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covering Congress for @politico | previously: @usatoday @princetonian | my views are my own | email me nwu @politico .com

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@nicholaswu12
Nicholas Wu
3 years
The Costco CEO just said at the Senate Budget hearing they'd be upping the minimum wage at Costco to $16/hr next week "Effective next week, the starting wage will go to $16."
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3 years
!!!!! Rep. Tim Ryan says the issue of tours by rioters before the riot has been turned over to the US Attorney's office.
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4 years
. @AOC was asked abt the #BreonnaTaylor decision. What she said (per Hill pool): "it's just weighing really heavy on my heart, and because we know that her death is not just the result of one person but the system, structure, and department that failed their entire community."
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CONFIRMED: Many of the United States Secret Service’s text messages sent on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 were deleted after a Department of Homeland Security watchdog asked for them, per letter sent to Congress and confirmed by House Homeland spox
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Asked by @AnnieGrayerCNN whether Tony Oranto and Robert Engel are the secret service officials who retained private counsel, Rep. Lofgren says “yes, and the driver”
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Rep. David Cicilline (a former Trump impeachment manager) is circulating a letter to Dems rounding up support for legislation to bar Trump from office under the 14th Amendment, per copy I obtained:
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2 years
NEWS - Fulton County DA files in federal court opposing Sen. Lindsey Graham’s attempt to quash their subpoena - Graham’s “actions certainly appear interconnected with former President Trump’s similar efforts to pressure Georgia election officials into “finding 11,780 votes”…”
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2 years
1/6 committee chair Bennie Thompson tells reporters Ginni Thomas is answering “some questions” and reiterated her belief to the committee the 2020 election was stolen
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1 year
Dem mood rn: Rep. Jamaal Bowman is shouting “y’all don’t get shit done! This is unbelievable!” as he leaves the House chamber
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1 year
Former Rep. Barney Frank is here in the House for today’s vote on the marriage equality bill. “I was there for the birth [of DOMA] and I’m here for the funeral”
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7 months
Full Pelosi statement:
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3 years
This is Officer Clarence, the police comfort dog. He’s at the Capitol Rotunda today.
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1 year
Overheard: 'Following the vote, House Foreign Affairs member Ken Buck, R-Colo., was overheard in an elevator calling it the “stupidest vote in the world.” Fellow Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, agreed and added that all it does is make Omar a “martyr." '
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Rep. Hoyer defends Rep. Tlaib (who’s the sole Palestinian American in Congress) as she faces conservative backlash for a Palestinian flag outside her office “She’s Palestinian,” he tells reporters. “That doesn't mean she's a terrorist. It doesn't mean that she condones this”
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new - Others who got Santos' letter weren't so impressed. Rep. Jamie Raskin got one (he'd voted against the expulsion citing the precedent it would set), copy edited by hand, and sent it back to Santos. “P.S. It’s not shameful to resign.” See below:
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4 years
. @AOC asks DeJoy to give the committee his calendar dating back to the start of his tenure otherwise she'll recommend the committee issue a subpoena
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4 years
. @SenAlexander reminds reporters Pelosi would become president if the election were delayed past Jan. 20, when prez terms expire: "if we were to delay the election past January 20, the President would be the Speaker of the House. So I wonder if anyone's thought about that."
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3 years
“An attorney for DC Police said in court, for the first time, that the department did indeed use tear gas on protesters around Lafayette Square Park last June….” via ⁦ @wusa9
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And here's the OCE report on Rep. Ronny Jackson: " there is substantial reason to believe that Rep. Jackson converted campaign funds from Texans for Ronny Jackson to personal use..."
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Rep. Beatty is being zip tied as USCP starts to make arrests
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. @AOC tells reporters Haaland's appointment is significant and historic not just as the first Native person in the role but also as someone who "brings a philosophy of both a commitment on climate and justice" h/t Hill pool / @lukebroadwater
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2 years
The heads of five Democratic caucuses (Progressive, Black, Asian Pacific American, Equality, and Hispanic) issue a statement in support of Rep. Ilhan Omar and call on Rep. Boebert to be removed from her committees.
