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This is the section of Obama's endorsement referenced before - he has clearly been holding back a lot of thoughts for the last 3 years -->
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Impeachment articles make their way through Statuary Hall en route to the Senate
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@SpeakerPelosi
stopped by
@Scotus
this morning to lay a bouquet and take in the memorial honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Per
@ProducerKimB
, the House has passed the Equality Act by a vote of 224 yeas to 206 nays with
@RepBrianFitz
@RepJohnKatko
and
@RepTomReed
joining Democrats. The bill amends the 1964 Civil Rights Act to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Evergreen reminder that in one key state, Pennsylvania, the secretary of state asked to begin counting mail-in ballots before election day to speed up the count, but the Republican-controlled legislature declined to pass a law allowing that to happen.
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Rep. Mia Love has conceded to Democrat Ben McAdams in the UT-4 race. On Trump's criticism of her campaign: "This gave me a clear vision of his world as it is. No real relationships, just convenient transactions. That is an insufficient way to implement sincere service in policy."
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With at least 222 cosponsors, Democrats have filed their resolution to terminate the national emergency. Pelosi has promised to move the bill "swiftly."
It will pass the House. Big Q: will it pass the Senate, where several GOP senators have reservations about a nat'l emergency?
We have 222 cosponsors to terminate President Trump’s national emergency declaration to build his border wall.
#FakeTrumpEmergency
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Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN) was killed in a car crash along with her district director, Zachery Potts, and communications director, Emma Thomson, according to the Elkhart County Sheriff. Terrible news.
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13 House Republicans who are appearing at CPAC in Orlando Friday, Saturday and Sunday have active proxy voting requests with the House Clerk's office saying they can't attend votes due to the pandemic. Among the votes they will miss tonight: one on the COVID relief bill.
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Speaker Pelosi, asked by
@AlexNBCNews
to comment on the impeachment resolution:
“It’s not an impeachment resolution.”
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The House Rules Committee announced it will meet on Wednesday at 3 p.m. to consider the resolution to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the Budget and Education committees -- the first step before consideration on the House floor.
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Trump is currently calling himself an “ally of peaceful protesters” as peaceful protesters are being pushed back from the White House grounds with tear gas and flash bangs...
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@POTUS
told House Democrats on a call this morning that he's standing behind a promise to include $,1400 stimulus checks in a COVID relief package, though he is open to additional targeting. His message: "I'm not going to break my promise to the American people."
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@PaulaReidCBS
reports the Mueller report will be delivered to the Hill on CDs tomorrow.
House Judiciary Committee staff was prepared for this possibility — among many — and checked they still have a computer with a working CD-ROM drive (they do).
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@SpeakerPelosi
argues that Parnas revelations would normally be grounds for a special prosecutor. “Does anybody think the rogue attorney general is going to appoint a special prosecutor? No, bc he’s implicated in all of this. This is an example of all the president’s henchman.”
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Rep. Duncan Hunter has finally submitted his resignation from Congress after pleading guilty to misusing campaign funds in December. By waiting until after the first of the month, he was able to still collect one last paycheck (and probably his pension: )
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The House has passed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act by a vote of 364 yeas to 62 nays to expedite DOJ's review of potential COVID-19 related hate crimes against Asian Americans. The bill passed the Senate in April by a vote of 92-1. It now heads to Biden's desk for his signature.
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@SpeakerPelosi
and
@SenSchumer
announce they've filed a joint budget resolution for FY2021 that will allow Dems to use reconciliation to pass COVID relief if needed.
@POTUS
still pushing hard on bipartisanship-meeting with Republicans this afternoon. Dems preparing to move fast.
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@GovMikeDeWine
announces in-person voting cannot go ahead in Ohio Tuesday as planned.
"We cannot conduct this election tomorrow, the in-person voting for 13 hours tomorrow and conform to [CDC] guidelines," he says.
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Cheney responds: "I'm not going anywhere. This is a vote of conscience. It's one where there are different views in our conference. But our nation is facing an unprecedented, since the civil war, constitutional crisis. That's what we need to be focused on."
