Ritchie Torres
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A personal account in which I speak for myself rather than for the federal government. For official announcements, please follow @RepRitchie .
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It’s official. We won! It is the honor of a lifetime to be able to serve our community in Washington DC. The counting took longer than expected, but today the
@BOENYC
certified our victory & I want to say thank you..
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About an hour ago, I was traveling from the Capitol to the Hyatt hotel when a MAGA demonstrator, screaming from a microphone, called me a "homeboy in a suit." Sorry MAGA but the name is Congressman-elect Ritchie Torres.
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SHOCKING: Ron DeSantis has BANNED the teaching of AP African American Studies in Florida.
Florida has gone from Don’t Say Gay to Don’t Say Black.
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Elon Musk wants to criminalize Anthony Fauci because he disagrees with him.
Elon is no champion of free speech.
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George Santos pretended to be a gay Afro-Latino Ukrainian Brazilian Catholic Jew whose mother died on 9/11, whose ancestors survived the Holocaust, whose employees died in the Pulse club mass shooting, and whose net worth rose by millions overnight.
Am I missing anything?
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Hey
@ElonMusk
, why did you suspend journalist Aaron Rupar? How is that consistent with your stated commitment to free speech?
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BIG NEWS: I am introducing a bill to require candidates to disclose under oath their employment, educational, & military history so we can punish candidates who lie to voters about their qualifications.
It will be called the Stop Another Non-Truthful Office Seeker (SANTOS) ACT.
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I admire Senator John Fetterman for openly seeking treatment for depression at Walter Reed.
Back in 2010, I was hospitalized for depression. I would not be alive, let alone in Congress, were it not for mental health care.
Millions of Americans are rooting for you, Senator.
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George Santos, a former call center employee falling behind on his rent, lent his campaign a staggering $705,000.
Where did all that money come from? The Ethics Committee MUST start investigating immediately.
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BREAKING: George Santos finally admits the 500K loan to his campaign was NOT a personal loan.
Santos has all but admitted to breaking campaign finance law. RESIGN.
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Charlie Kirk, a self-proclaimed champion of Christian values, is mocking Damar Hamlin who abruptly collapsed and fell into a critical condition.
The Christianity of the far right is often as fraudulent as George Santos.
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Lauren Boebert calling out Donald Trump on the House floor was not on my 2023 bingo card.
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Governor Abbott claims to be a “pro-life Christian” yet shows no regard for the lives of children left shivering in the freezing cold on Christmas Eve.
Dropping off migrants in 18 degree weather is so cruel that it ought to be criminal.
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Kyle Rittenhouse got away with fatally shooting two people after injecting himself into a dangerous situation where he had no business being.
He is in no position to lecture anyone about accountability.
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The far right has unleashed homophobic hate against me. I refuse to be intimidated.
When I presided over the Respect for Marriage Act, I had a simple message for the far right fanatics: your time has expired.
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Kanye West: if you see yourself at war with Jewish people, then you are, by definition, Antisemitic.
Shame on you and your enablers like Tucker Carlson.
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201 Republicans just voted against providing desperate aid to Puerto Rico and Florida.
Shouldn’t this be a bigger story?
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Enough is enough: My colleagues and I are introducing legislation to expel George Santos from the United States Congress.
If Kevin McCarthy refuses to hold George Santos accountable, then we will.
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BREAKING: A Republican District Attorney, Anne Donnelly from Nassau County, has opened a criminal investigation into George Santos—the first of many to come.
Santos will be gone by the end of his term or well before then. He should RESIGN.
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As the former Vice Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, I’m HORRIFIED that it was just announced that Marjorie Taylor Greene will serve on the committee.
A QAnon conspiracy theorist + Jan 6 insurrectionist doesn’t belong on a committee that exists to fight extremism.
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BREAKING NEWS: George Santos is under federal investigation from the US Attorney for the Eastern District.
Follow the money.
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I just had a conversation with
@POTUS
and thanked him for supporting Puerto Rico. His reply: Puerto Rico has been left behind for too long.
President Biden gets it.
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BREAKING: George Santos admits his life story is a complete fabrication. His pitiful confession should not distract us from concerns about possible criminality and corruption.
The Ethics Committee MUST investigate how he made his money. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
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BREAKING: I am reintroducing the SANTOS Act in the 118th Congress in partnership with Rep. Dan Goldman. The bill punishes candidates who lie to voters about their qualifications.
SANTOS stands for Stop Another Non Truthful Office Seeker.
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BOOM: Kevin McCarthy has just lost the FIFTH vote for Speaker. House Republican disunity, division, and dysfunction deepens.
Meanwhile, ALL OUR 212 Members are UNIFIED behind Hakeem Jeffries
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House Republicans get $79 per day for meals and incidentals.
