Frank Chapman

Dad, Rancher, Attorney

[MLB Scoring Changes @ScoringChanges]

🚨FOURTH OUT MISTAKE!!!🚨

NO WAY!!! @RedSox at @BlueJays and in the 7th Boston has first and third and one out. Ceddanne Rafaela hits a fly to center and both runners forget there was one out and just ran without tagging up. After the ball was caught, the Blue Jays threw the ball in and doubled off the runner at first, for an inning ending double play.

Since the runner from third scored BEFORE the third out, the run counts because this is not a force, but a timing play.

What Toronto SHOULD have done is after the out at first, they legally could have thrown to third and appealed that that runner left early. This would have been the elusive FOURTH OUT and this would have replaced the third out and nullified the run.

Once all the infielders crossed the foul line, the ability to appeal the play was lost, and once that happened, the run was officially counted.

#DieryWater #BlueJays50

[Frank Chapman @FrankChapmanII]

I had the opportunity to meet Todd Blanche at CPAC and have a thoughtful conversation with him about government overreach and the abuse of government power. We are fortunate to have someone in public service who has actually practiced law and understands the justice system.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

My colleague from South Dakota suggests here that the talking filibuster hasn’t been used in a century, and that it was not used to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

He’s mistaken.

As I’ve explained to the entire Senate GOP on multiple occasions, the talking filibuster *was* used effectively to break the weeks-long filibuster mounted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Leader Thune and others point out that the Senate ultimately invoked cloture on the Civil Rights Act, and on that basis wrongly conclude that the talking filibuster was *not* the tool used to achieve that victory.

This argument ignores the fact that this is *how* the Senate closed a staggering 30-vote cloture deficit in 1964. After many weeks of fighting a losing battle, filibustering senators predictably started to lose their resolve to hold up the bill indefinitely, especially when they realized how hard they’d have to work to keep the effort alive.

So they started proposing and supporting amendments to the bill to make it more palatable and help them save face.

I still maintain that this is a viable approach that could work well—even better—in the context of the SAVE America Act, especially considering that the bill is less complicated and less controversial with voters than was the Civil Rights Act, and currently has a cloture deficit of only 10 votes—tiny compared to the 30-vote deficit faced by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

My colleague also mistakenly suggests that Senate Republicans would have to vote to enforce the talking filibuster. That simply isn’t true; no vote is required for this step. All we need is a majority leader willing to announce that we’re getting on the bill and that we will continue to debate it until it passes—all with the understanding that if filibustering senators fail to show up to debate it, we can “call the question” and pass it with a simple majority.

That understanding, in turn, is what motivates the filibustering senators to show up and speak, but it’s also what naturally causes them to tire of the exercise after a few weeks, at which point they start looking for a face-saving off-ramp.

Finally, Leader Thune suggests that the talking filibuster would be thwarted by being “reset” every time Democrats offered an amendment. There’s a valid point in there, but it’s not a good reason not to invoke the talking filibuster. It appears he’s referring indirectly to paragraph 1(a) of Senate Rule 19 (the two-speech rule). While offering a new amendment can create a new question under longstanding practice, the September 25, 1986 precedent narrowed how rigidly the two-speech rule is applied by clarifying that many procedural actions do not count as speeches at all.

Particularly in light of that 1986 clarification, it’s been a long time since I’ve suggested we consider rigid enforcement of Rule 19’s two-speech limit as part of a talking filibuster strategy for the SAVE America Act. We don’t need it!

Nor was that rule aggressively enforced during the Senate’s consideration of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield correctly focused on requiring actual debate from filibustering senators rather than looking for technical ways to shut the debate down.

To give credit where it’s due, I appreciate what Leader Thune said in this interview about the possibility of passing some iteration of SAVE America using budget reconciliation—a procedure in which there is no 60-vote cloture hurdle. I’ve been skeptical of this approach in the past, but I’m starting to believe the SAVE America Act has more budgetary features than I initially considered possible.

That said, reconciliation is fraught with all kinds of problems, challenges, risks, and uncertainties. Also, failure can be far too easy to blame on the parliamentarian.

I’m open to considering the reconciliation path, but we should make this decision with our eyes open. To do that, we need to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the talking filibuster.

