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Friday, December 20, 2019
Pelosi demands impeachment
trial info before sending charges
By MARY CLARE
JALONICK, LAURIE
KELLMAN AND ZEKE
MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi insisted on Thursday
that before she will send
the Republican Senate the
articles of impeachment
her Democratic chamber
approved against President
Donald Trump, GOP lead-
ers must provide more
detail about how they will
handle the expected trial.
“We’d like to see a fair
process, but we’ll see what
they have and will be ready
for whatever it is,” Pelosi
said at the Capitol. “So
far, we haven’t seen any-
thing that looks fair to us,”
she had said Wednesday
night, just after the House
approved the two charges
that could evict Trump
from offi ce if the Senate
agrees.
The parties’ Senate lead-
ers, Mitch McConnell for
the Republicans and Chuck
Schumer for the Demo-
crats, met Thursday on trial
arrangements but came to
no agreement. The two men
have a tense relationship,
and McConnell holds a tac-
tical edge if he can keep his
53-member Senate majority
united.
Democrats are insisting
on more witnesses, testi-
mony and documents than
McConnell appears willing
to provide before they name
the House “managers” who
would prosecute Trump in
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington
on Thursday on the day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach President
Donald Trump on two charges, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
the Senate.
“Sen. Schumer made
clear to Sen. McConnell
that the witnesses and doc-
uments are necessary to
ensure a fair trial in the Sen-
ate,” said Schumer spokes-
man Justin Goodman. He
said, “Schumer asked Sen.
McConnell to consider Sen.
Schumer’s proposal over
the holidays.”
Wednesday night’s vote,
almost entirely along party
lines, made the president
just the third in U.S. his-
tory to be impeached. The
House impeached Trump
on two charges — abus-
ing his presidential power
and obstructing Con-
gress — stemming from
his pressure on Ukraine to
announce investigations of
his political rival as Trump
withheld U.S. aid.
Pelosi’s unexpected pro-
cedural delay in taking the
next step — apparently in
search of leverage in lock-
ing in trial arrangements
— got a sour response from
Senate Majority Leader
McConnell
and
from
Trump himself.
McConnell said Demo-
crats were “too afraid’’ to
send the charges to the Sen-
ate, where Trump would be
expected to be acquitted by
the Republican majority.
Trump tweeted, “Now the
Do Nothing Party want to
Do Nothing with the Arti-
cles.” He claimed that if the
Democrats didn’t transmit
the charges, “they would
lose by default,” though
there is no constitutional
requirement to send them
swiftly, or at all.
The trial has been
expected to begin in
January.
Along with her tough
talk, Pelosi appeared upbeat
the day after the impeach-
ment votes.
“We’ve been hearing
from people all over the
country,” she told reporters.
“Seems like people have a
spring in their step because
the president was held
accountable for his reckless
behavior.”
Facebook to tackle 2020 U.S. census interference
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
AND MAE ANDERSON
Associated Press
SAN
FRANCISCO
— Facebook says it will
clamp down on efforts to
use its services to interfere
with the 2020 U.S. cen-
sus, including the posting
of misleading information
about when and how to par-
ticipate, who can partici-
pate and what happens to
people who do.
The social media giant
said Thursday that it is
also prohibiting advertise-
ments that portray taking
part in the census as “use-
less or meaningless” or
that encourage people not
to participate.
Facebook is trying to
clamp down on misin-
formation on its services,
especially ahead of next
year’s U.S. presidential
elections.
The census, which hap-
pens every 10 years, is cru-
cial to determining how
many representatives a
state gets in Congress and
which states get billions of
dollars in federal funding
for infrastructure, health
care, low-income programs
and other projects. The
results of the 2020 census
also will be used to redraw
electoral maps.
Facebook said it will
begin enforcing the cen-
sus policy in January
using both technology and
humans to spot violations.
Facebook will try to iden-
tify material that violates
the policy and remove it
before people see it.
Facebook and other
social
media
compa-
nies have similar policies
around voter suppression,
banning misleading infor-
mation about when and
where to vote, for instance.
Facebook has long tried
to steer clear of having to
police its content, claiming
it is a platform, not a pub-
lisher. But after revelations
that that Russians bank-
rolled thousands of fake
political ads during the
2016 elections, Facebook
and other social networks
faced intense pressure to
ensure that doesn’t happen
again. It tightened political
ad requirements including
verifying political ad buy-
ers and archiving all polit-
ical ads for the public. But
many have found ways to
slip through the cracks of
the system.
