“The Cuban people have been under a repressive totalitarian terrorist and murderous regime for 65 years and recently last week they took to the streets, and they took to the streets asking for one thing: Freedom.”
Republicans say @MarioDB earlier made impassioned remarks inside GOP Conf meeting on helping people of Cuba as well
.@SteveScalise marks Biden’s 6 months in office, says he would give him letter grade of “I” for inflation
.@SteveScalise encourages Americans to get vaccinated amid surge in COVID:
“I've been vaccinated, many of my colleagues have been vaccinated, and the vaccine is safe, effective and it's widely available all across the United States of America for anybody who wants to get it.”
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NEW: PELOSI'S veto of JIM BANKS from the special Jan. 6 committee has helped boost his national profile: target of the left, hero of the right and one of Trump's chief defenders.
GOP colleagues expect the ambitious Banks to make a play for leadership next year: majority whip, chief dep whip, conf chair or something else.
But Banks insists he has "no grand plan" and hopes to be chairing a @HASCRepublicans subcommittee in the majority next cycle.
“I've never had any other ambition than [HASC]. But in the meantime, if there's another place where Speaker McCarthy and Majority Leader Scalise see opportunities where I can serve and be part of the team in places where I can make a difference, I'm open to that,” @RepJimBanks
“Unless Speaker Pelosi reverses course and seats all five Republican nominees, Republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation of the facts.”
McCarthy yanks all 5 GOP picks from Jan. 6 committee after Pelosi rejects two top Trump allies thehill.com/homenews/house…
“With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee."
More @RepLoudermilk (R-Ga): “I have probably a much higher chance, because of my age and where I live, just the demographics of the South and the way people eat, of having some kind of heart disease as much as I do from getting COVID.”
Loudermilk has tested + for COVID twice.
.@RepFrankLucas (Okla), top R on Science Comm, tells me he’s “intensely worried” about his constituents not getting vaccinated.
“I see the increase in infections and hospitalizations in Oklahoma, as well as the statistics across the country. My neighbors have to get vaccinated”
.@SpeakerPelosi at her weekly presser says Biden hosting McConnell/McCarthy yesterday and GOP senators today at WH shows "he's making every attempt" to get a bipartisan infrastructure deal.
"I think it is bearing fruit. We'll see"
Pelosi says Approps Chair Rosa DeLauro may file the Capitol security supplemental funding bill today and it could come to floor next week.
PELOSI goes off on @Rep_Clyde for saying the Jan. 6 insurrectionists were like "normal" tourists
"When people are threatening to hang the Vice President of the United States or the speaker ... I don't consider that normal."