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Elise Stefanik is touting $12.9 million to support rural hospitals in her district. The source of that funding? Biden's $1.9 trillion Covid aid package — which she voted against last year.
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A fired-up Brian Schatz went after Josh Hawley over the latter's blanket blockade of all senior Defense Department officials. Hawley said he was demanding "a change in policy" before allowing nominees through, which Schatz called "preposterous."
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Kevin McCarthy made desperate calls to Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on Jan. 6, witnesses told the panel probing the attack.  "He was scared," Jared Kushner testified.
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Majority Leader Steve Scalise is back in the Capitol amid chemotherapy treatments, addressing reporters this morning while wearing a mask. He notes that his “protocols” are going to be a little different going forward because of his immune system.
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House Democrats are asking the IRS to look into the Family Research Council claiming to be a "church" for tax purposes.  They say the group is "primarily an advocacy organization and not a church."
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Sen. Josh Hawley told POLITICO he's looking into a proposal that would bar lawmakers and their families from trading individual stocks while in office
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Sen. Shelley Moore Capito received a call from someone unexpected regarding paid family and medical leave: Duchess of Sussex Megan Markle
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Mitt Romney and Bill Cassidy condemned a push by the RNC to censure Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney over their work on the Jan. 6 committee. Both men voted to convict Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol insurrection.
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The Jan. 6 select panel has begun subpoenaing the phone records of alleged rioters, hoping to know if they had contacts with government officials. “We’d love to know who they were talking to,” Chair Bennie Thompson said Tuesday.
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The president of the National Fraternal Order Of Police, one of the largest law enforcement labor organizations, backed the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. The organization previously endorsed Donald Trump.
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One of the Arizona Republicans seeking to take on Greg Stanton released an ad saying he needs an AR-15 to fight "a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods."
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The House is going to move quickly on a floor vote holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress — a vote that will definitely happen before Thanksgiving
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It's taken just 39 days for the Senate to process Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination — which was 12 days longer than Amy Coney Barrett's process. Here's how that stacks up against other recent picks 👇
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Elizabeth Warren says the Pentagon’s health care system is the victim of price gouging — and it’s not doing enough to stop it.
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Mark Meadows’ attorney wants the Jan. 6 panel to hold off on its contempt referral for the former Trump chief of staff. Be prepared for the committee not to listen.
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Ted Cruz is calling out the Chinese government for upholding a death sentence for an American citizen wrongfully detained for over a decade.
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House Republicans are facing an internal reckoning over their harsh rhetoric toward immigrants after a racist mass shooter killed 10 people in Buffalo, N.Y.
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Elizabeth Warren wants details from Pentagon leaders on how a Senate stalemate over military promotions will impact national security.
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Liz Cheney voiced her support for Tim Ryan in his Ohio Senate run, continuing a pattern of midterm support across the aisle from the GOP lawmaker.
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Joe Biden has rejected another Trump request to shield a new set of White House records from the Jan. 6 committee. This time they appear to concern Mike Pence. There's a Louie Gohmert tie here too.
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A bill unveiled by Maxwell Frost and Chris Murphy would create a federal office dedicated to gun violence prevention. But Senate Republicans still have doubts on further moves.
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The Biden White House is putting Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and other Republicans on blast for slamming student loan relief, as they had federal loans forgiven.
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For Chuck Schumer, today's student debt relief announcement capped two-plus years of lobbying Joe Biden on the issue. "The fact that the president has done this means that opens the door to do more as well," Schumer said.
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Ted Lieu, one of Congress' biggest advocates for regulating artificial intelligence, is warning lawmakers of the potential harms of regulating AI too quickly — and wants members of Congress to know what they're regulating.
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The Senate funded the government with a strong bipartisan vote for the year-end spending bill — including the support of 18 Republicans.  Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was among the backers of the package.
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Jim Jordan, a top Trump ally, is warning the GOP against a Biden “impeachment by reflex” if it takes back the House
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Kevin McCarthy says he'll strip Ilhan Omar, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell of their committee assignments if Republicans take back the House
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Adam Frisch reported a massive nearly $3.4 million third quarter haul in his second bid to defeat Lauren Boebert.
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Nine Republicans voted to modernize the Electoral Count Act to prevent another election subversion attempt. Almost all of them voted to impeach Donald Trump.
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Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise told House Republicans they will oppose the Senate gun reforms deal. The opposition puts them at odds with Mitch McConnell.
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Before the final Jan. 6 panel hearing, Sarah Matthews is calling out House Republicans for tweeting that she was a "liar" during her committee testimony.
