The president will be promoting his $2.3tn plan in Dearborn, whose large Arab-American plans to protest against his stance on Middle East strife

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No surprise here: the Biden administration has released a statement of administration policy saying the president supports the bipartisan bill to create a September 11-style commission to study the Capitol insurrection.

The attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on our democracy, an effort to undo the will of the American people and threaten the peaceful transition of power.

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House minority leader Kevin McCarthy’s decision to oppose a bill that one of his members, John Katko, helped craft may deter other congressional Republicans from working with Democrats, as a New York Times reporter noted.

Larger issue w Katko on 1/6 commission – or Scott and Bass on policing + Capito on infrastructure- is that you can’t recruit and retain good members if they not truly empowered. You can be assured that other members will see this, find it demoralizing

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Source: The Guardian