NEWS - As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday

“Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed"

w/ @DaniellaMicaela

politico.com/live-updates/2… It's a move the former speaker is blasting in statement as a “a sharp departure from tradition"

She's still in SF for Feinstein memorial services and added that while she was there to mourn and pay tribute: "I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time”

NEW - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is endorsing @IlhanMN along with a slate of Dem House leaders.

Comes as AIPAC reportedly considering recruiting challenges to "squad" members this cycle.

politico.com/news/2023/08/3… Jeffries: “As House Democratic Leader, I vigorously endorse her re-election and stand with her as we battle Extreme MAGA Republicans for the future of our nation.”

Here's what @KatrinaPierson had to say: january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat…

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1609702313697878016

And here's her discussion with Scavino about the "grifter fringe of the right. The crazies"

Transcript drop from the 1/6 committee
- Rudy Giuliani
- more Cassidy Hutchinson
- Jared Kushner
- Ginni Thomas
and more

details TK there wasn't any video of the Ginni Thomas interview though it was all transcribed

Porter spox Jordan Wong says the employee was not fired.

"She was a fellow in our office, and weeks before she breached COVID protocol in July, we had already mutually agreed on an end date in August 2022."

https://twitter.com/DWS________/status/1608512680985239552

The staffer, Sasha Georgiades, was a Wounded Warrior Fellow who waorked as a veteran and service member liaison in Porter's office. She also told me she was not fired but was effectively banned from Porter's office.

Transcript drop from the 1/6 committee
-Ray Epps
-Christina Bobb
-Kimberly Guilfoyle
-Donald Trump Jr.
and others Guilfoyle's is 320 pages long. this might be one of the longest ones yet

NEW: Even as House Dems shrink into the minority, the voices of progressive lawmakers — inspired by the so-called squad — are set to grow only louder.

I talk to some of the newest progressives about their plans, their struggles and their bourbon supplier:
politico.com/news/2022/12/2… @SummerForPA: “I think that as legislators, our job is to agenda-set. It’s to govern, it’s to create policy, but it’s also to put forth that best case, and bring people over to us...That’s going to be where a lot of power is: in expanding the realm of what’s possible.”

New transcript drop from the Jan. 6 committee - more Cassidy Hutchinson, Johnny McEntee, and Steve Mnuchin, among others Johnny McEntee testified that Rep. Matt Gaetz told him he asked Mark Meadows for a pardon related to the trafficking investigation

Rep. Jeffries touting Dem wins after the midterms - notes almost all frontliners are returning to Congress. Says the American ppl recognized Dem wins despite “the most challenging midterm conditions possible” Rep. Aguilar: “We have a chance to make continued progress if Republicans are willing to work together, or they can choose a path of partisan investigations that will send a clear message to the American public that they don't deserve to ever hold a majority.”

NEW: Several in the progressive "squad" tell me they're skeptical of a push by some Dems to revert the DCCC chair to an appointed position.
@IlhanMN: “I think it is better to keep it as an elected position. Then we get to have a voice..."

go.politicoemail.com/?qs=3dad840732… @IlhanMN @AOC told me there were “ongoing conversations” about the proposal, but added: “I think there's always concerns in concentrating further power into the speakership.”

CPC chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal touting CPC wins in this year’s midterms:
15/18 of the endorsed members have won, she says “There’s no question that this will be the most progressive Democratic caucus in decades”

NEW — The Trump Org. charged the Secret Service excessive nightly hotel rates on dozens of trips, per new docs released by House Oversight. Trump Hotel DC charged Secret Service $1,185/night when Don Jr. stayed there in Nov 2017

politico.com/minutes/congre… Chair Maloney: “The exorbitant rates charged to the Secret Service and agents’ frequent stays at Trump-owned properties raise significant concerns about the former President’s self-dealing and may have resulted in a taxpayer-funded windfall..."

The 1:6 cmte is putting some distance between itself and Riggleman:

Spox says in Riggleman’s staff role, he “…had limited knowledge of the committee’s investigation. He departed from the staff in April prior to our hearings and much of our most important investigative work…”

https://twitter.com/60minutes/status/1573442914281312273

.@kyledcheney and I had previously reported how committee leaders were fuming over the “unauthorized” interviews Riggleman did on TV earlier this year, prompting an internal email to committee staff about them:
politico.com/news/2022/06/0…

Senate Rules is holding a hearing this morning on the bipartisan Senate bill to reform the Electoral Count Act

But the legislation still has a ways to go — especially as 1/6 committee lawmakers tee up their own bill, as @marianne_levine
& I reported: politico.com/news/2022/07/2… @marianne_levine Collins: "...it took the violent breach of the Capitol on January 6th of 2021 to really shine a
spotlight on the urgent need for reform."

So, so proud of the work our @aajavoices students did this year — especially the group I edited along with @mallikavsen—they're going places

Please read @mellybelly119 , @shanivis , @MeganTagami & @MeimeiXu7's story on beauty workers' organizing efforts.

aajavoices.org/losangeles2022… Go Melanie, Shanivi, Megan, and Meimei!!

1/6 committee member @AdamKinzinger , who's co-leading Thursday's hearing, says on CBS the hearing will "open people's eyes in a big way. The reality is, I'll give you this preview, the president didn't do much but gleefully watch television...." As for hearing from Pence? "I think it would be important to hear anything he's said. I'm not sure we'll get a ton out of him outside of what the staff told us...."

CONFIRMED: Many of the United States Secret Service’s text messages sent on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 were deleted after a Department of Homeland Security watchdog asked for them, per letter sent to Congress and confirmed by House Homeland spox more TK w/ @kyledcheney on @politicongress

A man harassed members of Congress as they walked to votes on Wednesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the incident shows security issues persist at the Capitol.

A @politicongress collab w/ @AnthonyAdragna @kyledcheney
@Olivia_Beavers
politico.com/minutes/congre… @politicongress @AnthonyAdragna @kyledcheney @Olivia_Beavers "These systems are not working. ... Ever since [Jan. 6], I truly believe more security breakdowns have never been addressed." @AOC told reporters

It's hearing #7 for the Jan. 6 committee:

politico.com/news/2022/07/1… There's a handful of lawmakers in the room - Reps. Bowman and Kathleen Rice are seated

NEW — The Jan. 6 select committee plans to make its most complex case yet at its public hearing Tuesday: that Donald Trump’s words and actions influenced extremists and brought them to the steps of the Capitol.

w/ @kyledcheney

politico.com/news/2022/07/1… Rep. Stephanie Murphy, who's leading today's hearing along w/ Rep. Jamie Raskin, said they'd show how Trump's Dec. 19, 2020 tweet calling on people to join the Jan. 6 protest ('Be there. Will be wild!') was a "clarion call" to the extremist groups.

1/6 committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (who's co-leading Tuesday's hearing) tells @costareports on CBS they'll use Cipollone's testimony to "corroborate other things we've learned along the way" Raskin says we're going to learn about the "fundamental importance" of a WH meeting that took place on Dec. 18 where people urged "new courses of action, including the seizure of voting machines around the country"