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• Pelosi floats indictments for baby formula deaths as Democrats unveil emergency funding

  17-05-2022 23:55 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Tuesday suggested there could be indictments for the people found to be responsible for the deaths of two infants who consumed baby formula that may have been contaminated.  Speaking at a press conference to unveil Democrats' $28 million aid bill to help put formula back on store shelves, Pelosi said the possibility that contaminated formula killed at least two babies is "sinful." "When it comes to babies, it's the here and now and in this moment ..
  
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• DOJ asks Jan. 6 committee for its transcripts: report

  17-05-2022 23:30 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the Jan. 6 House committee to turn over some transcripts of depositions it has conducted as part of its investigation into the attack on the Capitol, according to Tuesday reporting from The New York Times.According to The Times, Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the criminal division, and Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to the panel’s investigative lead on April 20, saying the committ
  
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• DOJ asks Jan. 6 committee for its transcripts

  17-05-2022 23:30 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the Jan. 6 House committee to turn over some transcripts of depositions it has conducted as part of its investigation into the attack on the Capitol, even as the chair warned they would not receive “unilateral access.”According to the Times, Kenneth Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the criminal division, and Matthew Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to the panel’s investigative lead on Apr
  
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• Biden, Harris decry racism and violence against minorities at AAPI event

  17-05-2022 23:18 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and Vice President Harris on Tuesday condemned violence and hateful rhetoric toward minority communities at a White House celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.Both Biden and Harris spoke out against rising hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and connected the issue more broadly to a shooting over the weekend in Buffalo, N.Y., where authorities said the gunman specifically targeted the neighborhood because
  
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• Republicans launch PAC to grow Hispanic conference

  17-05-2022 22:31 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans are expanding their Hispanic outreach ahead of the midterms, unveiling on Tuesday a political action committee designed both to protect incumbents and grow the Congressional Hispanic Conference.The PAC, dubbed the Hispanic Leadership Trust, comes as several polls have hinted at a growing openness among Latino voters to elect Republicans, particularly amid stubbornly high inflation.It also comes as the GOP has been trying to rebut accusations of harboring racist sentiment&n
  
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• Jan 6 panel has no plans to call Trump

  17-05-2022 20:32 via thehill.com
  
  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has no current plans to call former President Trump before the panel, Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters Tuesday.“We've looked at talking to a lot of people. We've not canceled out anything, but there's no feeling among the committee to call him as a witness at this point,” Thompson said of Trump.
  “We're not sure that the evidence that we received can be any more validated with his presence….I
  
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• Democrats say GOP agenda ‘fueled’ by white supremacy

  17-05-2022 20:31 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic leaders teed off on GOP leadership Tuesday morning, three days after a deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, saying Republicans have not only embraced the racist conspiracy theory that inspired the suspected gunman, they've made it central to the GOP brand.“It is anti-Semitic; it is racist; and it is very destructive. And it is a pillar of the current GOP,” Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the fourth-ranking House Democrat, told reporters in the Capitol.Clark was referring to &ldq
  
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• Biden: White supremacy a ‘poison’ in America

  17-05-2022 18:47 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday called white supremacy a “poison” in America and called on Americans to reject the racist white “replacement theory” that is believed to have inspired the gunman behind the tragic Buffalo shooting.“I call on all Americans to reject the lie,” Biden said in remarks from Buffalo Tuesday afternoon. ”I condemn those who spread the lie for power, for political gain and for profit.”“We need to say as clearly and forcefully
  
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• Trump says he's been told Cheney 'worse than any Democrat' on Jan. 6 panel

  17-05-2022 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump said in an interview published Tuesday that he has been told Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is “worse than any Democrat” serving on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.Trump told The Washington Post that he has been informed by unnamed congressmen that Cheney, one of only two GOP lawmakers serving on the Jan. 6 panel, is a “crazed lunatic.”“From what people tell me, from what I hear from other congressmen
  
