grace Scherrer, 86, is excited to cast her ballot as the polls open at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel in Brentwood.

Maude, a 2-year-old English bulldog, waits as Danny Carinci votes at the Hermosa Beach Lifeguards headquarters.

Musicians Julie Mintz, left, Mindy Jones and Moby entertain the crowd during a campaign rally at Katie Porters campaign headquarters Tuesday in Tustin, Calif.

Rep. Adam Schiff and candidate Katie Porter greet the crowd during a rally at her campaign headquarters Tuesday in Tustin, Calif.

Rachel Mesa, 29, holds her son Madison Mesa, 1, as she votes at a polling site Tuesday in Stevenson Ranch, Calif.

Voters fill the booths Tuesday at Los Angeles County Fire Station No. 124 in Stevenson Ranch, Calif.

Republicans Keep The House; Democrats To Retain Senate

Democrat Elizabeth Warren takes the stage after defeating incumbent GOP Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race on Tuesday. Michael Dwyer/APhide caption

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Democrat Elizabeth Warren takes the stage after defeating incumbent GOP Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race on Tuesday.

Republicans have easily maintained their hold on the House, while missteps from Tea Party favorites helped Democrats retain a majority in the Senate.

That means the two chambers of Congress remain deeply divided, with prospects for agreement on such big-ticket items as deficits, tax rates and climate change unclear.

In the House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, gloried in his party’s victory and laid down a marker. Saying he stands “willing to work” with his partners, Boehner added, “with this vote, the American people have also made clear there’s no mandate for raising tax rates.”

For his part, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said, “The strategy of obstruction, gridlock and delay was soundly rejected by the American people. Now, they are looking for solutions.”

‘miserable And Emboldened’: If Republicans Lose The House They’ll Be On Defense

House GOP leaders are expecting to oversee a more conservative conference next year, with many of their losses coming in seats held by centrists. That tilt to the right is likely to mean even more pressure by top leaders for members to stick together to vote on legislation that is closely aligned to Trump and his agenda.

Senate races in mostly red states benefited from Trump focus

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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky talks to reporters after the Senate voted to confirm Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Oct. 6.

Senate Democrats had faced a steep challenge as they fought to keep seats in states Trump won by double-digit margins in the worst battlefield for any party in modern history.

Just six Republicans were up for re-election; all but one of them ran in safely Republican states.

Democrats landed on a plan to allow each vulnerable Democrat to run an independent campaign without a unified platform. For example, Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota could stump on protecting farmers while Joe Manchin in West Virginia promised new health protections for coal miners.

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Election Senate Odds: Will Republicans Regain Upper Chamber

Democrats are narrowly in control of the U.S. Congress, but Republicans are licking their chops for next years midterm races because, over the last 30 years, the party out of presidential power has usually made substantial gains in midterm elections during a presidents first term, with the most substantial occurring in 1994 and 2010.

Given Democrats extremely slim margins of control, the prediction that the Democrats will lose at least one, if not both, chambers of Congress can be supported by historic precedents.

However, changes in the Senate have been less consistent than in the House. And given next years election trajectory in Congress upper chamber, the likelihood of a Republican takeover there deserves a second look.

Can Democrats hold their 50-50 majority in the Senate?

First, lets take a look at the collective odds for Congress.2022 Election Congress odds

Republicans only need a net gain of one seat to capture the Senate, but Democrats are well-positioned to make gains because the GOP will be defending more seats. Moreover, several seats are being vacated by Republicans in swing states where Democrats have experienced some electoral success over the past 5 years.

With the polarizing nature of the current American political landscape, neither oddsmakers nor bettors believe theres much of a chance that control of Congress will be split following the 2022 midterm elections but thats the most likely scenario at this point .

Democrats Can Keep The House In 2022 Really

Next year, promises to be tough but House Democrats can beat the usual trends of losing enough seats to hand the majority to the Republicans.

Last week, the Washington Posts Karen Tumulty asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer how he is feeling about the 2022 midterm election. After all, the presidents party almost always loses at least a few House seats and usually many more. Yet Hoyer insisted he is optimistic. He argued there are a couple of exceptions to the midterm rule, in particular, when the country was facing deep economic downturns. He also noted that Donald Trump wont be on the ballot and the Republican Party is deeply divided, which could dampen Republican base turnout.

Meanwhile, analysts have pointed out that Republicans are poised for a takeover of the House. As CQ Roll Calls Nathan Gonzales put it, Republicans should disband if they dont win back the House in 2022 because Democrats have their narrowest majority in more than a generation, and Republicans have redistricting and history on their side in the midterm elections.

But Hoyers optimism should not be treated as delusional or dishonest. History does show Democrats have a path forward.

Where hope lies for Democrats is in the exceptions to the midterm rule. However, Hoyers specific analysis is well off the mark; deep economic downturns are not good for the presidents party!

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Rising Violent Crime Is Likely To Present A Political Challenge For Democrats In 2022

But there are roadblocks to fully enacting Democrats’ agenda. Their thin majorities in both chambers of Congress mean nearly all Democrats have to get on board with every agenda item in order to push through major legislative priorities. And without adjusting or eliminating the legislative filibuster in the Senate, Democrats need 10 Republicans to join them for various legislation a near-impossible task.

Trump Sticks To Trump Country As He Pushes For Gop Wins In The Midterms

Trump personally played a significant role in tight Senate contests in the closing weeks of the election cycle. He traveled to Indiana, Florida, Montana, Nevada, Missouri and Mississippi and in some cases landed in dramatic fashion aboard Air Force One to crowds of supporters enthusiastically cheering his red-meat speeches focused mostly on immigration and warnings about what Democratic control meant for his agenda.

His visits included overt reminders to his base supporters that they weren’t just voting for any Republican on the ballot they were voting for senators promising to back his priorities.

“They want to raise your taxes, the Democrats do, restore crippling regulations, shut down your new steel mills, take away your health care, and put illegal aliens before American citizens,” Trump said in a closing rally in Indiana on Monday. “If you want more caravans, if you want more crime, vote Democrat tomorrow.”

A year of big money and big controversy

Democrats benefited from a flood of donations to official party organizations and outside groups working on their side. Democratic candidates and their outside supporters are expected to spend more than $2.5 billion on this year’s election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Republican candidates and their backers are on track to spend $2.2 billion.

Fundraising in 2018 far outpaced what is normal for a miderm election.

NPR’s Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report

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Two state legislatures saw changes in their veto-proof majority statusâtypically when one party controls either three-fifths or two-thirds of both chambersâas a result of the 2020 elections. Democrats gained veto-proof majorities in Delaware and New York, bringing the number of state legislatures with a veto-proof majority in both chambers to 24: 16 held by Republicans and eight held by Democrats.

