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Congressional reporter @AP | فرنوش امیری | Standing Committee of Correspondents co-chair | ✉️ famiri @ap .org | secure tips: farnoushamiri @protonmail .com |
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McCARTHY confirms Swalwell, Schiff & Omar will be off committees they’d previously served: intel/foreign affairs.
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In a huge departure,
@AP
will no longer name suspects in brief stories about minor crimes in which there is little chance AP will provide coverage beyond the initial arrest.
This is an effort to minimize harm on suspects’ who later gain employment or just move on in their lives.
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Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the very few GOP lawmakers who had planned to go down to Mar-a-Lago tonight for Trump’s announcement, says the weather is not looking good for his flight down from D.C. to Florida. But he will be there “in spirit.”
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As protesters can be heard in the back chanting outside SCOTUS, House Democrats sing “God Bless America.”
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As senators awaited Rand Paul's vote, VP Kamala Harris took out 2 pieces of VP stationery paper & handed them to Sen. Cory Booker & told him to write a letter to a young Black woman in your life to mark this day in history. "I thought it was a beautiful gesture," Booker told
@AP
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Striking
@AP
photo of Rep. Andy Kim of New Jersey cleaning up the aftermath of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnick)
The same House chamber doors where the armed standoff took place hours ago is being cleaned for members to return for the joint session:
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I asked MPD office Fanone if he accepts Ayers apology and he said: “That apology doesn’t do shit for me, I hope it does shit for him.”
Wow. Stephen Ayres, who was part of the violent mob that breached the Capitol and attacked police officers, goes to shake the hands of the men who were injured emotionally and physically protecting that building. Dunn remains seated and reserved in response.
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This is my third year covering the WHCD as the designated AP reporter for the WH pool and I’ve never seen anything like this. President Biden’s motorcade will likely drive by these crowds shortly.
The scene outside the White House Correspondents Dinner
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and (most) the women of the Capitol Press corps
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U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who defended the Capitol building as the mob violently forced their way in, watches the Jan. 6 committee take up contempt charges against two Trump allies accused of being involved in the events that led to the insurrection.
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NEW: Video shows Rep. Joyce Beatty demanding an apology from Rep. Hal Rogers right after he told her to “kiss his ass” when she asked him to put a mask on while riding the House subway to votes.
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As the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on elections case, the Congressional Black Caucus is meeting soon on a plan to force the inclusion of the John Lewis Voting Rights bill into the defense bill as House Dems see this as the last opportunity before SCOTUS ruling, per sources
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GOP Rep. John James said on the House floor that Republicans doubled the number of Black members like himself in the past election. There were previously two. Now there are four.
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Nancy Mace on George Santos: “I mean who lies about playing college volleyball. If you’re going to lie make it about something big, like you actually won the 2020 presidential election.”
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The youngest member of the next Congress, Maxwell Frost, saying he got involved in politics 10 years ago (when he was 15) after the Sandy Hook shooting.
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🚨Huge news: The national security supplemental released tonight includes provisions of the Afghan Adjustment Act, a bipartisan effort years in the making that would create a pathway to residency for Afghans who worked alongside U.S. soldiers in America’s longest war.
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🚨Mike RODGERS just tried to charge toward GAETZ, before Richard HUDSON pulled him back and he ran off the House floor.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib defending herself against 2nd censure resolution, tears up while saying, "I can't believe I have to say this but Palestinian people are not disposable. We are human beings. Just like
my grandmother, like all Palestinians, who just wants to live her life with…
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Just stunning and heartbreaking images of the human impact of the last 24 hours in Ukraine from brave and tireless
@AP
photographers
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Breaking: The state bar of California has charged former Trump lawyer John Eastman with multiple disciplinary counts for his efforts in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential records.
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Important to note that Friday, May 14, two days after Gov. DeWine announced the Vax-a-Million or Shottery as (
@karenkasler
as named it), Ohio saw the highest daily vaccination rate in 3 weeks, with more than 25,000 people receiving a dose.
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Congresswoman-elect Mary Peltola outside the office of late Alaska Rep. Don Young, whose seat she will be officially taking over tomorrow.
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GARRETT GRAVES is quite literally on his knees on the House floor, pleading with GAETZ, who has yet to cast his vote for Speaker.
Graves, Patrick McHenry and Tom Emmer have been the principal negotiators this week with the 20 holdouts.
