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Origin of "longtime House Republican principle that states no bill should pass without a 'majority of the majority' on board"?
This is known as the Hastert Rule. Hastert, a Republican, was the Speaker of the House from 1999-2006. Though in fact the rule was considered in effect and well known during the prior Speaker's ...
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Origin of "longtime House Republican principle that states no bill should pass without a 'majority of the majority' on board"?
I will only answer the 1. of your questions as I don't have a good answer to the other ones.
Majority of the majority means that more than half of the members of the party that currently has a ...
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Have any US Presidents committed indictable offenses?
We know that at least two recent presidents committed felonies.
We have Richard Nixon, who Obstructed Justice as he tried to thwart the investigation into the Watergate burglaries. Nixon was also an ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
Not mentioned yet: this is a clear sign to other countries that fighting against NATO is a supremely bad idea. If old NATO weapons and NATO training are already this effective, who is going to ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The USA has a first past the post system of democracy similar to the UK. It gives the illusion of democracy but in fact is closer to the Chinese one party system than true democracy.
The US has a ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
Because Ukraine is actually the front for the world map chess game between US and Russia. Whoever dominates this chess piece today will have the momentum and image to project superpower status in the ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
In 1994 the US provided security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear stockpile (which at the time was the third largest in the word). 20 years later Russia invaded and ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
"Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?"
Energy and strengthening the USA by weakening Europe.
For the USA, the mix of Germany as a technology location and ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The US, as one of the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, guarantees the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The Memorandum itself does not require the US to defend Ukraine themselves but it ...
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Have any US Presidents committed indictable offenses?
There's a well-seen (nearly 5 million views) snip of Chomsky
I'll just take the transcript, with paragraph boundaries at each President.
I guess the interview is from more than twenty years ago since ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The majority of American public supports providing weapons to Ukraine. Since it is a democracy, the government follows the will of the people and provides military aid to Ukraine.
This is consistent ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
At 0.4% of GDP total US aid commitments (this includes non-military aid -- military aid is about 0.2% of GDP) are similar to the UK, but only 2/3rds that of Poland. Some people might not consider that ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
the support is designed to continue the war
It's easy to assume that an "eternal war" is USA's goal, but you have to consider that them giving more materiel to Ukraine so that they could ...
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Why is the US under Biden so strongly supporting Ukraine in the war?
The US (like any other country supporting Ukraine) is of the view that, in the 21st century, no country is supposed to redefine its borders by force. Any wars aiming for that should remain history ...
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What has changed in the last decade that causes tent cities to spring up?
There's a lot to unpack here, so let's start at the beginning.
Too many people assume that homelessness is mostly/mainly/completely because of mental health issues or drug use issues. That's simply ...
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How was the Fed allowed to lend $142.8 billion to the two bridge banks (incl. SVB) if it "would not" lend to insolvent banks?
I consider this only a partial answer, but apparently two things happened. The Fed cut their haircut on some instruments to zero, which essentially seems to mean they now use the full face value of ...
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Why do Indian-Americans earn more than other ethnic groups in the US?
Why do Indian-Americans earn more than other ethnic groups in the US?
First of all, this is a substantially true proposition:
According to the latest US Census data, the Indians now have an
average ...
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Why Is The U.S. Supreme Court Reviewing So Few Cases On The Merits?
"Before 1990, your graph shows an upward trend, but it suddenly falls by a lot over the next couple of years, and then starts trending downward. This coincides almost precisely with the ...
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What has changed in the last decade that causes tent cities to spring up?
This chart from Wikipedia explains it:
When you see four decades during which shelter cost growth is significantly higher than that of other items, you will also expect significant demographics no ...
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What has changed in the last decade that causes tent cities to spring up?
The answer is already in your question: "[rising prices] affect the economic tiers above them, the poor and average working class".
Basically, inflation and shortages have lead to a ...
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Differences in hand positions when leaders are taking oaths to constitutions, what are the origins and symbolisms involved?
Generally speaking, taking an oath of office calls for sincerity, honesty, and seriousness. So the genstures involved should reflect these values.
Examples:
A raised open-palm is a vulnerable ...
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When can the federal government pass laws repealing, rather than adding restrictions on top of, state law?
From: In the US, what is the role of and relationship between federal law and state law? with my added emphasis.
So, if state and federal law disagree on a matter where the federal government has ...
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When can the federal government pass laws repealing, rather than adding restrictions on top of, state law?
The way it works in the US, and many other federations, is that officially, the federal government has certain enumerated powers. Some of them are very broad, some less so. All powers not enumerated ...
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If the left believes in climate change being an extinction-level risk, why are they reluctant to grant concessions to the right in order to stop it?
Let's take a decision matrix, based on Conservative values and principles, taking into account that these are issues, climate change and progressive goals, are entirely unrelated.
IF climate change is ...
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Was Silicon Valley Bank's failure due to "Trump-era deregulation", and/or do Democrats share blame for it?
Has Biden or Warren really said that "Trump-era deregulation" contributed to Silicon Valley Bank's failure?
It seems to me that Senator Warren's tweet implies that pretty clearly, but she ...
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If the left believes in climate change being an extinction-level risk, why are they reluctant to grant concessions to the right in order to stop it?
... it should logically be better to concede every single non-climate policy question to the Right, in order to adopt legislation required to prevent climate change. After all, it's better to live in ...
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If the left believes in climate change being an extinction-level risk, why are they reluctant to grant concessions to the right in order to stop it?
Because most of what you mention are bad arguments and bad choices to begin with.