[Frank Chapman @FrankChapmanII]

@CPAC https://t.co/kwvR8F7PXh

[CPAC @CPAC]

ENDORSED: Frank Chapman for U.S. Congress (R-WY)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

JD Vance: "Call me crazy, but I think that when we welcome new immigrants to the United States of America, they should be people who enrich our country, and bring some good skills into our country, not a person who's going to steal $15 million."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yes

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Just because AOC, Kerry, or Gore absurdly predict the end of the world is near or some other bonkers climate claim of the day, doesn’t mean the rest of us must play along, or that extreme economic pain should be forced upon Americans who can least afford it. Discussed this and more tonight with @DonaldJTrumpJr on his podcast, Triggered.

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

🚨 SECRETARY MARCO RUBIO JUST TRUTH NUKED THE WHOLE WORLD

"They could make our gas $8 a gallon and we wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING about it!"

"A nuclear-armed Iran could do whatever the HELL they want with the Straits — and there's NOTHING anyone would be able to do about it!"

"And that's one of the many reasons, apart from the massive loss of life and a nuclear strike, why Iran can never have a nuclear weapon."

"I mean, so this is an example of if they had a nuclear weapon, they closed the Straits and they would tell the world, what are you going to do about it?!"

"We have a nuclear weapon, we can attack you with it. That's the world NONE of us want to leave behind."

"It won't happen under this President's watch, but some future President and future Americans will have to deal with this. So just one more example by these guys can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon."

He said it perfectly.

FOLLOW THE SIGNAL

https://t.co/8a4CNpFQpO

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

The Biden years were spent killing pipeline projects. President Trump brought them back to life.

The Biden years were wasted targeting power plants for closure. President Trump has massively reversed the damage.

The Biden years were blown regulating baseload power out of existence. President Trump has been unleashing U.S. energy dominance from day one.

[QUANTUM GUARD ™️ @QuantumGuard17]

🔥 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas just dropped a TRUTH BOMB

“I think if we don't stand up and take OWNERSHIP of our country—and take responsibility for it—we are slowly letting OTHERS control HOW we think and WHAT we think.”

“If you think it's losing confidence, then you get up and you participate. You don't sit on the sidelines!”

This man is a national treasure.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

With great enthusiasm, the Trump EPA ELIMINATED the Obama-era incentive for manufacturers to install the almost universally despised start/stop feature in vehicles. No more climate participation trophies for making vehicles die at every red light and stop sign!

[Frank Chapman @FrankChapmanII]

Smaller Govt!!!

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@KevinHincksCS: "The federal government is down 348,000 jobs. That's an 11.5% cut in the federal workforce. Despite that, jobs are gaining. It's ALL PRIVATE SECTOR. It's quite amazing, actually."

The federal government is the smallest it's been since 1966.

TRUMP EFFECT! 🔥

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@KevinHincksCS: "The federal government is down 348,000 jobs. That's an 11.5% cut in the federal workforce. Despite that, jobs are gaining. It's ALL PRIVATE SECTOR. It's quite amazing, actually."

The federal government is the smallest it's been since 1966.

TRUMP EFFECT! 🔥

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

It’s such a wild reality that we have Members of Congress going apoplectic over an agency head insisting on strictly adhering to the best reading of the law, especially when those Members of Congress haven’t even bothered to first read the law themselves.

[Frank Chapman @FrankChapmanII]

Clueless Pete

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Nice job, Pete.

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

During my travels last year to all 50 states, there was no issue I heard more complaints about than the EPA rules I inherited regarding Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) systems. During my Senate EPW hearing yesterday, @SenDanSullivan and I discussed the tremendous number of actions being taken by the Trump EPA in response (massively reversed deratements, restored “Right to Repair”, collected much needed data from manufacturers, and eliminated DEF sensors). Next, we are about to propose, as part of the upcoming NOx rulemaking, to remove DEF deratements entirely.

[Frank Chapman @FrankChapmanII]

Great move. We can’t own property there!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 HOUSE DROPS A MASSIVE AMERICA-FIRST BOMBSHELL!

US House just PASSED the amendment to the Farm Bill BANNING China, Russia, Iran & other foreign adversaries from buying American farmland.

Over 45 million acres already in enemy hands, NO MORE.

Rep. Steube: “It makes zero sense to let our enemies own AMERICAN land.”
Common sense is BACK. Protecting our soil, our food, our future