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Klobuchar on KBJ: “She has more experience as a judge than four people who are already on the Supreme Court — not that we're keeping track.”
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New: Raskin and Blumenthal introduce bill to “subject the President, Vice President, Members of the Cabinet, Members of Congress, or other senior officials to both civil and criminal penalties for accepting foreign government payments without Congress’s consent.”
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News: Liz Cheney will serve as the vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee.
“We will not be deterred by threats or attempted obstruction and we will not rest until our task is complete,” Cheney said.
Chair Bennie Thompson selected Cheney to the position.
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Hunter Biden is taking an aggressive approach to GOP questioning, according to Dems in the deposition.
Moskowitz: “They're asking lots of questions on Hunter’s business. He posed this question, ‘How come they're not curious about the $2B Jared Kushner got from the Saudis?’”
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I asked McCarthy about how he would describe his interactions with Biden during negotiations.
“Very professional, very smart. Very tough at the same time,” McCarthy replied
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This DOJ indictment says the confidential source informant — who was hailed by Hill Republicans as providing evidence of a Biden bribery scandal — was making it up. Wow.
BREAKING: DOJ has charged the informant who provided derogatory informaton about Hunter and Joe Biden with "false statements" and obstruction.
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Per a source, here's a photo from last night of a bunch of alcohol in Van Orden's office. Van Orden and staff were heard partying loudly before he cursed out a group of teenage Senate pages
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Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, who’s poised to be chief deputy whip, on what could possibly swing the 19 Jordan voters: “We’ll see what happens when Tucker and Sean Hannity and Ben Shapiro start beating up on these guys. Maybe that'll move it.”
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Motion to discharge Ketanji Brown Jackson from the Judiciary Cmte passes Senate 53-47.
Likely mirrors final confirmation vote, with GOP Sens. Collins, Murkowski and Romney voting with all Democrats
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Harris campaign sending out a press release featuring McConnell's criticism of Trump's tariff plan
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Sen. Manchin during WSJ event ripping Biden admin on inflation:
"We had people at that time saying inflation would be transitory. We had 17 Nobel laureates saying it's going to be no problem. Well, 17 Nobel laureates were wrong."
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Why isn’t
@AOC
attending the Netanyahu speech?
“Because he’s a war criminal,” she tells reporters.
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Jeffries slams House Republicans for their behavior last night.
“That was an embarrassment last night.”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene shows up in campaign paraphernalia. And then these people want to lecture Joe Biden because he delivered a strong and forceful speech?”
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I asked Cori Bush about the investigation directly last night. She repeatedly declined to comment and reprimanded me for approaching her as she had a toothache.
🚨BREAKING NEWS -- THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is conducting a criminal probe into
@CoriBush
, according to six sources familiar with the investigation.
The Justice Department subpoenaed the House Sergeant at Arms for records relating to the misspending of federal security money.
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McConnell on Finland/Sweden NATO vote:
“If any senators are looking for a defensible excuse to vote no, I wish them good luck. This is a slam dunk for national security that deserves unanimous bipartisan support.”
Measure expected to pass Senate with 90-plus votes today.
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Moskowitz trolling Comer: "As a former director of emergency management, I know a disaster when I see one."
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New: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) is writing to colleagues that she will run to be the new Battleground Leadership Representative, if the House Dem Caucus approves the rules change creating the position.
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George Santos lurking behind an animated Matt Gaetz. Center of the action
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Sen. Peter Welch is calling on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race in a new WaPo op-ed.
“We cannot unsee President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. We cannot ignore or dismiss the valid questions raised since that night.”
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New: A source close to Elissa Slotkin's team says she's seriously considering running for Senate in '24
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News: Rep. Ritchie Torres is introducing a new rule — the GEORGE (Getting Expelled Officially Revokes Guaranteed Entry) Rule — that would revoke House floor privileges for expelled members of the House of Representatives.
Comes after Santos was on the floor for
#SOTU
yday
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New Dem Chair Annie Kuster, head of influential center-left caucus, tells me Kamala Harris has her "full throated endorsement."
So leaders of biggest progressive and moderate House Dem groups are on same page here
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal endorses Harris, an important sign of left wing coalescing around Biden’s chosen successor
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Spanberger beats Cartwright to be the House Dem Battleground Leadership Representative, 33-20
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Still no sign of Kevin McCarthy at the GOP Election Night party here in DC
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Matt Cartwright, Dem who represents a Trump district, tells me he will vote to oust McCarthy.
“After I saw Kevin McCarthy's interview with Margaret Brennan, all magnanimity left my body.”
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Matt Gaetz just living absolutely rent free in McCarthy’s head. Trolling the entire GOP conference.
Staggering, outrageous scenes.
Welcome to the 118th Congress. This is just week one.
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Jeffries calling for vote on national security bill, says “it’s not too much to ask to let the House of Representatives actually work its will as opposed to allowing Donald Trump to work his will”
Adds “there are more than 300 bipartisan votes” in the House to pass the bill.
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Tlaib wouldn’t respond just now when I asked if she had considered taking this post down, after Biden said he believes Israel didn’t bomb this hospital
Israel just bombed the Baptist Hospital killing 500 Palestinians (doctors, children, patients) just like that.
@POTUS
this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire & help de-escalate.
Your war and destruction only approach has opened my eyes and many
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Spanberger looks set to HOLD
#VA07
, a big victory for Democrats in Virginia. Spanberger's district was substantially changed after redistricting. The incumbent campaigned heavily on Dems' legislative achievements.
Rs were hoping to flip the seat, which Youngkin won in '21
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Fresh from the Emmys, Seth Rogen is in the Capitol appearing with Sen. Bob Casey to advocate for American caregivers
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Just caught up with Gov. Youngkin on his Pelosi comments that drew strong criticism last week.
“At the end of the day, I really wanted to express the fact that what happened to Speaker Pelosi’s husband was atrocious. And I didn't do a great job.”
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In new letter to Comer, Hunter Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell offers to let Hunter testify in front of Oversight on any day in December in a public setting.
Oversight Rs have subpoenaed Hunter for a closed door deposition.
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@RepMcCaul
pessimistic on Jordan’s speaker future.
“If he has 21 nos, I don’t see how he can recover,” McCaul says. “For me the wild card is McCarthy coming back.”
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Retiring GOP Sen. Ben Sasse on Trump: “I think people are gonna have to choose if they're for the circus clown or they're for the Constitution.”
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Jamie Raskin says Trump assassination attempt is "a double failure"
Failure by Secret Service to protect Trump
And failure of the country to protect its citizens against gun violence
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Eli Crane, who’s a strong Jordan backer, isn’t happy with McHenry resolution.
“I know what my voters want. And I know what the American people want, and it's Jim Jordan. I don't think a lot of the people in this conference actually give a shit what the American people want.”
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News: Jack Smith will appeal the dismissal, per statement from special counsel spox
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New: Jamie Raskin, the top Dem on Oversight, is calling on the Secret Service to release visitor information from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and Pence’s Carmel, Ind., home “to assist the Committee in investigating the mishandling of classified information.”
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Sinema NOT RUNNING FOR REELECTION.
It will be Gallego vs Lake
A message for Arizonans from Senator Kyrsten Sinema
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Bowman's office sent out this guidance to House Dem offices, looking for social media backup on fire alarm situation.
One proposed rebuttal: "Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party before anything else"
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Ethics Cmte says it's reviewing allegations that Matt Gaetz may have "engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use"
"accepted improper gifts"
"dispensed special privileges and favors to individuals with whom he had a personal relationship"
and obstructed investigation
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DAVID TRONE is walking back into the House floor with his arm in a sling. He just had shoulder surgery and is back to vote for Jeffries. I asked how he was feeling: “Been better”
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Pelosi recounts a conversation she had with Obama when the ACA passed.
“He called me and said, ‘I'm happier today than I was the night I was elected President of the United States.’”
Pelosi has the gavel from when the ACA passed the House. Schumer says, “remember what that was like?”
Pelosi welcomes him back to the House side
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We’re hearing fury from House Dems about reporting that Hunter Biden is sitting in on high-level meetings with the president and serving as an informal advisor.
Their take is that Hunter should be nowhere near these conversations about the president’s future.
On Hunter Biden showing up at White House meetings with the president and his advisers, Karine Jean-Pierre responds, "He came back with his dad from Camp David. He walked into the speech prep. He was in the room.”
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McConnell: "It's time to move something, hopefully including a border agreement. But we need to get help to Israel and Ukraine quickly."
"There is bipartisan support here in the Senate for both Israel and Ukraine, hopefully at some point we can get them the support they need."
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Another Dem win in a toss-up district. Gonzalez beats GOP Rep. Mayra Flores, who won a South Texas special election this spring.
#TX34
seat voted heavily for Biden in 2020, but had shifted to toss-up due to expected shifts among Latino voters toward Rs
BREAKING: Democrat Vicente Gonzalez wins re-election to the U.S. House in Texas's 34th Congressional District, NBC News projects.
