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Republican politicians have flocked to New York City in recent days to stand alongside former President Trump as he attends his hush money trial. Trump’s group on Monday included several members of Congress: Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), who represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn. Sen.…
House Republicans are taking aim at President Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war this week, after the administration paused shipment of some bombs to Israel and warned that the U.S. wll cut off more offensive weapons to Jerusalem if its forces launch an invasion into Rafah. Republicans in both chambers have sharply criticized the administration’s…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) described the state of healthcare in America as “barbarism,” in an upcoming episode of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) podcast. In a preview of Wednesday’s episode of “Bernie: The Podcast,” Ocasio-Cortez expressed her sadness about the high costs of healthcare and housing and the difficult choices many Americans must make, as she committed…
A group of House Democrats wants President Biden to declassify U.S. government documents about human rights abuses during Brazil's military dictatorship that lasted for more than two decades.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday likened Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to a Democrat as she doubled down on threats to push forward with an effort to oust him from his post. In a phone interview with CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday, Greene reportedly showed no sign of being deterred by warnings from within her conference…
Many Democratic lawmakers have submitted a legal document to the Supreme Court opposing the enforcement of criminal penalties on homeless individuals. Led by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), 18 Democrats argue that it is unconstitutional to arrest or fine people who have no alternative but to sleep outdoors, and that it will trap homeless people in a repetitive cycle.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) was admitted to a Colorado hospital Monday to undergo emergency surgery for a blood clot in her leg. Boebert was experiencing “severe swelling in her upper left leg” and went to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado. “I want to thank Dr. Rebecca Bade and the entire team…
Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chair of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, issued letters to the editors of three major science journals on Tuesday, asking them to testify on the relationship between their publications and the federal government. Wenstrup sent letters to the editors-in-chief of The Lancet, Science and Nature science journals requesting…
Congressional Democrats are planning on how to overturn the Comstock Act, the 19th century law targeted by conservative activists to possibly impose a national abortion ban. Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) expressed in a New York Times opinion piece on Tuesday her intention to introduce a bill to remove the Comstock Act as a means to restrict reproductive freedom.
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