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  21-10-2018 05:36 via twitter.com
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• Johnson turns to Democrats on Ukraine aid amid ouster threat

  18-04-2024 03:56 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will lean heavily on Democrats to move a series of bills in the coming days providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and other democratic allies overseas — a strategy that acknowledges the nuances of governing in a divided Washington but also heightens the risk of his removal by disgruntled conservatives.In rejecting a Senate-passed foreign aid bill favored by Democrats, the Speaker has sought to mollify his hardline GOP critics and put a more conservative stamp o
  
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• GOP unveils national security bill as last piece of Ukraine aid package

  18-04-2024 03:07 via thehill.com
  
  House GOP leaders on Wednesday unveiled a catch-all package of Republican national security priorities designed to sweeten a massive round of new funding for Ukraine and other foreign allies in the face of fierce conservative opposition.The bill features the “innovations” promised by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) when he rejected a Senate-passed foreign-aid package in favor of a House version he said would better reflect the interests and concerns of lower chamber lawmakers.His propos
  
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• Frost criticizes Greene after she disavows white supremacists: 'damn hypocrisy'

  18-04-2024 02:53 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-Fla.) went after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday after she disavowed white supremacy in a House Oversight Committee hearing, calling back to her previous interactions with Nick Fuentes.“It’s interesting to hear my colleague just now talk about disavowing white supremacists, when in 2022 she spoke at an event led by white supremacists and white nationalist Nick Fuentes,” Frost said in the hearing. “And when asked about it, d
  
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• House GOP unveils border bill as conservatives slam foreign aid measures

  18-04-2024 02:15 via thehill.com
  
  House GOP leaders on Wednesday introduced a new border security bill designed to appease conservatives who are up in arms that Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) foreign aid package excluded tougher measures to battle migration.Johnson announced Wednesday morning that he was plowing ahead with sending aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan despite outspoken opposition from hard-line Republicans, many of whom were incensed that his plan excluded border security. For months, the Speaker had said that
  
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• Russia, Iran turning Israel and Ukraine into 'battlefield laboratories,' experts say

  18-04-2024 02:01 via thehill.com
  
  Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday. “Together, Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and the Middle East as battlefield laboratories to improve their weapons and develop techniques to overcome U.S. and allied defensive systems,” Dana Stroul, director of research at the Washington Institute, told lawmakers at a hearing on the "D
  
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• Johnson: Some Republicans want Speaker to have a 'magic wand' 

  18-04-2024 01:20 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday dismissed conservative criticism over the lack of border security provisions in his latest foreign aid proposal, blaming the lack of action on Senate and White House Democrats, whom he claims are preventing security of the border.
  "Some of my colleagues want the Speaker of the House to have a magic wand," Johnson said Wednesday on FOX Business Network's "Kudlow." "If we could close the border ourselves, we would have done it a long time ago."
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• GOP rep on effort to oust Speaker Johnson: 'I don’t know who would want the job at this point' 

  18-04-2024 00:51 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) on Wednesday lambasted any Republican looking to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), arguing the Louisiana Republican is doing the job "very admirably" given the circumstances.
  "I'm standing with the Speaker because I actually consider him a friend and I think he is trying to do the toughest job in politics. And I think given all the circumstances, he's doing it very admirably," Armstrong said during an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.
  "My recommendation
  
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• House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties

  18-04-2024 00:25 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would limit how the government can purchase data from third parties — legislation that scored a vote after negotiations with a group of GOP colleagues who briefly tanked a vote on warrantless spy powers.Dubbed the Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale, the legislation passed 219-199. It requires law enforcement and other government entities to get a warrant before buying information from third-party data brokers who purchase information gleaned f
  
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• Moskowitz confronts Greene on Ukraine, Nazi remarks

  18-04-2024 00:18 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) confronted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in a Wednesday hearing about her false claims that Nazism was rampant in Ukraine — an argument frequently touted by Russian President Vladimir Putin to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine.In a House Oversight Committee hearing titled “Defending America from the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare,” Moskowitz issued a searing rebuke of the Georgia congresswoman’s efforts
  
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• Johnson brushes off conservative pushback, tries to lower expectations

  17-04-2024 23:27 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) defended the roll-out of a four-bill package on Wednesday that has come under fire from the conservative wing of the House GOP, appearing to lower expectations for Republicans given the party’s razor-thin majority.A trio of foreign aid bills will include military assistance to Ukraine, Israel and allies in the Indo-Pacific with humanitarian aid for Gaza and other global hot spots, while a fourth would add other national security priorities more palatable to har
  
