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A few hours ago, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the Alaska Peninsula, just south of Sand Point. Local residents and summer visitors alike were able to evacuate thanks to federal tsunami advisories relayed through local public broadcasting stations. That’s the real world.

Dems (& some R's) have warned that the rescissions package could mark the end of bipartisan appropriations on Capitol Hill That's fine with OMB director Russ Vought “The appropriations process has to be less bipartisan,” he told reporters this AM politico.com/live-updates/2…

Vought said this week that the funding "has to flow" if the rescissions aren't passed before Saturday. "If we're outside of the 45-day window, we have to remove our hold on the money, so we will not implement the cuts if this vote doesn’t go our way." But who knows...

An Approps Committee aide tells me this plaque is not "new." It was lost and recently found. It has been around for years, but it has not been on the dais recently.

House Republicans also inserting language in their Interior-Environment spending bill calling for an “all of the above” energy strategy. That has been a GOP mantra, but appears to run counter to Trump administration goals of waylaying solar/wind. Energy Secretary Chris Wright

Prescient, from Shel Silverstein in 1981

And DOE just announced it has terminated its conditional loan commitment for the Grain Belt Express, one of the largest transmission projects in U.S. history. "The conditions necessary to issue the guarantee are unlikely to be met and it is not critical for the federal

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP News Agency, The Associated Press, BBC News (World) and Reuters

A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

House GOP appropriators noted this Zeldin priority in the State Dept. funding bill they advanced yesterday. The bill report says the cmte "remains concerned about the adverse impact on communities in the United States from the release of effluent from Mexico" and calls for

A senior Senate appropriator is taking the unusual step of asking for a lower — not higher — top line for the bill he's charged with writing. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says "I can do it for less." He wants to cut funding for renewable energy at DOE.