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After two decades, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) announced on Thursday that she will not seek another term as Democratic leader. Pelosi became the first woman to hold the position of House speaker in 2007 and then again in 2019, but she says now is the time to allow a new generation to take leadership. “Now we must move boldly into the future, grounded by the principles that have propelled us this far and open to fresh possibilities for the future,” Pelosi said. “With great confidence in our caucus, I will not seek reelection to Democratic leadership in the next Congress. For me, t...
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Kentucky) won in a 37-10-1 secret-ballot leadership election to retain his position as the Republican leader in the Senate. He was challenged for the first time in 15 years by Sen. Rick Scott(R-Florida). The vote came after numerous Republican senators requested that the vote be delayed until after the runoff election in Georiga between U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) is completed in the first week of December. They argued that Republicans need to focus on flipping the seat rather than thinking about leadership rig...
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Controversial far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) said that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy(R-California) will be pressured to give her more power if he doesn’t want to anger conservative voters. If the Republicans win back the majority of the House, McCarthy is a frontrunner to become House speaker. “I think that to be the best speaker of the House and to please the base, he’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway,” Greene told The New York Times. “And if he doesn’t, they’re going to be very unhappy about it. I think that’s the best way to read that. And that’...
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South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace (R) predicted that the Congressional Republicans will likely try to impeach President Joe Biden if the party wins back the majority after the November midterm elections. “I believe there’s a lot of pressure on Republicans to have that vote, to put that legislation forward, and to have that vote,” Mace, speaking of an impeachment vote, told NBC’s Chuck Todd. Mace, who voted to certify Biden’s 2020 election win, refused to indicate which side her vote would fall on should a Biden impeachment vote be held but did refer back to her decision not to vote for the impeac...
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President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Thursday night about the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, that took the lives of a total of 31 people and called on Congress to enact gun control measures. “How much more carnage are we willing to accept?” he asked. The House Judiciary Committee met Thursday to discuss eight measures of the “Protect Our Children Act.” Some of these measures include increasing the age for buying semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, establishing a buyback program and strengthening ghost gun and bump stock regulations. Biden also voiced supp...
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The House Judiciary Committee called for an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss an eight-part gun control package following a violent past few weeks with mass shootings leaving 10 dead in Buffalo, New York, and taking the lives of 21 more in Uvalde, Texas. Thursday’s session will serve as an opportunity for the Democratic-led committee to make final changes with the intention of sending it to the full House to vote on the “Protecting Our Kids Act” next week. The package seeks to raise the age for buying semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years old, make it unlawful to import, sell, manufa...
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Lawmakers should not be allowed to carry guns on the U.S. Capitol grounds, a House law enforcement official said on Wednesday. Sergeant at Arms William Walker penned a letter stating his position to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas that left 21 people dead on Tuesday, and the racially motivated grocery store shooting that took the lives of 10 others in Buffalo, New York, earlier this month. He acknowledged that his opinion would not be well received by Congressional Republicans. “Regrettably, my position on this matte...
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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) has been a consistent advocate of lowering federal spending, but a new report from a non-partisan watchdog claims Gosar spent the most money on tax-payer-funded travel. Moonlight Foundation’s new review found that Gosar spent $1 million on travel, more than all other members of the House in the past five years. The representatives of similarly sized Arizona districts spent just around 40% of that number over the five-year span. “I will continue to cut wasteful federal spending wherever I can,” the Arizona Republican claims on his official website. “The American peop...
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The Senate passed a $1.5 trillion spending bill on Thursday night that included a $13.6 billion emergency package that will send humanitarian and economic relief to Ukraine amidst Russia’s invasion. After voting in favor of the bipartisan legislation 68-31, the 2,741-page bill was sent off to President Joe Biden‘s desk. “[The bill] will reduce costs for families and businesses, support our economic recovery, and advance American leadership abroad,” said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. “With these resources, we will be able to deliver historic support for the Ukrainian people as they def...
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President Joe Biden‘s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, which seeks to revitalize American infrastructure, proposes to expand Amtrak services by allocating $80 billion to the railroad service. Amtrak has already released a proposed map of new and expanded services, including an intercity railway that would reach 160 previously unserved communities, such as Las Vegas, Nashville, Columbus, Ohio and Phoenix. Amtrak has also proposed 30 new potential routes, as well as adding more daily trips on existing routes. Due to past financial struggles, Amtrak has not had many opportunities to expand and imp...
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