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• House Republicans subpoena Mayorkas over migrant numbers

  17-04-2024 23:25 via thehill.com
  
  House Judiciary Republicans subpoenaed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shortly before the Senate dismissed articles of impeachment against him.The subpoena issued by Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asks the Department of Homeland Security to turn over a breakdown of how many “illegal aliens” have been permitted to enter the country during the Biden administration.Much of that information is publicly available on Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) websit
  
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• White House praises Senate for ‘rightly’ voting down Mayorkas impeachment

  17-04-2024 22:55 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Wednesday praised the Senate for dismissing two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, reiterating its stance that the effort was baseless. “Once and for all, the Senate has rightly voted down this baseless impeachment that even conservative legal scholars said was unconstitutional,” said Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations.The move on Wednesday shut down the possibility of a l
  
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• Biden administration reinstates sanctions on Venezuelan oil

  17-04-2024 21:30 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is reimposing sanctions on Venezuelan oil, it announced on Wednesday.Officials said on Wednesday that Venezuela has not progressed enough toward free and fair elections, and as a result the administration is reimposing the sanctions that were lifted in October. Companies will have 45 days to wind down their transactions with the nation’s oil and gas sector.The sanctions were lifted in October after Venezuela agreed to certain election reforms. Officials on Wed
  
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• Pelosi says Trump is ‘palsy-walsy’ with Putin

  17-04-2024 21:17 via thehill.com
  
  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said former President Trump is “palsy-walsy” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as she criticized the presumptive GOP presidential nominee for his tepid approach to aiding Ukraine.In an interview on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Pelosi took aim at the former president for suggesting last week that "Europe has to step up" and provide Ukraine with more money and "equalize."Pelosi hit back on the suggestion that Europe co
  
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• Biden: ‘It never occurred’ to Trump to take competitive stance on China

  17-04-2024 21:06 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden argued that it never occurred to former President Trump to take a competitive stance against China, while rolling out a slew of actions Wednesday intended to protect the U.S. steel industry from Chinese exports.Biden was in Pittsburgh, Pa., at the United Steelworkers headquarters touting the new actions, which involves him calling on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to consider tripling the existing 7.5 percent tariff rate on Chinese steel and aluminum imports.
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• Columbia officials dodge pitfalls that caught Harvard, Penn

  17-04-2024 20:58 via thehill.com
  
  A quartet of Columbia University officials largely avoided a viral breakout moment in a Wednesday House hearing on antisemitism, but they still struggled in multiple areas when peppered with questions from Republican lawmakers.  The viral question that last year stumped the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was asked early of the Columbia officials. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) asked all four witne
  
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• Biden backs Johnson plan for Ukraine, Israel; calls for vote this week

  17-04-2024 20:35 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday came out in support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal for three separate bills providing U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific, urging passage of the bills this week. “The House must pass the package this week and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: We stand with our friends, and we won’t let Iran or Russia succeed,” Biden said in a statement.“I
  
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• Biden, Trump now tied in Decision Desk HQ aggregate poll

  17-04-2024 20:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and former President Trump are now neck and neck, according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ's (DDHQ) latest average of polls, released Wednesday.The two rivals are tied at 45.1 percent, based on DDHQ's average of 658 polls pitting the two against each other in a likely 2024 match-up.Prior to Wednesday, Trump’s lead over Biden was narrowing and the former president still held at a 0.6 percent lead during the day Tuesday. A poll from Echelon Insights showed Biden with a three-po
  
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• Lawmakers: China 'killing' US with fentanyl

  17-04-2024 19:51 via thehill.com
  
  A pair of lawmakers from different sides of the aisle sounded the alarm over China's role in America's fentanyl crisis, with one calling the drug a "weapon of mass destruction."
  "I knew that China was the producer [of fentanyl], I've known that for a long time and that we need to take action against China. But what's worse about it, is that they're not just producing it and turning a blind eye, they are incentivizing it," Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.) said Tuesday on NewsNation's "Cuomo" w
  
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• Senate Republicans call for investigation into Temu app

  17-04-2024 19:12 via thehill.com
  
  Two Senate Republicans are urging the Biden administration to investigate Temu, an online marketplace owned by a Chinese parent company.Both Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) wrote letters to the Biden administration expressing their concern about Temu and alleged that it has connections to forced labor and intellectual property theft.Cotton’s letter, dated Monday and first reported on by National Review, urges President Biden “to investigate Temu and to request
  