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• White House says it won't criticize by name those spreading 'replacement theory'

  17-05-2022 17:19 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday told reporters that she wouldn’t call out by name media commentators or elected officials who have helped spread the racist “replacement theory” because doing so would give them a platform. “The people who spread this filth, they know who they are and they should be ashamed of themselves, but I’m not going to give them or their noxious ideas they are pushing the attention that they desperately want,&rdqu
  
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• DeLauro files legislation to address baby formula shortage

  17-05-2022 17:14 via thehill.com
  
  House Appropriations Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) on Tuesday filed supplemental funding legislation to address the nationwide baby formula shortage.If passed, the legislation would greenlight $28 million in emergency funds to help the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) address the shortage and prevents future shortages, the congresswoman’s office said.  “The stories of mothers and fathers struggling to find formula and the images of empty store shelves are heartbr
  
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• Biden meets with families of Buffalo shooting victims

  17-05-2022 17:06 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday met with the families of those who died in a shooting inside a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket over the weekend and paid his respects to the victims near the site of the massacre.The president and first lady Jill Biden traveled to Buffalo in the wake of the shooting at a Tops grocery store on Saturday that left 10 dead.Before meeting with families, the president and first lady stopped at a makeshift memorial that formed just outside the grocery store. The first lady laid a
  
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• Watch live: Biden delivers remarks after Buffalo mass shooting site visit

  17-05-2022 17:03 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will speak in Buffalo Tuesday afternoon following his visit to a grocery store where ten people lost their lives Saturday in a mass shooting considered to have been motivated by racist hatred.The event begins at 1 pm ET.Watch the live video above.
  
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• Pelosi calls for condemnation of 'vile hate' on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

  17-05-2022 15:55 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday urged for Americans to condemn “vile hate” against members of the LGBTQ community on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, saying that the “fight remains as urgent as ever.”“International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia is an opportunity to join together in condemning the vile hate that still threatens the safety, well-being and fulfillment of our LGBTQ friends, neighbors and loved
  
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• Biden to meet with leaders of Finland, Sweden on plans to join NATO

  17-05-2022 15:05 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden plans to meet with the leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday about their plans to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the White House announced Tuesday.  “The leaders will discuss Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO applications and European security, as well as strengthening our close partnerships across a range of global issues and support for Ukraine,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. Biden&r
  
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• Biden to call Buffalo shooting terrorism but policy response to tragedy uncertain

  17-05-2022 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will visit Buffalo on Tuesday, seeking to console a grieving community reeling from a mass shooting over the weekend that police say was racially motivated.  The president will reprise the role of consoler-in-chief, a hat he’s worn plenty of times during his tenure as the country has battled the COVID-19 pandemic amid several other tragedies.  But any offer Biden has in the way of a robust policy response to either the proliferation of firearms or the sp
  
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• The Memo: Democrats cross their fingers in Pennsylvania

  17-05-2022 11:11 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic hopes are on a knife-edge in the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania, where both parties hold their primaries Tuesday.On one hand, Democrats believe Republican voters could do them an unintentional favor in whomever they choose as their nominee. The top tier of the GOP field is comprised of TV personality Mehmet Oz, conservative commentator Kathy Barnette and businessman David McCormick — all of whom Democrats believe have potentially fatal flaws.On the other hand, the shock h
  
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• Peloton, booze delivery perks for House staff draw GOP ire

  17-05-2022 11:11 via thehill.com
  
  New perks and services in the works for House staff — particularly Peloton app memberships and direct-to-office alcohol delivery — are getting pushback from Republicans.  The House’s food services vendor Sodexo, which operates House cafeterias, restaurants and in-house catering, is now offering same-day orders for alcohol online.  A sign noticed by Republicans outside the Food Service Administration in the Rayburn House Office Building on Friday advertised “6 pa
  
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• Biden-Bezos feud escalates

