Leigh Ann Caldwell @LACaldwellDC Twitter profile

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4 years

WOAH: Redfield just told senators that wearing a face mask might be more protection against COVID than a vaccine.

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7 months

NEWS: Democrats will NOT vote present and will NOT vote to table. Sources say the caucus is unified. McCarthy’s actions on Jan 6, his trip to Mar a Lago, his attempt to discredit the Jan 6 Cmte, his reneging on debt limit deal and his actions this weekend are all the reasons

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3 years

There it is. The bipartisan infrastructure bill

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. @SenatorRomney wants to preserve some of the damage of the Capitol from the insurrection as a reminder of what happened, his aide tells me.

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2 years

NEWS: @lisamurkowski says she is going to pick @MaryPeltola as her first choice on her ballot. “Yeah I am,” she says when asked by @ZachHughesNews

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The House Freedom Caucus with @RepScottPerry had a morning press conference scheduled about the FBI. It just got cancelled "due to a scheduling conflict." They say it will be rescheduled.

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3 years

The Capitol is mostly empty this morning but many remnants of yesterday remain. Four bullet holes in the glass of the doors that lead to the House Capitol steps

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5 years

NEW: Vindman told House investigators that a WH meeting AND nearly $400 million in security and military aid was “contingent” on Ukrainian officials carrying out multiple investigations, including into Burisma, the Bidens, the 2016 election and Crowd Strike. w/ @GeoffRBennett

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3 years

FBI SWAT team in Capitol complex

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4 years

The CDC wanted to recommend that anyone over 60 remain inside their homes whenever possible, but was told not to say that by Trump administration officials, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News

Inside the White House's bungled effort to combat the coronavirus

Trump’s own advisers acknowledged to NBC News that the failure to focus on widespread testing was a major misstep.

www.nbcnews.com

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3 years

House Dem and GOP leaders are holding respective dinners for new members. . @SpeakerPelosi told me it’s safe. “It’s very spaced,” she said and there is enhanced ventilation and the Capitol physician signed off.

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6 years

NEWS: Murkowski, entering the Capitol “on the way to talk to her colleagues,” said she supports @JeffFlake proposal for a one week delay and an investigation.

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8 months

This is a big distortion of reality: @LisaDNews : What are the chances of a government shutdown? McCarthy: I don't know. You'd have to ask Pres. Biden. Reminder: McCarthy can't pass a CR w/ GOP votes & he refuses to pass one with Dems. Biden has nothing to do w/ this.

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4 years

I just saw Ken Starr in the Capitol. I tried to ask him a question but because of the impeachment trial limited press access rules, Capitol Police said I couldn’t talk to him. This is the 5th time I’ve been stopped from talking to people in the Capitol bc of these rules.

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3 years

CONFIRMED: Jim Jordan will NOT run for Senate Ohio seat in 2022, a congressional campaign spokesman says.

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3 years

. @VP greets a familiar face who she hasn’t seen in a while: Capitol Police Officer Goodman. She thanks him and then says to those around that they’ll be seeing her a lot around the Senate.

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4 years

NEW: @senatemajldr McConnell told his members in a closed door lunch that he told the White House not to agree to a COVID deal with Speaker Pelosi ahead of the election, according to three sources familiar W/ @JulieNBCNews 1st reported by @ericawerner and @JStein_WaPo

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7 months

Stefanik's speech mentioned Jordan's skill "on the wrestling mat," which caused Democrats to burst out in "whoaaaaa." Some Democrats covered their mouths in shock. Jordan has been accused of ignoring sexual abuse on the wrestling team when he was assistant coach at Ohio State.

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3 years

I had no idea my cat was in that window. Meet Pixie. She doesn't like most people.

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3 years

Great corner set up. Mirror work. Art. Kitty for the win. 10/10 @LACaldwellDC

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1 year

During one standing ovation, Rep. Clyde (R-Ga.) was one of the few who didn’t stand. When Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) encouraged him to stand, Clyde seemed to mouth “I’m not. I’m not,” while shaking his head.

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4 years

NEW: House Judiciary announces that AG Barr will appear before the committee on March 31 to talk about Roger Stone case, the Giuliani "process" and the removal U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu

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3 years

I posted this picture earlier of the doors to the House steps, but now that it’s light out you can see the bullet holes and the stickers they put on the doors, which say “Fuck Antifa”

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3 years

I never thought I’d see this. Metal detectors have been set up for members before they enter the House floor. A clear indication that Democratic leadership does not trust some right-wing House members

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2 years

PERSONAL NEWS!!!!! I'm headed to the Washington Post for a really excited new challenge. I'll be Co-Author of the Early 202 and Anchor of Washington Post Live 1/

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4 years

BIG NEWS: Age to purchase tobacco products, including E-cigarettes, will be raised to 21. The measure has been included in the government spending bill expected to pass Congress this week, according to a source familiar.