Poor people get $2 per meal under SNAP.
Republicans want to cut $2 for the poor while pocketing nearly 40 times as much for their own meals.
Sound fair to you?
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Donald Trump presided over not 1, not 2, but THREE Chinese spy balloons, none of which he shot down and all of which he hid from the public.
The 3 Chinese spy balloons exposes the emptiness of Trump’s tough talk.
Thank you President Biden for walking the walk.
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Tucker Carlson, Lauren Boebert, and Matt Gaetz stand with Putin; most of America stands with Zelensky and the people of Ukraine.
The contrast between the far right and most of America has never been more glaring.
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JUST NOW: The new House rules would:
-enable the GOP to defund a criminal investigation into Trump.
-defund Office of Congressional Ethics.
-enable a Republican being investigated by FBI to investigate the investigators investigating him.
I'm voting NO on the rules package.
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Earlier today, I was walking through the House tunnel when I saw an officer watching
@OANN
, a far-right propaganda channel that spread dangerous lies about the 2020 election. Horrifying, to say the least.
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BREAKING: Brazilian authorities are reopening the criminal case against George Santos, who committed fraud in Brazil.
Santos is now the target of local, state, national, and international law enforcement.
Santos should resign before disgracing himself any further.
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BREAKING NEWS: Kevin McCarthy has just lost the TENTH vote to be Speaker of the House.
In 1923, it took the House nine rounds of voting to elect a Speaker. House Republicans have shown a level of dysfunction not seen in 100 years.
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BOOM! The results of Kevin McCarthy's 4th attempt are in:
Hakeem Jeffries - 212
Kevin McCarthy - 201
Byron Donalds - 20
Present - 1
That's the tweet.
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BREAKING: The Respect for Marriage Act has PASSED in the House.
Today we put the equality of same-sex love in its rightful place: under the protection of federal law.
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James Comer, the Chair of House Oversight, said if George Santos broke campaign finance law, “he will be removed from Congress.”
Santos has now admitted to breaking campaign finance law with an illicit $500K loan. It’s time for him to be removed.
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BREAKING: George Santos' campaign reportedly falsified its latest campaign disclosure, falsely claiming to have Thomas Datwyler as its new Treasurer with a fraudulent signature.
The lying and law-breaking knows no limit.
R E S I G N !
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BREAKING NEWS:
Dan Goldman and I are filing a formal complaint with the House Ethics Committee against George Santos for violating the Ethics in Government Act.
Santos must be held accountable for defrauding both Congress and the public.
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If George Santos or Anthony Devolder cannot be trusted to tell the truth about his name, he cannot be trusted to serve in the United States Congress.
RESIGN.
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The heroes of the Capitol police and their families refusing to shake the hands of Republican leadership sends a crystal-clear message:
January 6 is on their hands.
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BREAKING NEWS: House Republican chaos continues. Kevin McCarthy has just lost the THIRD vote for Speaker.
The third time is not a charm.
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You’ve got to be kidding me.
Looks like far-right Republican George Santos, who fabricated his whole political identity, may have even lied about his sexuality.
I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congress in New York in the New Year. 😉
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BOOM! The results of the SIXTH round:
Hakeem Jeffries - 212
Kevin McCarthy - 201
Byron Donalds - 20
Present - 1
Team Hakeem earns the highest number of votes for a sixth time!
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NOW: Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the honor of presiding over the debate on the Respect for Marriage Act.
The vote for marriage equality is an empowering moment for me as the first Afro-Latino LGBTQ Member of Congress.
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It is one thing for Speaker Kevin McCarthy to fully release the Jan. 6 footage.
But releasing the footage EXCLUSIVELY to a Jan. 6 denier like Tucker Carlson? That is as insane as appointing Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Homeland Security Committee.
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The American people have a right to know the name of every elected official who plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Jan 6 or impose martial law.
The rot at the core of the far right runs deeper than Donald Trump.
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George Santos is under criminal investigation. What possible justification does Kevin McCarthy have for appointing Santos to a committee while removing Democrats who have broken no law?
The operating principle here is not ethics. It’s politics.
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BREAKING NEWS: House Republican chaos, crisis, and confusion continues. Kevin McCarthy has just lost the FOURTH vote for Speaker.
A historic humiliation has become even more historic.
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BREAKING NEWS: Kevin McCarthy has just lost the votes to be Speaker of the House for the SEVENTH time.
The Republican chaos, crisis, and confusion continues.
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House Republicans's priorities:
30% sales tax
Hunter Biden
Ilhan Omar
Gas stoves
Woke M & Ms
AP African American History
Socialism
CRT
What ever happened to fighting inflation?
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Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, two members in good standing, are being removed from their committees, while an abject fraud like George Santos will oversee fraud in the PPP program.