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@Liz_Cheney
is already facing backlash from Trump allies in Congress for her announcement that she'll vote to impeach, with
@Jim_Jordan
saying that Republicans should be allowed to hold another vote on her position as chairwoman of the House GOP conference.
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House Democrats have written their own $2.5 trillion stimulus bill. Per a Dem aide:
-$1,500 per per person up to $7,500 for a family of 5
-$150B for hospitals and another $80B in low-interest loans
-$200B stabilization funds for states, $15B for local governments
-$600/wk UI
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A senior Democratic aide says that tonight's rule vote on the Raskin resolution will include language to fine members for failing to wear masks on the House floor: a $500 fine for the first offense and a $2,500 for second offense. Fines will be deducted from their paychecks.
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@SpeakerPelosi
at the Time 100 summit: "Impeachment is one of the most divisive paths that we could go down in our country. But if the path of fact finding takes us there, we have no choice. But we’re not there yet."
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State of the Union 2022, per the House Sergeant at Arms:
-All members of Congress are invited, but without guests
-Masks (N95 or KN95) are mandatory
-Negative PCR test is mandatory
-Vaccines and boosters are "strongly recommended"
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A source confirms
@HouseInSession
reports that Trump's TV defense squad during the impeachment trial will include
@Jim_Jordan
@RepMikeJohnson
@EliseStefanik
@RepLeeZeldin
and
@RepMattGaetz
. All active defenders during the first impeachment trial, especially during House hearings.
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In a statement,
@LeaderHoyer
says the House will take a necessary procedural vote Monday night and a final vote Tuesday on the Senate-passed version of the COVID relief bill - a sign that House Ds won't try to force another round of changes that would send it back to the Senate.
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@RepEliotEngel
says that the State Department IG, who was fired tonight, had recently opened an investigation into Pompeo. A Democratic aide says he was looking at Pompeo’s misuse of a political appointee at State to perform personal tasks for himself and his wife.
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The House has passed a resolution to condemn Trump tweets by a vote of 240 to 187; 4 Republicans voted yes:
@HurdOnTheHill
@RepFredUpton
@RepBrianFitz
@SusanWBrooks
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@SpeakerPelosi
quote of the day: “I’m not a gum chewer. Though I do chew a lot of chocolate as I walk around here.”
(Fact check: true)
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Statement from the family of Officer Brian Sicknick of the US Capitol Police who passed away last week after being in the line of duty at the riots. They describe him as a sweet natured guy who loved and spoiled his dachshunds.
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@SpeakerPelosi
responds to claims by the president that Democrats are defending terrorists:
“What can I say about the president? He has no association with fact. It’s so sad. What a ridiculous statement for somebody to make.”
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Can Trump be tried for impeachment in the Senate after he's left office? Would he lose his post-presidential salary, office and staff budget, and Secret Service protection if he's convicted? I break it down here:
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Love this: A stonemason discovered 5,000 N95 masks in the crypt of the National Cathedral during routine maintenance work, originally purchased for clergy during 2006 H5N1 outbreak. They're headed for 2 local hospitals today. (📸Danielle E. Thomas/Washington National Cathedral)
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While many Republicans question whether a $1.9 trillion package is needed for COVID relief right now, Progressive Chair
@RepJayapal
says that figure should be the "absolute floor" for a bill.
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Some personal news: I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining the
@NBCNews
Capitol Hill team as a producer and off-air reporter. I’ve long admired this group of journalists and can’t wait to cover the ins and outs of the Hill with them!
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The House Judiciary Committee has hired
@NormEisen
and
@BarryBerke
as consultants to help ramp up oversight of the Trump administration. Not impeachment counsel - but will be studying issues of obstruction. Bring expertise in ethics, corruption and white-collar crime.
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The anti-Pelosi letter is out, with 16 members and members-elect signing on. The missing name from the original 17? Rep. Marcia Fudge, who is mulling a challenge to Pelosi.
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"You can't incite what was already going to happen," Van Der Veen says of intel ahead of the event that there could have been violence that day.
The divergence here: Dems say the violence was primed to occur because of Trump's claims for months that the election had been stolen.
