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House GOP seizes on Biden docs as new attack line

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee has already launched an investigation into Biden's handling of the records.

Axios

GOP lawmakers say they ‘won’t budge’ on spending cuts in debt limit negotiations

WASHINGTON — House Republicans “won’t budge” on demands for federal spending cuts in return for agreeing to lift the debt ceiling and avoid a U.S. payment default, GOP Rep. James Comer said.

Tribune News Service

GOP action on mail ballot timelines angers military families

Ohio’s restrictive new election law significantly shortens the window for mailed ballots to be received, even though there's no evidence that the extended timeline has led to fraud or any other problems

The Independent UK

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Heated speaker contest shows high stakes of Rep. Tom Emmer's U.S. House leadership role

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer spent the longest speaker election in more than a century trying to mend a bitter divide within the Republican Party.

Tribune News Service

In second term, expect a ‘frank’ Kemp to push boundaries

ATLANTA — As Geogia Gov. Brian Kemp confirmed details of a monumental solar energy expansion this week, he jolted the crowd of business executives and political officials by venting about the earlier-than-planned release of the project.

Tribune News Service

Tennessee GOP split over adding exceptions to abortion ban

Republican leaders across Tennessee have largely maintained that the state’s abortion ban allows doctors to perform the procedure, should they need to save the life of the mother, even though the statute doesn’t explicitly say so

The Independent UK

Analysis: Biden’s winning streak hit by classified documents probe

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden began the year with a surge of political momentum, propelled by better-than-expected midterm election results and Republican disarray.

Tribune News Service

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'The most dangerous Negro': 3 essential reads on the FBI's assessment of MLK's radical views and allies

Left out of GOP debates about “the weaponization” of the federal government is the use of the FBI to spy on civil rights leaders for most of the 20th century.

The Conversation

Cigar smoke, dogs and no metal detectors: The bizarre first two weeks of a Republican-controlled House

Representatives will play when the Senate is away — but the party can’t last forever. Eric Garcia reports on a strange two-week period from Washington, DC

The Independent UK

Missouri House faces backlash over women’s dress code. What are the rules for both genders?

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republicans in the GOP-controlled Missouri House are embroiled in national controversy this week over a rule that would have tightened the dress code for women lawmakers.

Tribune News Service

GOP wants to expunge Trump impeachment

Legal experts ripped McCarthy's "outrageous" suggestion that the House GOP can clear Trump's record

Salon

Yellen tells Congress US expected to hit debt limit Thursday

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has notified Congress that the U.S. is projected to reach its debt limit on Thursday and will then resort to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default

The Independent UK

White House sounds alarm on GOP ‘malfeasance’ after Treasury warns of approaching debt limit

The Treasury Secretary says a ‘failure to meet the government’s obligations’ would end up doing ‘irreparable harm to the US economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability’

The Independent UK

For ultraconservatives in McCarthy’s red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome

HANFORD, Calif. — At an Elks Lodge in the Central Valley, Larry Faria stood before a grassroots conservative group called the 1776 Sons of Liberty and asked for a show of hands.

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Roll Call

‘Who the (BLEEP) are you?!’ — Congressional Hits and Misses - Roll Call

Hits and Misses sees House GOP members trying to grasp the duties of the majority party while dealing with the Santos scandal, and more.

The Independent UK

Wisconsin voting groups criticize GOP minority turnout email

Comments by a Republican state election commissioner applauding GOP strategies for helping depress Black and Hispanic turnout in Wisconsin’s largest city came as little surprise to groups seeking to organize minority voters there

Salon

GOP's new "Church Committee": Not quite!

There's definitely a history lesson behind the GOP's phony investigation. But it's not the one they claim

Tribune News Service

Debt limit battle set to dominate 2023 fiscal agenda

WASHINGTON — Lifting the statutory debt ceiling is set to dominate this year’s budget agenda. Republicans first need to agree among themselves on what to ask for in exchange.

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Legal woes grow for George Santos as another watchdog files FEC complaint

WASHINGTON — The troubles keep piling up for serial prevaricator George Santos, the freshman representative whose alleged misuse of campaign funds now has another government accountability group asking the Federal Election Commission to investigate.

Salon

GOP: Making smoking great again

Masculinity gets toxic — literally! — with the GOP majority's plans to stink up the halls of Congress with tobacco

Roll Call

Legal woes grow for George Santos as another watchdog files complaint

The troubles keep piling up for serial prevaricator George Santos, including new allegations filed with the Federal Election Commission.

Tribune News Service

Q&A: Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon on carjacking, women in politics and smoke-filled back rooms

WASHINGTON — It’s been a year since Mary Gay Scanlon was carjacked at gunpoint as she left a meeting in Philadelphia.

Roll Call

Debt limit battle set to dominate 2023 fiscal agenda - Roll Call

Lifting the debt ceiling is set to dominate this year's budget agenda. Republicans first need to agree on what to ask for in exchange.

The Independent UK

Speaker McCarthy's tidy 1st week disguises trouble ahead

Republican Kevin McCarthy wrapped his first full week as House speaker in the most outwardly orderly way

Tribune News Service

GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin strike rule protecting LGBTQ youth from ‘conversion therapy’

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin voted Thursday to strike a recently implemented rule protecting LGBTQ youth from so-called LGBTQ “conversion therapy.” The widely debunked practice attempts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

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