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Nov 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The 22 Democrats who voted to censure Tlaib:

Cohen
Costa
Craig
Davis (N.C.)
Frankel
Golden
Goldman
Gottheimer
Landsman
Lee (Nev.)
Manning
Moskowitz
Nickel
Pappas
Perez
Ryan
Schneider
Schrier
Soto
Torres (N.Y.)
Wasserman Schultz
Wilson (Fla.) The four Republicans who voted no: Ken Buck, John Duarte, Thomas Massie, Tom McClintock
Mar 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s response to the House GOP’s request for testimony/docs:

- Complying would “interfere with law enforcement”
- GOP letter is an “unlawful incursion into New York’s sovereignty”
- Congress is “not the appropriate branch” to review pending criminal case ImageImageImageImage - Federal funding is “an insufficient basis to justify these unconstitutional requests”

Last page includes a request to “meet and confer to understand whether the Committee has any legitimate legislative purpose in the requested materials that could be accomodated.” Image
Dec 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Some right-wing members repeatedly remaining seated in standing ovations during the Zelensky speech:

- Matt Gaetz
- Lauren Boebert
- Andrew Clyde
- Dianne Harshbarger
- Warren Davidson
- Michael Cloud
- Jim Jordan twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Jordan, Cloud and Davidson standing for some. Others seem to be making a firm objection, including Clyde who shook his head no to a colleague next to him who stood up.
Nov 13, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reps. Jayapal and Omar hold a presser w/ new Progressive Caucus members.

“As of now, 15 of our 18 endorsed CPC PAC members have won,” Jayapal says, adding that they’re expecting at least one more. Image “There’s no question this will be the most progressive Democratic Caucus in decades,” Jayapal says.

Says they will have 100+ members.
Nov 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New: Conservatives aren’t the only ones looking to leverage the potential narrow GOP majority.

Moderate Republican Governance Group spox says they “will be a big power broker.”

Main Street Partnership is "negotiating with leadership for some positions.”
axios.com/2022/11/11/mcc… Incoming Rep. Marc Molinaro, a Republican in an upstate NY Biden district, pushes back on the notion a narrow majority solely empowers a few dozen conservative members.

“I suggest it puts [power] in the hands of a few dozen any members,” he told @axios axios.com/2022/11/11/mcc…
Sep 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Some Senate Republicans have privately committed to voting for the same-sex marriage bill, but don’t expect to know all their names until the day of the actual vote.

@axios axios.com/2022/09/07/sam… Baldwin says she’s “had conversations where Republicans have privately indicated to me that they will support it."

Source close to negotiations tells @axios: “You’re not going to see 10 Republicans announce their support for it before they actually vote."
axios.com/2022/09/07/sam…
Jul 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Multiple members of Congress, including @AOC, being arrested by Capitol Police for blocking traffic outside the Supreme Court in abortion rights demonstration: Here’s where they’re being corralled. The group also includes the assistant House speaker, Katherine Clark.
Jul 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rep. Nancy Mace, walking into the meeting, says she’s now a “definite” yes. More GOP gay marriage votes:

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick says he’s a “presumptive yes.”

Rep. John Curtis says he’s “leaning yes”
Jun 15, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New: Jan. 6 committee tips its hand more on the Jan. 5 Capitol complex tour led by GOP Rep. Loudermilk.

Thompson says some group members later marched to the Capitol.

Says one filmed a video near Capitol grounds threatening Pelosi, Schumer and Nadler: "We're coming for you." Committee also says that person filmed another video at the Washington Monument with a sharpened flagpole for "a certain person."

The person specifically photographed the outside of Nadler's office and the Majority staff office.

Footage here:
Nov 19, 2021 • 41 tweets • 6 min read
McCarthy in a floor speech alleges Democrats’ social spending bill is actually $5 trillion.

A group of Dems heckle him by shouting out increasingly large numbers:

“$6 trillion!”

“$7 trillion!”

“$8 trillion! 9!” “Sure would’ve been nice to hear from you yesterday,” one Democrat murmers as McCarthy speaks, referencing the Gosar censure debate.
Nov 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
McCarthy says Gosar and Greene will get their committee assignments back, and then some, if the GOP wins in 2022: “They’ll have committees… they may have better committee assignments.” McCarthy notes Gosar liked his posts on Oversight and Natural Resources but that Greene was a freshman and may get more favorable assignments due to seniority.
Nov 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW: House votes 223-207-1 to censure Rep. Paul Gosar and strip him of his committee assignments.

GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger voted w/ Democrats to pass the resolution.

Rep. David Joyce voted present. Our story: axios.com/paul-gosar-cen…
Nov 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Per source, the resolution will now also include stripping Gosar of his other assignment on the Natural Resources Committee. That measure comes at the request of the panel's chairman, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (confirming @heatherscope)
Nov 16, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hoyer on the Gosar video: “I have never in 40 years seen such a vile, hateful, outrageous, dangerous inciting to violence against a colleague. Never. We’re talking about how to respond to this." "This action is unacceptable, and inaction by the Republicans is unacceptable," Hoyer adds. "A testament that they are rationalizing, as they rationalize other items of criminal behavior, this particular action.”
Nov 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Votes won’t happen until tomorrow, per senior Dem aide.

- Rules to meet “shortly,” will report out rule tonight.
- Rule, BBB and BIF votes all tomorrow
- Leadership feels “confident” they’ll finish by tomorrow. So… I can sleep. Hallelujah
Nov 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
First votes predicted: ???

Last votes predicted: ??? Image That "???" is the bane of every hill staffer/reporter's existence
Oct 27, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Another day, another bomb threat:

Capitol Police announces road closures over a bomb threat at HHS.

Alert to Hill staff –> The ramped up USCP presence at the Capitol complex today is definitely visible:
Oct 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Capitol Police sends alert to staff announcing road closures "due to a bomb threat at the Department of Labor": Image These alerts have become all too familiar to those of us on the Hill, unfortunately.
Oct 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rep. Jamie Raskin on Sinema leaving DC: “I mean, there’s always another flight back to Washington. Those planes fly in both direction.”

“I’m sure it’s been a tough week for Sen. Sinema,” he adds, “because there’s been a lot of focus put on her and Sen. Manchin.” “I’ve got every confidence that Manchin and Sinema will reach accord with the vast majority of their colleagues,” Raskin says.

Says he knew Sinema when they were state senators: “She was in a very different political galaxy back in those days.”
Oct 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rep. Steve Cohen, asked about Biden’s involvement: “I think the president should come to Memphis and have bbq with me.”

Barring that?

“The president should be involved. Very few of us have seen the president in the 9 months he’s been president… he should come to a caucus.” “He’s been around longer than me. He knows, as a legislator, how important it is to hear from the president” – Cohen on Biden

“He’s measured this, I guess, and thinks he’s done a sufficient amount. I, as a legislator, am a mushroom. It’d be nice to hear from the grand mushroom.”
Oct 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW from Manchin after meeting w/ Sinema & WH: “I don’t see a deal tonight, I really don’t.” “We need a little bit more time… we’re going to come to an agreement. I’m trying to make sure they understand I’m at $1.5T. I think $1.5T does exactly the necessary things we need to do,” Manchin says.

“There’s a respectful agreement to understand where we’re coming from.”