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C-SPAN Comms Director...Book: "When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill"...book info: @CongressRabbi . blue check.
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"The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost."
-- James Ronda via Stephen Ambrose
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Biden Surprises Elton John With National Humanities Medal .. tearing up, Elton John said he was “flabbergasted and humbled.”
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During Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Jan. 6 police, representatives of those receiving awards shake hands with Schumer then walk past McConnell and McCarthy.
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Pres. Biden visits John McCain memorial in Hanoi Vietnam
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The last time a President held a press conference the day after mid-term elections, this happened:
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"A recession is two quarters in a row of negative growth."
-- President Clinton, Dec. 19, 2000
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Today is
@SpeakerPelosi
80th birthday.
Bush began his 1/23/2007 SOTU:
"In his day Congressman Thomas D'Alesandro Jr from Baltimore saw Presidents Roosevelt & Truman at this rostrum. But nothing could compare with the sight of his only daughter Nancy presiding tonight as Speaker"
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"In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law."
-- Trump August 18, 2016 (Charlotte NC rally)
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Green converse sneakers ... heart on right toe...
Matthew McConaughey: "Only clear evidence that could identify her"
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@FLOTUS
Jill Biden at Elton John concert: "First Lady
@laurawbush
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Tiny Dancer sings "Tiny Dancer" at the White House ...
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"In my administration, I'm going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law."
-- Donald Trump August 18, 2016 (Charlotte NC rally)
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10/13/1988 debate:
@AnnCompton
asks Bush & Dukakis who their heroes are, "point out to young Americans as figures who should inspire this country?"
Bush: "Fauci ...top doctor at NIH, working hard doing something about research on this disease of AIDS"
h/t
@mschlapp
via
@bterris
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"Your father would be so proud of you," Pres. Trump told the youth. (
@POTUS
at Arlington Cemetery, with
@KellyannePolls
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"You’re not supposed to be sycophants, you're supposed to be skeptics. You’re supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
-- Obama final press conference, Jan. 18, 2017
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Florida Gov Ron DeSantis to Biden:
"Thank you, Mr. President. You recognized the severity of this tragedy from day one. You've been very supportive...Cooperation has been great...You guys have not only been supportive at the federal level, but we've had no bureaucracy."
#sunrise
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"I am hurt, though, Bernie, that you've distancing yourself a little from me. I mean, that's just not something that you do to your comrade."
-- Pres. Obama, April 30, 2016
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TEXAS ELECTORAL COLLEGE:
"The Justices went into a closed room...When Texas case was brought up he said he heard screaming through the walls as Justice Roberts and the other liberal Justices were insisting...afraid of what would happen if they did right thing...Moral cowardice"
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Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney in front row of GOP side on House floor
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“I will come over to meet you, brother."
-- Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Tuesday on House floor.
They hug:
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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) presiding over the U.S. Senate this morning...
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"When babies die at a church school, it is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers. Remind our lawmakers of the words of the British statesman Edmund Burke: 'All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.'"
-- Senate
@Chaplain_Black
#Nashvile
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“I will come over to meet you, brother."
-- Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), 11/19/2019 on House floor.
They hug:
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"This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner."
-- Rep. Pelosi
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"I'm Bill Shadel ABC News...The 2 candidates will not be sharing same platform. In NY John F Kennedy. Separated by 3,000 miles in L.A. studio, Richard Nixon. Joined for discussion by network of electronic facilities which permits each candidate to see & hear the other"
10/13/1960
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Nantucket people to Biden: "We charge you with genocide"
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During union rally in Philadelphia, Pres. Biden says billionaires pay only 8% in taxes.
Audience member shouts: "What do you pay?"
Biden: "I pay a hell of a lot more than that, man."
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No WHCA Dinner this year.
Instead:
#THISDATE
in WHCA Dinner History.
Today's installment: April 30, 2011.
Barack Obama: "Donald Trump is here tonight."
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FINNISH REPORTER: "Finland is the happiest country in the world."
TRUMP: "Finland is a happy country."
FINNISH REPORTER: "What can you learn from Finland?"
TRUMP: "Well, you got rid of Pelosi and you got rid of shifty Schiff. Finland is a happy country. He's a happy leader, too."
