Yesterday my high school sweetheart, the love of my life for over 35 years, the loving mother of our 4 children, the smartest kindest woman I ever knew, my beautiful and wise queen forever, Rhonda went to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers for our family in this difficult time.
She was valedictorian at our high school where we went to the Prom together, accepted at MIT and Harvard, earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from MIT, and devoted her life to our family.
We spent last week touring Mt Rainier with our grandson - she was the best mammaw ever! We love you Rhonda.
Thank you @anncormican for reminding me of this rare recording of Rhonda singing (on YouTube). I loved her singing voice and she tolerated my out-of-time swarping at a banjo. This was Mike Maggard’s #nothinfancyfarm liberty event, August 28, 2011.
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1) unredacted an FBI file that LABELS two individuals as co-conspirators
2) unredacted a file that lists several men who might be implicated
3) tacitly admitted that Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was the sender of the torture video
🧵1) This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers. This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight.
🧵2) Here DOJ acts as if they were justified in redacting the men’s names simply because the document contains victims names. Tonight they learned you can redact victim names while still publishing the other names, per our law.
I voted against the rule to bring this omnibus forward for a vote.
Here is a breakdown of some of the most ridiculous items included in the omnibus, and some America First items that were not. I offered amendments to correct these errors—all of which were blocked or refused🧵:
$5 BILLION+ to provide cash benefits, health care, daycare, and job programs to refugees on the taxpayers' dime.
$315 million to fund the CIA’s branch of the State Department that propagandizes and destabilizes the globe and has a particular interest in censorship and attacking conservative media outlets.
🧵 Last night I received a disclosure from a new FBI whistleblower regarding the J6 pipe bomb case.
This is the third disclosure I’ve received from current and former employees of the government regarding the pipe bomb case in recent weeks.
🧵 These brave moral people could lose their jobs and wreck their careers, but they care deeply for our country.
So at the risk of editorializing, I will summarize what I learned from this newest disclosure in order not to disclose the identity of this whistleblower.
🧵 The community where the suspect was arrested is populated with several employees of the FBI, Secret Service, and police. Many of them have observed the suspect on walks over the years.
.@SpeakerJohnson is making false claims about my discharge petition that seeks to force a House vote on full release of the Epstein files. Let's set the record straight with this thread...🧵
Claim: “The Massie and the Khanna discharge petition does not have adequate protections [for victims].”
Verdict: FALSE - Section 1(A) of Permitted Withholdings provides explicit protections for victims.
Claim: “In the way it was drafted, they cite they don’t want [CSAM] uncovered, but they cite the wrong provision of the federal code…”
Verdict: FALSE - the bill correctly identifies the primary, controlling federal statutes governing CSAM (18 USC § 2256, 18 USC § 2252-2252(A)).
$300 mil Syria & Iraq military
$118 mil overseas disasters
$15 mil AIDS in Africa
$500 mil Israel
$350 mil Kuwait
$1.27 bil foreign security
$500 mil Taiwan
$500 mil Jordan
$267 mil reimburse countries
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This isn’t 🇺🇸 first. I voted against this, because it won’t Make America Great Again; it will bankrupt us.
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Thank you @RepMTG and @RepTimBurchett for also voting against this misappropriation of military funds.