A fight nearly broke out during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, or HELP, committee hearing on Tuesday after Senator Markwayne Mullin read aloud a union boss’s tweet snubbing the freshman Oklahoma congressman as a “clown” and a “fraud.”“Sir, this is a time, this is a place, if you want to run your mouth we can be two consenting adults and finish it here,” Mullin said.“OK, that’s fine. Perfect,” responded International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien. “You w
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Genetics testing firm 23andme is facing intensifying scrutiny in the wake of a credential stuffing hack that leaked genetic ancestry information of potentially
he also became chair of the powerful armed services committee. - i think we would rather have our enemies die than our troops. - where he was such a good friend to defense contractors, he developed a lovely reputation. - third name, senator jeffords. senator jeffords was the chairman of the senate help committee, which is in charge of higher education. - jim jeffords, best known for switching parties in 2001 and swinging control of the senate to the democrats, as well as for being part of the hottest act to ever grace a stage. all: every heart beats true for the red, white, and blue where there s never a boast or brag - he is actually on record talking about this provision at the very end of the process. and he acknowledges that some people are disappointed that it s in the bill, but that it was needed to help pay for the overall cost of the bill. - wait, jeffords says that? - jeffords says this. - so he s basically defending the bill publicly? - he is defending the bill, and
- with my search hitting a wall, i needed new leads and a drink. i feel i feel a little stuck, honestly. what s what s new on your end on this? - you know, i hit a bunch of people in my network. i knew a few people who were working on the committees at the time. - these are, like, aides who were working on the house education - house education and workforce committee, senate help committee you know, yielded some interesting results. so one, you know, we talked about how this is a big bipartisan bill, everyone wanted to see it go. but there was a quest to try to find you know, pay-fors. - wait. hold on. what do you mean by pay-fors? what does that mean? - places where they could save money, cut federal spending, in order to pay for new spending on something else. - i see. - so it wasn t to drive this policy. it was, they were looking for money to pay for the bill. one of the places they go for ideas is the clinton administration. it turns out, the clinton administration actually inclu