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I think McCain would get a kick out of the fact that he had been dead for 6 months but is still pissing off Trump
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None of them are wearings masks in a MASK FACTORY
The president is wearing safety goggles but no mask on his tour of Honeywell PPE manufacturing line
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Unbelievably, a number of members - almost all of whom are Republicans - are walking around without masks on. Which is about as dumb a thing as I’ve seen in 26 years of covering Congress.
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@SenSanders
says Democrats “should ignore” the parliamentarian’s ruling on minimum wage & Democrats must make it happen
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Pennsylvania Democratic officials are privately telling Biden campaign officials that they believe final margin of victory for Biden in Pennsylvania will be 100K-200K votes when the counting is finally done
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Some of these CPAC speeches are a good reminder why Trump lost the election by 7 million votes
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NEWS - Pelosi weighs bringing House back early to address Postal Service crisis.
@heatherscope
@sarahnferris
& me
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“A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed against Rachel Maddow, finding she did not defame One America News when she said it was ‘Russian propaganda.’”
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New - Metal detectors set up outside of House chamber. Members have to go thru them too. Never seen that before
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Biden called a the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol an attempted “coup”
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Republicans - Please make sure you’re posting pics with John Lewis & not Elijah Cummings. Come on
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House Democrats give a standing ovation as American Rescue Plan passes
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A very angry
@SenatorLeahy
just said he’s going to introduce his own bill to fund the US Capitol Police & dare Republicans to vote against it
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Fwiw, Trump never mentioned “liquified natural gas” or “energy” or “Rick Perry” during the Juky 25 call with Zelensky, according to WH record on call. Zelensky mentioned “energy independence” for Ukraine, but Trump was focused on the Bidens.
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Clinton easily won this debate. She won all 3 debates. I'm not sure Trump ever understood the nature/goal of these debates.
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Still stunned by this exchange
King: "Do you think Russians interfered with 2016 election?"
Sessions: "Appears so."
King: "But you never asked about it?"
Sessions: "No."
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@SenSchumer
is threatening to keep the Senate in over the weekend unless
@SenTuberville
agrees to allow cloture votes today on several senior military nominees
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Michelle Obama - That was probably the best political speech that I’ve ever seen.
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NEWS - Mnuchin has agreed to “significant oversight” over $500B “Exchange Stabilization Fund,” per 3 sources. This is a major issue for Democrats, who called it a “$500 billion slush fund” with no accountability.
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Some House Republicans are STILL not wearing masks. It’s hard to believe but it’s true.
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@GOPLeader
has met with
@mtgreenee
but neither says anything as they leave his office. McCarthy literally jogged away from reporters
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!!! 7 Senate Dems file an ethics complaint against
@SenTedCruz
&
@HawleyMO
over their role in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol.
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7 House Republicans voted against naming a post office for the late Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), who died in office last year after 31 years in Congress: Flores, Grothman, Harris, Massie, Rice (SC), Rouzer, and Roy. Repeat - they voted against naming a post office after her.
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@SpeakerPelosi
says on “This Week” that Trump is rushing a Supreme Court pick so the new justice can be in place for Nov. 10 hearing on Obamacare. “He doesn’t want to crush the [coronavirus], he wants to crush the Affordable Care Act.”
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Kristen Clarke is confirmed by the Senate 51-48. She is the first woman & woman of color to head Civil Rights Division at DOJ
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US Capitol Police on lookout for young white woman who yelled “Mr. President, f— you!”
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@ChuckGrassley
releases a letter from 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school (showing Rs knew about this high-school rape allegation.) These women say Kavanaugh “behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”
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Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan had been a closely held secret due to security concerns, of course. Very few people knew she was heading there.
@SteveScalise
mentioned Pelosi was headed to Brussels in his presser this morning, which angered Dems.
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I’m not sure many people know this, but Eli Manning & the NY Giants beat Brady twice in the Super Bowl. Twice!
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Johnson is making it worse every time he talks about Jan. 6. “All the violence was on the House side,” the insurrectionists on the Senate side were peaceful. Which, of course, is not true
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@SenRonJohnson
talked about his remarks about not being concerned about violent protesters on Jan. 6
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Yovanovitch's statement is devastating for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & other top State Dept. leadership under Trump
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NEWS: A memo sent to House cmtes said NO cmte staff will get their next paycheck if a House rules package isn’t in place by Jan. 13
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He should have been here on Jan. 6. That was miserable
"This is about the most miserable experience I've had down here in Washington, D.C.," says Trump lawyer Michael van der Veen.
