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• Pelosi says House will move on assault weapons ban

  01-06-2022 23:58 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that House Democrats will soon consider legislation banning military-style "assault" weapons, marking the most aggressive response from Congress to date following last week's shooting massacre at a Texas elementary school.House Democratic leaders have already scheduled a vote next week on so-called "red flag" legislation, designed to keep weapons from potentially violent people. And the House Judiciary Committee is meeting in an emergency
  
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• Two White House press office staffers leaving for other administration jobs

  01-06-2022 19:51 via thehill.com
  
  The White House press office is undergoing a minor staffing shuffle as two aides are departing for other agencies within the Biden administration.Vedant Patel, who had served as an assistant press secretary since January 2021, will move to the State Department, where he will serve as principal deputy spokesperson under press secretary Ned Price. Patel's portfolio at the White House included immigration and climate change issues.Amanda Finney, the chief of staff in the White House press office, w
  
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• White House to announce widespread relief for former Corinthian Colleges students

  01-06-2022 19:50 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is planning to administer widespread relief for former Corinthian Colleges students on Thursday, multiple sources told The Hill exclusively, a move that progressives see as inching towards their goal of broader student loan debt forgiveness. Vice President Harris will attend an event around the announcement during the afternoon, according to two sources directly familiar with the plans.The impending action could touch several hundred thousand borrowers that attended
  
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• New York Working Families Party endorses Nadler over Maloney in primary race

  01-06-2022 19:20 via thehill.com
  
  The progressive New York Working Families Party (WFP) on Wednesday endorsed Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in his reelection bid amid a contentious member vs. member primary that is pitting Nadler against Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.).New York WFP Director Sochie Nnaemeka wrote in a statement that Nadler “has been a powerful voice for reforming the Supreme Court, reimagining our justice system, and putting diplomacy and engagement over war and aggression.”“We’re proud to su
  
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• Harris unveils plan to ‘elevate’ water security in foreign policy

  01-06-2022 18:33 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris on Wednesday announced a plan that aims to “elevate” water security as a national security issue. She said that the plan would involve “fully committing” the U.S. to helping provide access to safe water and sanitation services around the world, sharing the U.S.’s “world-leading” water data to help manage and preserve water resources and using our diplomatic resources to “elevate water security” as an international p
  
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• Watch live: Biden holds virtual meeting on efforts to end baby formula shortage

  01-06-2022 18:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and administration officials will hold a virtual meeting Wednesday with manufacturers of baby formula to review efforts to address the nationwide shortage of the product.The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET.Watch the live video above.
  
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• Ukraine assured US it will not strike within Russia

  01-06-2022 17:36 via thehill.com
  
  Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said Ukraine has given the U.S. strict assurances that it would not use American-delivered heavy weapons for strikes within Russia, part of efforts to avoid a wider conflict between Moscow, Europe and the U.S.“Specifically with regard to weapons systems we provided, the Ukrainians have given us assurances that they will not use these systems against targets on Russian territory,” Blinken said during a press conference alongside NATO
  
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• House panel invites Roger Goodell, Dan Snyder to testify on Washington Commanders’ workplace culture

  01-06-2022 17:23 via thehill.com
  
  NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder have been invited by the House Oversight and Reform Committee to testify on allegations that have been made against Snyder that his franchise has a hostile work environment. Committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) sent their letter to Snyder and Goodell on Wednesday, asking both to appear at a hearing before the committee on June 22. The Oversight committee launche
  
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• In shift, White House starts to talk up economy

  01-06-2022 11:27 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and his administration have shifted gears toward a month-long campaign to talk up the economy to show the White House is prioritizing inflation by pushing the positives about what it has delivered – but the plan may come with some risk.Officials made the rounds on television on Tuesday to tout the administration’s vision a day after The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by the president who laid out his plan to tackle inflation, which has hit a 40-year high. 
  
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• Biden hedges inflation backlash with focus on Fed

  01-06-2022 11:27 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden's relationship with the Federal Reserve has come under the spotlight as the White House touts the central bank's leadership of the fight against inflation. Biden met with Fed Chair Jerome Powell at the White House on Tuesday as the administration touts its efforts to curb rising prices. The meeting came one day after the White House laid out a plan for fighting inflation focused on allowing the Fed to act without interference from the administration.“My plan … s
  
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• Biden, Democrats out of sync in pushing assault weapons ban

  01-06-2022 11:27 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are calling for bans on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines but they’re out of step with members of their own party who don’t want to vote on those hot-button issues and instead want to focus on more modest reforms.  Activists would like to see Biden take executive action to curb gun violence but the president said over the weekend that he can’t do much by himself, kicking the issue to congressional Democrats as he ha
  
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• Handful of House GOP lawmakers open to assault rifle ban

  01-06-2022 11:26 via thehill.com
  
  A trickle of House GOP lawmakers have expressed support for or openness to banning assault-style rifles in recent years and in wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas last week. As a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate discuss potential legislative action on gun violence in wake of the massacre, the House GOP members’ positions show a small yet notable contingent of Republicans in favor of some type of gun restrictions despite the party being largely avers
  
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• Biden to hold virtual meeting with executives to address baby formula shortage

  01-06-2022 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is convening a virtual meeting Wednesday of administration officials and industry representatives to discuss the nationwide infant formula shortage, according to the White House.  Biden will virtually host executives from Bubs Australia, Reckitt, Gerber, Perrigo Company, and ByHeart to “to receive updates on their progress in ramping up the supply of formula in the U.S.,” a White House official said.  Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and Su
  
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• Kellyanne Conway responds to Trump's criticism, calls him a 'great girl boss'

  01-06-2022 04:00 via thehill.com
  
  Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway responded to criticism from former President Trump following the publication of her book earlier this month, saying in an interview on Tuesday that he was a “great girl boss.”Conway published a memoir earlier this month called “Here’s the Deal,” in which she said that she “may have been the first person Donald Trump trusted in his inner circle who told him that he had come up short this time” regarding his 20
  
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• Biden writes US not seeking Putin ouster

  01-06-2022 02:31 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said in an op-ed published Tuesday that the United States would not try to oust Russian President Vladimir Putin from his position of power because of his invasion of Ukraine.  “We do not seek a war between NATO and Russia. As much as I disagree with Mr. Putin, and find his actions an outrage, the United States will not try to bring about his ouster in Moscow,” Biden wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Tuesday evening. “So long as the United Stat
  
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• On gun reform, neighboring Canada takes a different tack

  01-06-2022 01:37 via thehill.com
  
  The Canadian government's swift push this week for tough new limits on firearms is adding fuel to the fierce debate over gun reform south of the border in the United States, where last week's shooting massacre at a Texas elementary school has sparked Congress's latest effort to curb endemic gun violence – and triggered new questions about why U.S. policymakers have been so ineffective at doing so. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that his government wo
  
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