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• Top House Democrat urges Senate to abolish filibuster to pass voting rights on Jan. 6 anniversary

  06-01-2022 22:49 via thehill.com
  
  A top House Democrat is calling on the Senate to abolish the filibuster in order to pass federal voting rights legislation, pointing to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as reason why election reforms are needed on the national level.Assistant House...
  
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• Briefing in brief: Biden leaving consequences of Jan. 6 to DOJ

  06-01-2022 21:18 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday spent roughly 40 minutes briefing reporters following President Biden’s speech to mark the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.Psaki told a press corps...
  
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• Cheney confirms she told Jim Jordan on Jan. 6 'Get away from me. You f---ing did this'

  06-01-2022 21:04 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) confirmed in a new interview that she told Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) during the Jan. 6 riot “Get away from me, you f---ing did this,” as the lawmakers were being escorted away from the protesters who had stormed the Capitol...
  
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• Grisham says former Trump officials meeting next week 'to try and stop him'

  06-01-2022 20:27 via thehill.com
  
  Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Thursday said she and a group of officials who worked in the Trump administration are meeting next week to “try and stop” former President Trump.“I can say that next week a group of former...
  
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• Fox's Bret Baier: 'Hyperbolic' and 'insulting' of VP Harris to compare Jan. 6 to 9/11

  06-01-2022 20:19 via thehill.com
  
  Fox News anchor Bret Baier said he would not be surprised to see families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks express outrage at comments from Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday comparing those attacks to the Jan. 6 riot at...
  
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• Psaki: Maybe Trump 'learned something' from Biden's Jan. 6 speech

  06-01-2022 19:58 via thehill.com
  
   White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday suggested former President Donald Trump may have learned some lessons from President Biden's speech marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, after Trump dismissed the remarks...
  
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• Pelosi: Jan 6 like someone at White House dropped bomb on Congress

  06-01-2022 19:47 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in an interview set to air on Thursday that the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was as if "somebody in the White House dropped a bomb on the Congress."In an interview that will air on "NBC Nightly News with...
  
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• Ex-Trump official: Former president 'failed to meet the moment' on Jan. 6

  06-01-2022 19:43 via thehill.com
  
  A former Trump White House official on Thursday condemned the events of Jan. 6, 2021, as a "coup attempt" and said the former president "failed to meet the moment" in reflections on the anniversary of the insurrection at the Capitol.Sarah...
  
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• Pelosi leads moment of silence for Jan. 6 with no Republicans except Cheneys

  06-01-2022 19:30 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led a moment of silence on the House floor on Thursday to mark one year since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, with more than a dozen fellow Democrats and just one House Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), on...
  
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• Thompson calls his role investigating Jan. 6 'ironic'

  06-01-2022 19:25 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who chairs the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, called his role in the investigation "ironic.""A Black man from one of the most racist states, as it relates to voting rights for people of color, is now...
  
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• Dick Cheney visits Capitol for Jan. 6, criticizes GOP leadership

  06-01-2022 19:20 via thehill.com
  
  Former Vice President Dick Cheney accompanied his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) to the Capitol for events marking anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and expressed disappointment with GOP leadership.“It's not a leadership that...
  
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• Gaetz on Jan. 6: 'We're ashamed of nothing'

  06-01-2022 18:06 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during an appearance on former Trump aide Stephen Bannon's podcast on Thursday said of Jan. 6: "We're ashamed of nothing."Gaetz has been criticized along with other allies of former President Trump of promoting baseless...
  
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• Obama calls out GOP over Jan. 6

  06-01-2022 17:55 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Obama on Thursday called out the Republican Party in a statement commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, arguing that the GOP is holding Americans back from defending democracy and freedom across...
  
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• Jamal Simmons to be named Harris communications director

  06-01-2022 17:42 via thehill.com
  
  Jamal Simmons, a longtime top Democratic communications aide, will be tapped as communications director to Vice President Harris, sources tell The Hill.The announcement is expected to be made on Thursday, the sources say.The move is part of a...
  
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• Jamal Simmons to be named Harris communication director

  06-01-2022 17:42 via thehill.com
  
  Jamal Simmons, a longtime top Democratic communications aide, will be tapped as communications director to Vice President Harris, sources tell The Hill.The announcement is expected to be made on Thursday, the sources say.The move is part of a...
  
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• Trump lashes out at Biden over Jan. 6 speech

  06-01-2022 16:35 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump on Thursday responded to President Biden's fiery speech on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol saying the remarks alluding to Trump's role in the riot deepened political divides in the country....
  
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• Trump lashes out after Biden speech: 'Used my name today to try to further divide America'

  06-01-2022 16:35 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump on Thursday responded to President Biden's fiery speech on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump blasted Biden in an emailed statement, saying "Biden used my name today to try to further divide...
  
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• Biden takes on Trump in fiery address on Jan. 6

  06-01-2022 15:53 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday forcefully rebuked former President Trump in an address marking the anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection in the Capitol, accusing the former president of spreading a “web of lies” that laid the groundwork for the...
  
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• Biden: Trump not just former president, he's a 'defeated former president'

  06-01-2022 15:38 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday sought to dismantle former President Trump's repeated attempts to sow distrust in the 2020 election results, declaring Trump a "defeated former president.""Let’s speak plainly about what happened in 2020," Biden said...
  
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• Harris underscores 'fragility' of democracy on Jan. 6 anniversary

  06-01-2022 15:29 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday warned the nation is being tested a year after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, urging Americans to "unite in defense of our democracy.""On Jan. 6, we all saw what our nation would look like if...
  
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• Biden to mark Jan. 6 anniversary: 'We must decide what kind of nation we are going to be'

  06-01-2022 13:37 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday will mark the one year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol with a speech reflecting on the events of that day, according to excerpts released by the White House.Biden will ask the nation, "At this moment...
  
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• In their own words: Lawmakers, staffers remember Jan. 6 insurrection

  06-01-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  A year has passed since an angry pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in a failed bid to block the certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory and keep former President Trump in power. The unprecedented attack — the first violent...
  
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• Division reins over Jan. 6 anniversary

  06-01-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  On Jan. 6, 2021, a violent mob of rally attendees, fresh from hearing President Trump speak near the White House, marched to the Capitol, forced their way past barricades and a line of police officers and stormed the building, interrupting the...
  
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• Division reigns over Jan. 6 anniversary

  06-01-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  On Jan. 6, 2021, a violent mob of rally attendees, fresh from hearing President Trump speak near the White House, marched to the Capitol, forced their way past barricades and a line of police officers and stormed the building, interrupting the...
  
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• Pelosi on eve of Jan. 6: Capitol rioters 'lost' bid to stop peaceful transfer of power

  06-01-2022 05:06 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) on Wednesday said the rioters who stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6 “lost” their bid to stop the peaceful transfer of power.“Democracy won that night,” Pelosi told The Associated Press on the eve of the one-year...
  
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• Embattled Federal Bureau of Prisons director resigning

  06-01-2022 02:04 via thehill.com
  
  Michael Carvajal, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has resigned from his position amid heavy criticism of his leadership of the agency. In a statement on Wednesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Carvajal ...
  
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• Harris to highlight voting rights, election reform in Jan. 6 speech

  06-01-2022 00:29 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris on Thursday will warn that democracy is being tested in the U.S. on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, and outline the need to strengthen voting rights and elections.Harris will say the attack on...
  
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