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California Preschools Faced 'Raid' Over Mask Policies

Plus: Russian tactics in Ukraine getting uglier, DHS does bulk surveillance of money transfers, Biden's overhyped cryptocurrency order, and more...

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Omnibus talks appear on track; House vote expected Wednesday

WASHINGTON — Top appropriators and congressional leaders are aiming to wrap up omnibus negotiations in time to file the massive spending package in the House as soon as Tuesday, vote on it in that chamber Wednesday and get it through the Senate before Friday at midnight when stopgap funding expires.

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Omnibus talks appear on track; House vote expected Wednesday - Roll Call

Top appropriators and congressional leaders are aiming to wrap up omnibus negotiations so lawmakers can vote this week.

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Uphill climb seen for employment tax credit in omnibus talks

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to restore a pandemic-era tax break for small businesses and nonprofits as part of a massive spending bill taking shape, after Congress stripped the benefit away for the final months of 2021.

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Democrats and Republicans agree on plan to suspend trade relations with Russia and Belarus – as it happened

Lawmakers draft legislation aiming to ‘stop Russia’s unconscionable and unjust war on Ukraine and hold Belarus accountable for its involvement’

The Guardian - US

Uphill climb seen for employment tax credit in omnibus talks - Roll Call

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to restore a pandemic-era employee retention tax break for small businesses and nonprofits.

Roll Call

Senators argue against private facial recognition for unemployment insurance proof of identity

U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) published a letter to the U.S. labor secretary on Feb. 15 arguing against the outsourcing of facial recognition and identity verification for unemployment insurance benefits to the private sector.

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Cannabis advocates push senators to ease draft bill's tax burden - Roll Call

As top Senate Democrats finalize their plan for making marijuana legal nationwide, industry and advocacy groups are urging a lower tax rate.

Roll Call

Declassified documents reveal CIA has been sweeping up information on Americans

Civil liberties watchdogs condemn agency’s collection of domestic data without congressional or court approval or oversight

The Guardian - US

New Report Highlights an Old Problem—the CIA Is Still Snooping on Americans

In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.

Reason

Senators say CIA is collecting Americans’ private data in secret bulk surveillance program

‘The secret nature of the CIA’s activities in PCLOB report raise these very concerns,’ Sens Martin Heinrich and Ron Wyden wrote.

The Independent UK

Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data

Two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee say the CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans

The Independent UK

La criptoindustria está lista para desempeñar un papel más importante en las campañas de mitad de periodo

WASHINGTON— Las elecciones de 2022 pondrán a prueba si el sector de las criptomonedas, cuyo valor se quintuplicó a finales de 2020 y que aumentó gracias a una disposición fiscal promulgada en noviembre, impulsará el gasto para las campañas políticas.

Tribune News Service

Chuck Schumer Urges Senators To Help Finalize Marijuana Legalization Bill He Will File In April

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) asked senators to help them complete the marijuana legalization bill expected to be filed in April.

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Crypto industry poised to play larger role in midterm campaigns

WASHINGTON — The 2022 elections will test whether the cryptocurrency industry, now more than five times its value in late 2020 and fired up by a tax provision enacted in November, will boost spending on political campaigns.

Roll Call

Senate Finance leaders outline mental health legislative timeline - Roll Call

Senate Finance Committee leaders said they aim to put together a bipartisan legislative package addressing mental health.

Roll Call

Crypto industry poised to play larger role in midterm campaigns - Roll Call

The crypto currency industry contributed far more money to candidates in 2021 than in 2019, a sign of its growing market value.

Tribune News Service

IRS use of selfie software is ‘unacceptable’, key Democrat says

A senior Senate Democrat is urging the Internal Revenue Service to abandon the use of a facial recognition software for taxpayers to access their documents online.

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Sen. Chuck Schumer To File Cannabis Legalization Bill In April, Welcomes GOP Support

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and fellow Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)

Tribune News Service

Wyden probes FDA nominee’s views on accelerated drug approvals

WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is pressing the White House’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, Robert Califf, to pledge to crack down on drugmakers’ use of fast-track approval pathways as the nominee seeks the chairman’s support.

Roll Call

Democrats mulling revival of employee retention tax credit - Roll Call

Senators are considering putting the employee retention tax credit back in place after retroactively cutting it off at the end of September.

Roll Call

Wyden probes FDA nominee's views on accelerated drug approvals - Roll Call

Support from Wyden could be crucial to Robert Califf's FDA confirmation amid concerns from other Senate Democrats.

Roll Call

Democrats 'not ready to throw in the towel' on child tax credit - Roll Call

Top Democratic tax writers remained optimistic Thursday about restoring a more generous version of the child tax credit.

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