  17-05-2022 11:11 via thehill.com
  
  A simmering feud between President Biden and Jeff Bezos has spilled into the open after the Amazon founder went on the offensive to criticize the White House’s approach to inflation and taxing wealthy corporations. Biden has frequently used Amazon as a foil as he pushes for higher taxes on the richest Americans and big companies to help fund his economic agenda, and he recently vocally backed unionization efforts at the company. But Bezos’s tweets accusing the president of
  
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• House GOP leaders say white nationalism accusations are all politics

  17-05-2022 02:21 via thehill.com
  
  House Republican leaders are rebutting accusations from Democrats, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and others that their rhetoric has contributed to white supremacy in light of Saturday’s Buffalo shooting, in which a white shooter targeted Black victims, killing 10 people. “Same thing Cheney always does, just trying to play a political game when she knows something's not true,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters Monday eve
  
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• Manchin pushes for his gun reform bill in wake of Buffalo mass shooting

  17-05-2022 01:31 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday reiterated his support for legislation aimed at expanding gun background checks while also calling for “mental illness reform” in the wake of the weekend's mass shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo.Manchin cited the bipartisan legislation he and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) first brought up years back when pressed by The Hill on Monday about recent calls made by lawmakers for gun reform in the days since the Saturday shooting, whic
  
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• Biden administration expands Cuba flights, reversing Trump-era policies

  17-05-2022 01:16 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Monday announced major reversals of Trump administration policies toward Cuba by expanding flights into the country and reestablishing a family reunification program that had been dormant for years.The Biden administration announced it would restore flights to cities other than Havana and allow for group travel that is deemed for educational or professional exchanges.Current restrictions limit U.S. flights to Havana, making travel difficult for Cuban Americans hoping to visit
  
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• Dems hit GOP over 'replacement theory'

  17-05-2022 00:47 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are taking Republicans to task this week following a racist mass shooting in upstate New York, accusing GOP lawmakers of fomenting violence by embracing the same white nationalist views as the alleged gunman.Lawmakers in both parties have been horrified by the massacre in Buffalo, where a lone gunman shot 13 people — 10 of them fatally — at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. The suspect, an 18-year-old from Conklin, N.Y., a small rura
  
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• Democrats hit GOP over 'replacement theory'

  17-05-2022 00:47 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are taking Republicans to task this week following a racist mass shooting in western New York, accusing GOP lawmakers of fomenting violence by embracing the same white nationalist views as the alleged gunman.Lawmakers in both parties have been horrified by the massacre in Buffalo, where a lone gunman shot 13 people — 10 of them fatally — at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. The suspect, an 18-year-old from Conklin, N.Y., a small rur
  
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• Gwen Moore opens up about her abortion: 'I was never sorry'

  17-05-2022 00:43 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) is opening up about her experience of getting an abortion amid backlash over the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion striking down Roe v. Wade, saying she was “never sorry” about her choices. In a piece published by Elle magazine on Monday, Moore said that she went through the procedure after getting pregnant for the second time at 19 years old, citing financial struggles such as unemployment and her occupational preparedness to handle another pre
  
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• House Democrats planning to move domestic terrorism bill following Buffalo shooting

  17-05-2022 00:07 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats are planning to move on a domestic terrorism bill on Tuesday after a gunman opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y. over the weekend, killing 10 people in what authorities are calling a hate crime.House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) told reporters on Monday that the group will consider the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act on Tuesday morning. A vote in the House is expected this week, though it is unclear what day that will occur.Democratic leaders had a
  
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• House Democrat calls on Pelosi to hold vote this week on domestic terrorism bill

  17-05-2022 00:07 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) on Monday called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to schedule a vote on a domestic terrorism bill this week after a gunman opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 people in what authorities are calling a hate crime.In a statement on Monday, Schneider pushed for a vote on the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, which calls for creating domestic terrorism offices in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI
  
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