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• GOP lawmakers fined $5,000 for bypassing House security screenings

  05-02-2021 23:52 via thehill.com
  
  Two GOP lawmakers are now facing $5,000 fines for bypassing metal detectors while entering the House chamber after Democrats voted this week to impose the punitive measure to enforce compliance.Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert (Texas) and...
  
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• Multiple newborn US citizens removed to Mexico without birth certificates: report

  05-02-2021 22:03 via thehill.com
  
  Nearly a dozen migrant women with newborn children over the past year were returned to Mexican border towns without birth certificates for their U.S.-born children, according to findings from an investigation published Friday by The Fuller Project...
  
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• 42 GOP lawmakers press for fencing around Capitol to be removed

  05-02-2021 21:38 via thehill.com
  
  Forty-two Republican House members sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Friday, urging her to allow security fencing around the Capitol to be taken down. The letter, spearheaded by Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), sounded the alarm over...
  
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• House passes budget resolution, paving way for Biden's COVID-19 relief plan

  05-02-2021 20:26 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Friday approved the Senate-amended budget resolution, setting in place the process to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan without the need for GOP support.The bill passed 219-209 with one Democrat ...
  
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• Biden economic adviser calls Summers 'flat-out wrong' with inflation remarks

  05-02-2021 20:04 via thehill.com
  
  Top White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein on Friday pushed back on public criticism from former Obama economic adviser Larry Summers, who raised concerns in a Washington Post op-ed about the risks to inflation posed by President Biden's...
  
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• Pelosi hopes House can pass COVID-19 relief within two weeks

  05-02-2021 19:12 via thehill.com
  
  Emerging from a Friday meeting with President Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she is hopeful the House will send a sweeping COVID-19 relief bill to the Senate within two weeks.Biden and congressional Democrats are under enormous pressure...
  
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• Defiant Greene attacks media, dodges questions on past remarks

  05-02-2021 19:03 via thehill.com
  
  A day after the House voted to remove her from committees for her previous promotion of conspiracy theories, a defiant Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked the media and repeatedly refused to address her past endorsements of violence against...
  
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• Defiant Greene attacks media, dodges questions about past remarks

  05-02-2021 19:03 via thehill.com
  
  A day after the House voted to remove her from committees for her previous promotion of conspiracy theories, a defiant Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked the media and repeatedly refused to address her past endorsements of violence against...
  
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• Biden rips GOP for 'all of a sudden' showing fiscal restraint

  05-02-2021 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday chastised Republican lawmakers who have raised concerns about the country's debt to oppose a large economic relief package he has put forward, suggesting their arguments were hypocritical or short-...
  
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• Greene: Republican Party belongs to Trump

  05-02-2021 18:56 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) fiercely defended former President Trump during a press conference on Friday, arguing that the Republican Party “belongs to him.” The comments from Greene — whom Congress voted to remove from her committee...
  
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• Biden signals he'll move forward on COVID-19 relief without GOP

  05-02-2021 18:52 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday sent his strongest signal yet that he would move forward with his coronavirus relief proposal without Republican support, making the case for the need for his $1.9 trillion package by citing the January jobs report showing...
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez thanks Capitol Police amid criticism of her riot experience

  05-02-2021 18:21 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) thanked Capitol Police in a speech on the House floor Thursday night amid criticism after she shared her experience during the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol building.Members of the lower chamber convened...
  
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• Cori Bush: Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't take back what she said about me

  05-02-2021 15:47 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) on Thursday acknowledged that while Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) apologized to congressional colleagues this week over her past controversial statements, Greene “didn’t take that back” or “regret” claims directed at Bush.&...
  
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• House bill introduced to give gyms $30B in relief

  05-02-2021 15:16 via thehill.com
  
  Reps. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) have introduced legislation to provide $30 billion of relief aid to the gym industry, which has been struggling throughout the coronavirus pandemic due to lockdowns and the lack of...
  
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• Bipartisan bill to provide $120B in coronavirus relief for restaurants reintroduced

  05-02-2021 14:30 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) reintroduced legislation on Friday to establish a $120 billion revitalization fund to support independent restaurants and small franchisees devastated from the coronavirus pandemic.The Real Economic Support That...
  
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• Booker reintroduces bill to give all newborns $1,000 savings accounts

  05-02-2021 13:43 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) this week reintroduced his “Baby Bonds” bill, legislation that would give every U.S. child an interest-bearing savings account at birth, starting with $1,000 in an attempt to reverse rising economic inequality.The accounts...
  
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• Bipartisan lawmakers call for immediate vote on COVID vaccine distribution package

  05-02-2021 13:18 via thehill.com
  
  Members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus are calling for an immediate vote on a $160 billion COVID-19 vaccine distribution package in an effort to direct funding to the matter as soon as possible as Congress continues the reconciliation...
  
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• Bipartisan lawmakers call for immediate vote on COVID-19 vaccine distribution package

  05-02-2021 13:18 via thehill.com
  
  Members of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus are calling for an immediate vote on a $160 billion COVID-19 vaccine distribution package in an effort to direct funding to the matter as soon as possible as Congress continues the reconciliation...
  
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• The Memo: Marjorie Taylor Greene won't slink away

  05-02-2021 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had her committee assignments stripped away on Thursday by House Democrats and even several of her GOP colleagues.The first-term congresswoman earlier made a floor speech in which she claimed she had ceased to...
  
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• Rep. Phillips says he did not truly understand white privilege until the Capitol riot

  05-02-2021 02:46 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) gave an emotional address on the House floor Thursday evening, saying he had not fully understood privilege until the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot.Addressing the House, Phillips recounted the events of Jan. 6,...
  
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• House will have to vote on budget second time as GOP notches wins

  05-02-2021 02:17 via thehill.com
  
  The House will have to approve a budget resolution that paves the way for Democrats to pass a coronavirus relief bill without GOP support for a second time this week.  The House initially passed its budget resolution on Wednesday...
  
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• Here are the 11 Republicans who voted to remove Greene from House committees

  05-02-2021 02:08 via thehill.com
  
  Eleven House Republicans joined all Democrats on Thursday to strip Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) of her committee assignments for embracing conspiracy theories and political violence — a figure much higher than expected heading into the...
  
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• Cruz blocks vote on Biden Commerce secretary nominee over Huawei concerns

  05-02-2021 01:51 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday formally placed a hold on the Senate voting on the nomination of Gina Raimondo, President Biden’s pick for Commerce secretary, due to concerns Raimondo has not clarified her stance on Chinese telecom giant Huawei....
  
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• House votes to kick Greene off committees over embrace of conspiracy theories

  05-02-2021 00:51 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats on Thursday took the extraordinary step of voting to strip committee assignments from a member of the opposite party, saying Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) had forfeited her right to those seats by endorsing conspiracy theories...
  
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• Hoyer floor drama: Top Democrat says Greene endangering 'Squad'

  05-02-2021 00:37 via thehill.com
  
  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) in a dramatic address Thursday displayed a poster of a social media post from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) holding a gun next to three progressive Democrats during floor debate on a resolution to...
  
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• Ice Cube says Biden administration has reached out to him

  05-02-2021 00:17 via thehill.com
  
  Ice Cube said in a recent interview that the Biden administration reached out to him earlier this week and disclosed a possible meeting could be in the works for sometime later this month. The music and movie star, who has been making efforts...
  
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• Madison Cawthorn doesn't regret participating in Jan. 6 'Stop the Steal' rally

  05-02-2021 00:09 via thehill.com
  
  Freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) says he does not regret speaking at the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally ahead of the deadly pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol, saying the rioters were "unable to check their worst impulses and had very...
  
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