Bill Dauster

YouTube video by Strict Scrutiny Favorite Things 2025: Books, Beauty, Resistance

I'm so proud of my dear spouse @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social for her appearance on the spectacular podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social‬ (starting at 57:16/1:17). Yay Ellen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_rR...

E&E News: Senate Democrats push resolutions to recognize climate change Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) hopes to put senators on the record on climate science.

Let's see if the Senate acknowledges reality.
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I’m honored that NYU Law’s Democracy Project @democracyproject.bsky.social has included my essay on Money, Power, and Freedom.
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E&E News: Senate rebuffs Dem attempt to scrap coal plant rule One Republican called the rulemaking a “housekeeping correction.”

Today we tried to stop a Trump EPA rule that allows Indiana coal plants to emit more smog. Regrettably, 51 Republican Senators voted to allow the smog. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Here's a thing we at ‪@epw.senate.gov‬ are doing: In New Strategy, Whitehouse Files CRA Challenges To Trump EPA Air Rules | InsideEPA.com insideepa.com/daily-news/n...

We face many hurdles in the climate fight, but we have one major advantage: the facts are on our side.

How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs Analysts agree on one thing: Congress is poised to increase energy bills by hundreds of dollars per household.

Republicans don’t want you to know they’re raising your energy bills in their “big, beautiful bill.”

The problem with solving the climate crisis isn’t lack of public support. It’s fossil fuel influence in Congress.

Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill” | U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget The Official U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget

🚨NEW THIS MORNING: Byrd Rule Violations Continue to Mount on the Republicans’ “One Big, Beautiful Bill”

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A lawyer like Emil Bove shouldn’t be able to dodge congressional oversight by claiming certain privileges. And yet…

Celebrating the 35th anniversary of my dear spouse @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social‬ 's start in Federal Government service--it was on this date in 1990 that she started at the House Ethics Committee. The Nation's ethics and camapign finance law have been the better for it!

The Filibuster, a Staple of the Modern Senate, Is on the Ropes

The Filibuster, a Staple of the Modern Senate, Is on the Ropes www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel A Novel

Nothing changes instantaneously:in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. There were stories in the newspapers...but they were about other women, and the men...were other men. None of them were the men we knew.-The Handmaid's Tale. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

When you can’t get insurance on your home because climate risk is too high, you can’t get a mortgage.

When enough people can’t get a mortgage, property values crash.

When property values crash, the effects could cascade into an economy-wide recession like we saw in 2008.

How to Tie Up the Most Precious Resource in Washington Democrats can use the Congressional Review Act to force votes on many Trump regulatory actions. A decision by Senate Republicans could widen the opportunity.

"How to Tie Up the Most Precious Resource in Washington"

In my new piece for @prospect.org, I detail how Democrats can use the Congressional Review Act to spend Senate floor time on votes to overturn Trump Administration rules that have no chance of passing.

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NEWS: Whitehouse, Schumer, & Padilla warn Republicans against revoking California's Clean Air Act waivers — "would be a procedural nuclear option."

Some Republicans want to overrule the Parliamentarians & gut California’s Clean Air Act waivers.

They’re trying to claim this is a narrow exception, but make no mistake, they plan to go nuclear. Put bluntly: there is no cabining a decision to overrule the Parliamentarians.

Exclusive: Dems warn Thune on California waiver "nuclear option" It's a sign that a wonky debate about auto emissions rules is blowing up into a major dustup about Senate rules.

Senate Republicans are contemplating "a dramatic break from Senate precedent with profound institutional consequences."--Dems warn Thune on California waiver "nuclear option" www.axios.com/pro/energy-p...

Family Separation 2.0 (Gift Article) Her father had lived in the United States for decades. He was sent back to Brazil as part of President Trump’s deportation operation.

President Trump would have us believe that all immigrants are criminals. For the true story, please listen to this moving report about whom the Trump administration is actually deporting. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/p...

To deliver for polluters, Trump and Zeldin have delivered 100 days of damage to the environment and Americans' health

I'm gratified that the Senate Parliamentarian held today that the Senate will continue to rely on GAO’s determinations about whether agency actions qualify for fast-track disapproval under the Congressional Review Act. This is a victory for both California's clean air standards and Senate procedure.

The truth doesn't come easy for the new EPA Administrator.

YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Trump's EPA nominee and Project 2025 contributor did everything possible to avoid telling the truth

Trump's EPA nominee and Project 2025 contributor Aaron Szabo swore to tell the truth. Minutes later, he did everything possible to avoid telling the truth.

Szabo cannot be trusted to help run EPA.

So proud of my dear spouse Ellen--speaking truth to power!

BERNIE SANDERS HAS IT RIGHT. #PresidentMusk
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Remembering Senator Harry Reid on what would have been his 85th birthday

The incoming Trump administration is threatening to disregard spending laws. The Constitution's power of the purse is at stake.

Opinion | Four ways Trump will undermine the authority of Congress The president-elect is setting the stage for a vast, dangerous and unconstitutional expansion of presidential power

Writing in @postopinions.bsky.social Ruth Marcus lays out well some of the fundamental Constitutional challenges that Congress should expect from the Trump administration. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

On the 107th anniversary of Senator Robert C. Byrd's birth, it's vital that we memorize Bobby's Byrd Rule primer!

We all need to get ready for the new Congress to try to use the budget process to cut taxes for the rich and cut health care for working families. Bobby Kogan explains the process we'll need to know: