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• White House faces new pressure to back lifting mask rules

  09-02-2022 23:12 via thehill.com
  
  The White House is facing pressure to revise its position on wearing masks, as declining COVID-19 cases and pandemic fatigue among voters leads an increasing number of Democratic states to lift requirements on public masking.Some governors and local...
  
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• RNC chair: 'Disagreement in our party is welcome' but GOP lawmakers on Jan. 6 panel 'step too far'

  09-02-2022 23:02 via thehill.com
  
  Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel doubled down on her defense of the committee’s censure against Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), saying that “disagreement in our party is welcome” but the ...
  
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• McCarthy says Jan. 6 rioters did not engage in 'legitimate discourse'

  09-02-2022 22:49 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday said the rioters who stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, were not engaging in “legitimate discourse.”“I think anybody, we all know this, that entered this building, that rioted,...
  
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• Biden meets with utility executives in push for spending agenda

  09-02-2022 22:26 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday met with utility CEOs to promote his stalled climate and social spending bill. "I think this is the beginning of a — God willing —  a new era in the generation of electricity,” he said at the start of the...
  
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• Rep. Cori Bush on SCOTUS pick: We shouldn't be 'pitting Black women against each other' for seat

  09-02-2022 22:14 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said that people should not be “pitting Black women against each other for this SCOTUS seat” as President Biden mulls a nominee to replace Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer.Bush made the remarks to Punchbowl News in an...
  
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• White House disputes reports of federal funds for crack pipes

  09-02-2022 21:54 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration on Wednesday pushed back on what it called "misinformation," saying a federal grant program meant to reduce harm to drug users does not include taxpayer funding for pipes that can be used to smoke crack or meth.The...
  
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• Biden talks with Macron about his meetings with Putin and Zelensky

  09-02-2022 21:47 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday about the French leader’s meeting with Russian and Ukrainian leaders this week amid Moscow's military buildup along the border.The White House said they discussed...
  
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• Biden talks with Macron about French meeting with Putin and Zelensky

  09-02-2022 21:47 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday about the French leader’s meeting with Russian and Ukrainian leaders this week amid Moscow's military buildup along the border.The White House said the two...
  
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• National Archives asked DOJ to probe Trump's handling of White House records: report

  09-02-2022 21:32 via thehill.com
  
  The National Archives has asked the Justice Department to look into former President Trump's handling of White House records since leaving office, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, amid revelations in recent days that he had retained...
  
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• Jayapal says GOP lawmaker's behavior toward CBC chair was assault

  09-02-2022 21:18 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) accused Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) of assaulting her colleague, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), who shared a public account of a tense interaction that occurred while the two were boarding a subway car on Capitol Hill’s...
  
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• Kansas legislature overrides governor's veto on new House maps

  09-02-2022 21:02 via thehill.com
  
  Kansas House Republicans voted Wednesday to force new U.S. House district maps into law, overriding Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto by a narrow margin in a move likely to cost Democrats a seat in Congress.The House vote came a day after the state Senate...
  
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• Republicans block bill to name post office after former progressive Rep. Woolsey

  09-02-2022 20:46 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Wednesday failed to pass a bill that would name a California post office after one of its own former members after most Republicans prevented it from advancing under a fast-track process.The bill's failure is yet another example of the...
  
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• House Dems, green groups demand national biodiversity strategy from Biden

  09-02-2022 19:33 via thehill.com
  
  Fifty House Democrats — with the support of more than 100 environmental groups and academics — demanded the creation of a national biodiversity strategy in a letter to President Biden on Tuesday.“The loss of biodiversity presents a...
  
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• Biden to meet with Senate Judiciary Democrats on Supreme Court vacancy

  09-02-2022 19:19 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden plans to host Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the White House on Thursday to discuss the impending Supreme Court vacancy, a White House official confirmed.Biden has committed to seeking advice from Democrats...
  
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• Pelosi denounces RNC calling Capitol riot 'legitimate political discourse'

  09-02-2022 18:45 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday denounced the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) use of the phrase “legitimate political discourse” to describe what happened Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in its resolution to censure Reps. Adam...
  
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• Cori Bush says she won't stop saying 'defund the police' despite pressure from other Democrats

  09-02-2022 18:42 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) said this week that she stands behind the slogan "defund the police" even though members of her party have asked her not to use the phrase."I always tell [fellow Democrats], 'If you all had fixed this before I got...
  