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NC GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx said she “hasn’t really followed him closely” when asked about latest Mark Robinson news
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Jeffries’ take on debt limit bill:
“President Biden protected Social Security. President Biden protected Medicare. President Biden protected Medicaid. President Biden protected veterans. President Biden protected the Inflation Reduction Act.”
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Cheatle says internal Secret Service investigation is aiming to be completed in 60 days.
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@AOC
follows up and says that timeline is unacceptable given the threat environment
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@RepRaskin
: “I stand 100% by my statements that we were told by the FBI team that visited us on Monday, June 5, 2023, that the Department of Justice team of prosecutors and FBI agents under U.S. Attorney Scott Brady determined that there were no grounds to escalate their probe"
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Moskowitz asks for a show of hands of who wants to hear from Hunter Biden right now. No Republicans raise their hands
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Sen. Rand Paul, speaking about McConnell’s health: “I don't think it's been particularly helpful to have the Senate doctor describing it as dehydration, which I think even a non-physician seeing that probably aren't really accepting that explanation.”
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Really good sense of where Frontliners are at from
@RepSpanberger
, who represents vulnerable member perspectives in House Dem leadership
If anyone who thinks some vulnerable moderate Dems may be in the mood to save for McCarthy, think again. Lots of angst toward KM from those members and no appetite to bail Rs out
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Speaker McCarthy tried it.
Majority Leader Scalise tried it.
Whip Emmer tried it.
Vice Chair Johnson tried it.
Policy Cmte Chair Palmer tried it.
RSC Chair Hern tried it.
All who’s left in GOP leadership yet to launch a speaker bid? Elise Stefanik
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The anti-Jordan block is strong.
Austin Scott said he didn’t even want to be speaker. His candidacy is a good marker of how many House Rs aren’t comfortable with a speaker Jordan right now.
BREAKING ...
JORDAN - 124
SCOTT - 81
Jordan picked up just 25 votes. Scott, who didn't campaign for the job and got in minutes before the race, got 81 votes.
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More from Hunter Biden's fiery opening statement:
"You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any"
"My testimony today should put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade."
New: Check out Hunter Biden's full opening statement here:
"I am here today to provide the Committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business."
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Thread: As the House enters day two of speaker voting, here's a sense of how dead-set some of McCarthy's opponents are.
Bob Good: "I won't be talking with Kevin McCarthy. As far as I'm concerned, he is not an option. He is part of the problem. He is not part of the solution."
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Wow- this is notable because Marc Veasey becomes first member of the Congressional Black Caucus to demand President Biden not run for reelection.
Joined by leading progs Mark Pocan and Jared Huffman. And CHC progressive Chuy Garcia. (CHC BOLD PAC just endorsed Biden)
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It’s midnight. Kevin McCarthy still hasn’t surfaced at the Republican Election Night party
Still no sign of Kevin McCarthy at the GOP Election Night party here in DC
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Another Indiana GOP retirement, this time it's Mike Pence's brother Greg
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House Ethics Cmte admonishes Rep. Madison Cawthorn over his promotion of the Let’s Go Brandon Coin and orders him to "repay $14,237.49 to an appropriate charitable organization" by 12/31 and "remit late fees of $1,000 to the U.S. Department of the Treasury within fourteen days"
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Comer says on Fox he's "100% confident" that Secret Service Director Cheatle will show up next Monday for hearing on Trump assassination attempt.
"By next Monday, she should have a lot of answers to a lot of questions"
Comer confirms Oversight will receive briefing tomorrow
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#OH01
was one of the top red-to-blue flip opportunities available for House Dems tonight.
Dem Greg Landsman leads incumbent GOP Rep. Steve Chabot 51-49 with 92% of votes in
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While the post-debate Dem freak out continues, consider this more pro-Biden take from a House Democrat.
“Yes, not his top form but America heads out on vacation tomorrow to lakes and barbecues across the country…
Biden is old and earnest. Trump is old and full of lies.”
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MTG’s boyfriend Brian Glenn just told reporters that we may want to “tune in”
🚨BREAKING NEWS -- MTG chatting with the floor staff, just handed a piece of paper with a resolution to the parliamentarian staff.
She threatened earlier to file a motion to vacate....
@bresreports
and i just witnessed it.
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More context: The guidance was initially emailed to Dem offices as a Google Docs link.
A further update from Bowman's team was sent, alerting staff that the link was closed "as it was leaked to reporters."
