Nathaniel Reed

Senior Congressional Correspondent @ScrippsNews / Chair @RTCACapitolHill / Speaker Pelosi: "a good candidate" to move to Alcatraz / [email protected]

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

NEW: Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI), one of 4 GOP Reps to vote in favor of today's successful Iran War Powers resolution, told me LIVE on @scrippsnews that he's not worried about backlash from Pres. Trump: "I vote my conscience for what I think is right. And willing to accept that."

[Meredith Lee Hill @meredithllee]

🚨🚨 215-208, House passes Iran war powers resolution in major rebuke of President Trump

Four Republicans broke with him to vote yes:

Brian Fitzpatrick
Tom Barrett
Warren Davidson
Thomas Massie

Dems let out cheers after it passed

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

Good chance that some of these amendments could pass.

If they do, President Trump would be faced with option of vetoing the bill, which mostly aims to fund ICE/CBP.

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

More proposed amendments from Sen. Cassidy:

An amendment "to prohibit agreements preventing tax audits of the President."

An amendment "to provide compensation to law enforcement officers who defended the United States Capitol ... on January 6, 2021"

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

Vote-A-Rama amendment list, as of 4:50pm, obtained by me/ @scrippsnews:

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

NEWS: As Vote-A-Rama nears, Senate expected to take multiple votes on Anti-Weaponization fund:

Amendments include Sen. Cassidy: "To prohibit payments from the ... Fund"

Sen. Tillis: "To reallocate funds that would have been used for the ... Fund to fraud enforcement."

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

More proposed amendments from Sen. Cassidy:

An amendment "to prohibit agreements preventing tax audits of the President."

An amendment "to provide compensation to law enforcement officers who defended the United States Capitol ... on January 6, 2021"

[Jacob Gardenswartz @reporterjacobg]

Meanwhile, Trump moments ago declined to say the fund had been dropped altogether: “I love it. I think it’s so important.”

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

Thune adds, however, that he’s still hoping Senate GOP can “maintain the necessary number of votes to beat back amendments that would undermine the purpose of the bill”

“[H]opefully will be able to do that,” he tells me @scrippsnews (2/2)

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

New: Senate Majority Leader Thune doesn’t seem particularly confident he can keep an anti-weaponization amendment out of the bill, telling me @scrippsnews “it's not a process that lends itself to predicting with great certainty how things are going to go” (1/2)

[Jacob Gardenswartz @reporterjacobg]

NEWS: Pentagon, State & USAID watchdogs to conduct inquiry into Iran war -- as mandated by law for any conflict that stretches beyond 60 days. Apparent rebuke of Trump admin's legal argument that hostilities ended in April.
https://t.co/NYSjcSTs35
1/2

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

.@dan_scully1: “Brennan it’s not even 5pm yet”

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

Spotted: @brennanleach demolishing Russell Senate Office Building brick-by-brick

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

MCCONNELL warning on Bill Pulte as acting DNI:

“Very few Senate-confirmable positions come with statutory eligibility requirements. There are good reasons why the Director of National Intelligence is one of them…no nominee who falls short of this requirement will earn my vote”

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

Warren aide to @mkraju, after a gaggle outside Senate finance: “What’s your name?”

[Steven Dennis @StevenTDennis]

🚨👀

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

Proud to chair @RTCACapitolHill, and deeply grateful to @cspan for their steadfast coverage and commitment to gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate and House floor

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

WATCH: The first day of @cspan’s daily coverage of the U.S. Senate was 40 years ago today: June 2, 1986!

Still serving 40 years later?

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who spoke & presided!

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), but he spoke on floor another day

https://t.co/5hdaS69J9D

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

Thune tells reporters on Pulte:
"We don't need a weaponized DNI, we need professionals there. I just heard about it, trying to get more information"
"If he's somebody we want in that position permanently, he's got a lengthy road ahead of him"

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

NEW: President Trump has endorsed Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) who hasn't voted on Capitol Hill since March 5.

His office has repeatedly declined to give details on the prolonged absence, and told reporters the 57-year-old Congressman is dealing with a "personal health condition"

[Nathaniel Reed @ReedReports]

@AllisonMPecorin @LukeEOrr Can the third book be called 'Toby Tracks Vote-A-Rama Amendments'?