Andrew Solender
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@Axios congress reporter, dog dad, New Yorker, dollar store Michael Cera丨Past: @Forbes 丨Tips: andrew.solender @axios .com
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Some protestors in Brooklyn calling to loot the Target, but organizers are rushing in front of the store to stop them, keep things non-violent
#nycprotest
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"Nobody elected Joe Biden to be FDR," McCarthy says in his floor speech.
"I did!" one Democrat pipes up.
"Me too!" says another.
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Rep. Liz Cheney says she’s a YES on bill to repeal DOMA + codify federal recognition for marriage equality.
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Pelosi to the GOP side, in response to snickers over her suggestion BBB will cut the debt: "Did I hear a laugh over there? Did I hear a laugh from those who added $2 trillion in tax cuts for the richest people in America?"
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Multiple members of Congress, including
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Q: “Are you disappointed with the way [Republicans] have treated your daughter?”
Dick Cheney: “My daughter can take care of herself.”
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California Rep. Eric Swalwell coming out of votes carrying a coconut.
“Staying hydrated,” he tells reporters.
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I spoke with one of the organizers who was holding people back, a Brooklyn resident named David.
This interview was conducted as protestors were fleeing charging NYPD Officers
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NEW: Jan. 6 Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson says they will request testimony from Ginni Thomas in light of the Eastman emails.
“We think it’s time that we, at some point, invite her to come talk to the committee.”
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is maskless on the floor in violation of the House mask mandate, just got a talking to from floor staff.
Greene, who has already been hit with $500 and $2,500 fines, could face further $2,500 fines.
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McCarthy in a floor speech alleges Democrats’ social spending bill is actually $5 trillion.
A group of Dems heckle him by shouting out increasingly large numbers:
“$6 trillion!”
“$7 trillion!”
“$8 trillion! 9!”
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WH logs indicate these members attended a Dec. 21 WH meeting, per Murphy:
Babin, Biggs, Gaetz, Gohmert, Gosar, Harris, Hice, Jordan and Perry + Rep-elect Greene.
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Rep. Brian Mast is wearing his IDF uniform for the GOP conference meeting today.
“Tlaib has her flag, I got my uniform.”
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The trucker convoy is making its way through Capitol Hill horns blaring, with residents yelling at them to “go home” and “fuck off”
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He actually did it
Just submitted an amendment to Bill drafting appointing MTG as Putin’s Special Envoy to the United States Congress.
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Kinzinger, asked if voters can trust his party with the majority: "If we're gonna be in charge and pushing conspiracy and pushing division and pushing lies, then the Republican Party should not have the majority."
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Asked a GOP aide for some analysis on McCarthy’s speech and this is what they replied:
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Almost no American knows this man's name and yet he's been one of the single most important figures in the last two Senate elections.
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More than 670,000 white flags have been planted on the Washingon Mall to honor each American death from coronavirus.
It’s incredibly difficult to capture the sheer scale of this project with one photo, or even one video.
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Some right-wing members repeatedly remaining seated in standing ovations during the Zelensky speech:
- Matt Gaetz
- Lauren Boebert
- Andrew Clyde
- Dianne Harshbarger
- Warren Davidson
- Michael Cloud
- Jim Jordan
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Sotomayor dissent against 5-4 decision declining to block Texas' abortion law:
"In effect, the Texas Legislature has deputized the State’s citizens as bounty hunters, offering them cash prizes for civilly prosecuting their neighbors’ medical procedures."
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👀 Jan. 6 select committee member Jamie Raskin says as the panel reviews thousands of pages of documents, “New facts are surfacing every single day about how this attack was organized, financed and executed.”
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By my count, roughly 100 of the 212 House Democrats and 27 of 51 Senate Democrats (and Dem-caucusing independents) are in the chamber for Netanyahu's speech.
That's around half of each caucus absent.
House Democrats currently in the chamber for the Netanyahu speech:
Suozzi
Moskowitz
Vargas
Kilmer
Peters
Cartwright
Pallone
Swalwell
Sorensen
Phillips
Manning
Golden
Lieu
Kennedy
Neguse
Gonzalez
Espaillat
Davids
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I think it would be a genuinely interesting experiment for CNN to fill their newly empty primetime slot with straight news programming and just… see what the numbers look like.
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31 House Dems push for Ticketmaster investigation “in light of the Taylor Swift tour fiasco.”
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Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat who reps part of Dulles, weighs in on GOP bill to rename the airport after Trump.
"Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I'd suggest they find a federal prison."
@Axios
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Pelosi announces committee assignments:
Mary Peltola - Natural Resources
Pat Ryan - Armed Services
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Happening now: Jewish Democratic Reps. Jared Moskowitz, Josh Gottheimer, Dan Goldman and Kathy Manning preparing to walk through the Columbia University campus.
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11 House Republicans send letters to 13 telecom companies vowing to "pursue all legal remedies" if they comply with the Jan. 6 committee's records request.
"Please be advised that the undersigned do not consent to the release of confidential call records or data," it concludes.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar plays a voicemail she says she received “hours” after Rep. Lauren Boebert posted a video about their phone call:
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NEW: Pelosi endorses Harris
"My enthusiastic support for Kamala Harris for President is official, personal and political."
