Aaron Fritschner
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Hey there Mr. Blue We're so pleased to be with you House guy. DCoS @beyer.house.gov Priors: Kamala Harris, Jennifer Wexton, et al. Hendersonville, NC native SciFi, Rock n Roll, he/him Posts mine/dumb
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Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:
The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters. Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence. These docs show she did not. www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
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[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
The point of my post was the supporters of the bill were only engaging with the symbolism of the bill and not its substance. This post sounds to me like more of the same tbh. Fwiw I argued with references to the text that both substance and symbolism of the bill will ultimately be bad for Ukraine
![Sticking points. This change to the schedule all but guarantees that the House will not immediately consider the Russia sanctions bill that cleared the Senate in July.
Johnson told us this morning that he doesn’t have consensus among Republicans on the bill. Johnson noted Democrats are opposed as well.
“We have to build consensus around that final product,” Johnson said.
“As you’ve seen, the Democrat leadership in the House is opposed to it. The ranking member on the Foreign Affairs Committee, [New York Rep. Greg] Meeks, apparently is vehemently opposed to it, and I think the Democrat leadership is as well. This should be a bipartisan effort.”
Johnson acknowledged there are “a couple of pockets of concern” about the package among Republicans.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k7eezr2ybq7cxtptak2q4uhp/bafkreibvru345lleo75fufe3oooytxdckf5ymwp76465gdr3kivexybvoq)
As Republicans cling desperately to what we will generously call "control" of the House Floor, with rumors swirling about an early recess and threats by their rank and file to tank today's rule vote, House Dems are set to get two new members today/tomorrow after recent special elections in CA and GA