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Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

Apr 19

🧵 How does Lucy pull the football from Charlie Brown in Congress?

This $100 billion bill that moves us to the brink of war around the globe…

began as a House bill to help VETERANS get reimbursed for emergency care!

🧵 The Veterans’ bill, HR 815, passed the House as a Veterans’ bill and went to the Senate.

The Senate stripped every word from it, inserted the foreign aid supplemental, and sent it back to the House.

The House will vote on 4 separate bills (Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, +other).

🧵 After the 4 separate bills pass the House tomorrow, a tricky Rule that passed in Rules Committee last night converts them into amendments to the Senate supplemental… HR 815, the bill that started in the House as a Veterans’ bill !

HR 815 then heads back to the Senate.

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Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

Apr 11

🧵 Many people have been misled today.

There was not a vote on the FISA bill.

There was a vote on a resolution that would have allowed FISA, as well as 6 amendments to it, including a warrant requirement amendment, and three other pieces of legislation to come to the floor.

On partisan procedural votes like this, Democrats reflexively vote no and Republicans typically vote yes.

19 Republicans voted with all the Democrats to stop everything from coming to the floor today, including the warrant amendment to FISA.

Many of us who are adamantly opposed to warrantless surveillance voted for the resolution, wanting to get a recorded vote on warrants, and recognizing the Speaker can otherwise suspend the rules and bring anything to the floor without a resolution, like he did with the omnibus.

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Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

Mar 2

🚨 CDC discloses they have at least a dozen medical industry LOBBYING GROUPS, officially SERVING alongside 15 voting members, on ACIP, the supposedly independent vaccine board that just approved the 9th booster shot.

CDC list of the ACIP board:

🧵 cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/…

Here is CDC’s list of “liaison members” serving on the vaccine advisory. I will include publicly available lobbying activity from these organizations in subsequent posts. But pick any one of them and search for their name + lobbying, and you can research this yourself.

BTW, @CNN has the temerity to call these folks independent vaccine advisers. Let’s see about that…

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Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

Feb 16

We just scored a big victory against the woke takeover of American financial organizations. After Chairman Jordan and I called them out for potential violations of antitrust law, major corporations dropped their involvement with an Environment, Social, and Governance ESG group.
reuters.com/sustainability…

Chairman Jordan and I (as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust) wrote
@BlackRock, @Vanguard_Group, @StateStreet, and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero about their ESG coordination.

This is one of the letters:

.@Jim_Jordan, @RepDanBishop, and I warned these companies that their ongoing efforts "coordinating their members' agreements to ‘decarbonize’ their assets under management and reduce emissions to net zero" were potentially illegal under the Sherman Act.

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Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

Feb 15

26 to 0!

The Judiciary committee passed my bill (HR 6824) requiring FBI to provide demographic data of persons ruled ineligible to purchase a firearm by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

False denials disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities.

The complete debate over my bill, the amendment discussion, and the roll call vote on passage are shown here unedited.

Thank you Chairman Jim Jordan for advancing this legislation and thank you Ranking Member Nadler and Representative Jackson Lee for supporting this bill.

As of 2024, the FBI reported over 2,000,000 denials of firearm purchases under the NICS background check system, but the vast majority of these denials were false positives. Research indicates NICS produces false denials for black males by a factor of 3-1 compared to white males.

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Thomas Massie

@RepThomasMassie

Jan 24

J6 pipe bomb 🧵

On 6/7/23 the House Judiciary Committee interviewed Steven D’Antuono, former FBI Assistant Director in Charge of the DC field office.

Most of the interview covered topics such as the warrant served at Mar a Lago, but I asked questions about the J6 pipe bombs.

If you are just becoming familiar with the rapidly collapsing narrative of the J6 pipe bombs, I suggest reading @DarrenJBeattie’s comprehensive and insightful coverage of this topic.

The purpose of this thread is to post the original transcript of my interview with the FBI ADIC.

In addition to reading this transcript, you might want to watch my questioning of the ATF director and the FBI director. I also suggest watching the video of the discovery of the DNC pipe bomb.

I’ll post those three videos at the end of this thread.

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