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• GOP clashes, campus protests to take center stage as Congress returns

  29-04-2024 12:56 via thehill.com
  
  Congress is set to reconvene this week amid bitter GOP infighting and explosive protests on college campuses nationwide, two issues that are expected to dominate chatter on Capitol Hill in the coming days.In the House, which returns on Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is again in hot water with his right flank after the top Republican muscled a foreign aid package that included $61 billion for Ukraine through the lower chamber over sharp objections from hardline conservatives.Rep. Marjo
  
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• Jeffries calls on Johnson to honor police who defended Capitol on Jan. 6

  16-05-2024 23:48 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to honor the law enforcement officers who defended Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, pressing the Speaker to dedicate a spot in the building for a commemorative plaque.Congress, in March of 2022, had passed a law requiring the placement of such a memorial by March of 2023. More than a year after that deadline, no plaque has been unveiled, and Jeffries is using the arrival of Police We
  
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• Missouri's attorney general accuses Kansas City of doxxing Chiefs kicker

  16-05-2024 23:31 via thehill.com
  
  Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) accused Kansas City of doxxing the Chiefs’ kicker, Harrison Butker, and pledged to hold the city accountable in a statement Thursday.“My office is demanding accountability after @KansasCity doxxed @buttkicker7 last night for daring to express his religious beliefs,” Bailey wrote on the social media platform X, linking to the city’s official government account and to Butker’s account.“I will enforce the Missouri Human
  
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• House passes GOP bill to undo Biden’s weapons freeze to Israel

  16-05-2024 23:04 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Thursday approved a bill to reverse President Biden’s pause on some weapons shipments to Israel, a formal admonishment of the administration’s approach to the war in the Middle East that narrowly divided Democrats, who have struggled to unify as the controversial conflict drags on.The bill — which cleared the chamber in a 224-187 vote — is expected to go nowhere in the Democratic-controlled Senate, where party leaders are vowing not to consider it
  
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• Biden administration looks to speed review of asylum cases with new dedicated docket

  16-05-2024 22:46 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is taking aim at the backlog of asylum cases from those who have recently arrived at the border, creating a dedicated docket in the hopes of more swiftly adjudicating the claims.Although largely a matter of managing the court’s workflow, in seeking to address the lingering cases, the administration is going after a problem that GOP critics complain allows migrants to spend years in the U.S. before facing potential removal.While asylum status is designed to help tho
  
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• House passes TICKET Act targeting concert 'hidden fees'

  16-05-2024 21:00 via thehill.com
  
  The House passed bipartisan legislation Wednesday that would require event ticket sellers to disclose the total cost of tickets upfront to consumers, including so-called hidden fees.The bill, dubbed the Transparency In Charges for Key Events Ticketing (TICKET) Act, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, 388-24.“This consensus legislation will end deceptive ticketing practices that frustrate consumers who simply want to enjoy a concert, show, or sporting event by restoring fairness an
  
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• House Judiciary votes to hold Garland in contempt

  16-05-2024 20:45 via thehill.com
  
  The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced a measure to hold in contempt Attorney General Merrick Garland in an 18-15 party line vote, a step Republicans on the House Oversight panel are also expected to take later this evening.A last-minute move from President Biden to claim executive privilege over audio recordings from his interview with special counsel Robert Hur did not dissuade the GOP from proceeding, even as Garland said those asserting the privilege “cannot be prosecuted f
  
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• Biden announces 'major step' toward reclassifying marijuana

  16-05-2024 20:07 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration announced Thursday it had initiated the formal rulemaking process to reschedule marijuana to Schedule III from its Schedule I designation that it has held for over 50 years.This announcement follows the Department of Justice’s announcement last month that if planned to proceed with rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III which the Department of Health and Human Services had recommended last year.“This is monumental. Today my administration took a maj
  
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• CAIR condemns GOP call to probe finances of student protesters

  16-05-2024 20:03 via thehill.com
  
  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling out House Republicans over their request for the Treasury Department to investigate the finances of the pro-Palestinian student protesters who have set up encampments at scores of U.S. colleges in recent weeks.On Tuesday, Committee on Education and the Workforce Chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) had asked the department for suspicious activity reports on 20 groups they beli
  
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• Democrats rally against GOP Israel bill as leaders hit whip

  16-05-2024 19:51 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are rallying to oppose a House GOP effort meant to expose their divisions on Israel as the party moves to align with President Biden, who has threatened to veto the measure, and their own leaders who are whipping against it.The Democrats speaking out say they are weary of Republicans using Israel as a political cudgel, vowing to oppose a measure that aims to force the delivery of certain arms to Israel that Biden is withholding.“I will
  
