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• Mike Pompeo’s CIA successes come from proven experience. He has been a U.S. Cavalry officer, a member of the House… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-04-2018 23:19 via twitter.com
  Mike Pompeo’s CIA successes come from proven experience. He has been a U.S. Cavalry officer, a member of the House… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Biden gives remarks on Investing in America agenda in Wisconsin: Watch live

  08-05-2024 18:33 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is speaking Wednesday at an event in Wisconsin to highlight a new, multibillion-dollar Microsoft AI facility. The project is expected to employ thousands of workers in construction and operation.The site in Racine County, south of Milwaukee, allows the Biden administration to draw a contrast with former President Trump’s record. In 2017, Trump appeared at a groundbreaking event on the same spot for a Foxconn facility that never came to fruition.Wednesday’s visit is B
  
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• Democrats push Biden for executive action to secure border

  08-05-2024 18:24 via thehill.com
  
  More than a dozen House Democrats are pressing President Biden to tap his executive powers to secure the border, arguing that Congress’s partisan stalemate on the issue leaves him no choice but to act unilaterally. In a letter delivered to the president on Tuesday, 15 Democrats — most of them in competitive reelection contests — said the only lasting solution for curbing the migrant tide and the flow of fentanyl is for both parties to join forces and pass le
  
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• Activist says GOP congressman knocked phone from her hand during questioning about war in Gaza

  08-05-2024 17:10 via thehill.com
  
  An activist with the anti-war group CodePink said she had her cellphone knocked from her hand by a Republican congressman Tuesday when she questioned him about the Israel-Hamas war.Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) was walking in a hallway before a House committee when two people approached him. According to camera footage posted to social platform X, one woman asks Ezell if Israel should accept a peace proposal and the representative responds sharply, “Get away from me.”The second woman, id
  
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• Activist says GOP congressman knocked phone from her hand during questioning about Gaza war

  08-05-2024 17:10 via thehill.com
  
  An activist with the antiwar group CodePink said she had her cellphone knocked from her hand by a Republican congressman Tuesday when she questioned him about the Israel-Hamas war.Rep. Mike Ezell (R-Miss.) was walking in a hallway before a House committee when two people approached him. According to camera footage posted to X, one woman asks Ezell if Israel should accept a peace proposal and the congressman responds sharply, “Get away from me.”The second woman, identified as Sumer Mo
  
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• Biden to visit West Coast for fundraising swing

  08-05-2024 15:50 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is set to travel to San Francisco and Seattle this week for a West Coast fundraising swing as he ramps up his campaign efforts.He will travel on Thursday to San Francisco and participate in two campaign receptions in the Bay Area on Friday. He will then travel to Seattle on Friday and participate in campaign receptions there over the weekend.The president traveled to the Democratic-friendly San Francisco Bay Area multiple times over the last year, including in February when he fu
  
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• Voters in new poll say they're not very familiar with Biden domestic spending initiatives

  08-05-2024 15:17 via thehill.com
  
  Voters in a new poll say they are not familiar with President Biden’s domestic spending initiatives, with many sharing that they know nothing at all about major laws that have passed during this administration.A new Politico-Morning Consult poll asked voters how much they had seen, read or heard about the four major domestic policy laws — the 2021 American Rescue Plan, the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law, the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.For the
  
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• US paused bomb shipment to Israel over Rafah invasion concerns, official says

  08-05-2024 14:49 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration recently paused an arms shipment to Israel due to concerns the country could launch a full-scale assault on Rafah, a city in southern Gaza — a move the U.S. has strongly opposed.The shipment would have included roughly 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs, a senior administration official told The Associated Press Tuesday.
  More than a million civilians have sheltered in Rafah after being forced to evacuate other areas in Gaza due to the ongoing war bet
  
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• Biden on track to miss deadline for report to Congress on Israel war conduct in Gaza 

  08-05-2024 14:30 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is warning it is likely to miss its Wednesday deadline to deliver a report to Congress detailing its assessment over Israeli actions in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip that could impact American military assistance to the country. The report is mandated by a national security memorandum issued by President Biden in February and scrutinizes if Israel has violated international humanitarian law or hindered the delivery of humanitarian assistance. Consequences
  
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• GOP senators warn Speaker to stand firm on Greene's Ukraine demand