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Former Pence chief of staff Marc Short (who's met w/ the 1/6 committee too) is on Meet the Press now - says Trump had "snake oil salesmen" advising him leading up to 1/6
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NEWS - 1/6 committee chair Bennie Thompson tells a small group of reporters they’ll be soon be asking Ivanka Trump to come before the committee
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4 years
Cornyn asks Barrett if she's using notes and asks her to hold up the notepad in front of her. Q: Is there anything on it" A: "the letterhead that says United States Senate" Cornyn: "That's impressive"
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3 years
Coming off the Senate floor, Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin says that former US Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Byun Jin Pak is going to be the next former official to be interviewed by his committee.
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4 years
Among the evidence just produced by the House Intelligence Committee - a note from Parnas saying "get Zalensky to Annonce that the Biden case will be investigated"
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KINZINGER in statement: “Today, I was asked by the Speaker to serve on the House Select Committee to Investigate January 6th and I humbly accepted. I will work diligently to ensure we get to the truth and hold those responsible for the attack fully accountable.”
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NEW - Rep. Barbara Lee just told Black Caucus members in their lunch today that she’s running for Senate, per two people familiar More TK
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2 years
Former Rep. @RepRiggleman who'd worked for the 1/6 committee, was on @andersoncooper this evening - says there were "all three branches of government involved" in Meadows' text messages - i.e. a forwarded text from Ginni Thomas to Meadows from Rep. Gohmert's chief of staff
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Rep. Raskin in open letter says that his cancer is in remission following chemotherapy
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NEWS - As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday “Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed" w/ @DaniellaMicaela
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4 years
A group of about 200 protestors, organized by progressive groups gathered outside the Capitol following the Senate’s votes to acquit Trump. Protestors shouted “Moscow Mitch,” “shame,” and “November is too late” as they rallied against Trump.
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NEWS — The Justice Department is suing former Trump trade official Peter Navarro for "wrongfully retaining Presidential records that are the property of the United States"
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NEW- Trump demanded answers about the basis for the FBI search of his residence and calling for a swift end to the investigation. Instead, he got few new details about the probe and a piece of unwelcome news to boot: the feds are just getting started.
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3 years
The @USProgressives Chair @RepJayapal makes their position clear as congressional leaders meet tonight - says they're "united" that "any package must include direct survival checks and enhanced unemployment assistance, the two most effective ways to get money directly to people."
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It's a move the former speaker is blasting in statement as a “a sharp departure from tradition" She's still in SF for Feinstein memorial services and added that while she was there to mourn and pay tribute: "I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time”
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“Today, I stood in solidarity with Black women across the country in defense of our constitutional right to vote,”Beatty said
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2 years
NEW — The Trump Org. charged the Secret Service excessive nightly hotel rates on dozens of trips, per new docs released by House Oversight. Trump Hotel DC charged Secret Service $1,185/night when Don Jr. stayed there in Nov 2017
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ staff helped Pelosi’s office make the move, according to a spokesperson for the former speaker.
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1 year
Rep. Jamie Raskin says he’s been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma
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2 years
BTS is in the White House briefing room Looks like there's nearly 240K people watching on this stream
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NEWS — House Intel Chair Schiff and Oversight Chair Maloney are asking ODNI to initiate a damage assessment of Trump's handling of documents at Mar-a-Lago First major oversight step by House panels into the matter Story TK
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spotted in a Speaker Mike Johnson fundraising email: "I refuse to put people over politics"
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NEWS - A Michigan businessman called Dem Senate candidate Hill Harper to offer $20M in campaign contributions if he agreed to drop out and instead mount a primary challenge to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, per source w/ direct knowledge of call w/ @UrsulaPerano
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3 years
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden pay their respects to Officer Sicknick
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2 years
Jan. 6 committee aides, previewing tomorrow's hearing, tell reporters they'll demonstrate who was talking to Trump on 1/6 and what they were urging him to do then, in addition to when he was made aware of what was happening at the Capitol
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2 years
A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump “more likely than not” attempted to illegally obstruct Congress when he tried to subvert the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. from @kyledcheney @joshgerstein & me
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1 year
Per notice just sent out from Whip Katherine Clark’s office - “Members are advised that they should be prepared to stay in Washington, D.C. until a Speaker is elected.”
