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• These are the lawmakers on the Jan. 6 committee

  07-06-2022 23:20 via thehill.com
  
  The House committee probing the Jan. 6 insurrection will start holding public hearings Thursday, looking to draw national attention to witness testimony and evidence gathered during nearly a year of investigating.The committee is composed of nine House members — seven Democrats and two Republicans. It formed last summer, about six months after the U.S. Capitol riot, to investigate the attack and events and communications around it.
  After an attempt to form a bipartisan commission with Hous
  
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• Secret Service scrambled to secure Jan. 6 route to Capitol for Trump

  07-06-2022 22:24 via thehill.com
  
  The Secret Service said it rejected requests from the Trump administration for the former president to visit the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 alongside his supporters. Trump, speaking on the Ellipse during a now-infamous rally, encouraged thousands of his supporters to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol, where hundreds ultimately breached security perimeters and faced off with police as lawmakers were counting the Electoral College votes. Trump had told them “I’ll be th
  
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• Biden signs bill to improve access to mammograms for vets exposed to burn pits

  07-06-2022 22:10 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday signed legislation to provide better access to mammograms for veterans exposed to burn pits as part of nine bills signed into law aimed at improving veterans’ health care.The measure aims to ensure that veterans who serve near burn pits get preventative care and requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct breast cancer screenings for women who served near toxic exposures.The Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas SERVICE Act was named after Marine Corps Office
  
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• Marjorie Taylor Greene knocks Graham for openness to voting on gun legislation

  07-06-2022 21:56 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) criticized Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for his openness to voting on gun control legislation, arguing such measures were going to “hurt the very people that voted for him and put him in office.”“Here's the major problem. Why would we have a Republican senator from South Carolina ready to go to vote on radical gun control bills? They're gonna hurt the very people that voted for him and put him in office. You see, South Carolina is not a blue
  
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• Biden signs bill to improve access to mammograms for veterans exposed to burn pits

  07-06-2022 21:52 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Tuesday signed a bill to provide better access to mammograms for veterans exposed to burn pits as part of nine bills signed into law aimed to improve veterans’ health care.The legislation aims to ensure that veterans who serve near burn pits get preventative care and requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct breast cancer screenings for women who experience toxic exposures.The Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas SERVICE Act was named after Marine Corps Officer Kate Th
  
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• House Oversight launches investigation into unreported gifts received by Trump

  07-06-2022 21:10 via thehill.com
  
  House Oversight Committee Democrats have launched an investigation into the gifts former President Trump received while he was in office, claiming he failed to account for thousands of dollars worth of gifts he received from foreign officials.According to the committee, the former president appears to have flouted laws that require turning over any gift deemed to be worth more than $415 – a longstanding practice based on the Emoluments Clause of the constitution, which places limits on wha
  
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• McConaughey calls for 'real change' on guns in emotional White House appearance

  07-06-2022 21:09 via thehill.com
  
  Matthew McConaughey made an impassioned plea at the White House press briefing on Tuesday for "real change" on gun violence, sharing his experience on the ground following the recent school shooting in his Texas hometown of Uvalde.“How can the loss of these lives matter?” McConaughey asked.Nineteen children and two teachers were killed by a gunman last month at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.McConaughey highlighted the lives of several children who were killed in the shootin
  
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• Yellen: ‘Virtually impossible to insulate ourselves’ from soaring gas prices

  07-06-2022 20:08 via thehill.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said American consumers will be at the mercy of oil companies this summer as crude oil is expected to reach $160 a barrel, according to an analysis released Monday by Goldman Sachs.Speaking to the Senate finance committee Tuesday, Yellen took heat from both Republicans and Democrats for inflation that’s near 40-year highs, with gasoline prices up almost 50 percent over the last year.In May, a gallon of gas cost more than $4.50, according to a national averag
  
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• Yellen: ‘Virtually impossible for us to insulate ourselves’ from soaring gas prices

  07-06-2022 20:08 via thehill.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said American consumers will be at the mercy of oil companies this summer, as crude oil is expected to reach $160 a barrel, according to an analysis released Monday by Goldman Sachs.Speaking to the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday, Yellen took heat from both Republicans and Democrats for inflation that’s near 40-year highs, with gasoline prices up almost 50 percent over the last year.In May, a gallon of gas cost more than $4.50, according to a national av
  
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• Here's a list of the people who have been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee

  07-06-2022 20:06 via thehill.com
  
  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol will hold a primetime hearing on Thursday as it seeks to bring its findings to the public.  While many people have sat down with the committee voluntarily, it has also issued more than 100 subpoenas to lawmakers, internet and communications companies, Trump White House officials and others.  Here’s a list of who the committee has subpoenaed so far, and why the committee says their testimony
  
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• Watchdog presses NIH over foreign funding disclosures

  07-06-2022 18:45 via thehill.com
  
  The oversight office for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report Tuesday that found a majority of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) grant recipients failed to meet federal requirements regarding foreign financial interests and support.HHS's Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that more than two-thirds of grantees — 69 percent — who conducted NIH-funded research failed to meet at least one federal requirement on disclosing foreign financial inte
  
