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Some Regular Order would be nice. Some of the stories sound like stories from when my daughter was in middle school.

I was curious where the safe and secret place was 9 miles away……. According to an account from Pleasanton (taken 34 years later), it was a vacant gristmill on the Virginia side of the Potomac. He later moved them to a cellar of an abandoned house in Leesburg.

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/rescue-of-the-papers-of-state-during-the-burning-of-washington

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Sep 20, 2023·edited Sep 20, 2023

I guess I need a Civics refresher. How can the Senate propose a funding bill? I thought all spending/budget bills had to originate in the House. (And even if the Senate passes such a bill, why would we expect the House to do anything with it?)

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Is McCarthy the weakest Speaker ever?

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"blasted the Pentagon for repeatedly slow-walking ..... they sent nobody to help my men .... faulted lapses in intelligence warnings from the FBI and other federal agencies .... "

Somewhere in there is the truth - that whomever was at the top of this wanted the Capitol to be attacked and Trump to be re-installed as "President". Good luck untangling that one.

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