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1 year
I asked 1/6 vice chair Liz Cheney if we’d see all of the transcripts by the end of the year: “I believe so”
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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., addressed the crowd to cheers, and shouts of “fascist” when she said Trump’s name. “I will focus my ire on Senate Republicans,” she said. “Shame on you, Mitch McConnell.” “We will not forget this betrayal,” she said, to cheers from the crowd.
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2 years
They might be able to use some of her testimony in the hearing (when it’s rescheduled) “if theres something of merit”
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The reason why the WH daily schedule shifted to the president will have "many calls and have many meetings" format towards the end of the Trump WH was that Trump finally figured out the WH daily schedule was public, Judd Deere testified
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3 years
They’re marching through the lobby of Hart now.
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Cheney: “at every opportunity, the minority leader has attempted to prevent the American people from understanding what happened” Says members Pelosi rejected didn’t take this seriously and one may be a “material witness”
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NEW - 1/6 chair Bennie Thompson says they’ve invited Ginni Thomas to testify: “we have sent Miss Thomas a letter asking us to come and talk to the committee”
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“Hell no on BIF,” says Rep. Tlaib leaving Progressives’ meeting
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Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., congratulates Harris and Biden and says Trump has “exhausted all plausible legal options to challenge the result of the presidential race in Pennsylvania”
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4 years
Here for the fifth day of protests outside Lafayette Park - “no justice, no peace” the crowd chants
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Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., who introduced the House measure, said "every American deserves respect and dignity," and the Equality Act, if it became law, would "ensure that LGBTQ Americans can live lives free of discrimination."
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7 months
Walked by this evening and the hideaway is being packed up ->
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2 years
Here is the full letter, obtained by POLITICO More on @politicongress w/ @kyledcheney
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The omni PASSES the House 225-201-1 9 Republicans voted for it Among Dems, Tlaib voted present and AOC voted against it Cheers from the few Dems left in the chamber
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3 years
“I’ve never seen anyone work as skillfully, as ably, as patiently with determination to deliver such a consequential piece of legislation,” Biden said of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
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What’s up with the 1/6 committee hearing schedule? “It's fluid. I'll let the chairman make the announcement, but we have received just a mountain of additional evidence that is going to take some time to go through,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren tells @cgrisales and me.
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1/6 committee discloses security camera footage from 1/5 and says one of the people from Rep. Loudermilk’s tour thru the Capitol complex made threatening remarks towards lawmakers on 1/6 More TK
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Here's some of the news dump coming from the 1/6 committee this evening - WH Counsel told Meadows + GOP lawmakers the efforts to generate alternate electors did not comply with the law - and yet they went ahead anyway More TK w/ @kyledcheney ...
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NEW - DOJ is signaling that it has the right to not cooperate with Hill Republicans' requests to peek into their ongoing investigations, a top official wrote in a letter obtained by POLITICO. Comes in response to Chair Jim Jordan asking for a lot of info
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👀👀👀 in the House Republican Rules package - a provision tucked into its section on the Office of Congressional Ethics would effectively sack most of the Democratic-appointed board members by instituting term limits and make it much harder to hire staff
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NEWS - the Secret Service's deletion of texts is now on NARA's radar, per statement:
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After ~8 hours with the Jan. 6 committee, with about a half dozen breaks, former WH Counsel Pat Cipollone is leaving the building:
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Rep. Tlaib: "I was proud today to walk in and pull a Democratic ballot and vote uncommitted...when 74% of Democrats in Michigan support a ceasefire yet President Biden is not hearing us, this is the way we can use our democracy to say 'listen to Michigan'"
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A statement from @RashidaTlaib on voting uncommitted in Michigan today.
