bryan metzger
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senior politics reporter @businessinsider
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Joined November 2016
there's been some great discussion about how nice it is to have expanded C-SPAN access in the chamber but not enough about the great professional photos we're getting
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friendly reminder to straight women that Steve Kornacki is gay.
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the circle is helpful, thank you senator.
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Some progressives’ reactions to Meta CEO Zuckerberg’s announcement:. @AOC: “We got a bunch of billionaire ass kissers.”. @MaxwellFrostFL: “I was like, damn, Facebook had fact checkers?”. @SenWarren: “I’m a little surprised to hear that he thinks [X is] a successful model.”.
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.@SenBobCasey appears to have the *gayest* Senate Democratic office — 30% of his staff identify as LGBTQ. Close runner-ups: .Murray - 29%.Fetterman - 28% .Sanders - 26% .Cortez Masto - 26% .Peters - 26% .Smith - 26% .Wyden - 26%.
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. to Pound Town?.
This is taken out of context, Glenn. We all look forward to @Kash_Patel taking these idiotic Democrats to Pound Town if/when they decide to waste their time asking him about hypothetical conspiracy theories in his hearing. 🍿.
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Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) says Republicans would've won "30 to 40 House seats" if Biden remained the nominee, including her own.
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In which a Republican politician calls San Francisco "amazing.". Matt Gaetz Ethics Report, Appendix B Part 2, page 9:.
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Cisneros defeated Kim and was elected to Congress in 2018, then she defeated him in a 2020 rematch. Now they’re serving together.
You never know who you’ll run into on the House floor!. Looking forward to working with you, @gilcisnerosca.
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Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general nominee, owned more than $3.9 million in Truth Social stock in December. She earned it as compensation for consulting, according to her financial disclosure. More details from that doc, including her $1 million lobbying salary, in our story.
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Jim Justice will be sworn in 10 days after all the other newly elected senators, which will make the 73-year-old two-term governor the most junior member of the US Senate.
Gov. Jim Justice makes official what I've been told by sources now for weeks: Justice will wait to resign as governor to take his U.S. Senate seat until Jan. 13 when Governor-Elect Patrick Morrisey is sworn in.
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Rep. Kay Granger, the top GOP appropriator in the House until last March, is reportedly in an assisted living facility.
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glad to see that senators are getting the same kind of flash cards i got when i was a summer page in 2015 lol.
New job, same mission: To work across the aisle and get things done. To do that I need to know my new colleagues. So to help, they give us flash cards so we can learn about our new colleagues and their states. Can’t wait to forge new relationships to deliver for Michigan!
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Rep. Thomas Massie, the biggest Mike Johnson holdout ahead of tomorrow's vote, on how his wife's death earlier this year has impacted his political career.
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, emerging from House Democrats’ caucus meeting, approaches a dormant camera: “Can I say something here?”. Cameraman: “No, sorry, I’m finished.”.
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why is she still doing interviews!.
"Did you tell your ghost writer to write that?". Gov Kristi Noem (R-SD) is asked about claim in her book that she met with North Korea's leader ==>
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cropping out Trump is maybe the most resistance-y thing i've seen from a major pol since he won.
President Jimmy Carter loved our country. He lived his faith, served the people, and left the world better than he found it. President Carter’s many contributions will echo for generations to come.
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Why the Rotunda and not like, the House chamber?.
NEW: Trump’s inauguration is expected to be moved indoors Monday due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in DC. Plans are underway to have Trump be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda and the parade potentially be held at the Capital One Arena.
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current state of the DNC chair race:.
Ken Martin is saying we’re getting our “butts kicked”, but under his leadership, Minnesota has trended more to the right than ever. Let’s win with O’Malley.
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AOC says a Republican member asked her if she was pregnant on the House floor this week.
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is this why he stopped tweeting.
SCOOP: President-elect Donald Trump is encouraging Vivek Ramaswamy to take the Ohio Senate seat vacated by JD Vance's departure, per sources. Unclear what this would mean for DOGE, which Trump picked Ramaswamy & Musk to lead in November. Senate decision up to Ohio's governor.
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House members beginning clapping as the clerk notes that Matt Gaetz won't be taking his seat.
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you can tell when someone’s a member of Congress. even if you don’t recognize them or they’re not wearing a pin. they have a Vibe.
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"How are Sloan and Leroy?".
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Democratic lawmakers, including Rep. Henry Cuellar, pressed AOC about her previous support for progressive primary challengers when she sought the top job on Oversight, per WaPo
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still giggling to myself about this stupid tweet.