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7 years

This. Entire. Verbate.... It's what @realDonaldTrump said to children of members of the press

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6 years

UPDATED: kavanaugh criticized Ramirez to Senate investigators for calling around about the incident. And he told them he “probably” attended the same wedding but doesn’t have any recollection. Texts show a photo from the wedding was sent to his team 3 days earlier.

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@LACaldwellDC

6 years

NEW with @HeidiPrzybyla : Mutual friend to Kavanaugh and Ramirez, Kerry Berchem, wants to talk to the FBI. She has texts with another mutual friend that say "Brett" or "Brett's guy" reached out about Ramirez before the New Yorker story broke.

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3 years

INBOX: A third Democrat, @RepSchneider , who was in the safe room with the unmasked Republicans has tested positive for Covid. “Wearing a mask is not a political statement, it is public health guidance, common courtesy, and simply what should be expected of all decent people."

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3 years

I have to take a break from my tour to go do tv - @NBCNewsNow - but will continue when I can. In the meantime here’s a beautiful shot of the Capitol as the sun rises

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3 years

Her last line: To the patriots were standing next to the former president as these conversations were happening, or even to the former Vice President: if you have something to add here, now would be the time.

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5 years

NEWS: @NancyPelosi gets a boost in her bid for speaker. Eleven labor groups are now supporting her

Labor comes out in support of Pelosi for speaker

Eleven labor groups have now come out in support of Rep. Nancy Pelosi to be the next speaker of the House, giving her a boost in her fraught bid to be speaker.

www.nbcnews.com

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7 months

NEWS: Jordan is going to announce he will NOT hold a third vote as speaker now. He will get behind the plan to temporarily empower McHenry until Jan 3. He will remain speaker designee.

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6 years

BIG: ⁦ @HeidiHeitkamp ⁩ is a NO on Kavanaugh ——> EXCLUSIVE: Heitkamp reveals Kavanaugh vote and reasoning to WDAY News | WDAY

News

www.inforum.com

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3 years

Glad to get these shots, but why hasn't @CapitolPolice blocked any of this off? Have they collected cigarettes, cups, scarves left behind as evidence? @frankthorp saw it being thrown away last night. We have so many questions but @CapitolPolice aren't answering us.

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3 years

This is an intellectually dishonest question by Rubio. He's prob aware that Trump was impeached while he was still in office for an act while he was in office. The House never impeached Hillary Clinton when she was SOS. So the Senate can't conduct an impeachment trial of her

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6 years

NEW with @HeidiPrzybyla : Mutual friend to Kavanaugh and Ramirez, Kerry Berchem, wants to talk to the FBI. She has texts with another mutual friend that say "Brett" or "Brett's guy" reached out about Ramirez before the New Yorker story broke.

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4 years

NEW: Democratic candidates in southern states with large Black populations say the Biden-Harris ticket could give them a big down-ballot electoral boost, and their Republican challengers are taking notice via @nbcnews

Southern Democrats look to Harris for spark in Senate races

Democrats say the vice presidential pick could boost Black turnout to 2008 levels, making them more competitive in a handful of key Senate races.

www.nbcnews.com

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6 years

NEWS: @OrrinHatch just spoke to Kavanaugh and Kavaaugh denies being at the party in question per a Hatch aide. Hatch told me kavanaugh is “honest” and “straightforward” and said after talkng to Kavanaugh the woman might be “mixed up”

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3 years

And this is where the woman was shot. These are the doors to get into the “Speaker’s Lobby” off the House chamber. Three pains of glass missing. One is shattered. Shards of glass remain on the floor

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3 years

These are the doors to the center steps. Where they first breached the Capitol.They are cast in iron from Italy and moved here in the 1860s or earlier. Double paned glass shattered

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3 years

We are back in cannon. This is what’s happening at the steps of the Capitol, which isn’t allowed to have people

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2 years

.⁦ @SenMarkey ⁩ watching ⁦ @Sen_JoeManchin ⁩’s weekly press gaggle live from Cups. “He wants a ten year CBO score. Does he also want a 10 year CBO for the defense bill?” Markey rhetorically asks.

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3 years

powerful last line from @RepJoeNeguse : Presidents can’t inflame insurrections in their final weeks and walk away. And that is what Donald Trump is asking of you. We’re asking you to decline his request. To vindicate the constitution. To let us try this case.

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2 years

Cassidy Hutchinson is just 25 years old. This is a lot of pressure and yet is tremendously courageous for such a young person so early in her career.