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Boos over booze: Kat Cammack drew howls for accusing Democrats of drinking alcohol on the House floor amid the ongoing speaker fight.  But with the chamber unable to adopt rules, there was little to be done about the remark.
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Nancy Mace and Barbara Lee have introduced a bipartisan measure aimed at addressing the nation's backlog of untested rape kits.
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Mark Kelly, who's up for reelection in a tight 2022 race, says he will support an exception from the filibuster to help pass election reform legislation. The Arizona Democrat has previously held off on endorsing Senate rules changes.
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With primary day on Tuesday, Liz Cheney is making a final pitch to Wyoming voters using a key argument: The importance of her work as a Jan. 6 committee member.
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Democrats wasted no time in upping the pressure on Merrick Garland to prosecute Donald Trump and his associates. House Democrats, in particular, are pushing the attorney general to act following explosive Jan. 6 testimony.
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The House largely voted to pass a bill denouncing rising antisemitism. Thomas Massie was the only lawmaker to vote against it.
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Chuck Grassley admitted it would likely be hard to pass a plan that would lower prescription drug costs if his own party regained control of Congress. "If we want to reduce drug prices, then we need to do it now," he says.
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A grand jury in Georgia has subpoenaed Lindsey Graham as it continues to investigate possible criminal interference in the state’s 2020 presidential election
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The Jan. 6 select committee plans to hold “multiple weeks” of public hearings in 2022 to lay out how the violent attack on the Capitol took shape — and how Donald Trump attempted to overturn the election
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Top Oversight Democrat Jamie Raskin is asking for visitor records for Donald Trump and Mike Pence's residences. The letter from Raskin comes after Republicans asked for similar records for President Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del., residence.
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POLITICO Congress
3 years
SCOOP: GOP Rep. Don Bacon told us he’ll support the bipartisan infrastructure deal ― and refutes one of his party’s core talking points. Here's his statement and why it's notable:
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Mitt Romney did not hold back in his response to the former president's federal indictment: 'Mr. Trump brought these charges upon himself.'
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POLITICO Congress
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The Jan. 6 committee just received hundreds of pages of Donald Trump's White House records — a major breakthrough for the panel's investigation. Trump lost a three-month court battle to keep these records shielded.
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Dan Crenshaw is holding a fundraiser with Bill Barr, the former attorney general who has become persona non grata with Donald Trump.
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9 House Democrats have tested positive for Covid, just as lawmakers have been trying to get the Capitol back to pre-pandemic status. The positive cases popped up 4 days after a policy retreat in Pennsylvania.
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A new bill from Josh Hawley would block federal agencies from hiring consulting firms that work for both the U.S. and Chinese government-linked entities.
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2 more groups who previously endorsed Kyrsten Sinema said they wouldn't do it again if she doesn't bend on Senate rules changes to pass elections reform. Why the loss of institutional support could hurt Sinema more than Joe Manchin 👇
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House investigators of the Jan. 6 attack have a blind spot in the investigation: Senate Republicans. So far, no GOP senators have been in touch with the 1/6 panel for testimony.
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. @RepZoeLofgren is moving ahead with plans to change how presidential elections are certified in light of 1/6. She's calling the Electoral Count Act of 1876 "antiquated, incomplete, and badly need of reform." (w/ @AnthonyAdragna and @kyledcheney )
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The House voted to censure Rep. Paul Gosar with just 2 Republicans — Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney — joining all Democrats in voting yes
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An attorney sketched out a plan for then-Vice President Mike Pence to halt the certification of Joe Biden’s victory. Read the Trump-world legal memo that a judge ruled was likely part of a criminal effort to overturn the election.
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8 Republicans voted against legislation to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. We asked them why. Their responses 👇
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Martin Heinrich says he's questioning why Joe Manchin continues to lead the Energy Committee amid his waffling on climate spending.  It comes even as Manchin says he has not closed the door on clean energy spending.
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House Democrats are reintroducing a passel of maternal care and family aid bills with a new, deliberately grabby title: the "PRO-LIFE Act."
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Progressives are calling out Democratic leaders for their support of Henry Cuellar amid a mass shooting and the possible overturning of abortion rights protections. "This was an utter failure of leadership," tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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The White House has a new line of attack against the House GOP's debt bill: that it would worsen the fentanyl crisis.
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Capitol Hill’s police force is preparing for protests ahead of the potential indictment of Donald Trump. The preparations are in line with their planning for other protests.