Kevin McCarthy, by what logic does this make sense?
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Matt Schlapp has been accused of sexually assaulting a male staffer on the Herschel Walker campaign.
Schlapp recently held a far-right holiday party that brought together Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and GOP House Speaker George Santos.
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Joe Rogan said: “the idea that Jews are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza.”
Newsflash: The notion that interest in money is uniquely Jewish is Antisemitic garbage that should never be fed to an audience of millions.
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JUST NOW: We just hand-delivered a copy of the Ethics Complaint to George Santos, who has been put on notice. Not only for the lies he tells but also for the laws he has broken.
George Santos MUST and will be held accountable.
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OUTRAGEOUS: George Santos has been accused of sexually harassing a staffer named Derek Meyers.
George Santos has seen more scandal in a few days and weeks than most elected officials will see in a lifetime.
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BREAKING NEWS: House Republican chaos, crisis, and confusion continues. Kevin McCarthy has just lost the SIXTH vote for Speaker.
The self-destruction of House Republicans shows no signs of letting up.
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January 6 was Donald Trump’s attempt at terminating the US Constitution.
He’s a repeat offender.
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Matt Gaetz just nominated Jim Jordan for Speaker who just nominated Kevin McCarthy.
You can’t make this up.
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JUST NOW: A mass shooting in Lakeland, Florida has left 10 people injured.
Yet Ron DeSantis wants people to freely carry firearms without a permit, which will cause even more guns to fall into the hands of even more mass shooters.
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Jamie Raskin is a national treasure—an oasis of legal integrity and intellect at a time when both are desperately needed in democracy’s defense.
I am praying for his strong and swift recovery as he undergoes cancer treatment. America needs you, Jamie.
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Kanye West is promoting a video that features Nick Fuentes—an avowed white supremacist who denies the Holocaust and demonizes people of color.
This is dangerous,
@elonmusk
.
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OUTRAGEOUS: George Santos is going to be appointed to the Small Business Committee, which oversees one of the largest government programs in history: the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
Can a fraud like George Santos be trusted to root out rampant fraud in the PPP program?
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Hakeem Jeffries - 212
Kevin McCarthy - 203
Jim Jordan - 19
Jim Jordan’s nominating speech for Kevin McCarthy yielded new votes for Jim Jordan rather than Kevin McCarthy.
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BREAKING NEWS: Despite having Jim Jordan whipping votes, Kevin McCarthy just lost AGAIN the race to become Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Hakeem Jeffries is again the leading candidate for Speaker.
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The Supreme Court is supremely broken.
SCOTUS cannot find the source of the leak in the Dobbs case.
Clarence Thomas refuses to recuse himself from cases implicating Ginni Thomas.
Brett Kavanaugh parties with George Santos + Matt Schlapp.
SCOTUS has no code of ethics.
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If House Republicans are so intent on investigating the FBI, why not investigate the FBI’s failure to thoroughly probe the allegations of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh?
Why not investigate the Trump White House’s interference with the FBI probe into Kavanaugh?
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Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed billionaire, paid ZERO in federal taxes in 2020 and only $750 in taxes in both 2016 and 2017.
While most Americans work harder and harder and get poorer and poorer, frauds like Donald Trump and George Santos are gaming a rigged system.
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A Jan 6 insurrectionist leading the Pledge of Allegiance is as absurd as Ron DeSantis leading Black History Month.
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Dmitry Medvedev, the former President of Russia, predicts that 2023 will mark the rise of the Fourth Reich, the collapse of the EU, a Third World War, & a second Civil War in the US.
Elon Musk celebrates the prediction as an “epic thread.” What the hell is wrong with him?
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Elise Stefanik, the Chair of the House Republican Conference, remains conspicuously silent about the fraudulence of George Santos. Not only did she endorse Santos, she fundraised for him in the tune of six figures.
Where is the apology and accountability?
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Tucker Carlson describes the stench of tobacco as the smell of freedom. He claims those smoking tobacco, which “founded the country,” are striking a blow for freedom and standing up for Americanism.
The far right is as ludicrous as it is dangerous.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sees no right to an abortion in the 14th Amendment but has somehow managed to discover a right to discrimination in the First Amendment.
Has the Constitution ever been so perverted in recent memory?
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Sarah Palin will now have all the time to watch Russia from her porch.
Congratulations to my colleague Mary Peltola.
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Hakeem Jeffries - 212
Kevin McCarthy - 202
Jim Jordan - 20
Kevin McCarthy managed to lose by a larger margin. House Republicans in chaos.
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WATCH: My town hall was hijacked by pro-Putin propagandists who blame the US rather than Vladimir Putin for Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
It’s tragic to see useful idiots whitewashing Putin’s war crimes. I stand with the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom.