False and inaccurate
information is already cir-
culating online about the
census. For example, posts
in neighborhood chat
groups warned that rob-
bers were scamming their
way into people’s homes by
asking to check residents’
identifi cation for the cen-
sus. That was a hoax, but it
left Census Bureau offi cials
scrambling to get the posts
removed from Facebook.
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WASHINGTON — The
Senate passed a $1.4 trillion
government spending pack-
age Thursday in a last biparti-
san burst of legislating before
bolting for the holidays from a
Capitol riven by impeachment.
Lawmakers cleared the
two-bill package in a set of
votes, sending it to Presi-
dent Donald Trump in time
to forestall a possible govern-
ment shutdown this weekend.
The White House said Trump
would sign it before Friday’s
midnight deadline.
The fi rst measure, covering
domestic programs, passed by
a 71-23 vote. A Pentagon and
homeland security measure
passed hours later in an 81-11
vote that was the last Senate
tally for the year.
The legislation deliv-
ers Trump a victory on his
U.S.-Mexico border fence and
gives Democrats long-sought
domestic spending increases
and a repeal of Obama-era
taxes on high-cost health
insurance plans. It blends
spending increases for both
sides — re-election fodder for
lawmakers — with tax and
benefi t add-ons that will mean
a roughly $400 billion boost to
the defi cit over 10 years.
The split-their-differences
legislation was carrying a
large number of unrelated
provisions into law, draw-
ing protests from fi scal con-
servatives. It would put in
place an earlier spending deal
that reversed unpopular and
unworkable automatic spend-
ing cuts to defense and domes-
tic programs — at a $1.6 tril-
lion or so cost over the coming
decade.
“These spending bills are a
fi scal dumpster fi re,” said Sen.
Mike Lee, R-Utah. “This is
embarrassing.”
Key provisions include an
expensive repeal of Obama-
era taxes on high-cost health
plans, help for retired coal
miners, and an increase from
18 to 21 in the nationwide
legal age to buy tobacco prod-
ucts. The tobacco measure
was pushed by Senate Major-
ity Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky.
The almost 2,400-page
package refl ects the reality of
divided government and the
enduring strength of the Cap-
itol’s appropriations process,
which allows lawmakers to go
to bat for their states and con-
gressional districts.
McConnell emerged as
a victor, winning the politi-
cally popular $6 billion pen-
sion rescue for about 100,000
retired coal miners, along with
more parochial items, such as
help for his state’s legal hemp
industry and $410 million to
build a new veterans hospital
in Louisville.
GOP Sen. Richard Shelby
of Alabama, the Senate
Appropriations Committee
chairman, secured many items
for his state, including a $378
million harbor dredging pro-
gram. It’s expected to deliver
the lions share to a Shel-
by-backed initiative to deepen
Mobile Harbor to accommo-
date larger cargo ships.
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, D-Calif., was also a
driving force, winning perma-
nent repeal of a tax on high-
cost “Cadillac” health insur-
ance benefi ts that is unpopular
with Democratic labor allies.
After months of negotia-
tion, leading lawmakers cut
a deal on Monday that gives
Trump a steady stream of
money for the border wall.
“I would have preferred
no funding for the wall,” said
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy,
the top Democrat on the Sen-
ate Appropriations Commit-
tee. “But the Republicans were
clear. ... They stood with the
president on the wall, as they
seem to do time after time.”
The bill also offered busi-
ness-friendly provisions on
export fi nancing, fl ood insur-
ance and immigrant workers.
A tax on medical devices and
health insurance plans would
be repealed permanently.
The core of the spend-
ing bill is formed by the 12
annual agency appropriations
bills passed by Congress each
year. It fi lls in the details of a
bipartisan framework from
July that delivered about $100
billion in agency spending
increases over the coming
two years instead of automatic
spending cuts.
The bill exceeds Trump’s
budget requests in virtu-
ally every domestic category,
except for Trump’s request
for $8 billion-plus for the
U.S.-Mexico wall. It was cut
back to $1.4 billion, equal to
last year’s appropriation. The
measure preserves Trump’s
ability to use his budget pow-
ers to tap other accounts for
several times that amount.
That’s a blow for liberal
opponents of the wall, but an
acceptable trade-off for Dem-
ocrats who wanted to gain $27
billion in increases for domes-
tic programs.
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