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Bernie Sanders is taking a hard line against the demands of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, and says the reconciliation bill must include Medicare expansion and prescription drug reform. Why this matters 👇
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Chris Murphy passionately implored his GOP colleagues — again — to act on gun violence after 15 people, 14 of them children, died in a Texas school shooting. "Our kids are living in fear. What are we doing?" he asks.
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Judiciary Committee Democrats, one in each chamber, are calling for Justice Clarence Thomas to be referred to Merrick Garland for ethics violations.
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A man harassed members of Congress as they walked to votes on Wednesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the incident shows security issues persist at the Capitol.  "These systems are not working," Ocasio-Cortez said.
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Sen. Jon Tester has something that none of his colleagues in either chamber have to tout during the August recess: two standalone bills that cleared the divided Congress and were signed into law.
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Lisa Murkowski said the draft opinion from the Supreme Court "rocks my confidence in the court." She noted the abortion rights decision may still change: "Roe is still the law of the land."
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A bipartisan group of nearly 20 House members isn't letting up on their push to ban lawmakers from owning or trading stocks while in office. In fact, they're pushing the House Administration Committee to quickly craft a bill "without loopholes."
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Mitch McConnell chastised the Republican National Committee for censuring Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney over their work on the Jan. 6 panel. "That's not the job of the RNC," he said.
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Joe Manchin is among the lawmakers blasting Trump-appointed justices for saying they would respect precedent in light of the Supreme Court's abortion ruling.
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Mark Meadows has been removed from the voter rolls in North Carolina, as state officials probe potential voter fraud allegations against the former congressman
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Vice President Kamala Harris had to break a tie to confirm Rachael Rollins as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts — amidst GOP opposition to the confirmation. Harris has now broken more ties this year than Mike Pence did during his entire term.
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A cameraman who captured a crucial Jan. 5 meeting ahead of the Capitol attack spoke for hours with the panel probing the insurrection. "We walked through my footage in detail," Nick Quested said in an interview.
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A Senate panel will hold a hearing unveiling a 10-month investigation that shows DOJ failed to account for nearly 1,000 deaths in jails or prisons.
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Hakeem Jeffries has announced his official bid to lead House Democrats, capping off months of behind-the-scenes efforts to lock up support. The New Yorker would be the first Black lawmaker to hold the top spot in party leadership.
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Patrick Leahy savaged Lindsey Graham's aggressive questions to Ketanji Brown Jackson as unprecedented in his 48 years. "To see the badgering of this woman as she's trying to testify, I thought was outrageous," Leahy says.
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Bernie Sanders says he'd back a progressive primary challenger to Kyrsten Sinema. Can the current fury last until 2024?
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The House Oversight Committee is examining whether 9 of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers are complying with the Affordable Care Act to provide birth control at no cost to patients
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🚨SCOOP🚨: Deborah Birx is participating in an investigation into how the Trump administration handled the onset of the pandemic. Here's what she may shed light on:
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Democrats are urging Joe Biden to take a host of executive actions to protect abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. A few proposals in particular jumped out. Here's a rundown of what they are 👇
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A Georgia district attorney opposes Lindsey Graham’s attempt to quash a subpoena in a probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Nancy Pelosi said that as rioters raged inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, she was concerned about the Secret Service's treatment of then-Vice President Mike Pence.
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Enes Kanter Freedom, an NBA center turned human rights advocate, is in the Senate talking China and Turkey, among other topics. A look at who he's talked to 👇
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to an archbishop denying her Holy Communion over her support for abortion rights, and pointed to the death penalty — which the Catholic church opposes — as an example of inconsistency in its speaking out.
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From Boehner to Schumer, former and current lawmakers gathered to see Nancy Pelosi's portrait unveiled for the Speaker's Lobby.
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Mitch McConnell again broke sharply with President Donald Trump, telling reporters he would not support any reduced sentences for those that pled guilty to involvement in the Jan. 6 attack
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Republicans aren't pushing back on the core facts of Cassidy Hutchinson's compelling testimony concerning the Jan. 6 attack
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Senate Democrats have dropped a first draft to reform the Electoral Count Act. It would make it very hard to alter the results of a presidential election. Why this matters:
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A group of Senate Democrats are circulating a letter calling for Joe Biden to prepare to invoke the 14th Amendment in the fight over the debt ceiling.
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Police officers injured during the Jan. 6 insurrection can obtain a year of medical care from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, per a new Pentagon authorization
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Sen. Tim Kaine is the first Democrat to publicly say his party should address the debt ceiling in reconciliation. Will other Democrats follow?
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1 of the 13 House GOP members who voted yes on infrastructure is addressing his critics: "We’re going to vote no, all because of politics?"
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