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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett, one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the speakership last month, claimed to ABC News that McCarthy elbowed him in the back after a House GOP meeting on Tuesday morning. “He just elbowed me in the kidneys … It was deliberate. It […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson said Sunday he expects to be quickly reappointed after what he called his “unprecedented” expulsion for participating in a raucous, unrecognized gun violence protest on the Legislature floor. “I do hope to continue to serve District 86 in the reappointment,” Pearson, a Memphis Democrat, told ABC […]