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Tom Price was trying to avoid press, ran to Senate subway. But then subway BROKE DOWN & he was stuck facing reporter questions
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/3 But clearly it took some effort to fund 65 women who attended high school at same time as Kavanaugh 30-odd years ago. This took some time to round up signatures
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It shouldn’t be news that a Republican senator publicly acknowledges that Biden won an election he carried by millions of votes, but hey, 2020
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People on Capitol Hill walking around without masks - You’re all idiots & I hate you.
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Some personal news - After 14 great years at Politico, I’ll be leaving in mid-December. I’m so proud of what we’ve achieved on the Congress team since Politico began & I’ll miss all of my colleagues deeply. More news on future plans will be coming soon.
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President's son is openly admitting he met with a Kremlin-tied lawyer looking for damaging info on Hillary Clinton. How will GOP respond?
Read Don Jr.'s new statement to the Times. He doesn't deny that he was open to this alleged damaging info on Clinton
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Facist group marching down Pennsylvania Ave., November 2020
The Proud Boys are leading a march down Pennsylvania Avenue now.
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The Senate Judiciary Cmte has approved
@POTUS
first 5 judicial nominees, sending to the full Senate for confirmation
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Thousands of anti-Kavanaugh protestors chanting “Vote them out!” Dozens being arrested on East Capitol steps now
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Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman - up in ‘22 - will oppose Electoral College challenge to Biden’s election. “I cannot support allowing Congress to thwart the will of the voters,” per statement
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This House GOP move on Office of Congressional Ethics is a disaster. Republicans are gutting any independent ethics reviews
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Federal judge refuses to release R. Kelly, “citing risk of flight and history of alleged obstruction.” Home detention denied.
“A trial date was set: May 18, 2020.”
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This is a powerful speech by Biden. You may disagree with his decision, but this is a clear, precise statement of his reasons for making it.
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Per his office,
@SenSchumer
“secured a provision in the agreement that will prohibit businesses controlled by the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, and heads of Executive Departments from receiving loans or investments from Treasury programs.”
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@SenSchumer
says Senate will have confirmed 55 nominations by the end of day, plus cloture on 2 more judges
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NEWS:
@LeaderHoyer
will step down from Democratic leadership but remain in Congress. Hoyer will back
@RepJeffries
for Democratic leader. He will aid the caucus/leadership in an advisory role if requested. w/
@heatherscope
&
@JakeSherman
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From WH official on CBO score of Build Back Better Act: “This is very good news for Democrats. The cost elements came in lower than the White House estimates - in the ballpark of $50
billion lower cost.”
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Pelosi & Grassley have a brief chat. Probably about pidgins
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Members-elect are asking for an investigation into the election in which they were elected? Are they saying they’re not members-elect or there should be questions about it? Or no fraud in their own races, just on the presidential vote? Huh
The pile on continues. All eight members of Georgia’s 2021 GOP House delegation sign a letter urging the state’s top elections official, a fellow Republican, to investigate claims of fraud (still without any evidence) before certifying the results of the election.
#gapol
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Wow - Former GOP Rep. Steve Stockman (Texas) gets a 10-year prison sentence for illegally using charitable funds to cover personal expenses & pay for campaigns for public office. That's one of the longest prison sentences ever handed out to an ex-lawmaker.
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It’s worth noting that Paul Mitchell was in the House GOP leadership. Now he’s leaving the party entirely.
NEWS: Rep. Paul Mitchell, who is retiring this year, tells
@jaketapper
on
@CNN
he's leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent, a la fellow Michigander Rep. Justin Amash
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That ain’t tourists
An actual quote from an actual elected member of Congress: “You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think that was a normal tourist visit.”
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/5 Sanders: “Let me be very clear - if we fail in this legislation, I will be back. We’re going to keep going it takes 10 votes. We are going to raise that minimum wage very shortly to $15 an hour.”
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News -
@SpeakerPelosi
,
@RepThompson
& Gabby Giffords will introduce a universal backgrounds checks bill on Tuesday, the 8th anniversary of Giffords' shooting. The bill will be "H.R. 8" in her honor
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/4 Sanders also said there would be political fallout for all those senators who vote against the minimum wage increase. “I would suggest that those who vote against it from a political point of view, that’s a mistake. The American people want to see that minimum wage raised.”
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NEWS:
@WhipClyburn
will run for Assistant Democratic Leader in the next Congress. The House Democratic leadership will be
@RepJeffries
@RepKClark
@RepPeteAguilar
as 1-2-3.
