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• White House faces uphill challenge getting kids under 5 vaccinated

  12-06-2022 23:40 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration faces an uphill battle to convince parents to give COVID-19 shots to children under 5 years old.More than a year and a half after the first vaccines were authorized for adults, federal regulators and outside advisory panels will finally meet on Wednesday to examine data from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech about their shots' effectiveness in the youngest children.If all goes well and the vaccines get authorized, the administration is planning a massive public education campa
  
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• Biden says any potential Saudi trip would not relate to energy

  12-06-2022 23:15 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said Saturday he has not yet decided about making a possible trip to Saudi Arabia but said any potential visit to the kingdom would not relate to energy.But in answering a follow-up question, Biden appeared to suggest he was going – and that he wasn't waiting for any specific commitments from officials in Riyadh.“No. Not yet,” Biden replied in response to a question about whether he had decided to go to Saudi Arabia.But when asked what was holding up the decisio
  
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• Former Trump campaign manager to testify before Jan. 6 committee on Monday

  12-06-2022 22:13 via thehill.com
  
  Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien will be among the witnesses testifying Monday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
  Along with Stepien, witnesses for Monday's hearing include former Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt, former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia BJay Pak, conservative election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg and Al Schmidt, the former city commissioner of Philadelphia, according to a press release from the House pa
  
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• Biden's age would be 'major issue' if he runs again, Axelrod says

  12-06-2022 21:13 via thehill.com
  
  Former senior Obama adviser David Axelrod warned that President Biden’s age could be a “major issue” in the 2024 presidential election. “The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue,” Axelrod told The New York Times of 79-year-old Biden. “He looks his age and isn’t as agile in front of a camera as he once was, and this
  
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• Biden says he will sign Senate's bipartisan gun proposal

  12-06-2022 18:23 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden said on Sunday that he plans to sign gun safety reforms proposed by a bipartisan group of senators earlier in the day, adding that he hopes legislation comes to his desk soon.
  “I want to thank Senator Chris Murphy and the members of his bipartisan group—especially Senators Cornyn, Sinema, and Tillis—for their tireless work to produce this proposal,” Biden said in a statement, calling the proposed legislation the “most significant gun safety legislati
  
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• NY Republican decries polarized parties after dropping out of reelection race

  12-06-2022 16:33 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.) criticized the increased polarization of both political parties on Sunday after he dropped out of his reelection race following his voicing support for gun control proposals.Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Jacobs told co-anchor Dana Bash that he is the only sitting Republican lawmaker in favor of an assault weapons ban, comparing himself to Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), the only anti-abortion Democrat in the House.“Our parties are very
  
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• The Memo: Jan. 6 hearings open new front in battle to control political agenda

  12-06-2022 16:00 via thehill.com
  
  A new battle has broken out in Washington, this time over control of the political agenda.The first public hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, held on Thursday evening, put Republicans on defense for the first time in months.The hearing offered vivid reminders of a dark day in American democracy — and of former President Trump’s role in inciting it. The panel promises to deliver more damning details about Trump’s involvement in a se
  
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• Who is Chris Stirewalt, the former Fox News editor set to testify before Jan. 6 panel

  12-06-2022 14:00 via thehill.com
  
  Chris Stirewalt, a former top editor at Fox News, is set to be one of the witnesses testifying during Monday’s public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Stirewalt was a member of the team at Fox that made the decision to call Arizona for now-President Joe Biden on election night 2020. The decision infuriated then-President Trump and his top aides, some of whom reportedly complained directly to Fox leadership about the relativel
  
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• Pence’s lawyer told him blocking vote certification would likely lead to court loss, ‘standoff’ with Congress

  12-06-2022 01:43 via thehill.com
  
  Former Vice President Pence’s attorney advised him on Jan. 5, 2021, that if he blocked the certification of electoral votes the following day as then-President Trump was urging him to do he would likely face a loss in court or a "standoff" with Congress, according to a memo released for the first time on Saturday.In the memo, which was obtained by Politico, Pence lawyer Greg Jacob evaluated a proposal from Trump legal adviser John Eastman on how Pence could refuse to count electoral votes
  
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