Forty-four states held regularly-scheduled state legislative elections on November 3. Heading into the election, there were 22 state legislatures where one party had a veto-proof majority in both chambers; 16 held by Republicans and six held by Democrats. Twenty of those states held legislative elections in 2020.

The veto override power can play a role in conflicts between state legislatures and governors. Conflict can occur when legislatures vote to override gubernatorial vetoes or in court cases related to vetoes and the override power.

Although it has the potential to create conflict, the veto override power is rarely used. According to political scientists Peverill Squire and Gary Moncrief in 2010, only about five percent of vetoes are overridden.

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The laws largely focus on tightening voter ID requirements, purging voter rolls and restricting absentee and mail-in ballots.

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Weakening Of The Investigations Against Trump

If Democrats dont control the House or the Senate, they cant initiate investigations of Trump or some of his more controversial cabinet members, such as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt.

More importantly, after the 2018 elections, the electoral process will recede as a constraint on the president and GOP in terms of the Russia investigation at least for a while.

We dont really know why Trump, despite his constant criticisms of the investigation, has not fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, or why he has not directly tried to stop the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller. Maybe Trump, despite his rhetoric, has some real respect for the rule of law. I think its more likely that Trump understands that firing Rosenstein or making a drastic move to stop the Mueller probe would increase both the chances of Democrats winning the House and/or Senate this year, and the odds that the resulting Democratic-led chamber would feel compelled to push to impeach Trump. But if the GOP emerges from 2017 and 2018 without losing control of the House or the Senate, I suspect that, with the next election two years away, the president will feel freer to take controversial steps to end the Russia probe. And I doubt Republicans on Capitol Hill would try to stop him.

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Turnabout Is Fair Play to Democrats

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), March 4, 2021.--President Joe Biden, 78, said all the right things in the inauguration speech about bipartisanship but five-weeks later it’s back to extreme partisanship as Democrats attempt to ram through the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill. Whatever pretence existed before, there’s no fig leaf as Democrats make their mad push to bail out cities and states from the economic fallout from the Covid-19 crisis. When the dust settled after the two historic Democrat Senate runoff wins in Georgia, elections have consequences with the Senate 50/50 with 56-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. Republicans haven’t yet adjusted, still complaining but unable to stop Democrats from railroading legislation designed to help cities and states pay their bills. “We said we’re going to do X, Y and Z, but we didn’t say were going to be magicians,” sad House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).

Hoyer recognizes that the meaning of bipartisanship now that Democrats control the White House, House and Senate, is that Republicans must accept that majority rule is how the government works. “We can’t magically make the Republicans be for what the people are for,” Hoyer said, meaning what Democrats want they now get. Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), feel the urgency to get as many Democrat led bills passed as possible before the House turns to defending its slim majority in 2022. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) wants to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on the 30th anniversary of the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles. “It’s examples like that that lead to the urgency,” Bass said, knowing they have the votes to get it passed now in the House and Senate. Republicans can only put up token resistance in the Senate with Kamala casting the tie-breaking vote.

By the time Biden gets his legislation through on voting rights, gun background checks, and immigration, Republicans will get that sinking feeling that there’s nothing that can be done to stop the inevitable. Democrats, especially Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) remember well what happened in 2009 when Democrats, with former Senate Majority Leasder Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ast the helm, railroaded Obamacare without one Republican vote. Republicans went into obstructionist mode for the duration of Obama two terms as president, despite getting Obamacare passed over 100% Republican objections. Republicans are hogtied trying to stop Biden, Pelosi and Schumer from railroading any legislation over next two years before the next Midterm elections. Losing the Senate Jan. 6 upended 78-year-old Senate Majority Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans.

Democrats have an advantage of having public opinion on their side, despite the consequences of profligate government spending. It wasn’t that long ago Dec. 27 ,2020 that former President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion Covid relief bill and $1.4 trillion government spending bill. “One of the biggest lessons that Republicans learned in the ’09 and ’10 era is they could basically obstruct everything and not suffer at the ballot box,” said Tre Easton, senior adviser at liberal Battle Born Collective. “We’ll be fighting this in every way that we can,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), knowing it’s a long shot to stop Democrats. When you consider that adding another $1.9 trillion to the national debt, it puts it at $30 trillion, a staggering sum that impacts Moodys, Standard & Poors and Fitch’s credit ratings, not to mention the value of the U.S. dollar against foreign currencies.

Democrats don’t want to hear anything from Republicans still complaining about he Nov. 3, 2020 election outcome. When the Jan. 6 riot and mob scene took place, Democrat blamed Trump for the violence. Since the Jan. 6 riot, Democrats are more determined than ever to advance a progressive agenda, especially immigration reform and Covid-19 relief bill that bails out liberal states running massive deficits like California. Democrats remember well Republicans spending the last 10 years trying to destroy Obamacare, largely because Republicans had a grudge about how the Senate passed Obamacare Nov. 9, 2009. When the late Sen. John McCain voted July. 27, 2018 to end Republican efforts to dismantle Obamcare, it was only one year before his death Aug. 25, 2018 from brain cancer. Republicans lost the Nov. 3, 2020 election because they were out of step with public opinion.

Democrats look poised to pass massive government bailout for cities and states in the $1,9 trillion Covid19 relief bill. Haggling over financial limits for direct payments or keeping a $15 minimum wage out of the bill attempts to give concessions to Republicans. Republicans’ arguments about bailing out Democrat-controlled cities and states make no sense, since no one’s base was hurt more during lockdowns and restrictions than cities and states. No matter how much Republicans complain about a lack of Democrat bipartisanship, that’s reality. “If that‘s what they’re going to do, then they’re going to have to live with it, because we’re going to serve it up,” said House Majority White James Clyburn (D-S.C.), signaling to the GOP that Democrats will proceed with their progressive legislative agenda no matter what. No matter how much Republicans object, Democrats are poised to advance their agenda.

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The Congress’ stances on Net Neutrality (Nov. 2017)

The following senators have stated their opposition to Ajit Pai’s repeal and/or support Net Neutrality:

Dianne Feinstein [D-CA] Kamala Harris [D-CA] Micheal Bennet [D-CO] Richard Blumenthal [D-CT] Chris Murphy [D-CT] Tom Carper [D-DE] Chris Coons [D-DE] Bill Nelson [D-FL] Brian Schatz [D-HI] Mazie Hirono [D-HI] Dirk Durbin* [D-IL] Tammy Duckworth [D-IL] Dave Loebsack [D-IA2] Susan Collins [R-ME] Angus King [I-ME] Ben Cardin [D-MD] Chris van Hollen [D-MD] Elizabeth Warren [D-MA] Ed Markey [D-MA] Debbie Stabenow [D-MI] Gary Peters** [D-MI] Amy Klobuchar [D-MN] Al Franken [D-MN] Jon Tester** [D-MT] Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV] Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH] Maggie Hassan [D-NH] Cory Booker [D-NJ] Tom Udall [D-NM] Martin Heinrich [D-NM] Chuck Schumer [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY] Sherrod Brown [D-OH] Ron Wyden [D-OR] Jeff Merkley [D-OR] Bob Casey Jr. [D-PA] Jack Reed [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI] Patrick Leahy [D-VT] Bernie Sanders [I-VT] Mark Warner [D-VA] Tim Kaine [D-VA] Patty Murray [D-WA] Maria Cantwell [D-WA] Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]

