Thanks, that’s nice to hear from a fellow longtimer.

Yeah no

Below are all the GOP lawmakers that voted against that bill:

House:

• Representative James Baird of Indiana

• Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio

• Representative Jim Banks of Indiana

• Representative Aaron Bean of Florida

• Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona

• Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida

• Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina

• Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado

• Representative Mike Bost of Illinois

• Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma

• Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee

• Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri

• Representative Kat Cammack of Florida

• Representative Michael Cloud of Texas

• Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia

• Representative Mike Collins of Georgia

• Representative Eli Crane of Arizona

• Representative John Curtis of Utah

• Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio

• Representative Byron Donalds of Florida

• Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina

• Representative Ron Estes of Kansas

• Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi

• Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa

• Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota

• Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota

• Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina

• Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho

• Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida

• Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas

• Representative Bob Good of Virginia

• Representative Lance Gooden of Texas

• Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona

• Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia

• Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia

• Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi

• Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming

• Representative Andy Harris of Maryland

• Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana

• Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio

• Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania

• Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi

• Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois

• Representative Laurel Lee of Florida

• Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona

• Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado

• Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida

• Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas

• Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina

• Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas

• Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky

• Representative Tom McClintock of California

• Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia

• Representative Mary Miller of Illinois

• Representative Max Miller of Ohio

• Representative Cory Mills of Florida

• Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia

• Representative Barry Moore of Alabama

• Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas

• Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina

• Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee

• Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama

• Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania

• Representative Bill Posey of Florida

• Representative John Rose of Tennessee

• Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana

• Representative Chip Roy of Texas

• Representative David Schweikert of Arizona

• Representative Keith Self of Texas

• Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana

• Representative Claudia Tenney of New York

• Representative William Timmons of South Carolina

• Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey

• Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas

• Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin

• Representative Mike Waltz of Florida

• Representative Randy Weber of Texas

• Representative Daniel Webster of Florida

• Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas

• Representative Roger Williams of Texas

• Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana

Senate:

• Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
• Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
• Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
• Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
• Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
• Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
• Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
• Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
• Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
• Senator Mike Lee of Utah
• Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas
• Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
• Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
• Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
• Senator James Risch of Idaho
• Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri
• Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
• Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama

Not entirely sure what you’re getting at. Are you suggesting that Taiwanese Indigenous people might have a problem that the Republic of China (Taiwan) is older than the PRC?

The rescue’s reason:

“LDCRF does not re-home an owner-surrendered dog with its former adopter/owner,” Floyd said in her written statement. “Our mission is to save adoptable and safe-to-the-community dogs from euthanasia.”

Yeah, even Homeland Security acknowledges it too:

“Fundamentally, our system is not equipped to deal with migration as it exists now, not just this year and last year and the year before, but for years preceding us,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in an interview with NBC News. “We have a system that was last modified in 1996. We’re in 2024 now. The world has changed.”

But guess who in Congress don’t want to change that?

The position of Mayorkas and the Biden administration is that these problems can only be meaningfully addressed by a congressional overhaul of the immigration system, such as the one proposed in February in a now defunct bipartisan Senate bill.

“We cannot process these individuals through immigration enforcement proceedings very quickly — it actually takes sometimes more than seven years,” Mayorkas told NBC News. “The proposed bipartisan legislation would reduce that seven-plus-year waiting period to sometimes less than 90 days. That’s transformative.”

These guys:

Now, after a hard-negotiated bipartisan Senate compromise bill has been released, Republicans are either vowing to block it or declaring it “dead on arrival,” in the words of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Can confirm that Chichén Itzá is now roped off. And Yucatán is now the safest state in Mexico:

Mexico’s lowest-crime region is strengthening its reputation as an oasis of calm in a country roiled by drug killings. Yucatán, the southeastern state known for its Mayan ruins, has a homicide rate more than 90% lower than the national average.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-10/how-did-yucatan-become-mexico-s-safest-state

From the article, it’s likely because they live and work in lower income areas:

He said it’s hard to give one reason why Southeast Asians are feeling the brunt of this hate, but he thinks financial status might play a role. A 2020 report by the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center said that all Southeast Asian ethnic groups have a lower per capita income than the average in the U.S.

“It depends on socioeconomics,” Chen said. “Where these people are living, where they’re commuting, where they’re working. That may be a factor as well.”

What you’re saying tracks with the article as well:

Charlene Harrington, a professor emeritus at the nursing school of the University of California-San Francisco, said: “In their unchecked quest for profits, the nursing home industry has created its own problems by not paying adequate wages and benefits and setting heavy nursing workloads that cause neglect and harm to residents and create an unsatisfactory and stressful work environment.”

I don’t think so. There are other important parts in the article:

For the first time, the annual event will also involve troops from the Australian and French military. Fourteen other countries in Asia and Europe will attend as observers. The exercises will run until May 10.

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The 2024 exercises are also the first to take place outside of Philippine territorial waters.

“Some of the exercises will take place in the South China Sea in an area outside of the Philippines’ territorial sea. It’s a direct challenge to China’s expansive claims” in the region, Philippine political analyst Richard Heydarian told DW.

He added that some of the exercises this year will also be close to Taiwan.

This year’s exercises have a “dual orientation pushing against China’s aggressive intentions both in the South China Sea but also in Taiwan,” he added.

According to ProPublica, it’s commonly done using Leahy Laws:

The recommendations came from a special committee of State Department officials known as the Israel Leahy Vetting Forum. The panel, made up of Middle East and human rights experts, is named for former Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chief author of 1997 laws that requires the U.S. to cut off assistance to any foreign military or law enforcement units — from battalions of soldiers to police stations — that are credibly accused of flagrant human rights violations.

…

Over the years, hundreds of foreign units, including from Mexico, Colombia and Cambodia, have been blocked from receiving any new aid. Officials say enforcing the Leahy Laws can be a strong deterrent against human rights abuses.

https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

Oh you mean the post summary. Yeah, that’s the article’s verbatim linked URL. Check the article’s source and see for yourself.

In any case, thanks for pointing that out. I’ve stripped the tracker link and updated the post summary portion.

Huh? That’s the exact same link as the post’s.

Wow the ads. I assumed everyone was already using some sort of ad blocker.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/7mQ8M

FWIW the most recent analysis I came across from a law professor makes me think the emergence of the “major questions doctrine” is more concerning:

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the US Supreme Court will decide whether to overrule one of its most frequently cited precedents—its 1984 opinion in Chevron v. NRDC. The decision in Loper may change the language that lawyers use in briefs and professors use in class, but is unlikely to significantly affect case outcomes involving interpretation of the statutes that agencies administer. In practice, it’s the court’s new major questions doctrine announced in 2021 that could fundamentally change how agencies operate.

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I am much more concerned about the court’s 2021 decision to create the “major questions doctrine” and to apply it in four other cases than I am about the effects of a potential reversal of Chevron in Loper. Lower courts are beginning to rely on the major questions doctrine as the basis to overturn scores of agency decisions. That doctrine has potential to make it impossible for any agency to take any significant action.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/courts-new-chevron-analysis-likely-to-follow-one-of-these-paths

No, the case is still pending: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2023/22-451

So cool!

Good call. Thanks for letting me know.

It wasn’t me!