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3 years

One more on these bullet ridden doors, the circular sticker is of Joe Biden and says “not my president.” And the bullet holes are pierced from the outside. The inner pane of glass is unscathed.

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3 years

I am on lockdown inside the Capitol complex. Lots of first responders called and a helicopter just landed on the East front

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4 years

Woahhh. Dr. Fauci said he would not be surprised if the US has 100k new COVID cases a day “if things don’t turn around.” “It could get very bad,” he adds.

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4 years

Another day of early voting and another long line in NC. This one in Durham. Polls open right now

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3 years

. @LamarAlexander playing Christmas music in Russell.

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4 years

So Pam Bondi is making a series of allegations/misrepresentations about Hunter Biden in Ukraine that have never been proven. Meanwhile she didn't mention that @realDonaldTrump was impeached for corruption dealing with Ukraine.

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2 years

NEWS: Schumer says Democrats are going to take the Manchin offer and move forward on the small reconciliation bill that includes Rx drug negotiations and ACA subsidies.

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6 years

Protestors sitting in on the hallway outside the hearing room

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3 years

Important to note that these are the doors that Joe Biden would use to enter the Capitol to get to the West Front of the Capitol for inauguration. The same doors Trump walked through and presidents before him. These destroyed iron benches are in the entry

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2 years

INBOX: “The Congressional Progressive Caucus hereby withdraws its recent letter to the White House regarding Ukraine."

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3 years

This is just outside those doors

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3 years

This went around social media last night but the Senate Parliamentarian office is still in the same state this morning

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3 years

. @Jim_jordan says democrats have an "obsession" with impeachment. He says the "cancel culture" has to stop, saying this is an attack on the first amendment. He has completely ignored what happened on January 6. Not one mention

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7 years

Overheard Secret Service on @realDonaldTrump at lunch. He ate rice and 2 pieces of cherry pie. Took a few sips of his drink. "He loves rice"

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3 years

And these are the markings surrounding those doors from inside the building

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3 years

NEW: Senator-elect Mark Kelly of Arizona will be sworn in as a U.S. Senator Wednesday at 12pm noon. The new balance of power will be 52Rs-48Ds

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6 years

36 women from SNL sign statement in support of @alfranken . But call what he did “stupid and foolish”

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3 years

NEW: @SenSchumer , who will be majority leader by the end of the day Wednesday, said in a brief hallway interview: "We've got three things we got to do, do quickly, impeachment, nominations, COVID. Got to move them all fast."

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3 years

And this is the entrance to Speaker Pelosi’s suit. Her wood and good placard is missing

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4 years

Whoah.... @RepTimRyan and @RoKhanna introduce bill that would pay eligible Americans over 16 $2k per month UNTIL unemployment returns to pre-COVID levels They say: A married couple making under $260K with 3 kids would receive $5,500 per month.

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3 years

NEWS: The Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the minimum wage is "merely incidental" and can NOT be included in the Covid bill.

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1 year

A few thoughts (a short 🧵) about McCarthy’s plight: 1. while this is about McCarthy it is further eroding trust within the GOP conference. They touted their unity ahead of the midterms. That has completely shattered and the new Congress hasn’t even opened yet

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4 years

I asked @lisamurkowski if Trump is being the leader the country needs right now. She said tone is “really, really” important right now “and I do not believe that that the tone coming from the president right now is helping. It's not helping me as a leader.”

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3 years

. @LeaderHoyer told me Democrats would send impeachment articles to the Senate immediately.

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5 years

. @justinamash got a standing ovation when he walked into his first town hall since he came out in support of impeachment.

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6 years

. @JeffFlake said just now on 30 Under 30 that he wants a thorough investigation and not one "just to give us cover" to vote for Kavanaugh.

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3 years

BTW smoking is NOT allowed in the Capitol.

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2 years

BIG NEWS: @SenBobCasey is a YES on the Women’s Health Protection Act, his spokeswoman tells me. Statement coming soon. This is big news. Casey has been one of the few remaining anti-abortion Dems in Congress. His father is the Casey in Planned Parenthood v Casey.

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4 years

I'm reading about the 9 confederate statues in the Capitol on the @uscapitol website. Not one mentions slavery or slave-owning. For instance, Wade Hampton of S.C. who was one of the largest slaveowners in the South, was a "planter."

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NEWS: Text of the compromise immigration legislation is out. As for children separated from their parents: "Accompanied alien minors apprehended at the border must not be separated from their parent or legal guardian while in DHS custody," according to a summary

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4 years

Trump: "I think we're going to win the House." Perhaps the most absurd statement of the night.

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3 years

An office in the hallway off that entrance with shards of glass on the ground, a destroyed plant, a boarded up window.