The following house representatives have stated their opposition to Ajit Pai’s repeal and/or support Net Neutrality:

Nancy Pelosi [D-CA12] Steny Hoyer [D-MD5] Joseph Crowley [D-NY14] Ben Ray Lujan [D-NM3] Don Young [R-AK] Terri Sewell* [D-AL7] Raul Grijalva [D-AZ3] Kyrsten Sinema [D-AZ9] Jared Huffman [D-CA2] John Garamendi [D-CA3] Doris Matsui [D-CA6] Jerry McNerney [D-CA9] Barbara Lee [D-CA13] Jackie Speier [D-CA14] Eric Swalwell [D-CA15] Jim Costa [D-CA16] Ro Khanna [D-CA17] Anna Eshoo [D-CA18] Zoe Lofgren [D-CA19] Jimmy Panetta [D-CA20] Salud Carbajal [D-CA24] Judy Chu [D-CA27] Adam Schiff [D-CA28] Tony Cardenas [D-CA29] Brad Sherman [D-CA30] Grace Napolitano [D-CA32] Ted Lieu [D-CA33] Jimmy Gomez [D-CA34] Norma Torres [D-CA35] Raul Ruiz [D-CA36] Karen Bass [D-CA37] Mark Takano [D-CA41] Maxine Waters [D-CA43] Nanette Barragan [D-CA44] Alan Lowenthal [D-CA47] Juan Vargas [D-CA51] Scott Peters [D-CA52] Susan Davis [D-CA53] Diana DeGette [D-CO1] Jared Polis [D-CO2] Ed Perlmutter [D-CO7] John B. Larson [D-CT1] Joe Courtney [D-CT2] Rosa DeLauro [D-CT3] Jim Himes [D-CT4] Elizabeth Esty [D-CT5] Lisa Blunt Rochester [D-DE] Darren Soto [D-FL9] Charlie Crist [D-FL13] Kathy Castor [D-FL14] Ted Deutch [D-FL22] Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL23] Frederica Wilson*** [D-FL24] Hank Johnson [D-GA4] John Lewis [D-GA5] Colleen Hanabusa [D-HI1] Tulsi Gabbard [D-HI2] Luis Gutierrez [D-IL4] Mike Quigley [D-IL5] Danny K. Davis [D-IL7] Raja Krishnamoorthi [D-IL8] Jan Schakowsky [D-IL9] Bill Foster [D-IL11] Cheri Bustos [D-IL17] Pete Visclosky [D-IN1] Andre Carson [D-IN7] John Yarmuth [D-KY3] Chellie Pingree [D-ME1] Anthony G. Brown [D-MD4] Jamie Raskin [D-MD8] Jim McGovern [D-MA2] Niki Tsongas [D-MA3] Joe Kennedy [D-MA4] Katherine Clark [D-MA5] Seth Moulton [D-MA6] Michael Capuano [D-MA7] Stephen F. Lynch [D-MA8] Sander Levin [D-MI9] Debbie Dingell [D-MI12] John Conyers [D-MI13] Brenda Lawrence [D-MI14] Tim Walz [D-MN1] Betty McCollum [D-MN4] Keith Ellison [D-MN5] Rick Nolan [D-MN8] William ‘Lacy’ Clay [D-MO1] Jacky Rosen [D-NV3] Carol Shea-Porter [D-NH1] Ann McLane Kuster [D-NH2] Josh Gottheimer* [D-NJ5] Frank Pallone [D-NJ6] Donald Payne Jr. [D-NJ10] Bonnie Watson Coleman [D-NJ12] Michelle Lujan Grisham [D-NM1] Grace Meng [D-NY6] Nydia Velazquez [D-NY7] Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY8] Yvette Clarke [D-NY9] Jerrold Nadler [D-NY10] Carolyn Maloney [D-NY12] Adriano Espaillat* [D-NY13] Jose Serrano [D-NY15] Eliot Engel [D-NY16] Nita Lowey [D-NY17] Sean Patrick Maloney [D-NY18] Paul Tonko [D-NY20] Louise Slaughter [D-NY25] Brian Higgins [D-NY26] G.K. Butterfield* [D-NC1] David Price [D-NC4] Alma Adams [D-NC12] Joyce Beatty [D-OH3] Warren Davidson* [R-OH8] Marcy Kaptur [D-OH9] Marcia Fudge [D-OH11] Tim Ryan [D-OH13] Suzanne Bonamici [D-OR1] Earl Blumenauer [D-OR3] Peter DeFazio [D-OR4] Kurt Schrader [D-OR5] Dwight Evans [D-PA2] Brendan Boyle [D-PA13] Michael Doyle [D-PA14] David Cicilline [D-RI1] Jim Langevin [D-RI2] Jim Cooper [D-TN5] Steve Cohen [D-TN9] Beto O’Rourke [D-TX16] Sheila Jackson Lee [D-TX18] Joaquin Castro [D-TX20] Lloyd Doggett [D-TX35] John Curtis [R-UT3] Peter Welch [D-VT] Robert Scott [D-VA3] Donald McEachin [D-VA4] Don Beyer [D-VA8] Suzan DelBene [D-WA1] Rick Larsen [D-WA2] Derek Kilmer [D-WA6] Pramila Jayapal [D-WA7] Dave Reichert [R-WA8] Adam Smith [D-WA9] Dennis Heck [D-WA10] Mark Pocan [D-WI2] Gwen Moore [D-WI4]

Eleanor Holmes Norton [D-DC]

* = Official statement from verified social media account or web source needed ** = Voted in favour of Pai’s re-nomination as FCC chairman in July, but has expressed opposition to his repeal plan since it was released; keep an eye on them *** = No official statement yet but has been sharing/retweeting posts opposing the FCC’s repeal

I will be keeping this list updated as I receive more information. Some information comes from the Battle for the Net website but needs a source. If you have a source stating your congressman’s opposition to the repeal (preferably as of November 21, 2017), feel free to reblog this post with the source or message me with it.

#net neutrality #net neutrality repeal #us congress #god it took days to put this together rip me

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Mime Radio Episode #21 ~ Barbara Leigh

Beginning August 15th the hosts of Radio Vaudeville will be interviewing the wild Barbara Leigh. You can watch it here! If you would like to view the previously distributed interview go HERE! # # # # # # .