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• Democrats rally against GOP Israel bill as leaders crack whip

  16-05-2024 19:51 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are rallying to oppose a House GOP effort meant to expose their divisions on Israel as the party moves to align with President Biden, who has threatened to veto the measure, and their own leaders who are whipping against it.The Democrats speaking out say they are weary of Republicans using Israel as a political cudgel, vowing to oppose a measure that aims to force the delivery of certain arms to Israel that Biden is withholding.“I will
  
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• Carter Center CEO says 'no significant change' in Jimmy Carter's condition: AJC

  16-05-2024 19:46 via thehill.com
  
  Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander said in a Wednesday interview that there has been “no significant change” in former President Jimmy Carter’s condition.“It’s 15 months of hospice at this point, and he is fully retired,” Alexander said on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s “Politically Georgia” podcast on Wednesday.“There really hasn’t been a significant change. I mean, he will always be one bad cold away from the end,” Alex
  
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• Boebert heckled in New York while defending Trump

  16-05-2024 19:14 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was heckled outside the Manhattan courthouse Thursday where she was attempting to defend former President Trump at his criminal hush money trial.As Boebert and several other Republicans broke away from a makeshift press conference podium, she leaned into the microphones to say one last thing.“And I want all of the news to start asking the question, what is the crime? Because everyone in this court has not been informed of what the crime is. The defendant does
  
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• House GOP looks to undercut McCarthy-Biden deal for 2025 funding

  16-05-2024 18:38 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, on Thursday previewed the funding levels at which GOP negotiators are seeking to craft their annual government spending bills for fiscal 2025.Republicans are proposing about $895 billion for defense programs and $710.7 billion for nondefense ones, totaling about a $1.6 trillion top line for the 12 annual government funding bills.Cole said figures are in line with the spending caps agreed to as part of the Fiscal Respo
  
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• Beyoncé, ESPN gave Harris tickets, disclosure shows

  16-05-2024 18:38 via thehill.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris was gifted tickets to Beyoncé’s concert by the artist herself and a Howard University football game courtesy of ESPN, a 2023 financial disclosure report shows.Harris attended Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour concert in Landover, Maryland, in August, with her husband Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. She posted online thanking the singer for “a fun date night.”The concert tickets were valued at $1,655.92, the disclosure said.She also attende
  
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• Gaetz echoes Trump's Proud Boys call to 'stand back and stand by' amid courthouse appearance

  16-05-2024 18:32 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) echoed former President Trump’s infamous 2020 call for the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” in a statement from the Manhattan courthouse on Thursday.“Standing back and standing by, Mr. President,” Gaetz wrote in a post on X, along with a photo of himself donning a red tie and suit in the background, while the foreground featured a blurred-out image of Trump.Trump was asked during a presidential debate with President Biden in 2020 whe
  
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• House Republicans introduce measure to overturn nursing home staffing rule

  16-05-2024 18:31 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans have introduced a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes. Under the requirements unveiled last month, all nursing homes that receive federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid will need to have a registered nurse on staff 24 hours per day, seven days per week and provide at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day. The rules will cost nursing homes $43 billion
  
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• Raskin presses insurers, PBMs on free contraception coverage

  16-05-2024 17:59 via thehill.com
  
  The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee wants to know how the country’s top health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers plan to make it easier for people to access contraception for free.  In letters sent Thursday to the five largest health insurers and four largest pharmacy benefit managers first shared with The Hill, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked for information on how the companies plan to respond to federal guidance designed to improve no-cost access to birth co
  
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• GOP lawmaker says Biden 'must've been jacked up' during State of the Union

  16-05-2024 17:13 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) suggested in a Thursday interview that President Biden “must’ve been jacked up” during his State of the Union address, pointing to the president’s energetic performance.Murphy, co-chair of the GOP Doctors Caucus, said in an interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo that his assessment is “from a medical viewpoint” and that he has evidence substantiating his claim — a point that provoked some questions from the conservative
  
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• At least 9 GOP lawmakers are at Trump trial, which could be a problem for Republicans

  16-05-2024 16:21 via thehill.com
  
  At least nine Republican lawmakers traveled to New York to appear in court alongside former President Trump Thursday, the latest in a string of GOP lawmakers to attend the hush money trial.The move could jeopardize GOP attendance at a key vote later and also comes after the House Oversight Committee bumped a scheduled hearing to facilitate their attendance at court.Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Mike Waltz (Fla.) and Eli Crane (Ariz.) were spotted in the cou
  
