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Deadly Pot Shop Robberies Underline the Need for Marijuana Banking Reform While the Senate Dithers

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer worries that approving the SAFE Banking Act would make broader changes less likely.

Reason

Trump dominates GOP field, leading Biden and Harris in poll for 2024 matchup

Former president remains dominant over presumed 2024 GOP field

The Independent UK

Health budget 2022 spends a little on favoured interest groups but misses a chance for real reform

The 2022 budget is an election-year budget. So stakeholders have been pushing their wheelbarrows up the hill to Parliament House to lobby for extra largesse to flow their way.

The Conversation

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"11 Political Parties in [Ukraine] That Are Linked to Russia Will Be Banned"

The Hill (Olafimihan Oshin) reports, citing the Washington Post: "Given the full-scale war waged by the Russian Federation and the ties of some political structures with this state, any activity of a number of political parties during the martial law is suspended," Zelensky said during his address…. The 11 banned…

Reason

‘Mosquito in a nudist colony’: Republican Ron Johnson targets Fauci and Hunter Biden

Wisconsin senator says if GOP retakes control it will use committees to move against Democrats and Biden

The Guardian - US

View from The Hill: SA result is morale boost for Albanese, but he's struggling with Kitching allegations

Move over Mark McGowan and make some space for South Australia’s Peter Malinauskas on Scott Morrison’s recently-installed couch of Labor “besties”.

The Conversation

Texas lawmaker says Russia’s arrest of WNBA star Brittney Griner was ‘targeted and purposeful’

‘I’m obviously concerned and believe the actions of the [Russian] Federal Customs officers was unnecessary’

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YouTube Won't Distinguish Between Misinformation and Reporting, So It Suspended My Channel

The platform punished The Hill's morning show, Rising, for showing a clip of Trump speaking.

Reason

Parties clash over unionizing Hill staff at House hearing - Roll Call

While Chair Zoe Lofgren urged Congress to keep its “promise,” ranking member Rodney Davis called it “unworkable” and “impractical.”

Roll Call

Liquor Stores In US And Canada Stop Selling Russian Vodka As 'Tiny Sanction' Over Ukraine Invasion

In perhaps a display of amity, several liquor stores and bars across the U.S and Canada have refused to sell Russian Vodka, according to The Hill.

Benzinga

Hill union backers should keep momentum going, Levin says

WASHINGTION — As observers speculate about what a unionized congressional staff might look like — Will any Republican offices organize? How will collective bargaining work? — the sponsor of the House resolution to authorize organization efforts is urging everyone to take one step at a time.

Tribune News Service

Networking hasn’t bounced back from COVID-19. This Hill staffer has an app for that - Roll Call

Only people with house.gov or senate.gov email addresses will be able to use the app at first, though the creator hopes to expand.

Roll Call

‘Eyes on the prize’: Hill union backers should keep momentum going, Levin says - Roll Call

The sponsor of a House resolution to authorize staff union organization efforts is urging everyone to take one step at a time.

Roll Call

Biden needs a Trump substitute

Biden advisers and Hill allies believe voters are more likely to side with the president if he's compared to an alternative.

Axios

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Prof. Jonathan Turley (GW) on the Trump Civil Incitement Opinion

From today's item in The Hill: When Trump's lawyers said his language was largely indistinguishable from that of many Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Mehta chided them for playing "a game of what-aboutism." That "what-aboutism," however, is precisely the point. The selective imposition of liability for speech is the…

Tribune News Service

Faye Flam: New COVID variants complicate the question of vaccine mandates

Post-infection immunity might be a strange topic for political strife, but it touches on COVID vaccine mandates and whether those who’ve had the virus should be exempt. And so when publications such as The Hill run headlines such as “CDC Finally Recognizing Natural Immunity – Legislators should Follow,” it carries…

Roll Call

Capitol Police briefing Hill staff on potential trucker rally in DC - Roll Call

Capitol Police are briefing congressional staff on Friday on planning efforts regarding a potential trucker convoy protest in D.C.

ABC News

Dear White Staffers is lifting the lid on the reality of life as a congressional staffer working on Capitol Hill

A viral Instagram account that started as a feed of political memes is now lifting the lid on a lack of diversity and allegations of exploitation and abuse among staffers at Capitol Hill.

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Hill staffers are organizing. What could their unions look like?

WASHINGTON — Inspired by an anonymous Instagram account and disgusted by bad pay and worse bosses, congressional staffers have begun the uncertain journey toward unionizing.

Roll Call

Staffer unions could force some lawmakers to walk the walk or face hypocrisy talk - Roll Call

“This is, for Dems on the Hill, a ‘what side are you on?’ moment,” said one strategist, alluding to a pro-union song popularized by Pete Seeger.

Roll Call

Hill staffers are trying to unionize. What could that look like?

“You’d need to talk to a labor lawyer who specializes in Congress, which I don’t think exists,” said one Hill-watcher.

The Independent UK

Dear White Staffers: Mystery Instagram account reveals dirty secrets of Congress

‘However bad people think the financial situation and treatment of Hill staffers is, it’s worse,’ aide says

The Conversation

View From The Hill: Aged care residents are paying for lessons not learned fast enough

Richard Colbeck had to face the music this week over attending the fifth test in his home state of Tasmania when he’d told the Senate COVID committee he was too busy working on the Omicron wave spreading through aged care to appear.

Ballotpedia

Heart of the Primaries 2022, Democrats-Issue 8

On Jan. 26, Nina Turner announced she’ll challenge 11th Congressional District incumbent Rep. Shontel Brown (D). Brown defeated Turner in a special primary 50.1% to 44.6% last August. The Hill‘s Julia Manchester described the special primary as “a proxy battle for the Democratic Party establishment and national progressives.”

Tribune News Service

House chiefs try bipartisan experiment: Talking to each other

At first blush, Reps. Joe Wilson and Dan Kildee don’t seem to have much in common. Wilson, a Republican, represents a mostly rural patch of inland South Carolina, while Democrat Kildee’s district of factory towns runs along the Lake Huron waterfront down to the city of Flint, Michigan.

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