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The following are GOP “RINOS & DNC others “THAT MUST BE” “REPLACED” & or “BOOTED FROM THE GOP PARTY & DNC @ FIRST OPPORTUNITY WITH ONLY AMERICA FIRST CANDIDATES PUT IN AS REPLACEMENTS. None of these “RINOS” help their States nor constituents only themselves, we do not need more swamp rats like these, we need to Remove & “Replace” them asap They are as follows: PA fmr Gov. John Ridge ( a never Trumper as is all listed)-Liz Cheney/Mitt Romney/James Clyburn/Kevin McCarthy/Lisa MURKOWSKI/Ben Sasse/Richard Burr/Liz Warren/Susan Collins/Mitch McConnell & Gary Peters/Adam Kinszinger/Karen Bass Ca/

Steny Hoyer Maryland

Dick Durbin

Chris Murphy Ct

Dianne Feinstein Ca

Nancy PIGLOSI Ca

AOC Ny

Rashida Talaib Mi

ilhan Omar Minn

Ayanna Pressley Ma

Patrick Leahy Vt

Bernie Sanders Vt

Maxine Waters Ca

Eric SWALWELL Ca

Roh Khanna Ca

is questionable plus John aka Pathetic crying drunk Boehner

Brian Kemp of Ga. / Chris Christie These democrats are paid off by drug cartels

Steny Hoyer Maryland

Dick Durbin

Chris Murphy Ct

Dianne Feinstein Ca

Nancy PIGLOSI Ca

AOC Ny

Rashida Talaib Mi

ilhan Omar Minn

Ayanna Pressley Ma

Patrick Leahy Vt

Bernie Sanders Vt

Maxine Waters Ca

Eric SWALWELL Ca

Roh Khanna Ca

is questionable plus John aka Pathetic crying drunk Boehner

Brian Kemp of Ga. / Chris Christie These democrats are paid off by drug cartels

Let’s excercise your Term Limits by using your votes!

VOTE THESE “RINOS” “OUT OF OFFICE” & REPLACE THEM ONLY WITH “AMERICA FIRST” CANDIDATES Add CJ John Roberts & John Boehner the crying drunk. As welll as each. And every Republican in the Michigan House &Senate legislature, throw them all out of office, they are as corrupt as the Democrats, even worse party traitors.

Let’s excercise your Term Limits by using your votes!

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Democrats fight over anti-Semitism resolution, how to respond to Rep. Ilhan Omar

House Democrats on Wednesday were struggling with the first major internal fight of their new majority, as party leaders tried to negotiate a compromise over how to handle a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, initially crafted with the intent to soothe members offended by Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Omar, a freshman Democrat from Minnesota who made history as one of the two first Muslim women elected to Congress, is facing a new wave of criticism for ostensibly perpetuating stereotypes against Jews.

She refused to answer a series of open-ended questions on the controversy when ABC News caught up with her inside the Capitol on Wednesday morning.

In a week in which House Democrats are celebrating their new power by voting on sweeping anti-corruption legislation, the controversy has continued to dominate the news cycle, testing the patience of leadership.

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Jewish Voice for Peace Deputy Director Rabbi Alissa Wise, second from left, talks to Rabia Kazan, of the Middle Eastern Woman’s Collision, as she calls for the resignation of Rep. Ilhan Omar, outside the U.S. Supreme Court, March 6, 2019.

Although leaders had circulated vanilla text to their members recapping the history of anti-Semitism and concluding that Congress rejects it, and even though the draft resolution did not directly name Omar, in a political environment deeply mired by political incorrectness, some Democrats felt it was inappropriate to single out Omar even indirectly, fighting to amend the text to add language that rejects Islamophobia and racism as well.

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27, 2019.

“There has been a rise in hatred in so many different directions, and unfortunately a lot of it has been emanating from the White House,” said Rep. Karen Bass, the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. “There’s also a lot of concern in the caucus over specific threats and death threats that Representative Omar has faced, and so we are very concerned about that and we want that to be paid attention to.”

Bass added that she “absolutely would have a problem” with Omar’s name being added to the resolution, but said that Democrats “want to make clear that we make a stand against all forms of bigotry and hatred.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Congressional Black Caucus co-chair, downplayed divisions within the group, crediting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for facilitating the discussion behind closed doors while ensuring that all forms of unfitting rhetoric are condemned.

“I think we’re looking for more, and I think that Speaker Pelosi has done a great job of trying to walk a number of different lines here, and make sure that we keep caucus unity and make sure that we support all of our colleagues,” Jayapal, D-Wash., said. “And make sure that we recognize that when, you know, that we need to have the same standards of how we look at what people say and what we call out.”

A vote had been anticipated on a resolution rejecting anti-Semitism as early as Wednesday, but after House Democratic leaders reopened the text of the resolution on Tuesday evening and ruled out a vote Wednesday, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who tightly controls which pieces of legislation move across the floor for a vote, says he’s unsure when the House will take a vote on the issue.

“We are against hate and bigotry,” Hoyer, D-Md., said. “There’s no division in the caucus on anti-Semitism.”

Hoyer, who said he does not believe Omar is anti-Semitic, added that questioning the loyalty of a member who demonstrates support for Israel “is not a new trope” and was “correctly” perceived as “a particular danger.”

“That’s why we will respond,” Hoyer promised.

Asked when the House might vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Pelosi bluntly replied, “When we’re ready.”

In the meantime, President Donald Trump poked Democrats for delaying action on the resolution.

It is shameful that House Democrats won’t take a stronger stand against Anti-Semitism in their conference. Anti-Semitism has fueled atrocities throughout history and it’s inconceivable they will not act to condemn it!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2019

As the saga drags on, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the first Jewish member of Congress elected in the Sunshine State, said it is “pretty outrageous” that Congress has to craft a resolution to “spell out for people across this country what anti-Semitism means.”

“The purpose of a resolution like this is to educate people about what anti-Semitism means, how harmful and hurtful it is,” Wasserman Schultz said. “And because you have some members who either repeatedly or individually continued to use anti-Semitic tropes – and I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say it’s unknowing – then apparently we do need to put a resolution on the floor that educates people about how harmful and hurtful anti-Semitism is.”

After amplifying the disagreement through a series of tweets, even tangling publicly with House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey, Omar has shunned reporters who have sought to learn more about her position.

The controversy has even spilled over into the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a long floor speech Wednesday morning denouncing Omar’s “crude, hateful, and backward anti-Semitic stereotypes.”

“This Democratic Congresswoman already stoked controversy in mid-February, having publicly proclaimed that Israel’s supporters are only in it for the money. Apparently, she believes the only reason leaders would stand with the Jewish people and the State of Israel is Jewish money,’ he said.

“Well, I think we have all heard that kind of talk before. And we must not tolerate it,” McConnell, R-Ky., said. “This time, she claims that supporters of Israel actually have, quote, ‘an allegiance to a foreign country.’ There’s that ugly, old ‘dual loyalty’ smear. Plain as day.”