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Q: "Paul Whelan?"
TRUMP: "Yeah, we’re looking into that. We’re looking into that. Yeah."
-- Jan. 6, 2019
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"George H.W. Bush took millions of documents to a former bowling alley and a former Chinese restaurant where they combined them. So they're in a bowling alley slash Chinese restaurant."
-- Trump
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"China had a crash yesterday in their stock market. You know why? Because I won Iowa."
-- Trump
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"The room was silent for a very long moment" --
Pool report on VP Pence opening remarks at John McCain Award Ceremony at Munich Security Conference.
Here's video after Pence says: "I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump"
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Today is Walter Mondale’s 93rd birthday.
On day after his 53rd birthday - Jan. 6, 1981 - he announced his defeat in the electoral college:
“Walter F. Mondale has received 49 votes."
Ovation
Mondale to Tip O'Neill: "A landslide"
O'Neill: "Very impressive"
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Elton John sings "I'm Still Standing" at the White House
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In Keene NH a young person introduces himself to Joe Biden as a stutterer.
Biden: "You know, I used to be a very bad stutterer. I've spoken a lot about it. I'm involved in a lot of national organizations. It does not define you. It cannot define you. .. Give me your phone number"
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"Does DoD know Prigozhin is alive or are we in a Weekend at Bernie's scenario?"
-
@JeffSchogol
@TaskandPurpose
Brig. Gen. Ryder: "I'm sorry Jeff, I don't get the reference. I'm kidding. Gen Xer at podium. I have many responsibilities -- but press sec. for Prigozhin is not one."
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Amy Barrett introduces family 9/6/2017 hearing.
- 7 children
- "Vivian 13, our miracle, was born in Haiti, 14 months old weighed 11 pounds"
- "John Peter born in Haiti joined family 2010 after devastating earthquake
- "Benjamin 5 has special needs"
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House clerk chokes up and pauses while emotionally reading resolution on John Lewis funeral.
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"I want to use last few seconds to give some words of advice to my successor.
Number One: Stay close to the Americans. Stick up for the Ukrainians. Stick up for freedom and democracy...
Remember above all: It's not Twitter that counts...
Hasta la vista, baby!"
- Boris Johnson
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Is America the greatest country in the world?
Here's how Christopher Hitchens answered -- on C-SPAN April 22, 2009:
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"Rudy Giuliani. There's only three things he mentions in sentence: a noun, and a verb, and 9/11."
-- Joe Biden, 10/30/2007
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#RIP
Eddie Van Halen ...
Here's the U.S. Senate watching Van Halen music video "Hot for Teacher" during Sept. 19, 1995, hearing on Rock Lyrics labelling.
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Chris Christie on Trump: "The grift from his family is breathtaking. It's breathtaking. Jared Kushner & Ivanka Kushner walk out of White House and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis? $2 billion from Saudis. Do you think it was because he's some kind of investing genius?"
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"The RICO statute - I was the first one to use the racketeering statute for public corruption... So there we have Hillary. You can't vote for her. You can't. You just can't. You can't put a criminal in the White House."
- Rudy Giuliani, July 21, 2016, at Republican convention
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@RepTedDeutch
after Rep. Tlaib:
"I cannot allow one of my colleagues to stand on floor of House and label Jewish democratic state of Israel an apartheid state...my colleague who just besmirched our ally...when there's no place on map for one Jewish state, that's anti-Semitism"
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#RIP
Walter Mondale
On day after his 53rd birthday - Jan. 6, 1981 - he announced his defeat in the electoral college:
“Walter F. Mondale has received 49 votes."
Ovation.
Mondale to Tip O'Neill: "A landslide"
O'Neill: "Very impressive"
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White House sings and dances to Elton John singing Crocodile Rock
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Biden to McCain's mother Roberta, 106: "... know how hard it is to bury a son, Mrs. McCain."
