Policy editor @punchbowlnews. Former @washingtonpost, @politico, @reuters and @cqnow. Proud husband of @mlchadbourn.

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Joined April 2010
JUST IN: President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have cast their ballots early in person in Palm Beach County, Florida, with just 10 days until the midterm elections. Trump is now preparing to head to Georgia for a campaign rally, followed by Michigan on Sunday.
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NEW: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, top Dem permitting negotiator and EPW Committee ranker, reacts to my scoop on Trump admin moving 2 wind projects, telling me: “It’s a start, but we are going to need to see a lot more from the administration on wind and solar.”
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SCOOP: The Trump admin is easing its blockade on wind projects as it looks to motivate Democrats to support the Senate’s bipartisan permitting reform bill. A White House official told me DOD has advanced 2 projects in Maine & SD with more to come. Text subscribers got it 1st!
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SCOOP: The Trump admin is easing its blockade on wind projects as it looks to motivate Democrats to support the Senate’s bipartisan permitting reform bill. A White House official told me DOD has advanced 2 projects in Maine & SD with more to come. Text subscribers got it 1st!
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Beam me up, Karen.
People who have been around politics a long time may be struck as I was by the sheriff's signature on this arrest warrant for Amy Acton's stepfather, who at the time was a fugitive. Does the name James Traficant ring a bell?
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News in @PunchbowlNews PM: Dem @RepAdamGrayCA is joining an event in his battleground district w/@ShopFloorNAM today to tout the Senate’s bipartisan permitting reform bill. The event is happening at West-Mark, a manufacturer of tank trailers & specialty transport equipment
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I’m very excited to share that I’ve joined @PunchbowlNews where I’ll be covering healthcare policy on the hill. I can’t wait to get started with this impressive team! Add me to your press lists and reach out for coffee: [email protected]
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More on Big Greens getting off sidelines on permitting in our PM edition. “I was disappointed they did not acknowledge any of the benefits to transmission and renewables from the scaling back of environmental laws,” one executive at another green group told me. ENGOs divided
The Natural Resources Defense Council is calling for “significant improvements” to the Senate’s bipartisan permitting bill to earn its support, adding another headache for negotiators who want to limit changes. punchbowl.news/article/energ…
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It will be a good time to be Lisa Murkowski next year. She's positioned to take over top R on either HELP, or if Collins loses, Approps w/ @AnthonyAdragna @sn_handler punchbowl.news/article/senat…
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News w/ @JakeSherman: Rep. Waters (D-Calif.) hosted a three-hour whip call Thursday to plot her leadership race strategy for Financial Services. Inner circle on the call: Gottheimer (N.J.), Pressley (Mass.), Beatty (Ohio), Sherman (Calif.), Cleaver (Mo.), Garcia (Texas) Text>>
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NEW: Trump's offshore wind attack scares House Dems. I caught up w/Reps. Sean Casten and Mike Levin, influential clean energy hawks, who are seeking changes to the Senate permitting bill and indicated their distrust of the admin is only growing. For @PunchbowlNews Midday
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Scoop: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif) asked Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) to be her co-whips for her race to remain top Democrat on the Financial Services panel, sources tell us Gottheimer and Pressley are key moderate / progressive HFSC voices
News: Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) is weighing his own bid to be the next top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee – the latest potential challenge to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). Confirming @Jasper_Goodman
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NEWS: Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich in a joint statement react to Trump admin revisiting Revolution Wind permit: “We need to get permitting certainty in law, and this proves it. In the meantime, the administration needs to start showing good faith progress on wind permits”
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SCOOP: Sean Casten (D-Ill.) told Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Tuesday he planned to run to be the top Democrat on the House Financial Service Committee for the 120th Congress. The conversation marks the unofficial kickoff for a committee race with big stakes. PBN TEXTS>>>
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“I’m a missionary here.” After her husband became speaker three years ago, Kelly Johnson reoriented a religious nonprofit she was running in Louisiana into a ministry focused on “the hundreds of unreached young women” working around Capitol Hill. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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NEW in @PunchbowlNews PM: Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman tells me in an interview he is fully behind the Senate's permitting bill, providing a key House boost. “We’re in a really good spot right now, and I look forward to getting this across the finish line."
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News: DOJ is seeking a federal criminal indictment of former WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress in her Jan. 6 testimony DOJ's Civil Rights Division brought evidence to a federal grand jury on Tuesday and is expected to present more evidence and additional witnesses later this month, per sources familiar with the plans. Hutchinson has not been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, per the sources MORE to come on this news from me and @bresreports in @PunchbowlNews Midday. Text subscribers got it first
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NEWS: Democrats lay out additional expectations for Trump to live up to pledge to end his blockade of wind and solar project approvals as part of permitting deal. They want administration officials to PUBLICLY commit to quickly start approving projects upon enactment of the bill
Senate Democrats are starting to lay out additional expectations for the Trump administration to fulfill its commitment to end its blockade of wind and solar project approvals. @SiegelScribe with the details: punchbowl.news/article/energ…
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Inbox news. Ways and Means’ top Democrat Richie Neal doesn’t support Treasury’s latest changes to Trump Accounts. Neal says in emailed statement that the updated rules, which allow the donation of individual stocks into kids’ accounts, could be ripe for grifting. Here’s Neal:
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NEWS here - GUTHRIE said he supports a KILL SWITCH for AI models "That's certainly one thing we absolutely need to do," he said. "If [a model] goes rogue, you can stop it"
Replying to @PunchbowlNews
Our first-ever Tech Summit brings together the policymakers who write the rules and the technologists building what comes next. First on stage, @RepGuthrie @RepTedLieu join @JakeSherman for a wide-ranging conversation.
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