While Republicans appear somewhat entertained by the disorder in the Democratic caucus, McConnell acknowledged that Omar’s rhetoric has also “provoked offensive anti-Muslim comments in response.”

“That is hateful and completely inexcusable as well,” McConnell conceded.

Jayapal questioned the need to vote on the resolution, shooting back at Republicans “who just want to use this as a wedge issue but don’t necessarily call out anti-Semitism on their own side.”

“We are so strongly against anti-Semitism. We have said that before. I don’t know how many times we need to continue to say that,” she said. “What is the purpose of this, why are we doing this, and can we make sure that it is broad enough that it also addresses some of the other forms of bigotry and racism that we are seeing.”

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has aggressively defended Omar through more than 20 tweets on the subject to over 3.4 million followers since Saturday, including one directly challenging one of her Democratic colleague’s tweets. Tuesday, she contended the debate advances white supremacy.

None of this is “whataboutism.” Racism and bigotry of all forms is inextricably linked.

When you don’t address them as a system and attempt to pick them apart as though they are distinct and separable issues, eventually the thing that gets advanced is white supremacy + classism.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 6, 2019

Rep. Juan Vargas, whose condemnation of Omar’s comments on Twitter prompted an initial tirade of tweets from Ocasio-Cortez, indicated he does not believe there’ll be lasting beef with the new progressive superstar, telling ABC the dustup is “not that big of a deal to me.”

“She could have come down the hall and asked me what my opinion is. That would have been fine,” Vargas, D-Calif., said. “But I mean, I think it’s fine. We have a very different opinion here, I believe. To question someone’s loyalty because they’re Jewish, I think is terrible. I think it’s something we shouldn’t question at all.”

“This dual loyalty charge has led to the mass murder of millions of Jews in history. I’m not sure that everyone understands how grave this issue is, frankly,” Vargas continued. “We have to stand up and fight it each and every time it comes up in the strongest way possible. That’s my belief. If AOC has a different view, she can have a different view. That’s my view and I’ll stand behind that every time.”

#abcnews #corruption #election news #Environment #Ilhan Omar #indian politics #political news #political news articles #Politics #politics news #racism #texting #U.S. Democratic Party #United States Congress #United States House of Representatives #US politics #voting

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Why Did Republicans Vote Against The Violence Against Women Act

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Why Did Republicans Vote Against The Violence Against Women Act

House Votes To Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act Despite Gop Opposition

Republicans Still Blocking Violence Against Women Act

WASHINGTON The House on Thursday passed an extension of the Violence Against Women Act, which provides protections for survivors of domestic violence, and includes new gun-related provisions that are opposed by the NRA.

Lawmakers approved the bill in a 263-158 vote, with most Republicans voting against it.

The measure, which expired in February, was sponsored by Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. The bill today, which would extend the law for five years, includes new provisions that would make it harder for domestic abusers to gain access to guns.

Those include an attempt to close the so-called ‘boyfriend’ loophole, prohibiting those convicted of stalking or abusing individuals with whom they have been in a relationship that did not include marriage from buying a gun.

House Votes To Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act

Washington The House voted Wednesday to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act , the landmark 1994 law that strengthened domestic violence protections for women.;

The House approved the reauthorization by a vote of 244 to 172, with 29 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting for it. But the measure, which expired two years ago, may hit a roadblock in the evenly divided Senate.

VAWA enshrines legal protections for women who have experienced domestic and sexual violence. It was initially passed in 1994, championed by then-Senator Joe Biden, and was updated and reauthorized in 2000, 2005 and 2013. The bill expired at the end of 2018 due to a government shutdown and was briefly renewed by a resolution reopening the government, but expired again in February 2019. Mr. Biden made reauthorizing VAWA a key campaign promise before he was elected.

The White House Office of Management and Budget released a statement on Wednesday saying that “the administration strongly supports” reauthorizing VAWA.

The current bill would expand victims services and reauthorize grant programs for the criminal justice response to domestic and sexual violence. It also includes provisions that would expand housing options for survivors, and end immunity for non-Native perpetrators of sexual violence on tribal lands.

“I think it’s critically important that we advance VAWA,” she said.

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“The NRA is wrong to oppose this provision, they are wrong to oppose this entire bill, it shows where they are when it comes to safety and when it comes to protecting women, and we will fight to keep it in this bill,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who is running for president.

President Trump has not yet weighed in on whether he would sign it if it reaches his desk with the gun or transgender provisions intact. Echoing House Republicans, White House spokesman Judd Deere said, “The White House supports a clean extension of VAWA.”

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Violence Against Women Act Now Touted By Republicans Who Voted Against Bill

WASHINGTON — When Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill late last month, more than 130 House Republicans voted against it. But some of those same lawmakers are putting out misleading statements that make it look like they voted for the bill instead.

Rep. Steve King , for one, issued a statement with the headline, “King Votes in Support of Violence Against Women Act.” But King didn’t vote for the VAWA bill. Instead, he voted for a GOP alternative bill that failed to advance.

“I supported VAWA in 2005, 2012, and today I voted in support of the House version to see that victims of domestic violence and sexual assault have access to the resources and protection when they need it most,” King’s statement reads.

Then there’s Rep. Bill Johnson , who disputed his VAWA vote with a constituent during . “Please make sure you have the facts right. I DID vote in favor of VAWA today,” Johnson wrote. But he didn’t.

The list goes on. As Steve Benen of The Maddow Blog first reported, a smattering of local newspapers have called out lawmakers including Rep. Tim Walberg , Rep. Vicky Hartzler , Rep. Keith Rothfus and Rep. Tim Murphy for being deceptive about how they voted.

A Johnson spokesman told HuffPost that the congressman voted against the VAWA bill that passed because it was a “politicallyâmotivated, constitutionally-dubious Senate version bent on dividing women into categories by race, transgender politics and sexual preference.â

Biden Supports Changes To Filibuster Returning It To ‘what It Used To Be’

In a statement Wednesday evening, Biden said “writing and passing VAWA is one of the legislative accomplishments of which I’m most proud,” and urged the Senate to follow suit.

“This should not be a Democratic or Republican issue it’s about standing up against the abuse of power and preventing violence,” he said.

A number of Republican senators said this week they are working on finding a bipartisan compromise that can pass the now-Democratic-controlled chamber. “I think it’s fair to say that there is a good strong interest in trying to advance VAWA,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.

The most contentious issue in the House-passed bill is a provision that expands the criminal threshold to bar an individual from buying a gun to include misdemeanor convictions of domestic abuse or stalking. It would also close the so-called boyfriend loophole to expand the definition of who is affected by existing gun prohibitions to include dating partners. “This legislation makes it clear that Democrats consider gun ownership a second-class right,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.