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If Kevin McCarthy refuses to hold George Santos accountable, we will.
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Earlier today, my aunt Lorraine Bosolet passed away after more than a year of battling cancer. She fought to live with all the willpower that she could muster but in the end the toll that chemo took on her body became too debilitating. The pain too unbearable.
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George Santos has been caught “embellishing” his Congressional resume, falsely claiming that he cast a vote against the Omnibus budget on December 23rd, 2022.
Santos was not a Congressman at the time except in his own imagination.
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Jair Bolsonaro is the Donald Trump of Brazil. The authoritarian right is doing to Brazil what it did to the US on Jan 6: attacking the peaceful transfer of power upon which democracy depends.
We stand with the people of Brazil fighting for democracy.
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According to SCOTUS Justice Alito, prohibiting a Christian from discriminating against LGBTQ people is like forcing “black Santa” to appear in a photo with the KKK.
This is what passes for logic in a right-wing Supreme Court. Shameful!
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Starting on January 1st, 2023, the price of insulin will be capped at $35 a month for senior citizens on Medicare.
Happy New Year!
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Rupert Murdoch admitted under oath that Fox News hosts lied and endorsed a "false notion of a stolen election" and that he could've stopped it but didn't.
Fox News has no moral authority to lecture anyone on media bias.
Jim Acosta is 100% right.
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George Anthony Devolder Kitara Ravache Santos knows he’s in trouble when an associate of a Russian oligarch accuses him of being a con man.
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George Santos has updated his lie about the Pulse club shooting.
He previously said the four victims had been his past employees.
Now he’s claiming the four victims were going to be his future employees.
In other words, he meant to say employee-ish.
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Kanye West just said white supremacist Nick Fuentes is tweeting from his account.
Bigots like West and Fuentes have no business being on Twitter,
@elonmusk
.
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BREAKING: Oversight Committee Chair, GOP Congressman James Comer, just said that George Santos will be REMOVED if he is found to have broken campaign finance laws.
James, instead of harassing a private citizen like Hunter Biden, why not investigate George Santos?
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President Biden is right. Democracy is on the ballot.
Pass it on.
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JUST NOW: I proudly vote for the master of alliteration—the cerebral, cool, calm, and collected Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Kevin McCarthy's ambition to be Speaker is being held hostage by the far right.
The division and dysfunction of House Republicans stands in contrast to the unity of House Democrats around Hakeem Jeffries.
A tale of two Houses is unfolding. Governing vs Grandstanding.
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JUST NOW: "I see good things about Hitler, also. The Jews... Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler."
— Kanye West on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' InfoWars show.
This is Nazism. When are we going to say ENOUGH?
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BREAKING: The DHS Secretary has heeded our call and announced a much needed waiver to allow diesel fuel to reach Puerto Rico. This is life saving.
I will continue to be a voice for PR in Congress.
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Only a few hours away from the formal swearing-in. In the meantime, I stopped by my new office. Seeing my own name on a House plaque is surreal.
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I almost spilled my coffee when I read the following quote in The New Yorker: “Donald Trump is not an antisemite. He loves Jews. But…he legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew haters.”
One cannot “love” any people while legitimizing hatred against them. Period.
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SHAMEFUL: House Republicans are proposing in the rules package to DEFUND the Office of Congressional Ethics at a time when George Santos enters Congress with an ethical cloud hanging over him.
So much for draining the swamp.
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I am introducing a resolution to publicly censure George Santos for defrauding the people of the United States.
I have a message to House Republicans who, for too long, have been protecting Mr. Santos, who has disgraced the United States Congress.
Stop treating Mr. Santos as…
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Hamas’s surprise terrorist attack by air, land, and sea is Israel’s 9/11. Losing 600 Israelis is the equivalent of losing about 20,000 Americans.
If you murder, wound, rape, and abduct civilians and children, as Hamas has done, you are not a militant. You are a terrorist.…
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Ted Cruz laid out a sinister scheme in the lead-up to Jan. 6 to overturn a 224-year tradition of transferring power from one president to the next.
Ted Cruz is unworthy of the United States Senate.
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Tucker Carlson absurdly accuses President Biden of “instituting a government-wide system of racial discrimination that dwarfs Jim Crow.”
Trivializing Jim Crow is what happens when American history is whitewashed by the likes of Ron DeSantis.
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As I presided over the debate for the Respect for Marriage Act, I had to remind Republicans like Vicky Hartzler their time for debate expired.
For too long, Republicans have tried to stop a full vision of marriage equality in America.
Their time has expired.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s been the most shameless defender of Jan 6 extremists like the Proud Boys, will serve on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Inciting Jan 6 should disqualify MTG from serving on a committee that exists to fight extremists, not fight for them.
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