We're about at the point where DeSantis & DeWine need to appoint DeSenators.
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Rep. @MaxwellFrostFL to me on the political dynamics of the looming TikTok ban, and Trump positioning himself as a TikTok savior.
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some of these lawmakers are exhibiting real theatre kid behavior as they're casting votes for Johnson and Jeffries.
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Jimmy Carter will lie in state in the rotunda from January 7-9
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Rep. Kay Granger is in a senior living center, but it's not memory care, @dallasnews reports. But her son says she's been "having some dementia issues late in the year."
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Torres's bio — "Personal account in which I speak for myself rather than for the federal government" — has always read to me as an "I'm allowed to block you from this account" disclaimer.
.@RitchieTorres is blocking everyone on X, including @GovKathyHochul's staffers.
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Sen. John Fetterman arriving for Trump's inauguration ceremony this morning. via AFP's Andrew Caballero-Reynolds
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Biden says in USA Today interview that he would have won reelection if he had remained the nominee, but is unsure if he would've been able to serve another term. "Who the hell knows? So far, so good. But who knows what I'm going to be when I'm 86 years old?"
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we’ve come a long way
Tonight, President Trump received the first ever Presidential Commemorative Inaugural Diet Coke bottle from the Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Company, James Quincey 🇺🇸
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one of the great tragedies of Twitter allowing for long tweets is that this tweet otherwise would’ve been in some sort of Canva-style graphic format, or perhaps even the Notes app. we’ve been robbed.
I can understand why some people are upset about a 20 year old story of Cricket, one of the working dogs at our ranch, in my upcoming book — No Going Back. The book is filled with many honest stories of my life, good and bad days, challenges, painful decisions, and lessons.
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it’s fairly common for staff to help members of Congress with parliamentary procedure, it’s arcane stuff.
Here's 81 year old congresswoman @VirginiaFoxx who just fell down House stairs blanking on the House floor before being told what to say by a staffer in 2023
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seeing both conservatives and liberals tweeting about how it’s weak to move the inauguration indoors lol.
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Kamala Harris's final financial disclosure shows she established an LLC in December called "Pioneer49.". It's listed as an "entity to assist the former Vice President.". Unclear exactly what it's for, but pols sometimes set up LLCs for book advances, paid speeches, etc.
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And he was just elected to his 3rd term!.
Ted Cruz introduced a constitutional amendment for term limits, as he has done each Congress since 2017. Limit of 3 House terms or 2 Senate terms, not counting terms before an adoption of the amendment.
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smoke-filled rooms used to be aspirational.
Some smoke in the Senate wing after Thune’s first use of the fireplace in the GOP leader suite. It likely hasn’t been used since 2007, when McConnell first moved in. As Leader, he hung a portrait of Henry Clay that was on loan, under the stipulation the fireplace not be used.
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New: Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Trump's pick to lead the EPA, was paid tens of thousands of dollars to write op-eds criticizing ESG and New York state's climate policies, per his financial disclosure. He also made $65,500 in paid speeches and won $45,475 from gambling at casinos.
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love when people describe committees as "powerful" when they announce their assignments (though it's probably warranted for appropriations)
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Matt Gaetz, fellow journalist.
Mike Johnson will be elected Speaker today. On the first vote. People might like or dislike that. I’m just reporting the news.
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haven't been following — has the current state of the DNC's digital operation come up at all in the DNC chair race?.
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The original source is sketchy (some sort of partisan right-wing outlet in Texas) but like. Granger hasn't voted since July and her office would've denied it by now if it wasn't true.
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just think. within a month or two the 2026 midterms will be underway.
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Making Canada the 51st state would probably result in 2 more Democrats in the Senate….
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Trump sides with Elon Musk and the tech right over H-1B visas
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shoutout to these random The Hill opinion writers for giving people something to talk about today
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) flatly declared that Mike Johnson won’t win the speakership on the first round. “So, we’ll see how it goes,” he told me. He seemed unbothered by it, said he doesn’t worry about the broader agenda being at risk.
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Didn't realize Johnson hadn't already earned Boebert's vote. .
TONIGHT: I'll be joining The @MattGaetz Show to discuss what it will take for Mike Johnson to earn my vote to become Speaker of the House tomorrow! 👀. Tune in to @OANN at 9pm ET/8pm CT!.
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Matt Gaetz's lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee says the damage to his "reputation and professional standing would be immediate, severe and irreversible" once the report is released.
