Nancy Pelosi plans to introduce a bill honoring Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman and other officers with the Congressional Gold Medal -- Congress' highest honor. huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pe…
Pelosi just sent a Dear Colleague letter to all House members, inviting them to cosponsor her bill.

A copy of her bill is now in here. huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pe…
FWIW: It's not very often that the House Speaker introduces a bill, so it shows the importance of this one to Pelosi.

Looks like Pelosi only sponsored one bill in the last Congress. Image
Here's US Capitol Police acting chief Yogananda Pittman on Pelosi's bill:

"To have our police officers’ bravery acknowledged at a time when they’re experiencing tremendous emotions and exhaustion is a gift." uscp.gov/media-center/p…

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4 Feb
Greene still trying to do clean-up from all the things she's said/amplified in the past.

"These were words from the past and they do not represent me. They do not represent my values."

"I believe in God with all my heart."

"Jesus died on the cross to forgive me for my sins"
Greene wraps up by saying she's really opposed to abortion and that the media "is just as guilty as QAnon" by feeding lies and dividing people.
Dem Rep. Jim McGovern is up now. He's... not sure where to begin.

"To equate the media to QAnon is beyond the pale."

She advocated "putting a bullet to the head of Speaker Pelosi."

"She called a student survivor of the Parkland massacre 'very trained, like a dog.'"
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is now speaking on the House floor, as the House begins the process for removing her from her committee assignments.

"I"m a very proud wife... I'm a mother of 3 children.... I'm a very regular American."
Greene is now talking about her process of not trusting the news or the government, so in 2018 "I started looking up things on the Internet" and learned about conspiracy theories like QAnon.
"That is absolutely what I regret," Greene says of embracing conspiracy theories.

"If it weren't for the Facebook posts I 'liked' in 2018, I wouldn't be standing here today and you couldn't accuse me of anything wrong."
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"Officer Sicknick was a martyr for democracy," Pelosi says of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.
"It's just unfortunate," Pelosi says of the House voting today to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from all committees.

"You would think that the Republican leadership in the Congress would have some sense of responsibility to this situation" to do this themselves.
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4 Feb
There are no maximum arsenic levels established for baby food, tho the FDA has set the maximum allowable levels in bottled water at 10 ppb of arsenic.

Hain "used many ingredients in its baby foods with as much as 309 ppb of arsenic."
"There is no federal standard for lead in baby food, but there is a growing consensus among health experts that lead levels in baby foods should not exceed 1 ppb."

"Beech-Nut used ingredients containing as much as 886.9 parts per billion of lead" in baby food.
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A weird thing happening in the Senate right now is that it still has not passed its organizing resolution -- which sets up committee chairs/ranking members + the process for moving all bills and nominees to the floor -- and nobody will say why or when it will happen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I asked Schumer about it today at a media avail, after @LACaldwellDC asked about it and didn't get much of an answer, and was promptly brushed off.

Why?
JUST NOW: Schumer says the Senate's organizing resolution has been finalized and will be passed today.
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2 Feb
What's interesting about House GOP Whip Steve Scalise accusing Biden of abandoning bipartisanship as he moves forward with his agenda is that there was a Capitol insurrection a few weeks ago and a few hours after it Steve Scalise still voted to overturn the election.
Has Steve Scalise forgotten about this already?

That time when he and 146 other Republicans voted to overturn the election based on the same lies that fueled a pro-Trump mob to attack the Capitol and search for lawmakers to kill to stop them from certifying Biden's win?
Yeah, that happened. Remember that?

Remember how 5 people died? And then 2 officers who defended the Capitol that day died by suicide?

Here are the names of all 147 of those Republicans who voted to overturn the election , even *after* the insurrection. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
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