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Both Hope Hicks and AMI, the owner of the National Enquirer, have agreed to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee in response to their request for documents for an investigation into the Trump administration obstruction of justice and abuse of power.
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Excellent thread here from the great
@MacFarlaneNews
who has been tracking all of January 6th defendants and will tell you the connections between the 1/6 committee video and people awaiting trial -->
About this video from last night.
We’ve been closely tracking the cases of many of the people shown
Let me tell you more …
(Below)
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After
@RepAlexMooney
blocked unanimous consideration of the
@RepRaskin
resolution calling on
@VP
to invoke the 25th amendment, the House will move forward with a floor vote tomorrow. That also means an impeachment vote could happen Wednesday,
@LeaderHoyer
told reporters today.
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The House Judiciary Committee has issued subpoenas for former McGahn chief of staff Annie Donaldson and former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks. They want Hicks to appear on 6/19 and Donaldson on 6/24.
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The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight Committees have officially subpoenaed the White House for Ukraine-documents in their impeachment inquiry. Deadline: 10/18
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Record turnout in the 2018 midterms per CBS’ Jennifer De Pinto. An estimated 113 million, or 49% of registered voters, cast ballots. It’s the first midterm in history to exceed 100 million votes.
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Things are TENSE on the House floor.
@RepMikeRogersAL
lunged at Gaetz and had to be pulled back by colleagues. McCarthy walked over to plead directly with Gaetz. Members are starting to get restless as the vote is held open.
McCarthy doesn't have the votes.
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The House is now voting on the final version of the resolution condemning anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bigotry:
It needs a 2/3 majority to pass.
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As with former Amb. Marie Yovanovitch and former NSC Director Fiona Hill, House investigators issued a subpoena to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent to prevent the White House and State Department from blocking his testimony before Congress.
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@SpeakerPelosi
on Trump saying he would accept campaign information from a foreign government: “He does not know right from wrong.”
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Arguments from Trump's legal team on impeachment (h/t
@weijia
):
-Trump cannot be tried for impeachment because he is no longer president
-Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion
-As a private citizen, the Senate has no jurisdiction over whether he can hold office again
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The members
@cbszak
and
@krisvancleave
and I found: Madison Cawthorn, Ted Budd, Matt Gaetz, Greg Steube, Paul Gosar, Mark Green, Devin Nunes, Mike Kelly, Darrell Issa, Lauren Boebert, Ralph Norman, Jim Banks, and Ronny Jackson.
13 House Republicans who are appearing at CPAC in Orlando Friday, Saturday and Sunday have active proxy voting requests with the House Clerk's office saying they can't attend votes due to the pandemic. Among the votes they will miss tonight: one on the COVID relief bill.
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The trial kicks off this afternoon with up to 2 hours per side on the constitutionality of the case.
@RepRaskin
,
@RepJoeNeguse
and
@davidcicilline
will lead those arguments. Last month, 5 Republicans joined Dems in a vote on that same Q (Murkowski, Collins, Romney, Sasse, Toomey)
Aides to the House impeachment managers say they'll lay out their case like a "violent crime" prosecution and draw on evidence that "nobody has seen before," beyond the video evidence from the attack we were already expecting to see.
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“I just sat through eight hours that went like a New York minute. It was that amazing, that powerful, that impactful,” Rep. Denny Heck says of former Amb. Yovanovitch’s ongoing testimony (8 hours and counting).
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"Impeachment was never meant to be the final forum for American justice,"
@LeaderMcConnell
says. "President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office," but as a private citizen. He points to the criminal justice system and civil litigation.
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The House has passed the Protecting Our Kids Act 223-204, a package of gun control legislation that would raise the age of purchase for semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 and ban the sale of high-capacity magazines and ghost guns, among other things.
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And one more warning shot: "This is not the time to withhold our votes in protest or play games with candidates who have no chance of winning. We have got to vote like we did in 2008 and 2012."
@MichelleObama
tells voters to request mail-in ballots and send them back right away.