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• READ: Speaker Johnson's foreign aid bills

  17-04-2024 18:44 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday released the text of foreign aid bills that make up a four-pronged plan to get assistance to Israel, Ukraine and allies in the Indo-Pacific.He has said the legislation will include a loan structure for aid and enhanced strategy and accountability.
  Later Wednesday, Johnson said he plans to unveil text for a fourth bill that includes other national security priorities, including a TikTok ban, a provision to help pay for aid by using seized Russian assets,
  
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• Comer: Criminal referrals in Biden probe could come 'within weeks'

  17-04-2024 18:05 via thehill.com
  
  House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that criminal referrals stemming from his investigation into President Biden could come “within weeks” even as he cautioned that “impeachment is still on the table.”Comer told Fox’s Maria Bartiromo that criminal referrals may be swiftly considered now that President Biden and his son Hunter Biden both declined to appear before the committee.“I think that what we had to do was give both Bidens an opportun
  
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• Read: Columbia University president's opening remarks to House panel

  17-04-2024 17:55 via thehill.com
  
  Columbia University President Nemat Shafik and two other witnesses were questioned by the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Wednesday after missing the December hearing that became the downfall of other university heads.  Shafik was invited to the December hearing, which also focused on antisemitism at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but was unable to make it due to previous travel plans.  Read Sha
  
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• Fox News columnist: Marjorie Taylor Greene 'an idiot' trying to 'wreck the GOP'

  17-04-2024 17:52 via thehill.com
  
  A Fox News columnist blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.), calling the conservative an "idiot" who is doing damage to the Republican party's agenda.
  "It’s high time someone in the Republican Party told Marjorie Taylor Greene to turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats, and stop trying to defeat her own party," columnist and Fox contributor Liz Peek wrote Wednesday on the outlet's website, saying Greene would "rather burn down the House, met
  
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• Speaker Johnson set to release text on Ukraine package despite conservative outrage

  17-04-2024 17:50 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) says he is close to releasing the text of his plan to send aid to embattled U.S. allies — including Ukraine — despite sharp criticism from conservatives in his caucus.Johnson informed GOP lawmakers in a text message Wednesday morning that he will “soon” release the legislative text for three bills that would send assistance to Ukraine, Israel and allies in the Indo-Pacific. That legislation, he said, will include a loan structure fo
  
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• Speaker Johnson rolls out text for foreign aid package despite conservative outcry

  17-04-2024 17:50 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday released the legislative text for three bills that would send assistance to Ukraine, Israel and allies in the Indo-Pacific, a high-stakes moment for the Speaker as he barrels into the politically prickly topic of sending aid overseas.The trio of bills are part of his plan for moving foreign aid through the House, a process that has been delayed for months amid other pressing priorities and stalled this week as his initial proposal faced intense backlash
  
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• Speaker Johnson plowing ahead with foreign aid despite conservative outrage

  17-04-2024 17:50 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is plowing ahead with his plan to send aid to embattled U.S. allies — including Ukraine — despite sharp criticism from conservatives in his caucus.Johnson informed GOP lawmakers in a text message Wednesday morning that he will “soon” release the legislative text for three bills that would send assistance to Ukraine, Israel and allies in the Indo-Pacific. That legislation, he said, will include a loan structure for aid and enhanced s
  
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• House panel approves ChatGPT use for some staffers

  17-04-2024 17:45 via thehill.com
  
  The House Administration Committee has approved the use of ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot, for some of its staffers, the panel revealed in a new report.The committee approved the use of ChatGPT Plus, a paid subscription plan for the chatbot, for “a cross-section of CHA committee staff” and held an initial training on the tool, according to the report on AI strategy and implementation in the House.“Information from this early use will help form
  
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• Columbia officials say calls for the genocide of Jewish students would violate school policies

  17-04-2024 17:24 via thehill.com
  
  All four Columbia University officials at Wednesday's House hearing on antisemitism on college campuses said calling for the genocide of Jewish people would violate campus policies.  School President Nemat Shafik, along with two members of her Board of Trustees and a professor, was asked the question by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), who prefaced it by saying she wanted to avoid lawmakers using the hearing to further “political goals or narratives.”  All the officials agre
  
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