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• Giffords renews calls for gun reform after Uvalde: 'Now is the time to come together'

  07-06-2022 17:38 via thehill.com
  
  Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) renewed her calls for gun reform after 19 children and two adults were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last month.
  The former representative, who was a victim of gun violence, said Tuesday that “now is the time to come together, be responsible.”Giffords was seriously injured following a shooting in Tucson in 2011.She was shot in the head while speaking to constituents. Six people died following the attack while Giffo
  
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• Harris to announce nearly $2B in private investment to help stem migration

  07-06-2022 16:51 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Harris on Tuesday will tout $1.9 billion in new investments from the private sector to address root causes of migration driving people out of Central America.The new commitments come from dozens of companies that will invest in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to boost economic growth and expand opportunities for low-income and at-risk communities in those countries.Among the new investments are $150 million from Gap Inc. to increase its sourcing in Central America to support m
  
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• DHS terror bulletin paints bleak picture following mass shootings

  07-06-2022 16:44 via thehill.com
  
  After a particularly violent month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning the threats the U.S. faces are only expected to become more “dynamic” as domestic extremists eye more vulnerable targets.“Several recent violent attacks by lone offenders against minority communities, schools, houses of worship, and mass transit have demonstrated the dynamic and complex nature of the threat environment facing the United States,” DHS writes in a terrorism advisory bull
  
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• Democrat on Jan. 6 hearing: ‘We’re going to see how much Trump was involved’

  07-06-2022 16:29 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) on Tuesday said the first Jan. 6, 2021 select committee hearing will show “how much Trump was involved” with the events that led to the Capitol riot.“We’re gonna see how much Trump was involved. Trump ran this show. He ran it from the time he lost the election in November and he did it with his son, or sons, and all of his henchmen up there,” Cohen said during an interview with CNN.The Tennessee Democrat’s comments come two days bef
  
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• Jan. 6 insurrection hearings: How to watch and what to know

  07-06-2022 15:13 via thehill.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will go public with its findings starting this week as lawmakers hope to show the American public how democracy came to the brink of disaster.
  The series of hearings that will take place over the next several weeks begin with a prime-time session Thursday night in which the nine-member panel plans to give an overview of its 11-month investigation. More than 1,000 peo
  
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• Why Biden sees fights with Musk, Bezos as good politics

  07-06-2022 11:23 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and the White House are embracing fights with billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos over the economy.Biden and his aides have publicly poked at major CEOs like Bezos and Musk in recent weeks, viewing it as a potentially popular message at a time when the president is getting poor marks for his handling of the economy due mostly to rampant inflation.One White House official argued billionaires like Musk and Bezos make for good foils at a time when the president is proposing &
  
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• White House braces for the death of Roe v. Wade 

  07-06-2022 11:23 via thehill.com
  
  The White House is quietly preparing for a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, a consequential decision expected to come this month that will create immediate pressure to respond and take action. Members of the administration have held listening sessions with state officials, advocacy groups and other stakeholders on abortion rights regarding the legal barriers to abortion already in place in certain states.  Individuals who participated in those meetings told The Hill that t
  
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• What a NY Republican abandoning his reelection says about gun reform

  07-06-2022 11:23 via thehill.com
  
  Political observers’ reaction to Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.) abruptly abandoning his reelection bid over backlash to his support for gun control measures could be summarized in one word: Wow. As the dust settles on Jacobs’s abrupt bowing out, questions are circulating about what his being pushed out of Congress could mean for gun control efforts and negotiations in the wake of recent massacres and whether hardening in the Republican Party around the issue leaves any room for comp
  
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• The Memo: Gun reform advocates will take what they can get from Senate talks

  07-06-2022 11:23 via thehill.com
  
  Any change to the gun laws after mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, looks sure to be modest. But the fact that it might happen at all is giving hope to reformers.Talks in the Senate — spearheaded by Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) — are for now focused on providing incentives for states to introduce "red flag" laws and expanding background checks.Lots of changes that the anti-gun violence movement wants are off the table for now. There wil
  
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• Biden to sign declaration addressing migration at Summit of the Americas

  07-06-2022 01:03 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will hold a meeting with regional governments to sign a declaration that aims to address migration at the Summit of the Americans.The Los Angeles Declaration on Migration “is an unprecedented and ambitious step by the United States and regional partners to work together to address the migration crisis in a comprehensive manner,” a senior administration official said.The meeting to sign the declaration will be on Friday, which is the last day of the Summit of the Ameri
  
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• Justice sends mixed messages on subpoenaing Trump’s inner circle

  07-06-2022 00:34 via thehill.com
  
  The Justice Department’s decision not to charge former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows or deputy communications director Dan Scavino with contempt of Congress is sending mixed messages about the extent those in the president’s inner circle can flout lawmaker subpoenas.The Department of Justice sent a letter to the House saying it would not pursue contempt charges against the two men even as it filed charges Friday against Peter Navarro, a former White House economic adviser,
  
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