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House Votes To Reauthorize Landmark Violence Against Women Act

The House voted on Wednesday to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, legislation originally authored by then-Sen. Joe Biden in 1994 that aims to strengthen protections for women from domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.

The landmark law was reauthorized several times since, but lapsed in 2019 after the Democratic-controlled House voted to renew it, but it stalled in the Republican-led Senate. Democrats are hopeful it will find the support this time although the latest version still faces potential obstacles in the evenly-divided Senate.

The vote was 244-to-172, with 29 Republicans breaking ranks and joining Democrats in backing the reauthorization.

We want women to live. We want victims of violence to live, men or women. We want children to be able to have a parent, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee , at an earlier news conference with House Democrats where all the women wore white in honor of womens suffrage.

Republican opposition to the bill revolves in part around closing the so-called boyfriend loophole, which adds dating partners and stalkers to the provision banning spouses of convicted domestic violence or abuse from owning firearms.

The National Rifle Association is opposed to the extending the ban, and Republicans have opposed the broader VAWA legislation over it, arguing that it is a ploy by Democrats to erode Second Amendment rights.

The term VAWA has become synonymous with justice Pelosi said.

Biden An Original Sponsor

First passed in 1994, VAWA enshrines legal protections for victims of domestic and sexual violence. The original bill was championed by then-Sen. Joe Biden, and was reauthorized and updated in 2000, 2005 and 2013.

The House bill would expand victim services and reauthorize for five years grant programs for the criminal justice response to domestic and sexual violence. It also includes provisions that would expand housing options for survivors, and allow tribal jurisdiction over non-Native perpetrators of sexual violence on tribal lands.

The White House Office of Management and Budget released a statement on Wednesday saying that “the administration strongly supports” reauthorizing VAWA.

The OMB statement praised the bill for recognizing the need to provide protection and services to all victims of abuse and includes proposals to strengthen existing policies that were supported by both Democrats and Republicans last year. The Administration urges swift passage of this legislation.”

In 2019, the bill received support from 33 House Republicans, and the current version is cosponsored by Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick.

Other Republicans, including New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, criticized Democrats for moving forward with what they called an overly partisan bill. Stefanik pointed out that the process shut out the record number of Republican women who joined the chamber after the 2020 election.

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Democrats On Violence Against Women Act: We’re Closing A Loophole

The NRA, which has pushed back on the new provisions, and had been urging House Republicans to vote against the bill. Most Republicans were expected to vote against the legislation.

The NRA opposes domestic violence and all violent crime, and spends millions of dollars teaching countless Americans how not to be a victim and how to safely use firearms for self-defense, NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a Wednesday statement, accusing activists and politicians who support gun control of “intentionally politicizing the Violence Against Women Act as a smokescreen to push their gun control agenda” and “trivializing the serious issue of domestic violence.

On the House floor Wednesday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said that he was deeply disappointed that some House Republicans are using the NRA as cover to vote against this reauthorization, which has been overwhelmingly in a bipartisan fashion reauthorized over and over again.

President Bill Clinton first signed VAWA into law in 1994. It has since been reauthorized three times, in 2000, 2005 and 2013.

The law was a direct response to the epic violence against women that plagued our country at that time, Bass said in a speech touting the bill on the House floor Wednesday.

At a press conference Wednesday, Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., a victim of domestic abuse at the hands of her father, spoke emotionally about the new VAWA reauthorization.

Colorado Delegation Split As Us House Passes Violence Against Women Act And Equal Rights Amendment

Republicans Once Again Block Violence Against Women Act

With the women of the House Democratic Caucus wearing white the traditional color of womens suffrage the chamber passed two bills aimed at promoting and protecting womens rights.

One, which passed 244-172, would reauthorize and expand the Violence Against Women Act, which expired in 2019. The other removes a deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. It passed 222-204.In both votes, Colorados House delegation split along party lines. Democrats supported the measures, Republicans opposed them.

The votes took place against the backdrop of a mass shooting that killed eight people, including seven women working at spas in the Atlanta area.

First passed in 1994, the VAWA strengthened laws around domestic and sexual violence against women. The Senate failed to authorize the bill last congress over disagreements on LGBTQ and firearms provisions.

Weve seen a huge increase in domestic violence during the pandemic. We have to do more to protect those who need our help, tweeted Rep. Diana DeGette.

The latest bill expands protections for the most vulnerable, including immigrant, LGBTQ and Native American women, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It strengthens services for victims and survivors, empowers law enforcement to protect their communities, helps stop abusers and stalkers from obtaining firearms and expands protections for victims and survivors financial security.”

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Full List Of 172 Republicans Who Opposed The Violence Against Women Act

The House voted on Wednesday to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act after 29 Republicans broke with their party to support the bill, which offered women protections from domestic violence, sexual assault and other harassment.

Lawmakers approved the bill in a 244-172 vote following its lapse in late 2018. The Democratic-controlled House sought to renew the bill the following year, but it was held up in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Now the Democrats hold a one-vote majority in the upper chamber and are hoping to garner the Republican support needed for a 60-vote supermajority that negates the threat of the filibuster.

President Joe Biden, who first introduced the bill as a senator in 1990, celebrated its reauthorization in the House and called on the upper chamber to “strengthen and renew” the law.

Releasing a statement, Biden said: “This should not be a Democratic or Republican issue it’s about standing up against the abuse of power and preventing violence.” He then urged a “bipartisan coalition” in the Senate to get the law over the final hurdle.

A number of provisions in the Violence Against Women Act have widespread bipartisan support, such as state grants for sexual assault and domestic violence services, and offers of housing assistance for victims of domestic abuse.

At present, the rule applies to those convicted of violence against former or present spousesbut not those in non-marital relationships.

House Passes Sweeping Gun Bill

There are other objections. Republicans also oppose a new provision to allow U.S. citizens to be tried in tribal courts for crimes of domestic or dating violence committed by non-native perpetrators on native lands; a provision to create a pathway for an “alternative justice response” as a form of mediation between victims and abusers; and the expansion of existing protections to include transgender victims. Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., an abuse survivor, attempted to strip provisions that would allow transgender women access to shelters and the ability to serve in prisons that align with the sex with which they identify, but it failed along party lines. Republicans want those access and sentencing guidelines to continue to correspond with biological sex assigned at birth.

The Senate has not yet advanced its own VAWA reauthorization, which Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., are working on. It is unclear if the gun provisions in the House bill can clear the Senate, but Democrats say they will demand their inclusion.

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Legislative Battle And Reauthorization

Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013

When a bill reauthorizing the act was introduced in 2012, it was opposed by conservative Republicans, who objected to extending the Act’s protections to same-sex couples and to provisions allowing battered foreigners residing in the country illegally to claim temporary visas, also known as U visas. The U visa is restricted to 10,000 applicants annually whereas the number of applicants far exceeds these 10,000 for each fiscal year. In order to be considered for the U visa, one of the requirements for immigrant women is that they need to cooperate in the detention of the abuser. Studies show that 30 to 50% of immigrant women are suffering from physical violence and 62% experience physical or psychological abuse in contrast to only 21% of citizens in the United States.

