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On Thursday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) dropped out of the race to replace Kevin McCarthy as the House speaker after Republicans failed to garner enough support for his candidacy. “I just shared with my colleagues that I’m withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designee,” he told reporters. Just a day earlier, the GOP conference had chosen him over Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) with 113 votes. On Friday afternoon, the GOP conference voted for Jordan to be their next nominee as speaker, though his fate seems similarly in doubt. This development shows that Republica...
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President Joe Biden fired Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton on Monday, Blanton, according to an inspector general report, had misused a government car as well as impersonated a police officer. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California), as well as House Administration Committee members Bryan Steil (R-Wisconsin) and Joseph Morelle (D-New York), had called for Blanton’s removal earlier. The Architect of the Capitol is a presidentially appointed position that oversees the maintenance and modernization of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. Blanton, as Architect of the Capitol, was...
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) repeated his false claims that the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol was not an armed insurrection. “There weren’t thousands of armed insurrectionists,” he said during an event in Wisconsin last week. “Protesters did teach us how you can use flagpoles, that kind of stuff, as weapons. But to call what happened on January 6 an ‘armed insurrection,’ I just think, is not accurate.” Johnson added that he asked the FBI how many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grind and didn’t get an answer. The January 6 attack left 140 officers injured. Cour...
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Chief Judge of the D.C. Federal Court Beryl Howell has questioned why the Justice Department is only asking Capitol rioters to pay less than $1.5 million in damages when the total cost to American taxpayers amounts to half a billion dollars. “Where we have Congress appropriating all this money due directly to the events on January 6, I have found the damage amount of less than $1.5 million, when all of us American taxpayers are about to foot the bill for close to half a billion dollars, a little bit surprising,” Howell said. “I’m accustomed to the government being fairly aggressive.” Glenn Wes...
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U.S. Capitol Police have announced that the staff and visitors to Congress would be arrested if they do not comply with the recent mask mandate in the House. “If a visitor or staff member fails to wear a mask after a request is made to do so, the visitor or staff shall be denied entry to the House Office Buildings or House-side of the U.S. Capitol,” the announcement stated. “Any person who fails to either comply or leave the premises after being asked to do so would be subject to an arrest for Unlawful Entry.” The announcement came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) reintroduced t...
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Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) was the lone senator to vote against the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which ended up passing with overwhelming bipartisan support, 94-1. When asked about his opposition to the bill, Hawley responded, “I’m just concerned the bill is hugely broad, hugely open-ended. It’s just, you know, the ability and power to define crimes, to define incidents going forward, and collect all that data, it just seemed hugely, hugely overbroad.” Despite Hawley’s criticism, the bill does not actually “define” any new crimes. Though his comments may come as a shock to some, this 41-yea...
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Capitol Police are currently investigating reports that Rep. Andy Harris (R-Maryland) attempted to bring a gun on the House floor last week. Harris set off metal detectors when walking onto the House floor. A Capitol Police officer then began to scan Harris and found a concealed firearm in his suit coat. The Capitol Police have since confirmed that Harris was indeed carrying a firearm. Harris’s office submitted a statement to the press. “Because his and his family’s lives have been threatened by someone who has been released awaiting trial, for security reasons, the Congressman never confirms ...
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