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Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Adding to the Democratic chorus of condemnation for Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s proposal to “sunset” all federal legislation every five years — including Social Security — is Republican leader Mitch McConnell. “I mean, it’s just a bad idea,” McConnell said as he spoke to Kentucky radio host Terry Meiners on […]
RYAN M. KELLY/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI is conducting a consensual search of former Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana Friday following the discovery of documents with classification markings last month, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The Department of Justice had been in contact with Pence’s legal team […]
Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — White House communications director Kate Bedingfield is departing the administration at the end of this month — halfway into President Joe Biden’s term and just ahead of a possible reelection campaign. Bedingfield has held the role since his inauguration. Prior to that, she served as Biden’s deputy campaign […]
Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (BOSTON) — A Massachusetts legislator said he’s going to change a proposed bill that would have given state inmates reduced sentences if they signed up to donate an organ, following an outcry from several groups. Last month, Democratic Rep. Carlos Gonzalez co-introduced a bill that would establish […]
ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Pa., remained hospitalized in Washington on Thursday after he was admitted because he felt lightheaded during a Democratic retreat on Wednesday, his staff said. Fetterman’s spokesman, Joe Calvello, said in a statement that an MRI done on Fetterman at George Washington University Hospital “along with the […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At the first public hearing by the House Judiciary subcommittee committee on the alleged “weaponization” of the federal government, Republicans on Thursday continued to make arguments criticizing federal agencies and “big tech” companies like Twitter while Democrats called the hearing an effort to “showcase conspiracy theories.” Much of what Republicans […]
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., was attacked in her Washington, D.C., apartment building on Thursday morning, her office said later that day, and police have since arrested a suspect. “This morning around 7:15 a.m., Rep. Craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building,” Nick Coe, Craig’s […]
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After months of contention which began shortly after the midterm elections, the House, led by the Republican majority, voted Thursday to prevent a pair of local Washington, D.C., bills from going into effect. One of the bills would allow non-U.S. citizens to vote in local elections. The other, more controversial bill […]
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Jan. 6 rioter who carried a Confederate flag, and was among the first people to breach the U.S. Capitol building, to three years in prison. Kevin Seefried of Delaware was part of a mob on the Senate side of the Capitol […]
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., was attacked in her Washington, D.C., apartment building on Thursday morning, her office said later that day. “This morning around 7:15 a.m., Rep. Craig was assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building,” Nick Coe, Craig’s chief of staff, said in a […]