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Not a mask in sight. I loathe everyone
Arizona GOP Sen. Martha McSally takes goodbye photos with staff, after making her final speech in the Senate
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/2 Sanders: “There will be a roll call vote, and we’ll see who votes for it and doesn’t.”
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/5 Told by other reporters that
@laurenboebert
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@senatemajldr
, a polio survivor, is publicly admitting he won’t go to the West Wing to see the president because of the White House lax coronavirus protocols. A stunning statement
McConnell avoids visiting White House over its handling of coronavirus.
@marianne_levine
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Trump will move on & leave Obamacare in place if he doesn't get AHCA vote, per Mulvaney
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News: 3 House Rs tried to change
@Lancegooden
’s vote last nite on Dems’ police reform bill. They put in “red cards” to change Gooden’s vote to no. The cards were rejected by House clerks. A possible ethics violation by Louie Gohmert, Randy Weber & Kelly Armstrong.
@PunchbowlNews
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I’ve been covering Congress a long time, more than 26 years. Never seen anything like what this candidate is saying. Yet Republicans will allow her to be part of their conference if she wins.
GOP-backed House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene pushed a conspiracy theory that the Obama administration used MS-13 to assassinate Democratic staffer Seth Rich. That smear echoes a QAnon post. (w/ research from
@AlKapDC
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Sheriff: Ronny Jackson threatened to ‘beat’ state trooper after being handcuffed at rodeo
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If
@Liz_Cheney
is gonna lose her leadership post, she’ll go down swinging
The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.
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Top GOP election lawyer >>>
A shameful, dishonorable act. Lawless. Antithetical to the founding values of the Republican Party and our Republic. It won’t change the election outcome, but it will be remembered as a craven retreat from the rule of law.
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/5 Pollsters & pundits took it on the chin tonight. Huge blow to the media’s credibility. There has to be changes in how these races are covered.
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NEW - Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the designated survivor, per a source familiar.
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If this is true - big if - it would probably lead to shutdown & would mark the 2nd time a GOP speaker made a deal with Democrats & then reneged.
NEWS —
@RepRalphNorman
says
@SpeakerJohnson
is going to back out of his spending deal with
@SenSchumer
“No. It’s not going to be the current deal.”
Norman says there will be a CR.
Norman just emerged from a meeting with Johnson.
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@SenSchumer
: "Leader McConnell has defiled the Senate like no in this generation, and Leader McConnell may very well destroy it."
Schumer's going all-out war on McConnell
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As good as Schiff is, and he's very good, just imagine for a second what Elijah Cummings would've been like on the Senate floor in the middle of an impeachment trial. RIP
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/3 Sanders: “This is the soul of the Democratic Party.”
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Trump’s defense team says they have 301 witnesses “so far” that they want to call
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@SenatorCollins
says 11 GOP senators sending a letter to
@SenSchumer
now saying they will vote for cloture on Monday if there’s a bipartisan infrastructure agreement
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@SenRonJohnson
won’t discuss what he said to
@MittRomney
on the floor after Romney voted for witnesses. “That’s grotesque you guys are recording this,” Johnson complained.
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Tourists are back! I’m standing by the Capitol. “Excuse me, is that the White House?” God, I love them, I wanted to hug them!!! You crazy kids are miles off, but you’re awesome
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Sessions has already gone from no contacts, to "just not strong recollection" of what was said, to "superficial comments." Shifting quickly
Trump admin official on Sessions/Russian envoy: "superficial comments about election-related news, not substance of their discussion"
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@SenSanders
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@Sen_JoeManchin
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U.S. police have attacked journalists at least 100 times in the past four days » Nieman Journalism Lab
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What would Sen. Jeff Sessions, member of the Judiciary Cmte, say about a witness whose testimony before the panel was shown to be untrue?
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Senior R: “I hope the president remembers this when the Freedom Caucus types tell him what to do next time. They only have a first move - start a fight. They never have a second move.”
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/2 Reporters in the gallery saw/heard the Romney-Johnson exchange on the Senate floor. It was in public
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NEWS from
@heatherscope
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An attorney general is not called "general." That has to stop asap
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If you don’t want to face questions from reporters, don’t run for Congress
Rep. Ilhan Omar in no mood to talk about her controversies this week. First, she said: “No thank you” when asked to comment on Trump saying she should resign. Second time I saw her, she yelled: “Are you serious?” when I tried to question her.
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This person will be serving in the House of Representatives soon
Holy shit. Congressman-elect Bob Good of Virginia starts speaking and immediately proclaims, "this looks like a group of people that gets it. This is a phony pandemic."
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