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He doesn’t call her out by by name, but this
@LeaderMcConnell
statement on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is something:
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@RepDeanPhillips
showing up all the men in the Democratic Caucus when it comes to honoring women. That’s commitment.
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Sources confirm to me,
@CHueyBurns
and
@costareports
that Donald Trump Jr. testified voluntarily and virtually before the January 6th committee on Tuesday. One source described the interview as lasting a few hours and "largely uneventful.' First reported by
@politico
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Clinton arrives in the Capitol with Pelosi. Greeted with cheers at House Democrats meeting.
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Biden’s speech is all about the importance of IBEW workers and how they deserve respect.
“This country was not built by Wall Street bankers and CEOs...it was built by the great middle class.”
A reference to unions building that middle class gets the crowd on its feet.
At his first public remarks since women began publicly criticizing his overtly physical displays of affection,
@JoeBiden
opens a speech to IBEW by joking that he had permission to hug International President Lonnie Stephenson, who introduced him.
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Per
@ClareHymes22
, here’s the letter from AG Barr to President Trump this morning recommending he make a protective assertion of executive privilege over the entire Mueller report and underlying documents —>
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Response from
@RepRaskin
to Trump's lawyers on testifying: "Despite his lawyers’ rhetoric, any official accused of inciting armed violence against the government of the United States should welcome the chance to testify openly and honestly—that is, if the official had a defense."
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Audience member asks an important question that has come up - what if evidence of impeachable offenses arise later in Trump's presidency or in a second term? Pelosi won't engage on it. "Let's not even contemplate that," she says.
#PelosiTownHall
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First on
@CBSNews
: 32 House lawmakers ask top leadership for the flexibility to use their congressional budgets on more safety measures, including hiring local police or security in their home districts where they feel more vulnerable amid current threats:
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Trump gets a standing ovation from almost everyone in the audience as he is introduced at the Coast Guard Commencement.
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The House has voted 232 to 197to impeach President Trump for inciting insurrection.
10 Republicans joined 222 Democrats:
Gonzalez (OH)
Rice (SC)
Newhouse (WA)
Meijer (MI)
Kinzinger (IL)
Katko (NY)
Cheney (WY)
Herrera Beutler (WA)
Upton (MI)
Valadao (CA)
4 Rs did not vote.
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@SpeakerPelosi
on Trump’s ask for a large down payment for the wall: “That is not a reasonable agreement.”
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The House Ethics Committee has opened investigations into both
@RepTomReed
and
@RepMattGaetz
over allegations of sexual misconduct (the Gaetz investigation also includes allegations of drug use, sharing inappropriate images/videos on House floor, misusing state IDs and more) -->
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As
@SpeakerPelosi
returns to the Capitol she says today wasn’t a negotiation, it was a meeting with a “petulant president.” This is not how democracy works, she said.
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“It was a war scene,” Edwards says. “I was slipping in people’s blood.”
“That day it was just hours of hand to hand combat, hours of dealing with things way beyond what any law enforcement officer is trained for.”
Ofc. Edwards describes blacking out as she was thrown backward during a struggle over bike rack barriers with rioters on 1/6. When she regained consciousness, she returned to patrol on the West Front.
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Cassidy on his vote: "I always said I'm gonna be an impartial juror...the House managers were focused, relied upon and trusted upon the opinion of legal scholars. Anyone who listened to President Trump's legal team saw they were unfocused, they attempted to avoid the issue."
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Statement from Pelosi on the executive order: "The President’s Executive Order seeks to replace one form of child abuse with another."
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A snapshot of recent
@CBSNews
polling on DACA: 85 percent of Americans say immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children should be. allowed to stay. Support is broad across various demographic groups includes a large majority of Republicans and almost all Dems.
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@MichelleObama
warning voters not to stay home.
"Being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are. Well, a presidential election can reveal who we are too. And four years ago too many people chose to believe that their votes didn’t matter."
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Two sources confirm to
@finnygo
and I that Jared Kushner is expected to appear before the 1/6 committee this Thursday, which ABC reported earlier today.
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At a late night press conference, Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe says voter registration information has been obtained by Iran and Russia that can be used to give voters false information. The goal: sow chaos and distrust.
