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Biden administration talking with Congress about Taiwan security bill -White House

The Biden administration is talking with lawmakers on Capitol Hill about Taiwan security legislation, the White House said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Jan 6 committee planning more public hearings later this month

Televised hearings drew millions of viewers

The Independent UK

Not Mar-a-Lago: Congress' secrets in sealed rooms, lock bags

Security-sealed rooms and lock bags are some of the ways Capitol Hill keeps classified documents secured

The Independent UK

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GOP outsider offers Beltway donors 30-minute sitdowns - Roll Call

Republican Joe Kent, who won a Washington primary railing against the D.C. establishment, is seeking contributions from Capitol Hill insiders.

Roll Call

Biden seeks $47 billion in emergency funding for COVID, monkeypox and Ukraine

The request comes as lawmakers on Capitol Hill face a September deadline to fund the government.

Axios

Workhorses, not show horses: Five ways to promote effective lawmaking in Congress

Americans dislike Congress, especially when it fails to act on pressing problems. They are then surprised by legislative accomplishments on climate change, gun control and maintaining competitiveness with China.

The Conversation

Decades on Capitol Hill: From civility to open hostility

How has Congress changed in the last four decades

The Independent UK

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War in Ukraine has countries lining up to buy Fort Worth-built F-35 fighter jets

FORT WORTH, Texas — As F-35 joint strike fighters move from station to station along Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth production line, screens display information that includes the jet’s overall sequence number, the military base where it’s headed and the country that ordered it.

Tribune News Service

Will Mike Pence be summonsed to testify before January 6 committee?

Former US vice-president Mike Pence says he will consider testifying before the committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots if he receives an invitation. But will he be summonsed?

ABC News

Five times Liz Cheney was Donald Trump’s biggest thorn on Capitol Hill

As the Jan 6 committee has shown, an anti-Trump voice in the GOP can be damaging

The Independent UK

After ‘a lot of doors shut in our face,’ crusading couple celebrate passage of burn pit bill

The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he’d inhaled from the 10-acre burn pit at Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq.

Tribune News Service

Learning from failures: How Biden scored win on climate plan

Many pieces of President Joe Biden's domestic agenda have been jettisoned over the last year, but his proposals on climate change remain largely intact

The Independent UK

Biden steps out of the room and finds legacy-defining wins

Over five decades in Washington, Joe Biden knew that the way to influence was to be in the room where it happens

The Independent UK

Five Senators to Reintroduce College Athlete Bill of Rights

The bill has proposals on transfer limits, NIL, the ability to return to school after a professional draft and more.

Sports Illustrated

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Chicago Sun-Times

Bailey tries to explain past Holocaust remark after Pritzker, Jewish leaders and others denounce it

“The attempted extermination of the Jews of World War II doesn’t even compare on a shadow of the life that has been lost with abortion since its legalization,” Bailey said in a 2017 video. On Tuesday, Bailey tried to smooth out his earlier comments, saying in a statement the Holocaust…

Tribune News Service

Three states’ Senate primaries will fill gaps in fall landscape

WASHINGTON — Voters in three states will pick Senate nominees Tuesday, with Missourians setting the general election contest to fill the seat being vacated by the pending retirement of a fixture in Missouri and Capitol Hill politics. In Arizona and Washington state, all eyes will be on who makes it…

The Guardian - US

US faces new era of political violence as threats against lawmakers rise

Members of the House will now get up to $10,000 to upgrade their home security as experts warn such threats endanger the health of US democracy

Roll Call

He went from intern softball to the Congressional Baseball Game - Roll Call

Rep. Dean Phillips played softball, used the autopen and sweated through his suit when he worked for Sen. Patrick Leahy in the late 1980s.

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Salon

GOP backs Pharma effort to sink reform

"Republicans are working hand in hand with Big Pharma to try to block Democrats from lowering drug prices"

Salon

Corporations fund GOP "Sedition Caucus"

"They value something much more—having political influence over lawmakers no matter how dangerous their views"

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Freshman members of Congress should take a class about the Constitution

The beauty of our democratic system of government is that anyone can get elected. But that feature is also a bug. We suspect we aren’t alone among Americans who watch some of the antics on Capitol Hill and think, “How on Earth did that person get elected?” Sometimes it seems…

Salon

Federal workers rip Manchin on climate

"Strip Senator Manchin of his chairmanship of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee," staffers say

Irish Mirror

Donald Trump watched Capitol riots on TV in White House and ignored pleas from aides to intervene - inquest

Trump is also seen in a video where he admitted he didn't want to tell rioters that the election was over and that he was no longer the President

The Guardian - US

Hearing delivers gripping ‘finale’ full of damning details about Trump

Where the first seven hearings set out what Trump had done, this one told a fascinating story about what he did not do

Roll Call

Trump opted against calling off his loyalists during Jan. 6 Capitol riot, former aides tell select panel - Roll Call

Members of Vice President Mike Pence's Secret Service detail feared for their lives during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the select committe was told.

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