IT: Live read of Dem's $1.9T COVID relief package, and... 🏛 Should the Capitol add an RBG monument?

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Former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao is accused of abusing her power to help her family and her family’s business and charitable interests, according to an Inspector General's report.

Investigators from the Transportation Department’s (DOT) internal watchdog referred the case to the Justice Department for prosecution in December, asking Trump's DOJ to criminally investigate Chao.

“A formal investigation into potential misuses of position was warranted,” deputy inspector general Mitch Behm wrote in a letter to lawmakers released Wednesday.

However, the review found no “factual basis” for investigating whether Chao awarded federal grants to benefit Kentucky, which her husband, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, represents in the Senate.

Should Chao be prosecuted?

COVID-19 Relief Package Live Read

Senators and interested members of the general public have the opportunity to listen to a reading of Democrats’ 628-page substitute amendment to the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package while the chamber is in session Thursday, and perhaps into Friday morning.

The reading comes at the request of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) who said:

Whenever the reading of the bill ends, the Senate will begin up to 20 hours of debate on the package. 

How do you feel about the bill being read aloud on the Senate floor?

RBG Monument

Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to build a monument to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on Capitol Hill.

Many regard Justice Ginsberg, who passed in 2020, as a feminist icon for her work on gender discrimination as co-founder of the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU.

Do you support building a monument to RBG?

And, in the End…

Poutine on the ritz for National Poutine Day.

How good can poutine be? I once travelled from L.A. to Toronto just to get vegan poutine. Was it worth the trip? Oh, my, no. But if you haven't tried the Canadian delicacy - fries smothered in gravy and topped with cheese curds - head to the great white north today,

—Josh Herman

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