SENATOR BEN CARDIN – (D-Maryland)
TOPICS: FBI building funding, Obamacare repeal bill and Don Jr controversy
• The federal government is canceling the search for a new FBI headquarters, according to officials familiar with the decision, putting a more than decade-long effort by the bureau to move out of the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building back at square one. The decision follows years of failed attempts by federal officials to persuade Congress to fully back a plan for a campus in the Washington suburbs paid for by trading away the Hoover Building to a real estate developer and putting up nearly $2 billion in taxpayer funds to cover the remaining cost.
• McConnell: Senate will work through first two weeks of August recess. Cal says: “Finally, an answer for Senate Republicans who can’t seem to reach a deal on Obamacare: People Are Getting Exorcisms Instead of Going to the Doctor. When serious medical conditions are misdiagnosed as demonic possession, it can lead to some pretty disastrous consequences—even death.”
• Maryland, Virginia senators blast Donald Trump Jr.’s dealings with Russian agents. WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The four U.S. Senators from Maryland and Virginia blasted Donald Trump Jr.’s dealings with Russian agents, which are now revealed in his own emails. “If we were to be approached by someone who wants to give us information from a foreign government concerning our elections, that’s something where I would notify law enforcement,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) said.
