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by Causes | 3.18.19

Welcome to Monday, March 18th, iPhones and Androids...

Emergency aversion averted?

President Donald Trump issued his first veto late Friday, striking down a resolution that would have terminated his border security emergency order.

Moments after issuing his veto, Trump sent a message to the House of Representatives outlining his reasons:

\"This situation on our border cannot be described as anything other than a national emergency, and our Armed Forces are needed to help confront it.\"

Democrats were quick to condemn Trump's action.

“It is no surprise that the president holds the rule of law and our Constitution in minimal regard,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a statement. “There is no emergency; Congress has refused to fund his wall multiple times; Mexico won’t pay for it; and a bipartisan majority in both chambers just voted to terminate his fake emergency.”

Congress may attempt to override the veto, but based on the 245-182 vote in the House and the 59-41 vote in the Senate, it appears neither chamber has the two-thirds majority needed for a successful override.

Should Congress support Trump's veto?

On the Radar

Graham's Grudge

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blocked a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to be made public after it unanimously passed the House.

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman summarized his objections in a tweet: \"House-passed Mueller resolution should be amended to include appointment of a Special Counsel to: *) Investigate alleged misconduct around the handling of the Clinton email investigation. *) Investigate the abuse of the FISA warrant process against Mr. Carter Page.\"

Graham, a close ally of Trump, argued that “any American out there who did what Secretary Clinton did, you'd be in jail now. The question I want to know is, does anybody other than me believe that?” Should the Mueller report only be made public after a probe into the Justice Department?

Under the Radar

RUH-ROI

Economy-wide inflation in the U.S. increased by 56 percent from January 1998 to December 2018.

The effect on individual products and services was dramatically uneven, however, with TVs becoming significantly cheaper while the cost of hospital services soared.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) produced the following chart using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Commenters offered their own observations, suggesting that these issues are more complex:

Other countries with significantly greater governmental control over healthcare have not experienced similar price inflation.
Tuition price increases have been driven at least in part by a reduction in state education subsidies.

Read the full story, then join the conversation: Is government intervention responsible for rising inflation?

Speed Judiciating

The Senate may soon see the “nuclear option” deployed for the third time in six years, as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is considering a move to shorten debate for lower level judicial and executive branch nominations later this month after senators return from their March recess.

The change would shorten post-cloture debate on nominations to district courts and lower tier executive branch positions (such as a deputy assistant secretary) from a maximum of 30 hours to a limit of two hours. It wouldn’t apply to nominations to the Supreme Court, appeals courts, or Cabinet-level executive branch positions.

Republicans began considering the change during the last Congress in response to what they called obstructionism by Democrats, who increased the use of cloture motions for lower tier Trump administration nominees relative to previous administrations.

How do you feel about the Senate shortening debate on district court and non-Cabinet-level executive branch nominations?

Your Gov at a Glance 👀

The White House: President Trump in D.C.

At 11:30am EDT, the president will receive a briefing on the economic report of the president.
At 12:30pm EDT, the president will have lunch with the vice president.
At 1:45pm EDT, the president will receive his intelligence briefing.
At 5:45pm EDT, the president will attend the Greek Independence Day Celebration at the White House.

The House of Representatives: Out

The House will return Monday, March 25th.

The Senate: Out

The Senate will return Monday, March 25th.

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And, in the End…

Did you wish 50 a happy 60?

On March 18, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act into law, which allowed for the admission of HI as the 50th U.S. state.

Hawaii’s path toward statehood began when Queen Lili’uokalani, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, was overthrown in 1893 by the kingdom’s subjects, U.S. citizens, and foreign residents of Honolulu. A provisional government was formed and lobbied Congress to annex the islands because of their strategic importance but those efforts fell flat with Democratic President Grover Cleveland, who opposed expansionism and colonialism.

During the early 1900s several Hawaiian statehood bills were introduced in Congress, but none gained traction. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, martial law was imposed in Hawaii and the territorial government was suspended indefinitely in favor of military governors who had the power to impose blackouts, curfews, ration food and gasoline, and censor the media and the mail.

After World War II ended, Hawaii’s territorial government was restored in 1946 and momentum for statehood gathered steam with the election of Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, who supported statehood for Hawaii. Efforts to advance a statehood bill through Congress continued to stall until the 1956 election of John Burns as Hawaii’s non-voting delegate to Congress, who helped persuade Southern Democrats ― including then-Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) ― to support Hawaii’s statehood.

How do you feel about Hawaii becoming a state?

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