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@SpeakerPelosi
reacts to the failed 1/6 commission vote in the Senate, saying it "brings shame" to the body.
What comes next? A bipartisan commission had been hear clear preference, but she hasn't ruled out creating a select committee to investigate.
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Pelosi on why she wanted to talk to Trump without cameras there: “We didn’t want to contradict the president when he was putting forth figures that have no basis in fact...I didn’t want to say in front of those people, ‘you have no idea what you’re talking about.’”
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Instructions to staffers in the Capitol right now -->
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Trump “knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months...he failed to do his job on purpose,”
@JoeBiden
says in response to news that Trump told Bob Woodward COVID-19 was “deadly” while downplaying the severity to the public.
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House GOP leadership cancelled their press conference this morning.
Official reason — conference ran late and voted already started.
But Speaker Ryan also left conference to take a call from President Trump before this tweet —>
When I begrudgingly signed the Omnibus Bill, I was promised the Wall and Border Security by leadership. Would be done by end of year (NOW). It didn’t happen! We foolishly fight for Border Security for other countries - but not for our beloved U.S.A. Not good!
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Just spoke with
@RepRaskin
on why he wanted his colleagues to hear from a USCP officer on the 1/6 commission debate.
“People should think about this from the standpoint of the line officers who were involved in essentially medieval battle conditions for four or five hours..."
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@JoeBiden
says his team will be able to move ahead without additional funding the transition team should receive, but cannot until the GSA ascertains a winner. Adds: "The PDB (presidential daily brief) would be useful, but it's not necessary. I'm not the sitting president now."
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Rep. Jim Jordan was interviewed Monday morning in Ohio by attorneys from Perkins Coie, who are investigating allegations of sexual abuse by Ohio State University wrestlers.
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Per
@alanhe
, here’s what
@lisamurkowski
had to say in August: “When Republicans held off Merrick Garland it was because nine months prior to the election was too close, we needed to let people decide. And I agreed to do that...” (1/2)
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🚨 The number three House Republican,
@Liz_Cheney
, says she’ll vote to impeach President Trump tomorrow. 🚨
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Some early antics in the Lewandowaki hearing. Nadler asks Lewandowaki to confirm something in the Mueller report. Lewandowski asks for a copy. Nadler doesn’t have one - but
@RepMGS
steps forward with a print copy.
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“... If we now say that months prior to the election is OK when nine months was not, that is a double standard and I don’t believe we should do it.” (2/2)
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9:21 p.m., 18 minutes of crosstalk, and we have reached the point of Biden saying to Trump, "Will you shut up man?"
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@SenSchumer
suggests he'll put a universal background check bill on the floor even if it has no Republican votes to force everyone to weigh in:
"HR8 will be on the floor and we’ll see where everybody stands," he said. "No more hopes and prayers."
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The acting Sergeant at Arms has told House members they will now be subject to magnetometer screening before entering the House chamber, an unprecedented security change in the wake of the 1/6 riots -->
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New member bonding: first female Native American women in Congress, Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids, have a coffee date scheduled after checking in for new member orientation in Washington.
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On the Russia bounties,
@JoeBiden
says, “both parties should demand the facts.”
And then, seemingly swiping back at Trump - who has questioned Biden’s own mental faculties - says, “He doesn’t seem to be cognitively aware of what’s going on.”
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So far,
@SenatorCassidy
is the first Republican to support moving forward with the trial after the start of the trial - he voted no last month. After House managers wrapped he said, "Clearly we have to hear the opposition but they presented very good arguments."
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Democrats wasting no time putting the Trump administration on the spot:
@FrankPallone
announces first three hearings for House Energy and Commerce will focus on climate change, a Texas judge's decision to strike down the ACA, and the Trump admin's family separation policy.
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Also:
-$500B grants and interest-free loans for small businesses
-$60B for schools and universities
-$4B for grant funding to do $15 days of early voting and no-excuse absentee vote by mail
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The hard evidence is in: when
@adamplevy
gets involved, a perfect score is possible.
(And yes, this one did involve a home light screen hack with a blanket and some chip clips).
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