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Less than 24 hours since clutching the majority, House Republicans are setting up their oversight agenda to the public. First up? Hunter Biden
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New: President Carter found classified materials at his Georgia home on at least one occasion and returned them to Archives, according to source. Carter signed the Presidential Records in 1978 but it didn’t go into effect until Reagan was inaugurated.
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NEW: what does the Jan. 6 committee want from Ivanka Trump? A rare glimpse into what the former first daughter saw and heard as the only voice who possibly got through to Trump as he gleefully watched his supporters smash violently breach the Capitol.
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President Joe Biden is STILL in the Capitol. Here he is shaking Fat Joe’s hand in the hallway outside the chamber but there is no guarantee that he knew it was indeed THE Fat Joe.
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Me when I'm forced to go to parties after the pandemic is over
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NEW: The Jan. 6 committee’s primetime hearing Thursday will include live witness testimony from Sarah Matthews, former Trump WH deputy press secretary, and Matt Pottinger, former deputy National Security Advisor to Trump. Confirming
@CNN
reporting
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☀️rare good news: Columbus tested alternative responses to 911 callers for suffering from mental health/addiction:
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-50% either fully resolved by mental health clinicians/dispatchers or redirected to community services.
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“I have been doing this for a long time…and I remember WMDs in Iraq and I remember that Kabul is not going to fall. I remember a lot of things,”
@AP
reporter Matt Lee showing how journalists should question power, especially when on the brink of potential war.
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Matt Lee and
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Wow. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine presents new data showing that since Jan. 1, 2021, the state has had 18,662 COVID-19 hospitalizations.
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Only 295 of those cases were among the vaccinated.
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Just a stunning lede from my
@AP
colleagues who are working under unimaginable circumstances to bring the news of this war to the rest of the world
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An open letter to the
@AP
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is gay and has been leading the effort to pass the Respect for Marriage Act, is visibly emotional on the chamber floor as the Senate begins voting on final passage of the bill.
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Scoop: I will be joining the
@AP
D.C. bureau as a reporter covering Congress in October.
I am almost exclusively going for the Persian food in the DMV area. But please send D.C. recommendations/what potholes to avoid/best coffee shops, etc.
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A standing applause for the mother of Breonna Taylor who is attendance for the funeral of Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.
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Mary Peltola is officially a member of Congress. Her fellow Alaskans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan stood behind her as she became the first Alaska Native to serve.
Her husband and seven children and many, many loved ones sat in the gallery above and cheered loudly.
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Newly obtained Secret Service emails show agents were concerned about how angry Trump was after SCOTUS loss. “I don’t want people to know that we lost,” Trump told Meadows at the time, according to new testimony from Hutchinson.
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NEW: Rep. Jody Hice, one of GOP lawmakers who attended infamous Dec 2020 WH meeting to discuss overturning election, has been subpoenaed by the special grand jury in Georgia investigating whether Trump and allies illegally tried to meddle in the state's election.
@katebrumback
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GOP Rep. Glenn Thompson, who attended his gay son’s wedding over the summer after voting no on the Respect for Marriage Act, voted no again today on the new version with additional religious liberty protections.
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👀Here's Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., holding a resolution on the House floor to remove Rep. Patrick McHenry as temporary speaker. (AP Photo/
@alexbrandon
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A lot of being a journalist is just fact checking stuff your family sends you from their Facebook feed
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any time I feel bad about procrastinating, I remember that Congress has left it until the last five days to fund the entire U.S. government
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President Biden asked about the ongoing U.S. strikes on Houthis…
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There is no place like New York
Santos: I yield to Mr. Goldman.
Goldman: I rise in support of this resolution to expel George Santos from Congress as I did in May when I cosponsored a similar resolution that my Republican colleagues from NY did not support
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Republican staff are now making plans for their bosses to stay through the weekend in case no House speaker is chosen by the end of the week.
Hearing from several GOP sources that Kevin McCarrhy is plannng on adjourning the House until tomorrow as it appears Republicans are at an impasse on how to move forward on speaker election.
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An interesting fact about Biden's SCOTUS pick Ketanji Jackson Brown: She has more experience on the federal bench than four sitting justices -- John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Elena Kagan and Clarence Thomas -- had when they joined the Supreme Court.
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Fetterman's stroke and recovery have once again highlighted how crucial it is for the journalism industry to have reporters who understand disabilities of all kinds and the nuances that come with them. Around 20% of the American population has some sort of disability.
I've frequently campaigned with
@JohnFetterman
and had no problem making "small talk." After a historic primary win, he's connecting with PA voters because he understands their challenges and is ready to fight for them in Washington. He's going to be a great Senator.