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• Biden invokes executive privilege on special counsel recording demanded by GOP

  16-05-2024 14:47 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden has invoked executive privilege to block House Republicans from obtaining audio recordings of his interviews with special counsel Robert Hur over his handling of classified documents.Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday requested Biden assert executive privilege over the recordings, which had been subpoenaed by the House Judiciary and Oversight committees.“Because of the President’s longstanding commitment to protecting the integrity, effectiveness, and indep
  
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• Lawmakers urge financial regulators to take action on banking discrimination

  16-05-2024 14:30 via thehill.com
  
  A group of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate are calling on heads of the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve Board and other financial regulators to ensure equitable banking access for Muslim Americans and immigrants
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — in a letter sent Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell and other regulatory leaders — argued the anti-money laundering and financial crime preven
  
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• House passes policing bills as GOP seeks to highlight crime as campaign issue

  16-05-2024 01:50 via thehill.com
  
  The House approved a trio of bills on Wednesday aimed at supporting law enforcement during National Police Week — legislation largely opposed by Democrats as leaders on the left decried GOP attempts to downplay the events of Jan. 6, 2021.Consideration of the three bills — which face slim odds of moving in the Democratic-controlled Senate — is part of Republicans’ efforts to spotlight crime, which has emerged as a central issue to voters ahead of the No
  
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• Pelosi says she 'would never recommend' Biden debate Trump

  16-05-2024 01:48 via thehill.com
  
  Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a Wednesday interview that she “would never recommend” President Biden share the debate stage with former President Trump, shortly after the two agreed to two debates before November's election.“I myself would never recommend going on stage with Donald Trump,” Pelosi told CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday.“But the president has decided that’s what he wants to do,” Pelosi said. “I think the format he i
  
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• Romney says he would have pardoned Trump after indictments

  16-05-2024 00:12 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said he would have pardoned former President Trump if he had been in President Biden's position when federal indictments were brought against him.In an interview set to air in full Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney said Biden would have looked like the “big guy” compared to Trump if he pardoned the former president.“Had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought out indi
  
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• Biden and Trump deal knockout to debate commission

  15-05-2024 23:55 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and former President Trump dealt a major blow to the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) on Wednesday, calling into question the usefulness of the organization moving forward.Biden’s campaign informed the commission it would work directly with news organizations to arrange two debates this summer with Trump, who quickly accepted his rival’s proposal. The development raised the possibility that the commission, which has handled presidential debates each cycle
  
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• Democrat rips Johnson over Trump trial ‘stunt’ on House floor: ‘It is pathetic’

  15-05-2024 23:46 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) sharply criticized Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on the House floor Wednesday after Johnson made an appearance at former President Trump’s criminal hush money trial in Manhattan.“Look at the cover of today’s New York Times, Mr. Speaker. This is unbelievable. Here’s a picture of the Speaker of this House of Representatives, second in line to the presidency, standing in front of a courthouse, acting as a prop for Donald Trump, trying to interfere
  
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• Texas Democrat becomes 'fastest member of Congress' with charity race win

  15-05-2024 23:37 via thehill.com
  
  A Texas Democrat is boasting that he won his latest race — this one on foot.Rep. Greg Casar smoked the congressional competition on Wednesday at the annual ACLI Capital Challenge in Washington. The 35-year-old lawmaker finished first among lawmakers with a time of 19:33 in the 3-mile race, according to the competition's results. "Occasionally, ‘relative youth and inexperience’ serves you well in Washington,” Casar quipped in a statement."Democrats just won a CRI
  
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• Biden to host Kenyan president for state visit 

  15-05-2024 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host Kenya’s President William Ruto and first lady Rachel Ruto next week at the White House. The May 23 visit will mark the 60th anniversary of U.S.-Kenya diplomatic relations, according to the White House.  It comes after Biden broke his promise to visit Africa last year.Biden will hold a bilateral meeting with Ruto, and the pair will talk “trade and investment, technological innovation, climate and clean energy, hea
  
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• House sends FAA reauthorization to Biden

  15-05-2024 20:22 via thehill.com
  
  The House on Wednesday passed a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for five years, sending the legislation to President Biden’s desk ahead of Friday’s deadline.The measure cleared the chamber in a 387-26 vote, days after the Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill, 88-4.Passage of the legislation marks the end of Congress’s long-winded road to reauthorizing the FAA, which required four short-term extensions and featured a bitter battle over
  
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