In April 2012, the Senate voted to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, and the House subsequently passed its own measure . Reconciliation of the two bills was stymied by procedural measures, leaving the re-authorization in question. The Senate’s 2012 re-authorization of VAWA was not brought up for a vote in the House.

In 2013, the question of jurisdiction over offenses in Native American country continued to be at issue over the question of whether defendants who are not tribal members would be treated fairly by tribal courts or afforded constitutional guarantees.

Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013

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Republicans countered with an unaltered bill to extend VAWA in the short term until a deal can be reached, but Democrats have the votes, the party broadly supports the changes to the law and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear the new majority will hold firm.

Democrats successfully fought Republicans over the most recent VAWA renewal in 2013 because it included new provisions to protect same-sex couples and certain immigrants. It was a two-year battle in which Democrats ultimately claimed victory over conservative Republican opposition with help from bipartisan support in the Senate. “We had a big ongoing fight, until we made it too hot for them to handle,” Pelosi told reporters last week. She brushed off NRA opposition. “I don’t see that it has much impact on the passage of the bill in the House of Representatives,” she said.

Democrats plan to follow a similar road map to renew VAWA this time. “Our calculation was: We’re in charge now. We can pass a bill that we think is a comprehensive bill to protect all women,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters on Tuesday.

While the law is currently expired, Congress will continue to fund all of the bill’s programs through the annual appropriations process whether or not it’s renewed quickly. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the updated VAWA authorizes about $1 billion annually over a five-year renewal period.

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Republicans Voted To Oppose The Violence Against Women Act And People Are Furious

Congress has passed anti-domestic violence laws but 172 Republicans sparked anger by voting against it

People online are expressing their anger after 172 Republicans voted against anti-domestic violence laws in the immediate aftermath of a series of deadly attacks on women.

This act passed after 29 Republicans joined forces with the Democrats, who control Congress, leading the final vote to be 224 to 194.

The Violence Against Women Act creates and supports comprehensive, cost-effective responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking, according to the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

In a statement, they said the group applauds the bills lead sponsors Sheila Jackson , Brian Fitzpatrick and Jerry Nadler , and all those who voted for the VAWAs passage.

The groups president Deborah Vagins said it was a vote to support survivors… that both maintains established protections and resources and expands VAWA to address ongoing gaps in the law.

The pandemic continues to reveal deep racial and gender inequalities that impact survivors lives and jeopardise their safety.

Much has been said about Covid-19 exacerbating already existing societal injustices, such as domestic violence.

However, people were quick to point out the high number of Republicans who did not support the legislation, which many said felt particularly outrageous in light of a mass shooting that killed eight women in Atlanta.

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Suki Waterhouse and Friends Help You 'Find Your Spring' in Shopbop's Spring 2017 Campaign

It’s winter in the real world, but in the fashion world we have moved on to spring and summer.

And there’s no better way to get a sneak peek into what our wardrobe will be when the weather gets warmer than to look at the latest ad campaigns, in which actresses and models collide.

What do you get when you have Brit sisters Suki Waterhouse, Immy Waterhouse and model of the moment Alanna Arrington all modeling for you? The new ‘Find Your Spring’ Shopbop campaign that centers on female friendship, girl power at its best and a look at the six major spring trends. From ‘Pretty in Pink’ to ‘All Day Lingerie’ Suki and co play dress up in this video but be warn, it will make you dream of warm weather and wishing you are in California!

The new Burberry campaign features shots by photographer Josh Olins of models Amber Witcomb and Tom Fool posing in front of works by iconic British sculptor Henry Moore.

Bella and Anwar Hadid are fronting the Zadig & Voltaire ads. The ads feature the siblings, plus influencer DJ Clara 3000 and model Vera Van Erp, shot in in Paris’s 16th arrondissement. Bella Hadid also joins older sister Gigi in both the Fendi and Moschino spring campaigns.

Lauren Hutton graces the latest campaign for Bottega Veneta, looking every inch the iconic supermodel while carrying the brand’s newest bag, the “City Knot”. Michelle Williams and Jennifer Connelly front the latest Louis Vuitton Series 6 campaign, while Chloë Sevigny looks sultry-chic in J.W.Anderson. And Vittoria Ceretti is officially the model of the moment, landing Bottega Veneta and Fendi, among others.

Look through our gallery to stay up to date on who’s who in the Spring/Summer 2017 fashion campaigns.

Shopbop Spring 2017 Campaign

Shopbop Spring 2017 Campaign Pretty in Pink (Photo: Courtesy of Shopbop)

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Shopbop Spring 2017 Campaign Lingerie Looks (Photo: Courtesy of Shopbop)

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Shopbop Spring 2017 Campaign Tailor Made Looks (Photo: Courtesy of Shopbop)

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Shopbop Spring 2017 campaign Modern American with Suki Waterhouse, Immy Waterhouse and Alanna Arrington

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Burberry February 2017 Campaign

Photographer: Josh Olins for Burberry Models: Amber Witcomb and Tom Fool Inspiration:Iconic British sculptor Henry Moore. The mood is quintessentially British with that Burberry vibe.

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Proenza Schouler Spring Summer 17 Campaign

Proenza Schouler Spring Summer 2017 Campaign Photographer: Zoe Ghertner Stylist: Brian Molloy Models: Natalie Westling and Selena Forrest Inspiration: “We were interested in the idea of movement, of freedom — a spirit we felt would best be captured on video rather than through traditional still photography. Zoe Ghertner shot the video and interpreted the mood and energy of the collection in a way that felt new and exciting to us.”

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Proenza Schouler Spring Summer 2017 Campaign

Proenza Schouler Spring Summer 2017 Campaign Photographer: Zoe Ghertner Stylist: Brian Molloy Models: Natalie Westling and Selena Forrest

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Zadig & Voltaire Spring/Summer 17

Balla Hadid in Zadig & Voltaire Spring/Summer 17 Inspiration: Celebrating youth and rockstar culture.

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Anwar Hadid.

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DJ Clara 3000.

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“BELLA IS ZADIG”, and so are VERA, CLARA and ANWAR. Inspiration: Celebrating forever young & rock.

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Sergio Rossi

Sergio Rossi sr 1 Spring 2017 Campaign Photographer: Charles Petillon Inspiration: Inspired from the most iconic images of the brand and immersed in a summery atmosphere.

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Repossi

Repossi 2017 Photographer: Juergen Teller Model: Julia Nobis Inspiration: Taken in OMA/Rem Koolhaas Villa dall’Ava, the vision is a joint collaboration between Juergen Teller and Repossi’s vision of high-end jewelry.