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The House passed decriminalizing pot. Here's the vote breakdown via @AlexNBCNews and @haleytalbotnbc YAY: Dem 221 GOP 5 IND 1 Total 228 NAY: Dem 6 GOP 158 Total 164

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4 years

Reporter: Why did you tear up the speech? @SpeakerPelosi : “It was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative.” Via @frankthorp

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4 years

Right on cue: With a potential Democratic president, Republicans are now talking about the debt. @LindseyGrahamSC : “But we need to get out of debt and there’s just no way for the Republican party to get out of debt ... so it’s going to require bipartisanship.”

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Frustration w/ Sen. Sinema among House Dems grow. . @RoKhanna said in the closed-door Dem mtg that the House doesn’t have a two senator problem but a one senator problem (Sinema). And the one senator hails from a state Biden won, three sources tell NBC News. People applauded.

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4 years

One aide describes the Senate Republican's lunch with Trump this way: "Just lots of 'We're doing a great job' on Corona and Pelosi is mean."

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8 months

McCarthy says the Senate is choosing Ukraine over America’s needs from disasters. The Senate CR includes funding for both Ukraine and U.S. disaster relief. The last House CR proposed doesn’t include any direct disaster aid.

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NEW: The latest Coronavirus stimulus (wh/ are changes from the original proposal): - At least $100 billion for hospitals - Unemployment insurance benefits expansion for 100% of salary for 4 months - No phase-in of direct payments for lower income people. ($1200/person;$500/kid)

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These are doors on the Senate side. That thick film is what’s left of tear gas. It still makes you cough 18 hours later

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DC Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone on the Hill. Talking to @RepSwalwell and Jan 6 select committee member @RepPeteAguilar

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2 years

At Dem lunch with Biden: Sen. Ossoff gave an impassioned speech that received a standing ovation. Sen. Sinema was on her phone for much of the lunch, multiple sources told me and @alivitali Sen. Manchin asked Biden a historical question about Senate rules.

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3 years

Looks like attempts to smash in doors. Directly across the hall from the Senate Parliamentarian’s office

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4 years

Line of cars for early curbside voting in Charleston County SC

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It is 6:06 am. About 12 hours after a COVID relief deal was announced. And the morning the House and Senate are set to vote on it. And the bill text hasn't been released as they haven't finished writing it.

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In the few weeks that Mark Meadows cooperated with the Jan 6 Select Committee, Meadows turned over 9,000 pages of documents to the committee.

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This is very likely one of the most significant lines of Biden's speech: To transgender youth: "the president has your back."

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4 years

Grassley says that ACB won't scrap the healthcare law because she is a mother of 7 children and cares about access to health care. It's the OPPOSITE argument ACB and GOP are making about abortion and other issues: her personal opinion won't invade her legal decisions.

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House Democrats draw the line: No bipartisan cooperation with Republicans who questioned the election

House Democrats draw the line: No bipartisan cooperation with Republicans who questioned the...

After the Jan. 6 riot, some Democrats say they simply can't work with anyone who voted against certifying the election.

www.nbcnews.com

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Morgan Jackson, top NC Dem candidate Cal Cunningham strategist, says Tillis and Trump likely won NC: “It looks like (Trump) may have won North Carolina. Same with Senate race. Looks like Thom Tillis was re-elected at this point.”

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NEW Tying it Together pod! Trying to understand North Carolina results? Who are Trump/Cooper voters? Did Cunningham's scandal lead to his likely loss? Two top political minds-Morgan Jackson and Jonathan Felts-break it all down. #ncpol #elections

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The two most common words GOP aides are using about how Senate Republicans feel tonight: relieved and angry

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4 years

. @MittRomney says in Homeland Security Committee that he will "not stand in the way" of the effort to subpoena 35 Obama administration officials but said that he is concerned that the investigation is "politically motivated."

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2 years

It’s official. I’m thrilled to have started this new chapter at The Washington Post. New job, new email but same cell If you work on the Hill, in the admin or w/ a group. Sign me up for your press lists. Text or DM me with news. Be in touch. Leighann.caldwell @washpost .com

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There is a lot of confidence from senior Republican members close to leadership that Jordan will win the speaker's gavel tomorrow. If not on the first round then the second, they say. "Moderates always cave. A tale as old as time," one GOP member says.

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8 years

Steve Bannon's ex-wife in divorce filings: "he didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”

Trump campaign CEO under scrutiny for domestic violence charge

Steve Bannon was charged with three misdemeanors after his wife alleged domestic violence against him in 1996. The case was dismissed.

www.nbcnews.com

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. @realDonaldTrump is expected to announce a three week CR. No wall money. This is similar to what the senate passed before Christmas, before the shutdown began, before Trump blew everything up. And so now they are in the exact spot but with the longest shutdown in history

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