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CRAIG: “Gentlelady from California needs to become little more familiar w/ firearms & their deadly characteristics”
FEINSTEIN: “I am quite familiar w/ firearms. I became mayor as product of assassination…You could put finger through bullet hole”
11/9/93
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Watching
@cspan
coverage of the House Speaker election and opening of 118th Congress? Here are some of the C-SPAN camera operators bringing you the live video from inside the House chamber…
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At end of Pentagon press briefing, a Defense Department farewell to -- and standing ovation for --
@bstarrreports
- longtime Pentagon correspondent for
@CNN
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VP DEBATE
10/9/1996
Kemp: "Dole and myself do not see Gore & Clinton as our enemy. We see them as our opponents...People are watching all over world how this democracy can function with civility & respect & decency & integrity. It's beneath Bob Dole to go after anyone personally"
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#RIP
Prince Philip
He told
@PressClubDC
5/18/1990: "Thank you for very good lunch. Nostalgic it's nearly 40 years since first time I came to Washington...I came with Queen in President Truman's day...I'm not always as tactless as people make out." Told a Winston Churchill story:
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"I love his pillows. I love his sheets. I love his mattress topper. The Kraken has been released! You are part of the Kraken! So, for the best deals to support this patriot, use the code Kraken at my-pillow-dot-com."
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A "back to normal" White House press briefing room... 100% capacity
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"Please play this on your channels. Because this is just wrong. I'm trying to speak about serious Constitutional issues with you. Clown with a whistle, witch with a broom. Go figure."
-- Peter Navarro after Court appearance
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TALIBAN AND CAMP DAVID:
Bush after returning from Camp David on Oct 14, 2001, "Turn him over; turn his cohorts over; turn any hostages they hold over; destroy all the terrorist camps. There's no need to negotiate. There's no discussions. I told them exactly what they need to do"
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.
@JSchogol73030
of
@TaskandPurpose
- "There was as a fire at the Army's ammunition plant in Scranton yesterday. At the risk of invoking Billy Joel. do we know who started the fire?"
@PentagonPresSec
- "I'd have to refer you to the Army because we didn't start the fire."
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@RepGregSteube
hits "first out-of-the-park homerun in
#CongressionalBaseballGame
in more than 40 years ... a bona fide major league homerun"
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Changing the locks in George Santos former office ...
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President Biden and
@FLOTUS
arrive Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to visit wounded warriors
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"I want to acknowledge Tony Bennett. He is with us here today. He helped free the concentration camps during World War II. He marched with Martin Luther King."
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#RIP
Mark Shields ...
"As for Chris Christie, I'm the last person in the world to tell him he should join a gym. But watching him get out of an SUV was like watching the Russians get out of Afghanistan. It took that long.”
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Henry Hyde reads letter from 3rd-grade student during Clinton impeachment trial 1/16/99:
"It is important to tell the truth ... It is important to believe the president because he is a important person. If you cannot believe the president, who can you believe?"
h/t
@brianstelter
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DRINKING EAST PALESTINE WATER: with EPA Administrator Michael Regan & Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (2/21)
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"Raise hand to confirm that Russia was admitted to UN ...Anyone? Should I put my glasses if my vision fails me? And I don't see any hand raised. Any country? Anyone voted for Russian membership? Think about it when you listen to the Russian delegate"
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@SergiyKyslytsya
@UKRinUN
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View from President Trump Motorcade at Freedom Plaza ...
#MillionMAGAMarch
rally supporting President Trump
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#KYSEN
DEBATE:
@senatemajldr
-- "She mentions she was in the Marines about every other sentence. I think her entire campaign is: She's a Marine, she's a mom, and I've been there too long."
@AmyMcGrathKY
-- "Senator, you've been there for 36 years. How's it looking, Kentucky?"
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How about a speed reader for the Senate?
It's been done before in Congress.
May 21, 2009, House Energy Commerce cmte
Waxman: "The clerk will read the bill."
Barton: "I want the speed reader to read the bill."
Waxman: "The speed reader clerk will read the bill."
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"The FBI and the media joined together to launch an attack on me of unparalleled proportion in the history of his nation ... It was all a lie ... The Justice Department cannot be trusted to investigate itself."
-- Richard Jewell, July 30, 1997,
House hearing
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Here's what the text message looked like on August 23, 2008 when Obama picked Biden ...
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IOWA:
"Suzanne Sinift, of Coralville, said she heard
@AndrewYang
talk on C-SPAN Tuesday night and wanted to see him speak in person."
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