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NEW: Liz Cheney on Trump endorsing her primary challenger.
"It is tragic that some in this race have sacrificed... duty to the people of Wyoming, out of fear and in favor of loyalty to a former president who... provoked an attack on the U.S. Capitol."
Full stmt 👇
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Greene and Kevin McCarthy are facing calls for an ethics investigation over similar threats.
More here:
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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he plans to vote for the bipartisan infrastructure bill if it comes up with week.
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Raucous applause for Republican former Rep. Adam Kinzinger at the Democratic National Convention:
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8 Republican YES votes on the Bannon contempt resolution:
Cheney
Kinzinger
Mace
Meijer
Gonzalez (Ohio)
Upton
Katko
Fitzpatrick
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New from me
@Axios
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- 70+ tweets about Trump btwn endorsement and primary, none since then
- No new ads feat. Trump vs. tons during primary
- Scrubbed Trump from social media profiles/website
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Organizer giving a speech instructing protestors to stay non-violent, isolate instigators.
Call and response: “Do not! Interact! With! The police!”
“If you see! A person! In the crowd! Inciting violence! Call them out! Call them out!”
Crowd overwhelmingly supports
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“We are losing the plot,” says Rep. Ayanna Pressley. “Joe Biden is the nominee.”
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“Sure would’ve been nice to hear from you yesterday,” one Democrat murmers as McCarthy speaks, referencing the Gosar censure debate.
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Rep. Don Bacon, one of the 13 Republicans who voted for the infrastructure bill last night, had a response to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s criticism: “She wouldn't do too well in Omaha."
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Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick and Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell introduce legislation to make election day a federal holiday:
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Gottheimer sides with White House and then some on the IRS funding – says BBB would cut the deficit by at least $112 billion.
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Critical Jewish mom update: She has forgiven Walz for beating Shapiro in the veepstakes
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A group of top House Democrats, led by AOC, send a letter to AG Garland calling for a DOJ investigation into Clarence Thomas:
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Vibe check for tomorrow: A House Democrat deeply skeptical of Biden tells me "the dam is holding" and predicts "very few members will openly speak in favor of Biden stepping aside."
"As someone who wanted the reckoning and is disappointed that it's over, trust me: it's over."
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Source passes along this photo of Sen. John Fetterman at the March for Israel with an Israeli flag draped around him:
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New: Another Jewish House Democrat, Rep. Sara Jacobs, calls for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Members arrested:
Dean, Velasquez, Lee, Speier, Clark, Jacobs, Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, Andy Levin, Carolyn Maloney, Adams, Watson Coleman, Escobar, Bush, Schakowsky, Omar & Pressley.
w/
@OrianaBeLike
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Pressley:
"The Senate must return to session immediately and bring this historic and transformational bill to a vote so Senator Manchin—and every Republican who has opposed it from the very beginning—can demonstrate, on the record, the contempt they have for their constituents"
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Gillibrand just lobbied Manchin *intensely* on paid family leave on the Senate floor. She wouldn’t let him get where he wanted to go without saying her piece.
“If you let me write it, I will write it. I just want it in this bill!” she exclaimed at one point. “It’s so cheap!”
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McCarthy is met with groans from a group of black woman Dems as he says “if I sound angry, I am.”
Rep. Joyce Beatty then walks out of the chamber with dismissive wave – around a dozen CBC members following along.
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One House Democrat texts me: “We are busily googling Austin Scott right now…”
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Pelosi's latest press release: "Is Kevin McCarthy OK?"
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"One minute's up," Rep. Tim Ryan says roughly 20 minutes into McCarthy's speech. He's been one of the most vocal hecklers.
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Inbox: Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell calls on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign over new reporting about Ginni Thomas.
"Clarence Thomas cannot possibly be seen as a neutral actor but instead as a corrupt jurist who has poisoned the High Court."
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Tired: The congressman-elect did not respond to a request for comment.
Inspired: We could not locate the congressman-elect and a person living at his stated address had no knowledge of his existance.
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Reps. Khanna, Beyer, Lee & Tlaib introduce bill to:
- Set 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices (current justices grandfathered in), afterwards they can serve on lower courts
- Create regular Supreme Court nominations every other year, give Senate 120 days to confirm
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New: This letter was just formally released with 37 additional Democratic signers including Nancy Pelosi.
Progressive Reps. Pocan, McGovern and Schakowsky are circulating a letter to Biden calling to halt weapons transfers to Israel over the World Central Kitchen strike:
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Democratic Rep-elect Daniel Goldman puts out a statement calling for the FBI and EDNY to investigate his fellow incoming NY freshman, Republican George Santos:
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Pelosi's office sends out a press release near the 2-hour mark of McCarthy's speech calling it a "temper tantrum"
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NEW: Bowman spox Emma Simon on him pulling the fire alarm.
“Congressman Bowman did not realize he would trigger a building alarm as he was rushing to make an urgent vote. The Congressman regrets any confusion.”
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Here’s where they’re being corralled. The group also includes the assistant House speaker, Katherine Clark.