Bowman's office sent out this guidance to House Dem offices, looking for social media backup on fire alarm situation.
One proposed rebuttal: "Republicans need to instead focus their energy on the Nazi members of their party before anything else"
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Hakeem Jeffries went strong on historical references during his pump-up speech to House Dems ahead of vote on foreign aid package, citing Lincoln, FDR and Churchill, per members present
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“Her leadership and insights have shaped the early work of the Select Committee and this appointment underscores the bipartisan nature of this effort,”Thompson said. “We are fortunate to have a partner of such strength and courage.”
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First in
@PunchbowlNews
: New memo from House Dem staff argues that recent developments in the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden have further exonerated the president from any wrongdoing.
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Tracking the 5 hard nos: Matt Gaetz reaffirms he’s still a no on McCarthy. Ralph Normans says he’s definitely a no on the first ballot.
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@RepDesposito
just introduced his George Santos expulsion resolution on the House floor. Flanked by LaLota, Molinaro, Lawler and Emmer.
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House Foreign Affairs Chair Michale McCaul on a potential way forward for Israel aid:
“I think there's discussion about putting Israeli funding with Ukraine funding, maybe Taiwan funding and finally border security funding. To me that would be a good package.”
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Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal endorses Harris, an important sign of left wing coalescing around Biden’s chosen successor
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Another impressive result for an incumbent Dem: Rep. Sharice Davids is running well clear of GOP challenger Amanda Adkins in
#KS03
, 55-43 with 95% of the vote in.
Davids ran on abortion rights and constantly tied Adkins to her former boss, former Gov. Sam Brownback.
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Asked Hakeem Jeffries about the proposed idea to empower McHenry and if Dems could get behind that.
“All options are on the table,” Jeffries said
🚨BREAKING NEWS: DAVID JOYCE is expected to file a motion TODAY to elect PATRICK MCHENRY as a permanent speaker pro tem.
@PunchbowlNews
AM HERE:
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As a lifelong member of Badger Nation, have to chime in here to correct the record.
From the parental archives, me at Camp Randall circa 2007>>>
How do you say you have never been to Wisconsin without saying you have never been to Wisconsin?
Those were constituents, you must be a flat-lander.
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Andy Biggs says that Devon Archer didn’t know anything at all about the Joe and Hunter Biden bribery allegation contained in the FD-1023 form
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McCarthy: “I think if we had a clean [CR] without Ukraine on it, we could probably be able to move that through. I think if the Senate puts Ukraine on there and focuses Ukraine over America, I think I think that could cause real problems.”
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Boebert switched districts and it paid off. She’s virtually assured to return to Congress next year and avoids a tough general election fight in CO-3
NBC News projects that Lauren Boebert wins the GOP primary in CO-4
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New DCCC memo cites polling that has Frontline Dems leading R challengers by avg of 8 points.
Plus, memo predicts “renewed enthusiasm from Democratic and independent voters, voters of color, and younger voters.” Harris effect?
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“Good morning everyone, this is day three of Republicans not being able to organize themselves in a manner that allows the Congress to move forward,” Hakeem Jeffries says
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New: Check out Hunter Biden's full opening statement here:
"I am here today to provide the Committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business."
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Jamaal Bowman, yelling outside the House floor: “These people are crazy! You vote them into office, this is what happens! We tried to tell them. They don’t want to govern!”
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Tammy Baldwin, up in battleground Wisconsin, endorses Harris
"I look forward to her candidacy as a new beginning for our party and our country"
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McConnell, speaking in Louisville, calls for strong sanctions against Russia.
“Ratchet the sanctions all the way up. Don't hold anything back.“
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News: Jamie Raskin calls for Cheatle to resign as director of Secret Service.
Notable here from top Dem on Oversight
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Ted Lieu says Asian Americans boosted Suozzi, attributes part of that dynamic to Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump mocks Asian Americans, he makes fun of people with funny sounding last names like Elaine Chao… Republicans remain silent and the Asian American community notices.”
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News: Arizona Dem Rep. Greg Stanton calls on Biden to step aside as nominee.
Early backer of Biden in 2020 and is in a swing state.
"For the sake of American democracy... I believe it is time for the President to step aside as our nominee.”
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Following today’s vote series, one House Democrat tells me that the tide is turning against Biden among Hill Dems.
“It’s a sense of trying to get Biden to come to the decision to drop out himself. The attempt to silence Democrats at the start of the week backfired.”
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Harry Arter. Hasn’t played for Fulham since October. Moments after being subbed on versus Villa, he does this.
Magnificent.
#ffc
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