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NEW - Muslim and Jewish congressional staffers are signing onto an open letter first reported by POLITICO to directly call on their bosses to demand a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
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Johnny McEntee testified that Rep. Matt Gaetz told him he asked Mark Meadows for a pardon related to the trafficking investigation
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Riggleman says team was tasked with linking WH CoS Mark Meadows' thousands of messages turned over to the committee with names "I think Mark meadows is the MVP for the committee. They should pay him. The data we got actually allowed us to structure the investigation."
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STORY: Schiff/MaloneY: “Former President Trump’s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. This issue demands a full review, in addition to the ongoing law enforcement inquiry"
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!! In a live webcast Tuesday evening, Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-11, made a startling claim that other members of Congress led groups of people through the Capitol Building on a "reconnaissance" mission one day before the riot...
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Mikie Sherrill claims Congress members gave rioters a tour of U.S. Capitol before raid
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Republican members of Congress were heavily involved in calls and meetings with President Donald Trump and his top aides as they devised a strategy to overturn the election in December 2020, per new evidence filed in federal court: w/ @kyledcheney
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A bit of personal news this afternoon - I'll be moving into a new role with @USATODAY as a congressional reporter!
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Some news of the personal kind this morning - I‘ll be joining @politico ’s Congress team! So very grateful for the support from all of my colleagues in the USAT newsroom/DC bureau over the past two years and am excited for what’s next.
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The Justice Department declines to comment, via @bykevinj
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NEW - in recent days, several frontliners have raised the idea to Jeffries and the leadership team of appointing an outsider to be the DCCC chair if it ends up being picked by leadership. One name being floated? Outgoing Rep. Tim Ryan, per two sources w/ @sarahnferris
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Fauci: "In my nearly five decades of public service, I have never publicly endorsed any political candidate. The comments attributed to me without my permission in the GOP campaign ad were taken out of context..."
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BREAKING - the 1/6 committee has subpoenaed 14 of the illegitimate GOP electors who tried to submit their names to Congress in 2020. The committee is asking for details on the planning and coordination of the effort. Story TK w/ @kyledcheney @woodruffbets
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. @AOC is heading to UC Irvine this Sunday to rally young voters:
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There we go - Jeffries is now House Dems' next leader by acclimation. He'll be the first Black party leader in history
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For everyone's benefit, a GIF of Holmes imitating how Sondland held the phone during his July 26 call with Trump. via @VideoChump
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News - a member of Congress was apparently carjacked in Navy Yard this evening, theee ppl familiar tell @sarahnferris and me
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House Democrats have renominated Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. You can hear a lot of cheering from outside their caucus meeting room
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The family of the late USCP Officer Howie Liebengood says in a statement DOJ has notified them his death (he died by suicide in the aftermath of 1/6) will be considered line of duty “The determination is significant, healing, relieving, and we are grateful for it.”
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. @RepSherrill ⁩, who was among the group of lawmakers who first raised concerns about pre-Jan. 6 tours, says in statement the new evidence and “shifting” stories from Reps. Loudermilk and Davis calls “into question their dedication to our common oath as Members of Congress.”
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1/6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney says in a pretaped interview for CBS Face the Nation that: "At the same time the violent assault was happening, [Trump is] watching television. He is also calling at least one senator urging the delay of the electoral vote."
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We’re told it is a genuine family emergency - his wife is in labor
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NEW - Rep. Jamaal Bowman is circulating a list of talking points to fellow Democrats in a bid to stop the burgeoning GOP push to punish him after he set off a House fire alarm during Saturday's chaotic spending votes. w/ @DaniellaMicaela
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! Cheney says Trump tried to call one of their witnesses after their last hearing. The witness didn't respond and alerted their lawyer, who then told the Jan. 6 committee, and the committee has supplied the info to the Department of Justice, Cheney says
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New letter from NARA to House Oversight refers them to DOJ with regards to their ask whether Trump surrendered all presidential records:
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Notably, @WalshFreedom told Republicans to "reject" their party and elect Democrats who shared their values instead.
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The committee just released a closing message from Chair Thompson and vice chair Cheney - cites the need for accountability through DOJ and adds "Others have a critical role to play as well, including state bars and others who oversee the lawyers involved in the plots we exposed"
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