Agreements. Two days ago i spoke about the portion of this only wit omnibul that funds the department of state and foreign operations. But i also note and i can say this as the most Senior Member of the Appropriations Committee the bill also provides funding for many vital domestic programs that have suffered some very painful cuts in recent years. It provides increased funding for Public Health including mental health. Its going to increase the National Institutes of Health Budget by a billion dollars. In vermont, Rural Health Centers are essential for rural families. This bill includes 700 million more for these Health Centers nationwide. I know how important they are. I remember my first term in the senate helping to start one of our First Community Health Centers in the tiny county of grand isle county. Beautiful archipelago of beauty north of champlain. Some of the hardest hit from sequestration and the bill will help improve these programs by investing nearly a billion dollars. T
Susan collins said she leans no. Theres also additional i a lot of bee searching and wondering about the vote of Lisa Murkowski. But this mccain is out it looks like this thing may be dead or almost dead. Republicans have a few more days. They have another week ultimately to cook Something Else up but it does not look good for them. Well have more ahead tonight including what i think led to this latest failure by the republicans. Heres another piece of news that arose unexpectedly today. Starting this afternoon individual states started putting out out of the blue statements about whether or not theyre election infrastructure had been hacked during the election by the russians. All these different states started one by one making declarations as to whether or not that happened to them this past year. We really didnt know what to make of it. We started to see the statements coming in. We didnt know why it was happening today until god bless wisconsin. The wisconsin statement finally exp
Engaging in spying when theyre following fbi investigative policies and procedures . Well, thats not the term i would use. When it comes to the investigation into the trump campaign, the attorney general was quick to toss around terms like spying. The fbi director wasnt so cavali cavalier. No. I mean, it is so interesting. Were seeing every day, confirmation of things we already knew, but it is nice to get that confirmation. You know, willie, a couple days ago, when the 500 prosecutors said, yeah, he committed obstruction of justice, and wed like the president to be indicted. We knew that, but it sure was nice to hear it from 500 prosecutors, also republicans. Same thing with the fbi director yesterday. Yes, we knew barr was lying. We knew he wouldnt call it spying. He has an audience of one. If your job is to be joe mcarthurs lawyer, thats what youre going to do. He dispassionately shoots holes in the things that the president of the administration says. Fisa surveillance is not spyin
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