All 6 Maryland House Democrats Reps. Ruppersberger, Sarbanes, Majority Leader Hoyer, Trone, Mfume and Raskin won their primaries tonight per AP. Harris, the only Republican in the MD Congressional delegation, ran unopposed.
2nd term #MD06 Rep David Trone won his Democratic primary & will face GOP primary winner MD state delegate Neil Parrott per AP in the fall election.Trone defeated Parrott 58.9%-39.2% in 2020 prior to redistricting.District now includes all of Frederick Co & less of Montgomery Co.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, first elected to the House in 1981, won his #MD05 Democratic primary tonight and will face GOP primary winner Chris Palombi per AP for a second time in the general election. Hoyer defeated Palombi 68.9%-31.1% in 2020.
6th term #MD01 Rep. Andy Harris,the only Republican in Maryland Congressional delegation,will face Democratic primary winner fmrr MD state delegate Heather Mizeur per AP in the fall.District now includes now all of Harford Co & parts of eastern Baltimore Co. w/the Eastern Shore.
Rematch in #MD08 this fall: 3rd term Rep. Jamie Raskin won his Democratic primary and will face GOP primary winner Gregory Coll per AP. Raskin defeated Coll 68.4%-31.6% in 2020.
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64-34: Senate votes to officially begin debate on legislation providing approx. $54 billion in grants and tax credits for U.S. computer chip manufacturing to better compete with China.
16 Senate Republicans Blunt, Capito, Cassidy, Collins, Cornyn, Daines, Graham, Hagerty, Murkowski, Portman, Romney, Rounds, Sasse, Tillis, Wicker and Young voted Yes voted to advance the computer chip bill. senate.gov/legislative/LI…
Sanders was the only non-Democrat to vote No against the computer chip manufacturing funding bill.
Schumer & Pelosi on China competition chip bill 6/21:"On behalf of House & Senate Democrats,we expressed our belief there is no reason we should not pass this bill through Congress in July."
McConnell today: No USICA if Democrats pursue their agenda thru filibuster-proof process.
“Sen. McConnell is so beholden to PhRMA that he’s willing to help China, hurt American manufacturing, and screw over Americans with outrageously high Rx prices” per Schumer spox.
President Biden on McConnell:"The Republican Senate leader is holding hostage a bipartisan package to strengthen American competitiveness versus China, that would yield hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in places like Southern OH, ID, & other states around the country.
Chief Justice John Roberts administered the Constitutional Oath to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the 104th Associate Justice and retiring Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, whom she officially replaces today, administered the Judicial Oath inside the US Supreme Court.
President Biden: “I am honored that the very first judicial nominee I selected as President – the brilliant lawyer who became ‘Judge Jackson’– has now become ‘Justice Jackson’.”
Schumer: “The extremist MAGA Court’s ruling today in West Virginia v. EPA will cause more needless deaths – in this instance because of more pollution that will exacerbate the climate crisis and make our air and water less clean and safe.”
McConnell:"In siding with the state of WV,the Court has undone illegal regulations issued by the EPA w/o any clear congressional authorization & confirmed that only the people’s representatives in Congress – not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats – may write our nation’s laws."
President Biden: "The Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA is another devastating decision that aims to take our country backwards."
“This morning, Senator Patrick Leahy will undergo surgery to repair a broken hip that he suffered as a result from a fall at his house in McLean, Virginia, Wednesday night” per his office.
“Having been born blind in one eye, the Senator has had a lifelong struggle with reduced depth perception. He has taken some remarkable dingers over the years but this one finally caught up with him.”
“His doctors determined that the best course of action would be to have surgery to repair his hip as soon as possible. He is expected to make a full recovery and begin a healthy course of physical therapy immediately” per Senator Leahy’s office.
Standing ovation for January 6th Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney after being introduced for her address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library tonight.
January 6th Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY): "Tonight in particular I want to talk about freedom, and I want to talk about what freedom means, and the cost of freedom."
Cheney on Trump "who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our Constitutional republic, and he is aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man."