Ben Ray Luján’s Stroke Shows the Fragility of Democrats’ Senate Majority MSN – Mike DeBonis (Washington Post) | Published: 2/2/2022 For months, Senate Democrats have quietly pondered an improbable but not unthinkable scenario, that their razor-thin majority, secured only by the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Harris, could be suddenly upended by the absence, incapacitation, or death of a single senator. [read post]

Liz Harris’s repeated statements that she did not know what Jacqueline Breger was going to say at a special election hearing appeared to be contradicted by a series of text messages the Ethics Committee released. [read post]

Following Vice President Harris’s June 7 visit to Guatemala, Giammattei will discuss Guatemala’s economic recovery, migration, corruption and U.S. [read post]

The subcommittee will hear testimony from Monika Bickert, vice president for content policy at Facebook; Lauren Culbertson, head of U.S. public policy at Twitter; Alexandra Veitch, director of governmental affairs and public policy for the Americas and emerging markets at YouTube; Tristan Harris, co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology; and Joan Donovan, the research director for the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. [read post]

Table 1: Selected County and Municipal Rental Car Excise Taxes State Locality Car Rental Excise Tax  Funding Purpose Alaska Anchorage 8% City general fund Arizona Maricopa County (Phoenix) The greater of 3.25% or $2.50 per rental Glendale Stadium; youth & amateur sports Arizona Pima County (Tucson) $3.50 Kino Sports Complex Colorado Denver 7.25% Colorado Convention Center Georgia Atlanta 10% State Farm Arena Illinois Chicago 6% and 9% transaction tax (a) City general fund Indiana Marion… [read post]