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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalSpeaker Pelosi letter to colleagues on @ZelenskyyUa 's visit tonight:
This makes me smile. Speaker Pelosi is an amazing person
https://twitter.com/KyleAlexStewart/status/1605601936060796928
Zelenskyy to meet with Biden and Congress in D.C.
Source: NBC News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Joe Biden and deliver an address to members of Congress during a visit to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, a senior administration official said.
In a call with reporters Tuesday night, the administration official detailed a program scheduled for Zelenskyy at the White House that was expected to include an extended sit-down with Biden and meetings with key members of his national security team and cabinet.
The official said that the Ukrainian president will also travel to Capitol Hill, where lawmakers are expected to be voting on a massive funding bill that includes roughly $44.9 billion in Ukraine aid. He is expected to cap off the day with a formal speech to a joint session of Congress, the official said.
Biden and Zelenskyy had been discussing details of the visit for more than a week, with Biden extending an invitation to Zelenskyy to visit the White House last Wednesday, the official said. The visit, believed to be Zelenskyy's first known trip outside Ukraine since the war broke out in February, was formally confirmed on Sunday.
The administration official described the visit as a chance to provide an “important injection of momentum and sustenance” to U.S. and allied support of Ukraine as its war with Russia rages on.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/zelenskyy-meet-biden-congress-dc-rcna62696
White House announces Biden, Zelenskyy to meet in D.C. on Wednesday
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1605443807096573952House committee votes to make public Trump's tax returns
TFG is not having a good month
https://twitter.com/Eleven_Films/status/1605366208509120512
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/20/trump-tax-returns-house-democrats/
Democrats have for more than three years pushed to make Trump’s tax returns public, and the documents were at last made available to the Ways and Means Committee late last month after the Supreme Court denied a last attempt by Trump to withhold the records.
The committee meeting got underway just after 3 p.m. Tuesday, and was immediately moved to a closed session to discuss Trump’s tax returns because of the confidential nature of the subject matter. For the sake of transparency, committee members voted by unanimous consent to make public a transcript of the closed session afterward.
Rep. Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.), the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, first sought to obtain six years’ worth of Trump’s tax returns in 2019, after Democrats retook the House majority. They argued that Congress needed to do so to evaluate the effectiveness of annual presidential audits and for the sake of oversight.
Trump — who broke with a decades-long tradition of presidential candidates and presidents by refusing to make his tax returns public — has for years falsely claimed that he could not release them while under “routine audit” by the Internal Revenue Service.
U.S. Scores $4 Billion Windfall on Oil-Reserve Sales
Thank you President Biden
https://politicalwire.com/2022/12/19/u-s-scores-4-billion-windfall-on-oil-reserve-sales/
December 19, 2022 at 10:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard 65 Comments
“Volatile energy markets have made 2022 a big year for commodity traders. One of the biggest and perhaps most unlikely winners: The U.S. government,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Emergency releases from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve are slated to end this month, concluding an unusual attempt to lower gas prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent oil prices soaring.”
“Over the release period, Washington sold 180 million barrels of crude at an average of $96.25 apiece, well above the recent market price of $74.29—meaning the U.S., for now, is almost $4 billion ahead.”
Biden marks 50th anniversary of death of wife, daughter
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1604572730019520512https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-neilia-naomi-accident-anniversary-a054c4bf66ee1b2c0a40be5dc6a5431f?taid=639f6fb5b68b16000159ab4b&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter
Biden, who had just been elected to the Senate in November 1972, was not in the car when his wife, 30-year-old Neilia, and their 13-month-old daughter, Naomi, were broadsided by a tractor-trailer on Dec. 18 of that year as they went out to buy a Christmas tree. The couple’s two sons, Beau and Hunter, who were just about to turn 4 and 3 at the time, were also in the car and were seriously injured.
The tragedy almost prompted Biden, also age 30 when the accident happened, to give up his fledgling political career. But on the advice of other senators he stayed in office, commuting back and forth from Washington to Delaware. Biden’s raw openness around grief and his ability to empathize with fellow Americans who have experienced loss have become defining traits of his political career.
Biden married Jill Jacobs in 1977 and they had a daughter, Ashley. Both women joined him on Sunday, as did Hunter and many of the president’s grandchildren among others at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church. After the service, the family walked out toward the graves carrying two large wreaths.
Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015 at 46. He is also buried at the cemetery.
On CRIMINAL REFERRAL EVE
https://twitter.com/Shap619Mary/status/1604654234607054849Ukraine lights up a giant menorah at the country's main square in Kiev to celebrate hanukkah
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1604557878156738561https://twitter.com/maksymeristavi/status/1604497533362790401
(Jewish Group) Jews in Ukraine lit a giant menorah on Sunday night
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1604557878156738561https://twitter.com/maksymeristavi/status/1604497533362790401
Apparently, Musk was ordered by Saudis to step down and CEO of Twitter
This explains the trip to the World Cup
https://twitter.com/RememberMeYeah/status/1604675210212409349
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