This Week in a Bunch of Stuff

Yes, Congress is back in session this week. And we also roll into week four of Daily Kos Radio. Time to transition into some new kind of hybrid post, as both time and front page real estate are limited. We'll see what we finally settle on in the future, but for now, we'll wing it like this:

In the House

Returning from recess, the Republican House will seek to fan the flames that died down last week in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act. Just as most of the county has come to grips with the reality of the law's constitutionality, House Republicans will throw a symbolic hissy fit and vote on an as-yet unwritten and as-yet unnumbered bill they're calling the "Repeal of Obamacare Act," but which Dems are calling the, "Patients' Rights Repeal Act." What's in it? I dunno! They dunno! Nobody knows! But it doesn't matter, since the Senate will never pass it, and that suits Republicans just fine, since (for whatever reason) they want to run in November against a still-living ACA. The "repeal" bill will be a two-day affair, followed by the suspiciously-titled "National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act, " which basically declares any mine producing "strategic and critical minerals" (whatever they may be) to be an "infrastructure project" as described in the Presidential Order "Improving Performance of Federal Permitting and Review of Infrastructure Projects." In other words, it's a hurry up the permitting process bill. What a change of pace!

In the Senate

Also returning from a week in recess, the Senate has scheduled a vote on Tuesday on the nomination of John Thomas Fowlkes to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, and then yet another cloture vote, this time on the motion to proceed to consideration of the "Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act."

On the Radio

I'll be browsing the day's news stories and Twitter chatter on Daily Kos Radio all week, Monday through Friday, from 9-11 a.m. EDT, with our regular house call from the Doc, Greg Dworkin (DemFromCT) for a polling update in the 9:00 hour. And starting tomorrow, I'll be followed by an additional hour of Daily Kos programming, with Armando and Jesse LaGreca (Ministry of Truth).

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