Ted McCann

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Ted McCann

Ted McCann

@TedMcCann2

Catholic, husband to @rachelwagley, father of 5, former @SpeakerRyan, @waysandmeansGOP; Current Co-Founder at CM Strategic

Katılım Aralık 2019
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Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy@SpeakerMcCarthy·
I have known John Leganski for a long time. He was a trusted adviser to me across multiple leadership offices in the House and had a front-row seat to some of the most consequential moments in recent congressional history. I just finished his new book, Glory, Grief, and the Gavel, and can’t recommend it enough. It’s truly an inside look you won’t find anywhere else. Preorder here: amazon.com/Glory-Grief-Ga…
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Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
Can phase IV please refill the strategic oil reserve?
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Rachel Bovard
Rachel Bovard@rachelbovard·
@TedMcCann2 @davidharsanyi I think you understand senate rules, lol. You need a quorum present, which is 51. So yes, in this instance, 51 GOP senators would need to show up on the floor and sit there. I have little sympathy for the argument that this is a bridge too high to surmount.
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Rachel Bovard
Rachel Bovard@rachelbovard·
He’s not referencing the nuclear option. He’s advocating for the senate gop to use the traditional way of ending of a filibuster: making democrats talk until the drop and then putting the question. You’re mocking him for something he’s not suggesting. The “zombie” filibuster is letting Dems vote no on cloture without inflicting the consequences that the rules allow.
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Kyle Pomerleau@kpomerleau·
@ArmandDoma The index (which is good) wouldn't be necessary if the standard dem position was free trade.
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Ted McCann
Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@rSanti97 This is why chapter 9 exists. Alternatively could set up something similar to what we did with Puerto Rico, but that would be more difficult I think if it’s not a territory.
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Santi Ruiz
Santi Ruiz@rSanti97·
So this nightmare comes to your Oval Office desk. You have three options: 1. Bail 'em out. 2. Make creditors eat the loss (bankruptcy). 3. Enforce austerity.
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Santi Ruiz@rSanti97·
You're the president in 2029. The political leadership of Chicago and Illinois are holding an emergency press conference. They're broke. No more money for cops, teachers, trash collectors. The question, from @ProfSchleich: Do you bail them out? statecraft.pub/p/should-the-f…
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Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@PTBwrites I think is for all the new sin industries- gambling etc. I wonder how much of the push for this is dropping fertility/later parenthood. People don’t understand repercussions as well until they actually have kids.
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Patrick T. Brown
Patrick T. Brown@PTBwrites·
When you’re young and single, in other words, your mental framework for drug legalization might revolve around questions of the fairness of the criminal justice system—or simply what constitutes a fun night out. Have kids, and your perspective shifts.
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Patrick T. Brown
Patrick T. Brown@PTBwrites·
Today, at @compactmag: You've probably seem some MAGA-adjacent influencers carping about Congress' "hemp ban" (read: closing a legal loophole that allowed synthetic products stronger than actual weed to be sold at gas stations.) Saying no to drugs is, actually, good policy.
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Ted McCann
Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@Micaheadowcroft I feel like 18 months to 3 years is such a great time period. The transition from baby/toddler to little person is just so much fun to see.
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Ted McCann
Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@conorsen @LPDonovan Daring republicans to get rid of the filibuster when you believe you have a structural electoral disadvantage in taking the senate is a strategy I guess.
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Conor Sen@conorsen·
@LPDonovan We’ve talked about what Dems are getting out of all this and they’re generally happy for Johnson to keep the House shut down indefinitely, right? Might as well let the other guys run out the clock while they hold a trifecta.
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Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
Can someone explain to me why Democrats are daring Republicans to go nuclear right at the Supreme Court may also make it harder for them to retake the House? nytimes.com/2025/10/15/ups…
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Timothy B. Lee
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits·
@lymanstoneky You appear to have three kids? Plane tickets for a family of five is 150 percent more expensive than plane tickets for a childless couple. Plus sharing a hotel room with multiple kids is not very fun. To get a comparable experience you need an Airbnb or similar.
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Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@LPDonovan But if they gave it up preemptively much can’t ask for something when a final deal comes together. Which is why this current shutdown is so dumb.
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Liam Donovan
Liam Donovan@LPDonovan·
This thread does a comprehensive job of laying out chapter and verse for GOP charges re: health care for illegal immigrants. The asks in the Dem CR implicate these sections. You can say it's de minimis. You can say it's bad faith. But why not just disarm the talking point?
Athina Lawson@athina_lawson

Republicans reaffirmed existing law in the reconciliation bill to ensure it is enforced as originally intended — strictly for American citizens — and closed gaps where vague or missing language had created loopholes. This language would be repealed by the Democrats CR. 13/14

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Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@LPDonovan Yes. Once House Rs passed the CR without needing Dem votes this all became academic. Dem's will either cave now or take the pain and cave later.
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Liam Donovan
Liam Donovan@LPDonovan·
This is an important and underrated point. Dems have been benefices of internal GOP conference dysfunction for so long they haven't quite figured out what to do when Rs aren't making wacky demands and/or forming a circular firing squad. Still haven't adjusted to the new normal.
Justin@JustR_02

I am of the opinion that democrats still have not adjusted to the 2025 reality that Trump can get House Rs to pass stuff on their own that they normally wouldn’t. During Obama and the last 2 years of Biden, so much of the Dem leverage came from the inability of House Rs to pass their own bill… why negotiate with people can’t even pass their own product?

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Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@metzgov Huh. Makes his taking a low salary when he was AOC's chief look like he was deliberately trying to avoid disclosing his finances.
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bryan metzger@metzgov·
Saikat Chakrabarti — AOC's fmr chief — isn't like other progressives: He's extremely wealthy. He's worth at least $167 million per his financial dsiclosure. He may be wealthier than Nancy Pelosi, who he's running to unseat in SF. I asked him about that. Here's what he told me:
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Ted McCann@TedMcCann2·
@TomRodriguezDC @SeanTrende Self-interestedly I think that’s a good one. More broadly I would do something on Yglesias’s concept of a ‘secret congress.’ There are a ton of pieces of legislation that are very substantive but that don’t have political salience so you end up being able to make real reforms
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Tom Rodriguez
Tom Rodriguez@TomRodriguezDC·
@SeanTrende The passage of the First Step Act compared to other criminal justice reform measures like the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015
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Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende·
So I taught Intro to Public Policy last semester and students really liked it. They especially liked a case study I did comparing ClintonCare's failure to Ocare's passage. Wondering what other policy process case studies I could do. Obviously CRA 1964 is a good one. Others?
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Michael Duncan@MichaelDuncan·
Wordle 1,501 4/6 #TEMWC ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en·
Only @DouthatNYT could find the faithful Catholic professor of religious studies who started studying UFOs because she noticed similarities between accounts of UFO sightings and accounts of visions by Medieval nuns.
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