  08-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans are urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) not to make any promises to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) about future military aid for Ukraine, warning it would be a “grave mistake” for the Speaker to box himself in.Senators expect the Biden administration to request another round of Ukraine aid at the end of the year, and they want Johnson to have the flexibility to move it through the House.Greene asked Johnson during a Monday meeting to commit to not su
  
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• Biden to tout $3.3 billion Microsoft investment in Wisconsin at former Foxconn site

  08-05-2024 11:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will travel to Wisconsin on Wednesday, where he will seek to draw a contrast between a major investment in the state from Microsoft and the Foxconn investment in the area that never materialized during the Trump administration.Biden will head to Racine to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence datacenter in the area. The project is expected to create 2,300 union construction jobs and 2,000 permanent jobs over time, the White House s
  
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• Rep. Victoria Spartz fends off GOP primary challenger in Indiana

  08-05-2024 02:33 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) has won the Republican nomination for another term in the House, fending off a challenge from the right, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ. Spartz, who has represented Indiana’s 5th Congressional District since 2021, initially announced in 2023 that she would not run for reelection but later changed her mind and officially decided to seek another term in February. The first Ukrainian-born member of Congress, Spartz faced opposition from
  
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• US repatriates 11 Americans, 6 Canadians from northeast Syria 

  08-05-2024 01:23 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. repatriated 11 Americans, six Canadians, four Dutch citizens and one Finnish citizen from northeast Syria Tuesday, according to a statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken.“In conducting this complex repatriation and resettlement the Department coordinated closely with our interagency partners,” Blinken said in the Tuesday statement. “I would like to thank the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration S
  
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• First House Democrat calls on FDIC chair to resign after sexual harassment report

  08-05-2024 00:05 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) called on FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg to resign on Tuesday after a law firm's investigation confirmed a report of rampant sexual misconduct, lewd behavior and retaliatory administrative practices at the federal banking regulator.Foster became the first House Democrat to call for Gruenberg’s resignation, joining some fellow Republicans, including the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), and members of the Senate Banking
  
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• House passes bill to make it harder to regulate home appliance energy efficiency

  07-05-2024 23:13 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at making it more difficult for the Energy Department to enact energy efficiency rules for household appliances — the latest in Republicans’ efforts related to such appliances. The vote was 212-195, with seven Democrats voting with Republicans in favor of the measure. The bill would both add hurdles to creating new appliance standards and make it easier to revoke existing standards. Republicans have repeatedly hammered Demo
  
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• White House: Sharing video of Ole Miss students mocking Black protester ‘beneath any elected official’

  07-05-2024 21:39 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Tuesday criticized sharing of the video of University of Mississippi students mimicking a monkey to harass a Black protester at the college’s pro-Palestine protest after GOP Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) shared it on social media.The video, which went viral last week, showed a group of white men dancing and yelling at a Black woman who was protesting. Collins, who shared it on the social platform/ X, has since said he understands the video might have some “potentially
  
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• Greene softens threat to force vote on ousting Speaker Johnson

  07-05-2024 21:21 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is softening her threat against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying she will give the Speaker more time to demonstrate his commitment to conservative priorities before forcing a vote on her resolution to boot him from power. Last week, Greene said she would “absolutely” force her motion to vacate proposal to the floor this week, citing Johnson’s track-record of working across the aisle with President Biden on major legislation. Bu
  
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• Bipartisan lawmakers call for permanent ban on horse slaughter

  07-05-2024 21:05 via thehill.com
  
  A group of more than 100 House members from both sides of the aisle is pushing for a permanent ban on horse slaughter in the United States.In a letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, the group of 120 lawmakers requested language be included in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) budget that permanently bans tax dollars from being used in the process of horse slaughter.This would prohibit taxpayer money from being used to inspect horse slaughter plants, preventing
  
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• DC mayor agrees to testify at House hearing on GW protests

  07-05-2024 20:38 via thehill.com
  
  District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) will testify before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday in a hearing focused on the pro-Palestinian protests at George Washington University (GW).A spokesperson for the committee confirmed her attendance on Tuesday, nearly a week after she was asked by the panel's chair to testify.The hearing follows a visit to GW's campus and its pro-Palestinian encampment by members of the Oversight Committee, including Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), Rep. Byron D
  
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• White House holds daily press briefing: Watch live