First you are giving people fake choices trying to claim that we can do one or the other.
Support for unions has ...
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If the left believes in climate change being an extinction-level risk, why are they reluctant to grant concessions to the right in order to stop it?
Imagine a valley with two farmers. They've both been pumping water from the aquifier to irrigate their fields. Now a scientist comes and says "you can't do that, cut your consumption by 50%."...
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Why didn't Silicon Valley Bank ask for a loan from the Fed as the lender of last resort?
The math on a loan from the Fed may not have worked out
A loan from the Fed would have to be paid back at current interest rates. Meantime, SVB is getting payments from long-dated bonds that it ...
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How do Realists explain US intervention in the Korean War?
TLDR summary; two views basically, both claimed to be realist:
it was a mistake according to Morgenthau, Kennan etc. Korea not a "core interest" basically. Realists never claim all ...
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How do Realists explain US intervention in the Korean War?
Note that in 1950, when the war started, political realists like Kennen were already critical of a pure military solution.
For example, Hans Morgenthau had this to say on USA motivations in this 1962 ...
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Was Silicon Valley Bank's failure due to "Trump-era deregulation", and/or do Democrats share blame for it?
I noticed one point that has not been covered here and that is s.104 of the Economic Growth Act (Link)
For companies that have holdings between 100 billion and 250 billion the FED board/governor has ...
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Was Silicon Valley Bank's failure due to "Trump-era deregulation", and/or do Democrats share blame for it?
The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank may not have been the fault of either Republicans or Democrats. It was foremost the result of a bank-run facilitated by panicking investors and the general ...
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Was Silicon Valley Bank's failure due to "Trump-era deregulation", and/or do Democrats share blame for it?
I was hesitant to answer this because I'm not certain I'm enough of an economist to give you a full answer. However, I think I can explain much of what you asked, and in the end I'm not convinced ...
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Was Silicon Valley Bank's failure due to "Trump-era deregulation", and/or do Democrats share blame for it?
It's not entirely clear to me what they are talking about, but if it's about the LCR requirement that was relaxed in 2018 for banks under $250 billion, then if you believe BPI's calculation, SVB would ...
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Why didn't Silicon Valley Bank ask for a loan from the Fed as the lender of last resort?
SVB was insolvent; its assets were less than its liabilities. Even if all its stuff was sold there wouldn't be enough money to pay all the depositors - even though it may have pretended there was, by ...
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Why didn't Silicon Valley Bank ask for a loan from the Fed as the lender of last resort?
Because that would be a bailout and the US government [regulators] said "no bailouts" in this case. Now the FDIC owns all of the banks assets (as a bridge bank) and is trying to sell them (...
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Have US President Biden's approval ratings increased or decreased after Hersh claimed that the US blew up Nordstream under Biden's order?
There has been no substantial movement.
In early February, the 538 poll tracker gave Biden a -9 rating (Approval-Disapproval) Now it gives him a -8 rating. That is probably a real change (the large ...
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How can a non-US citizen ask the US Government to withdraw a law/executive order?
I'm not saying this is likely to work in this case, but demonstrations/protests in front of that country's embassy do sometimes make an impression on the government of that country, in particular when ...
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Why is the ongoing auction for Silicon Valley Bank started held privately (vs. publicly)?
It's not terribly clear what you mean by those terms, but FDIC doesn't sell a failing bank to random Joes (or even to Elon Musk[s] directly), but to other banks, basically:
The FDIC markets troubled ...
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Does the Federal Reserve insure the money of all depositors?
Does the Federal Reserve insure the money of all depositors?
No. The Federal Reserve doesn't insure the money of any depositors. The Fed doesn't make any promises of that kind. But it can make ...
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How do these contradictory claims about the US national debt square against each other?
This seems to indicate that the first source is wrong, because the US federal deficit went in only one direction (up) under all three presidents that allegedly decreased the deficit.
Well, the ...
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How do these contradictory claims about the US national debt square against each other?
Debt and deficit are two different things. The deficit is the amount by which the national expenditure exceeded its revenue, each year. The debt is the total amount owed to other parties, accumulated ...
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How do these contradictory claims about the US national debt square against each other?
You're looking at different quantities
The value "change in deficit, in percentage points of GDP" depends both on the absolute size of the deficit and the absolute size of the GDP, whereas ...
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Does the Federal Reserve insure the money of all depositors?
The Federal Reserve in its role as lender of last resort will lend money to a solvent bank that’s suffering a bank run and having temporary cash flow problems. But it appears that SVB was insolvent — ...
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Does the Federal Reserve insure the money of all depositors?
It depends on what you mean by "bank run". It's generally understood to mean a situation where depositors make withdrawal demands that exceed the assets of the bank that are sufficiently ...
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Why is the ongoing auction for Silicon Valley Bank started held privately (vs. publicly)?
"Public" has a particular meaning in a share sale. It means that any investor can purchase shares and comes with lots of rules about transparency.
But what the regulators want is a single, ...
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Does the Federal Reserve insure the money of all depositors?
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is insuring deposits up to $250,000 per owner. A bank run can still happen (still did happen, in the recent case of the SVB) when large customers are starting ...
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How can this new ban on drag possibly be considered constitutional?
To be short and to the point, no it is provably not constitutional, even according to the Tennessee State Constitution. There are several sections the law violates, the most flagrant is section 11 ...
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Was the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia an "invasion" or not?
There are invasions and there are invasions. In principle, everything where something intrudes into space of something else is some kind of invasion. So call it an invasion, if you like. It wouldn't ...
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