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Bureau: Washington
The Senate passed the 10-day FISA patch by unanimous consent. The House clerk has the 20 names. April 30 is when Congress has to decide whether it can still legislate surveillance during wartime.
The fifth public revision of the war's stated aims arrived by phone. The counterparty rebutted it on the record the same afternoon.
Twenty-four hours after 50,000 federal workers were reclassified under Schedule F, no union filed a lawsuit — the policy class became a personnel class without a legal challenge.
Two days after Rep. Yassamin Ansari filed six articles including the first war-crimes charge against a sitting cabinet official, the cosponsor list remains Democrats only.
Rep. Jared Golden of Maine's 2nd District cast the deciding vote that killed the Iran War Powers resolution 213-214 — the Marine veteran's last term will be remembered for it.
No AUMF, no War Powers resolution advanced, and a ten-day FISA patch — fifty-nine days into an Iran war that has outlived its statutory clock by nine hours a day.
Trump said Friday morning that US and Iran are very close and that talks may resume this weekend; by close, oil was down nine percent and no meeting had been announced.
HB1515 died in a Virginia committee in February; this week, three county boards put its language on local zoning agendas, citing Maine. Federalism has dropped another layer.