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Calvin Klein by Appointment

Calvin Klein By Appointment Photographer: Willy Vanderperre Stylist: Olivier Rizzo Inspiration: “Calvin Klein By Appointment 1-14 is very much about celebrating the American woman and American fashion.” Raf Simons, Chief Creative Officer Calvin Klein

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HUGO

HUGO Spring/Summer 2017 Photographer: Harley Weir Models: Anwar Hadid, Soko, Devon Aoki, Luka Sabbat, Alexandra Marzella, Kiki Willems. The Garden, Felix Gesnouin Inspiration: Shot in the Californian desert with a group of established and up-and-coming talents and social media stars.

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Stella McCartney

Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2017 Campaign Photographer: Harley Weir Models: Dilone, Alanna Arrington, Charles Fraser and McKenna Hellam Inspiration: Shot on the grounds of Eileen Grey’s villa, E-1027 in Cote d’Azur in France in celebration of “All is Love”

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Chloé

Chloe Spring/Summer 2017 Campaign Photographer: Charlotte Wales Stylist: Jane How Models: Luna Bijl and Ukrikke Hoyer Inspiration: The Chloé girl harnessing the allure of sisterhood and the spirit of their universe.

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BOSS

BOSS Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Karim Sadli Model: Frederikke Sofie Inspiration: Inspired by David Hockney’s pool series, the clean lines, vivid colors and architectural elements are the inspiration behind the images and for BOSS

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Saint Laurent

Saint Laurent Summer 2017 Photographer: Collier Schorr Stylist: Alastair McKimm Model: Hiandra Martinez Inspiration: Shot just before Anthony Vaccarello’s debut show for Saint Laurent in September.

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Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer 2017 Campaign Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth Model: Vittoria Ceretti Inspiration: Effortless simplicity in a new light

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Balmain

Balmain Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Steven Klein Models: Isabeli Fontana, Natasha Poly, Doutzen Kroes and Jon Kortajarena Inspiration: Normadic Balmain army looking strong and moving through a dreamlike landscape.

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Miu Miu

Miu Miu “Suddenly Next Summer” Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Alasdair McLellan Models: Elle Fanning, Sonia Ben Ammar, Elsa Brisinger, Karen Elson, Birgit Kos, Carolyn Murphy, Mayowa Nicholas, Ellen Rosa, Lara Stone Inspiration: A nod to the carefree and sun soaked beach mood from movies such as “Il Sorpasso” and “Beach Blanket Bingo.”

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Dolce & Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Franco Pagetti Models: Cameron Dallas, Luka Sabbat, Gabriel Kane Day-Lewis, Brandon Thomas Lee and Rafferty Law Inspiration: The dolce vita shot in Capri with millennials

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Dolce&Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Franco Pagetti Models: Zendaya Coleman, Thylane Blondeau and Sonia Ben Ammar Inspiration: The dolce vita shot in Capri with millennials

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Gigi Moschino

Gigi Hadid stars in Moschino’s spring 2017 campaign. (Photo: Moschino)

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Moschino

Moschino spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Steven Meisel Model: Bella Hadid Stylist: Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele Inspiration: Paparazzi!

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Chanel

Chanel spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Karl Lagerfeld Model: Arizona Muse Inspiration: Karl Lagerfeld highlights the evolution of a modern muse, from pop Lolita to cyberpunk. The images are a combination of Lagerfeld’s vision of what is feminine and yet ultramodern.

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Bottega Veneta

Bottega Veneta “Art of Collaborations” spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Todd Hido Model: Lauren Hutton Inspiration: Shot on location at New York’s iconic Modulightor Building, designed by the late architect Paul Rudolph. Todd Hido captures the modernist aesthetic to showcase creative director Tomas Maier’s passion for modernist art and architecture.

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Bottega Veneta “Art of Collaborations” spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Todd Hido Model: Joan Smalls Inspiration: Shot on location at New York’s iconic Modulightor Building, designed by the late architect Paul Rudolph. Todd Hido captures the modernist aesthetic to showcase creative director Tomas Maier’s passion for modernist art and architecture.

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Alberta Ferretti

Alberta Ferretti “Celebrating Sensuality” spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: Carine Roitfeld Models: Irina Shayk, Carolyn Murphy, Vittoria Ceretti, Raquel Zimmermann, Julia Nobis Inspiration: The campaign tells the story about five women in five different festive moments — joy and femininity and fragments of life that show sensuality with glamour, not glitz.

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Dior

Dior “The Women Behind the Lens” spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Brigitte Lacombe Stylist: Karl Templer Models: Ruth Bell, May Bell Inspiration: The first collection under the artistic direction of Maria Grazia Chiuri, this campaign will form a bigger project, photographic work made exclusively by women highlighting Chiuri’s concept of Dior femininity.

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Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton “Series 6” spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Bruce Weber Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé Models: Michelle Williams, Jennifer Connelly, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sasha Lane Inspiration: Bruce Weber captures Nicolas Ghesquière’s favorite heroines in various parts of the Ile Saint Louis in Paris.

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Givenchy

Givenchy spring/summer 2017 Photographers: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott Stylist: Carine Roitfeld Models: Irina Shayk, Mariacarla Boscono, Lea T, Vittoria Ceretti, Faretta Inspiration: Mert and Marcus blends masculine and feminine and classic and chic allures in a double-page spread to demonstrate the principle of duality.

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Gucci

Gucci Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Glen Luchford Creative director/stylist: Alessandro Michele Models: Daisy Cvitkovic, Dwight Hoogendijk, Unia Pakhomova, Douglas Payne, Elibeidy Danis Martinez, Lina Horst, Tessa Bruinsma, Ellen de Weer, Lorens Miklasevics, Olaf Källström, Nick Fortna, Nicole Atieno Inspiration: Shot in Rome, this campaign pays tribute to Cy Twombly, Mario Schifano, and Laura Betti and generations of intellectuals and artists who consider Rome their hometown.

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J.W.Anderson

J.W.Anderson spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Jamie Hawkesworth Stylist: Benjamin Bruno Model: Chloë Sevigny

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Loewe

Loewe spring/summer 2017 Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: Benjamin Bruno Model: Amber Valletta Inspiration: Inspired by Paris’s famous newspaper kiosks and the work of midcentury British florist and author Constance Spry.

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Loewe Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Steven Meisel Stylist: Benjamin Bruno Model: Amber Valetta Inspiration: Inspired by Paris’ famous newspaper kiosks and the work of mid-century British florist and author Constance Spry.

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Versace

Versace “Freedom and Beauty” Spring Summer 2017 Photographer: Bruce Weber Stylist: Jacob K Models: Edie Campbell and Anna Ewers Inspiration: Shot in the Kentucky countryside surrounded by horses, Bruce Weber captures the freedom of summer and the active mood that is the soul of Versace men and women.

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