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Rep. Mondaire Jones says there was “unanimous” endorsement of Biden’s reconciliation framework in the Progressive Caucus meeting.
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Telecom companies that got the letters, per Biggs' office: Amazon, AOL, Apple, AT&T, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Snap, T-Mobile, Twitter, U.S. Cellular Corporation, Verizon, Yahoo!
Signers include: Jim Banks, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Paul Gosar
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Trump, in a lengthy statement, decries the removal of Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue, calling it "magnificent."
"If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan... What an embarrassment we are suffering because we don’t have the genius of a Robert E. Lee!"
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Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola says she will be absent from House votes this week so she can prepare fish for winter storage:
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Walked into Thanksgiving dinner and was handed a printed-out National Review article. Off to a good start
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"The public fascination is with how mid his prose is in the DMs, especially for a songwriter."
"So it's not about the cheating?"
"The meme has transcended all that. People are just posting 'it is truly unreal how fucking hot you are' with like a picture of a baked potato now."
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Inbox: AOC has unveiled her articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for refusing to recuse from certain cases.
Co-sponsors: Lee (Calif.), Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez (Ill.), Frost, Omar and Bowman.
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The IRS says 140,803 people successfully filed their taxes with the agency's free direct file pilot program – exceeding their goal of 100,000.
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This memo on Jim Jordan was sent to Democratic offices this morning.
“The DCCC is committed to ensuring that every battleground Member of the Republican conference who stands and votes for a Speaker Jordan will be making a career ending move.”
More here:
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Democrats are just having fun with it at this point:
"Nobody elected Joe Biden to be FDR," McCarthy says in his floor speech.
"I did!" one Democrat pipes up.
"Me too!" says another.
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"I'm impressed Democrats finally got us to say, 'Defund the FBI,'" Rep. Dan Crenshaw told
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"That makes you look unserious, when you start talking like that."
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Pro-Palestinian Reps. Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib and Summer Lee are all wearing keffiyehs at the State of the Union.
None are clapping for Biden. Tlaib is staying seated.
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A woman’s family refused to let her date Lyndon Johnson when they were in high school because they thought he would be a failure like his father, and this is what LBJ did when he became president:
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There's something to be said this cycle for having a campaign chief with no obvious personal ambition beyond earnestly wanting their party to win the election
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Dems' three discharge petitions would force votes on:
- Assault weapons ban
- Universal background checks
- Closing Charleston loophole
"Democrats are stepping up so the American people can know where their Representatives stand," says Rep. Ryan.
@Axios
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"Oh my GOD," says Tim Ryan, fed up with McCarthy's nearly 40-minute long speech.
"I know Speaker Pelosi likes to remove people from committee when they don't meet a higher standard," McCarthy says, adding he's "worried" about Ryan.
AOC yells that Gosar was "inciting violence!"
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INBOX: GOP Rep. Peter Meijer and Dem Rep. Jason Crow introduce bill to raise the special immigrant visa cap for Afghans who assisted the U.S. military by 10,000.
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Trump goes after Chris Christie, who as recently as a year ago was helping Trump with debate prep:
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@abbyvesoulis
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that a good portion of the lunatics on AITA are feds
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Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney on subpoenaing witnesses: "I think you will see continued, very clear, aggressive and serious progress over the coming weeks."
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Indefinite speaker vacancy = no vote to expel George Santos
It’s just past 9:40pm and I have yet to hear from the Speaker-Designate. So I’ve made my decision and after 10 months and having had 0 contact or outreach from him, I’ve come to the conclusion that my VOTE doesn’t matter to him.
I’m now declaring I’m an ANYONE but Scalise and
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Klobuchar says on CNN she's been working to build support for a voting rights carveout to the filibuster: "I've talked to Sen. Manchin, Sen. Sinema – there's not that many senators – and that's what we're doing."
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Some professional news: I've been promoted to senior reporter for
@Forbes
– covering the White House, Congress and all things political.
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Democrats starting to file out of their meeting after around 45 minutes. Many staying perfectly silent in response to questions, some look rather shell shocked.
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Today I learned about the merger of two Vermont colleges called Lyndon State and Johnson State
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The devil works hard but the congressional woodshop works harder
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Just two House Republicans voting for the Meadows contempt resolution: Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the two GOP members of the Jan. 6 committee.
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“Hey it’s the RINO,” Rep. Liz Cheney jokingly tells Rep. John Katko as they cross paths outside the House chamber.
Katko replies: “Takes one to know one.”
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NEW: House Democrats are preparing bills to codify Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage/intimacy, contraceptive access – and, potentially, interracial marriage.
Over 20 Senate Republicans declined to stake out positions in interviews with
@Axios
More:
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"Joe Biden's presidency has often been compared to Jimmy Carter's," McCarthy says.
"Not really," says Ryan.
"No, no, no," says Rep. Steve Cohen.
"Not one time," Ryan adds.
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I will not be taking questions at this time:
Which of your state’s senators is seeing the Barbie and which is seeing Oppenheimer? (you have to choose)
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Even Republican staffers are tuned out:
Asked a GOP aide for some analysis on McCarthy’s speech and this is what they replied:
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