Chris Nehls

Senior advisor Amer. Governance Institute. back from 🇯🇵 Congressional reform, democracy. Home cook. 🏀. US History PhD. #LGM. #Wahoowa.

[Chris Nehls @Nehlsie]

This is why sports have collective bargaining agreements

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

Nick Saban says "multiple transfers have a negative effect" besides exceptions for graduate transfers

"Unlimited transfers creates free agency"

"We have nothing to control agents, we have nothing to control tampering"

"Absolutely not what any of us signed up for"

[Chris Nehls @Nehlsie]

The best part of my post-academic life is mine is mostly literary novels

[the hot dam historian (phd) @hotdamhistorian]

i get that

[Daniel Schuman @danielschuman]

Thank you @pkcapitol and @the535news for having me on to talk about this week's Legislative Branch Approps markup, funding levels for Congress, and the recent Member pay court decision.

[Samantha Handler @sn_handler]

Next week the House Approps Committee will mark up a bill that would cut the GAO by $200 million.

[Kevin McNellis @kevin_mcnellis]

Funding ICE through reconciliation is worse than it looks. Past reconciliation bills added to agencies' annual appropriations. The Senate bill fund ICE's operations through the end of Trump's term.

@ScottLevy47 and I explain why this is an congressional abdication /1

[Daniel Schuman @danielschuman]

Rep. Posey was responsible for a major technological innovation in the House, pushing for what became the comparative print project, whereby it's possible to see in real time how an amendment changes a bill and a bill would change the law.

[Jay @gaiaslastlaugh]

Tell me you've never used a Japanese website without telling me you've never used a Japanese website

[Gabby Birenbaum @birenbomb]

A relevant Texas image today: President George W. Bush and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston at the signing of the 2006 Voting Rights Act Reauthorization

The 25-year reauth extended key VRA provisions including Section 5 (preclearance), and passed unanimously in the Senate

[Daniel Schuman @danielschuman]

Tomorrow the House's Legislative Branch Appropriators will vote on a congressional funding bill that is unbelievably bad for Congress. How bad, you ask?

[Chris Nehls @Nehlsie]

The House FY2027 Legislative Branch Appropriations bill reinserts language prohibiting GAO from enforcing the Impoundment Control Act. Senate stripped it in '26. Also cuts $150 m from GAO

[Chris Nehls @Nehlsie]

Ah, the 90s, when nobody was mean or depressed or forced in the closet.

[Jean Twenge (author of 10 RULES, GENERATIONS) @jean_twenge]

Fascinating new poll: Not only is Gen Z pessimistic, but nearly half wish they lived in the past -- specifically the 90s, before smartphones and social media.
https://t.co/LeUzOgOnWc

[The American Prospect @TheProspect]

The Trump administration has routinely taken money expressly authorized for any number of activities and diverted it to ICE’s mass deportation schemes. https://t.co/FfF8YWGzMZ

[Chris Nehls @Nehlsie]

I was told of the great Boomer retirement wave that would create bountiful TT jobs back in 1999

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Wow: "Welcome to gerontocracy in the academy. Graying profs are an extreme instance of a national syndrome...Between 2000 and 2010, the # of faculty over the age of 65 doubled...The arts-and-sciences faculty at Harvard had more tenured faculty over 60 than under 50.": https://t.co/5avk52ajz8

[Metsmerized Online @Metsmerized]

When we said confidently, “it couldn’t be worse than the Wilpon era”

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

🚨 THIS IS INSANE.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights.

Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick's sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar.

The firm told clients it had "capacity to trade up to several hundred million" in these claims.

They confirmed at least one $10 million trade was already executed as of July 2025. They said they expected that number to "balloon in the coming weeks." That was 9 months ago.

Today those claims are worth 100 cents on the dollar. The refund portal is live, $166 billion in refunds are being processed.

If Cantor bought $100 million in refund rights at 25 cents on the dollar, they spent $25 million.

They now collect $100 million from the government. That is a $75 million profit. A 300% return.

If they scaled to "several hundred million" as they told clients they could, the profits run into the hundreds of millions.

Howard Lutnick was the architect of the tariff policy.

He pushed Trump to impose them. He fought against officials who wanted to limit them. Then he left Cantor Fitzgerald to his sons and transferred his equity into a trust benefiting them.

Tax free under government ethics rules. He received $360 million from the buyout.

His sons positioned the firm to profit from the exact policy their father built.

Their father publicly championed tariffs he knew could be struck down while his sons were buying refund claims betting they would be.

[Chris Nehls @Nehlsie]

Somebody pls hire me to be an Asian scout

[MLB @MLB]

MUNETAKA MURAKAMI GRAND SLAM!

[Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress @saikatc]

Way more Dems than Golden want to continue this war. But they know it's politically toxic to vote for this war.

So Dem leadership gets Golden to be the one vote to make sure this fails. He's not running for re-election, so he has nothing to lose. That's how this works.

[craig newmark @craignewmark]

After 10 years and nearly 150 fellows placed on the Hill, @congressfellows continues to strengthen technical expertise in Congress. Check out this @inc profile on how TechCongress supports legislators writing the rules on technology: https://t.co/IOznvu69hS

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

“Let the president of the United States stick to dictating American public policy .” 🤔

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

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