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True or false: . Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O.
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The 34 House Republicans who voted against this final CR. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) voted present.
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@scottwongDC @frankthorp Also, Jamaal Bowman says he might run for Senate, governor, or mayor.
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An update — Bondi will sell off her Truth Social shares, according to an ethics agreement made public this morning.
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New: Several Republicans on Capitol Hill want to repeal the Impoundment Control Act, handing Trump far greater control over how the federal government spends money. I asked them — why would you want Congress to relinquish (at least some of) the power of the purse?
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FWIW these were the quippier part of Democrats' responses. By and large, they see this as Big Tech capitulating to Trump in the face of a threat.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) will be the ranking member of the DOGE subcommittee.
👏 @RepShontelBrown will serve as the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation. 👏@Rep_Stansbury will serve as the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency.
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The House Freedom Caucus board — many of them big Johnson skeptics — is pushing a stock trading ban. If there's any House movement on it, it may be because GOP hardliners push for it. Not clear that'll happen, but Chip Roy told me he's putting his "foot on the gas."
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House Republicans have released a new rules package requiring support from 9 members of the majority party to call a vote on ousting the speaker of the House. It was previously just one.
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Happens in the House more than you might think!.
@metzgov Pat and I maintain a healthy friendship and I am grateful. It’s hard to think serving even a single term in the United States Congress is somehow a defeat. Public service isn’t what I do, it’s who I am… and this has been a privilege and honor.
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Fetterman endorsing the US using military force against Iran.
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Though within a few weeks, he'll be the second-most junior. Whoever Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appoints to replace JD Vance will be the lowest.
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New: Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) has also been named to the House Oversight DOGE subcommittee. This will not be a subcommittee full of DOGE-curious Dems.
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Matt Gaetz's correspondence with the House Ethics Committee is full of bombast. From Page 19 of Appendix A:.
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Trump's federal worker hiring freeze executive order refers to an "Administrator of the United States DOGE Service" (USDS). Is that Musk? Someone else?
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Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX), now the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, striking a slightly different tone than other Dems in his January 6 statement — brings up Social Security and Medicare.
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MTG takes credit for the addition of the "Family-Centric language" to the House Rules package, which replaces gender-neutral language with gendered language.
I worked on some big House rules changes before the Speaker’s vote. Here’s what you need to know.
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no joke one of my New Year’s resolutions is to finally fix my posture. i am 6’2” but do not act like it.
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(He teases a run for governor at the end of this).
Welcome, newcomers. The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it!
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Doubt he'd do it (he barely wanted to be in the Senate, why would he want to be in the House) but if you're at the NRCC you'd be silly not to give him a call.
Despite losing to Alsobrooks by 12 points, Larry Hogan somehow managed to win half of Maryland’s CDs.
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Speaker Mike Johnson says at POLITICO event that he has 387 unread text messages on his phone as of this morning.
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it's not like a half-staff flag will show up in any inauguration shots, given that it's inside now.
👀 Flag-ging: Speaker Johnson previously said the House would raise the US flags for Inauguration Day to full staff, but operations are encountering an issue: the cords are frozen, a source in Johnson’s office confirms to me.
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One of those non-returning members is GOP Rep. Marc Molinaro, who’s presiding over this last vote. Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan, his opponent in a 2022 special election, could be seen on the C-SPAN feed walking up to the podium and shaking his hand.
Just keep thinking these end of year votes must feel so anticlimactic for members not returning -- your last vote as a lawmaker and folks are like running out the door, can't leave fast enough, screaming "Merry Christmas" over their shoulders.
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i feel like the oppo's gonna go crazy in the NJ-GOV race.
In April, @RepJoshG held a press conference in front of a Planned Parenthood office to announce a bill to protect access to the abortion pill. Eight months later, Gottheimer has not introduced it, despite campaign statements claiming to have done so.
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House Republicans have almost reached their 1-vote majority. Once Elise Stefanik is confirmed as UN Ambassador, they'll be at 217-215.
The clerk read a message announcing the resignation of @RepWaltzPress effective Jan. 20. The Chair announced that in light of the resignation, the whole number of the House is 433 (218 Republicans, 215 Democrats and two vacancies).
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Progressive staffers want to bring the 32-hour workweek to Congress. @cpsaDC is set to send this letter to members later today. Would be rotating — 32-hour week for DC staff when Congress is out of session, 32-hour week for district staff when they're in session.
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has anyone else noticed that Sen. Tim Sheehy looks like Jesse Plemons.
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