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May we all feel this way in the end:
Terry Anderson’s daughter said, “I saw him a week ago and my partner asked him if he had anything on his bucket list, anything that he wanted to do. He said, ‘I’ve lived so much and I’ve done so much. I’m content.’”
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Moments after casting her tie-breaking vote for debate, Harris told reporters that passage of the bill is “long overdue.”
“It’s really important for lowering costs for American families and address some of the basic needs families have been having for generations…”
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My dad was given a tour of the Capitol today and he wants everyone to know that he has no policy stances and he would just like to wrap things up so he can go to Costco.
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy tells us that he didn’t intentionally hit Rep. Tim Burchett: “If I hit somebody, they would know it. If I kidney punched someone, they would be on the ground.”
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confirming
@PunchbowlNews
, adding CBC had an emergency meeting over weekend where Chair Joyce Beatty told members effectively that “this is the hill she’s willing to die on,” as she sees the current Supreme Court on a path of taking the US back to pre-Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Here is President Joe Biden using a staffer’s shoulder to sign an autograph for a member of House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner’s family.
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☀️today is my first day as a congressional reporter for
@AP
! Really excited to get started on the Hill.
Please say hi, send tips, suggestions, memes to famiri
@ap
.org or DM for cell phone #.
secure tips: farnoushamiri
@protonmail
.com
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McCARTHY is truly spilling tea right now like a man who will never hold a press conference again. Gaetz, Pelosi, Mace, Burchett, etc. His comms person yelled the last question 12 questions ago.
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A thunderous round of laughter in the hearing room as the committee plays a video of Sen. Hawley running through the halls of Congress as the rioters breached the Capitol.
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A standing ovation for our
@AP
colleagues who bravely and tirelessly covered the atrocities in Mariupol, Ukraine, when no other journalists remained.
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An observation: Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has remained one of the most interested people on the floor over the past two days.
Often looking across to the Republicans with laser focus and a smile.
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Murphy told me IRA will break open a dam after decades of inaction on climate like bipartisan gun package did: “It’s legitimately exciting, it obviously doesn't solve the problem. But it gives us shots to solve the problem, which is a lot more than people thought was possible.”
For decades, the gun lobby and the oil companies and the drug industry controlled Washington. And ordinary people suffered.
Ans then, in one summer, all that changed.
The first gun safety bill in 30 years. Historic climate change legislation. Caps on drug costs.
Just wow.
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Rare all-female wire team (Bloomberg, AP, Reuters) for White House duty today
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Wow. Stephen Ayres, who was part of the violent mob that breached the Capitol and attacked police officers, goes to shake the hands of the men who were injured emotionally and physically protecting that building. Dunn remains seated and reserved in response.
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"Why didn't he stand up for our country?" -
@HillaryClinton
on Trump with Putin in Helsinki while in conversation with Lauren Powell Jobs at
#OzyFest
in NYC.
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THIS IS LIKE A SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY RIGHT NOW. they are in real-time working this out on the floor. No back-door negotiations. With CSPAN cameras and the entire House Democratic caucus watching live.
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger is lone GOP to vote for the Domestic Terrorism Act in response to the racist Buffalo supermarket shooting.
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JOINT BASE ANDREWS - (AP) baby’s first Air Force One ride
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👀Rep.-elect George Santos is now sitting with the Freedom Caucus members who have been voting against Kevin McCarthy.
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🚨From Jan. 6 committee aide: Tomorrow's public hearing on extremist groups and the violence on the Capitol will delve into the role members of Congress had in that and in the pressure campaign against Vice President Mike Pence.
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The entirety of my life is currently dependent on three Joes:
Joe Biden
Joe Manchin
Trader Joe’s
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The hottest table at the WHCD is your lowly pool reporter (me)
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Tell me you’re at a DC birthday party without telling me you’re at a DC birthday party
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Spotted at the protests in DC: “You can’t burn women made of fire.”
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Speaker Pelosi on Sen. Graham’s 15-week ban:
“I think what you're seeing is there is a conflict within the Republican Party. There are those in the party that think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.”
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One year ago today,
@NPRCodeSwitch
published my essay on the day that never happened. Beyond the overwhelming positive response was too many POC who messaged me saying something similar happened to them.
The impact of storytelling will always amaze me.
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@BrandyZadrozny
In case anyone doesn't think this is a frequent occurrence and what the UN has categorized as an epidemic:
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I’m sitting next to a couple on a first date right now and the guy just asked what are some of her hobbies recently and she said going to Applebee’s
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