  07-05-2024 20:00 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is delivering a press briefing on Tuesday afternoon.President Biden earlier in the day spoke at a ceremony for the Holocaust Days of Remembrance. Biden condemned those who he characterized as having already forgotten the horrors of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.The administration continues to walk a fine line between its pledged unwavering support for Israel and its criticism of the choices Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made r
  
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• Democratic leader defends Cuellar: Charges ‘very different’ from Santos, Menendez

  07-05-2024 19:34 via thehill.com
  
  The head of the House Democratic Caucus defended the right of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) to remain in Congress while his criminal trial runs its course, saying the Texas Democrat — recently indicted on bribery and foreign influence charges — is presumed innocent “just like every American.” “He's entitled to make his defense, he's entitled to the presumption of innocence,” Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) told reporters in the Capitol. “Just
  
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• Speaker Johnson: 'I intend to lead this conference in the future'

  07-05-2024 19:23 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that he intends to remain in his position going forward, dismissing suggestions that his job could be at risk after the November election.“I intend to lead this conference in the future,” Johnson said at a press conference. “And the most important thing that we have to do right now is govern the country well — show the American people that we will, and that we are, as we've been doing.”Johnson said his “number one job
  
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• Speaker Johnson says conversations with Greene ‘not a negotiation’

  07-05-2024 18:53 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday rejected the notion that he is negotiating with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) as she threatens to force a vote on his ouster, characterizing their meeting the day before as an ordinary conversation to hear out the Georgia Republican’s ideas.Johnson huddled with Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) — who have introduced a motion to remove the Speaker's gavel — for roughly two hours on Monday, and they are scheduled to reco
  
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• Biden decries antisemitism, protests that forget 'terror' of Oct. 7

  07-05-2024 18:41 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday called on Americans who are “ignoring” the events of the Holocaust and the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel to stop, issuing additional criticism of the protests on college campuses across the United States.The president delivered the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony and acknowledged that on college campuses, Jewish students are “blocked, harassed, attacked while walking to class.”&l
  
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• Biden criticizes college campus protests for antisemitism, ‘ignoring’ Oct. 7

  07-05-2024 18:41 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday called on Americans who are “ignoring” the events of the Holocaust and the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel to stop, issuing additional criticism of the protests on college campuses across the United States.The president delivered the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony and acknowledged that on college campuses, Jewish students are “blocked, harassed, attacked while walking to class.”&l
  
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• Tlaib calls for court to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Israeli officials

  07-05-2024 17:11 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials after Israel's military seized control of the Rafah crossing on Tuesday.
  Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, said with the ongoing incursion into the southern city of Rafah, there is “nowhere” safe for Palestinians in Gaza, and argued that Netanyahu will remain in his post as long as the conflict con
  
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• Garland contempt vote scheduled for next week

  07-05-2024 15:58 via thehill.com
  
  House impeachment investigators will meet next week to vote on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt as part of their quest to gain access to an audio recording of an interview conducted with President Biden during his classified documents probe.  House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) have a transcript of Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, but the Justice Department has held back from sharing
  
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• Here's where the Biden-Trump race stands 6 months out from the election

  07-05-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The rematch between President Biden and former President Trump is heating up as polls show the two rivals neck and neck six months out from Election Day. Polling is likely to fluctuate in the months leading up to the election, but for the first time since October, The Hill’s Decision Desk HQ average shows Biden narrowly leading Trump, at 45 percent to 44.9 percent.
  While the news is good for the president, the data shows some bright spots for his rival as well. Trump is narrowly leadi
  
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• White House announces new steps to counter antisemitism, including on college campuses

  07-05-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Tuesday announced a handful of additional actions intended to curb antisemitism on college campuses and elsewhere amid a rise in discrimination toward Jewish people following the terrorist attacks in Israel last October.The Biden administration rolled out the new measures to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day. President Biden will mark the day by delivering remarks at a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.The additional steps include new guidance from th
  
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• House swears in New York Democrat, thinning GOP majority

  07-05-2024 01:49 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Tim Kennedy (D-N.Y.) was sworn in on the House floor Monday, replacing the now-retired Rep. Brian Higgins (D-N.Y.) and leaving Republicans with just a one-vote margin for any partisan vote.Kennedy, previously a state senator, defeated GOP candidate Gary Dickson in a special election for New York’s 26th Congressional District last week.“I stand before you humbled by the opportunity God has given us to be together in this moment,” he said on the floor after being sworn in. &
  
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