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• Immigration agency reverses Trump-era changes to its mission statement

  09-02-2022 17:42 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. government agency in charge of granting visas, green cards and naturalizations changed its mission statement, a reversal of a Trump-era change that had spun the immigrant service provider toward a focus on homeland security.The new United...
  
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• House Democrat unveils resolution recognizing staffers' right to unionize

  09-02-2022 17:42 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Andy Levin (D-Mich.) introduced a resolution on Wednesday that would formally recognize House staffers' ability to form a union.Passage of the resolution would be the first step to give congressional staff legal protection to unionize and...
  
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• Taxpayer advocate warns millions could face delays in having returns processed by IRS

  09-02-2022 17:23 via thehill.com
  
  The Internal Revenue Service’s taxpayer advocate testified on Tuesday that millions of taxpayers could see delays in their tax returns being processed due to an accumulation of unprocessed returns from last year.Erin Collins warned that the...
  
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• Republican rep won't run for Senate, hopes to become Ways and Means chair: report

  09-02-2022 17:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) will run for reelection in the House in hopes of becoming the Ways and Means Committee chairman should the GOP take back the lower chamber in the November midterms, forgoing a possible bid for Sen. Roy Blunt’s (R-...
  
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• Pelosi backs ban on stock trading in Congress

  09-02-2022 16:57 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) has directed House Democrats to draft a bill to ban members of Congress and their senior staffers from trading individual stocks, giving the movement newfound momentum.Democratic leaders aim to vote on a stock trading bill...
  
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• Retiring Tennessee Democrat slams party's approach to rural voters

  09-02-2022 15:45 via thehill.com
  
  Tennessee Rep. Jim Cooper (D) is criticizing his party's approach to reaching out to voters in rural areas as he prepares to retire from political life.Democrats have steadily lost representation in Congress from rural American over the last two...
  
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• Beatty on lawmaker who said 'kiss my ass': 'I have no tolerance for bullying'

  09-02-2022 15:39 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio.) said on Wednesday that she has “no tolerance for bullying” after fellow Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) told her to “kiss my ass” when she asked him to wear his face mask. During an appearance on CNN’s “New Day,” Beatty...
  
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• How Republicans came to revel hating Joe Biden

  09-02-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans are reveling in their hatred of Joe Biden. And GOP politicians have helped them get there.  At the beginning of Biden’s White House term, Republicans openly fretted about their inability to define the president as he enjoyed an...
  
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• Democrats accuse GOP of 'race-baiting' with court pick attacks

  09-02-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are up in arms over GOP critics blasting President Biden’s vow to pick a Black woman for the Supreme Court, saying the notion that Biden’s strategy represents affirmative action is merely “political race-baiting” designed to stir up the...
  
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• Capitol Police chief pushes back against claims by GOP lawmaker that his office was illegally investigated

  09-02-2022 04:06 via thehill.com
  
  Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger pushed back against allegations made by Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) that his office last November was illegally probed by Capitol Police.On Tuesday, Nehls alleged that Capitol Police had investigated his office late...
  
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• North Carolina elections board says it has power to bar Cawthorn from running over Jan. 6

  09-02-2022 03:53 via thehill.com
  
  The North Carolina elections board said in a court filing Monday it has the power to bar Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) from running for office over his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “The State does not judge the qualifications...
  
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• McDaniel defends RNC censure of Kinzinger, Cheney amid GOP pushback

  09-02-2022 01:34 via thehill.com
  
  Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday defended the organization's censure of GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) and Liz Cheney (Wyo.), blaming the media for what she called "patently false coverage" of the move.“...
  
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• Top health official to depart White House

  09-02-2022 01:25 via thehill.com
  
  Beth Cameron, a top White House official who played a key role shaping the Biden administration’s global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is leaving her position this spring.Cameron, who has served as senior director for global health security and...
  
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• GOP lawmaker apologizes to CBC chair for allegedly telling her to 'kiss my a--'

  09-02-2022 01:06 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) apologized to Congressional Black Caucus chair Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) after he allegedly told her to “kiss my a--” in response to her request for him to wear a mask before taking a train inside Capitol Hill.“This afternoon, I...
  
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• House passes bill to reform Postal Service operations

  09-02-2022 00:46 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Tuesday passed bipartisan legislation that would make long-sought financial and operational reforms to the U.S. Postal Service, which has struggled with pandemic-induced mail delivery delays. Lawmakers passed the bill 342-92, with...
  
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