January 6 Panel Prepares to Hold Steve Bannon in Contempt of Congress

The former Trump adviser has declined to cooperate with the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

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Good morning from the Uphill team. Haley is hoping to finish a college paper in her free time this week, and she’s soliciting study music recommendations. (It’s been the Dune score on repeat for a couple of weeks, but some variety is probably a good thing.) And Harvest and Ryan are trying to figure out how to navigate the DMV area while the metro is basically rendered useless. If you have tips on cheap ways to get around, let us know! 

Congress is back from a week off, and Democrats are still negotiating how to proceed with President Joe Biden’s social investments and climate package. Biden will hold a series of meetings with Democratic lawmakers today, gathering with several progressives this afternoon and then a group of moderates at 4:30 p.m..

January 6 Committee Targets Bannon for Not Cooperating

The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol is poised to follow through on its threat to refer witnesses who refuse to testify to be held in criminal contempt of Congress.

The panel will meet tonight and has teed up a vote on a contempt report against former Trump adviser Steve Bannon for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. 

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    Ben Connelly

    1. Walking is the best way to get around much of DC. But it takes a while and it depends on whether “getting around DC” means Georgetown to the Capitol or Alexandria to DuPont Circle.

    2. Steve Bannon was never a particularly good looking man (to put it very mildly) to begin with. The picture at the top of this article demonstrates that time hasn’t treated him well.

    3. As far as study music: I recommend silence/not listening to anything. In college I discovered this by trial and error - music always decreased productivity.

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    Devin H

    When I was writing my thesis in grad school, I would tend to jump between Classical music and Pink Floyd (whole albums) and some movie/video game scores. Good luck and good piece!

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  3. Christopher Geis

    Not music per se, but I find several of the sound generators at mynoise.net to be great for concentration, especially Japanese Garden, Irish Coast, and Warp Speed (Ultimate Enterprise background noise generator). You can also have more than one running at a time.

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      Chris

      This is awesome! So much good stuff in this comment section.

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    Pat Riot

    The whole House vote on this should be soon. Any bets on the number of the 212 Republican members who vote to enforce the subpoena? Two? Five? Seven?

    But Trump will just "go away by April". Oh sure.

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  5. Bowmandm21

    For study music I like certain types of Ambient. Particularly H.U.V.A Network, Igneous Flame, Max Corbacho, Solar Fields. For high energy study music I like instrumental music like Dream Theater non-vocal passages (which I have edited myself), Liquid Tension Experiment, John Petrucci albums, Tony MacAlpine.

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    Victor Clairmont

    That’s a crazy looking picture of Bannon for the headline!

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  7. BMW

    I'm not entirely sure what makes good study music, but here are some long(ish) musical works that I like to listen to FWIW:

    Franz List - Faust Symphony
    Leopold Godowsky - Java Suite
    Maurice Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
    J.S. Bach - B Minor Mass

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    Sad Trombone

    Even if Bannon is not successful in delaying his contempt proceedings, six weeks in a Club Fed minimum security prison would be worth millions to him in publicity and making him the grooviest political prisoner suffering for Trump. Right now he thinks he holds all the cards.

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    OrganDoc

    Best study music choices are The Piano Guys and Lindsey Stirling.

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    Dave K

    Pork barrel politics. You know its alive and well, but reading about actual examples is still exasperating.

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