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Could a "Point of Order" in the US Senate defeat the "BBB" ("Build Back Better") legislation? According to the US Constitution, on a split 50-50 vote, the Vice President controls a tie-breaker vote in the Senate. Could a single Senator defeat that vote, by raising a "Point of Order" questioning the eligibility of the VP to hold her office?

Prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating alleged “collusion” between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia knew all along that the anti-Trump “dossier” compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele that fueled their probe was biased and likely phony. Yet instead of investigating those individuals at the FBI and Justice Department who actively participated in the dossier fraud – as he should have done – Mueller hired several of them to investigate Trump. Newly confirmed congressional testimony of former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr shows that he warned both the FBI and the Justice Department that Steele was...