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“We’ve asked for information regarding the 26 confidential human sources! To me, this is huge. Twenty-six confidential human sources there on January 6th, 2021. Seventeen entered restricted space. Four went inside the Capitol. They weren’t authorized to do that. Two of the four who went inside the Capitol were actually asked to be there that day by our FBI at …

Columbia, South Carolina’s CW affiliate reports: U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is facing a lawsuit after her speech on the U.S. House floor last month from one of the four men she labeled as “predators.” The Bland Richter Law Firm is representing Brian Musgrave, one of the four men Mace accused of drug and sex crimes in a lawsuit alleging defamation …

The Associated Press reports: Before answering an attendee’s question about President Donald Trump’s “destructive and disastrous trade war,” U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards made a plea to the rowdy crowd at his Thursday town hall in Asheville, North Carolina. “Let me answer and then if you don’t like it, you can boo or hiss or whatever you’d like to do,” Edwards …

Tucson’s NBC affiliate reports: The Office of the 7th District of Arizona has announced the passing of Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva. He died from complications related to his cancer treatments. Grijalva served Southern Arizonans in Washington, D.C., for over two decades. “From permanently protecting the Grand Canyon for future generations to strengthening the Affordable Care Act, his proudest moments in …

USA Today reports: The Republican-controlled House approved a spending bill Tuesday supported by President Donald Trump to fund the government for the next six months. The House voted 217-213 along party lines to approve the bill, with Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky the only Republican to oppose it. The vote dares Senate Democrats to oppose the GOP priorities and risk …

Courthouse News reports: Former U.S. Representative George Santos’ campaign fundraiser Samuel Miele was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Friday for his role in the congressman’s scheme to inflate campaign fundraising numbers and redirect donor contributions for his personal benefit. The sentence comes over a year after Miele pleaded guilty to wire fraud and admitted to …

“Well, first, just to set the stage for this, I want to make it clear that Republicans control the House, Republicans control the Senate, and they, of course, control the White House. If there is a government shutdown, it will be because Republicans want one. That’s number one. Number two, we are already in a government shutdown or at least …

“I think what we can promise is that no one that is legitimately on Medicaid will lose their coverage, and I think that’s important. If you’re here illegally, you should not be on any federal assistance program. “That’s not what they’re designed for. They’re designed for Americans that are struggling, that are below the poverty line, or that are infirm, …

NBC News reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Saturday unveiled a short-term funding bill that would avert a shutdown at the end of next week and keep the government running through the end of September. Johnson has said he will bring the funding bill to the floor for a vote early next week, likely Tuesday, before money runs out …

Axios reports: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and his leadership deputies said Friday they will not lend their support to the stopgap spending bill being proposed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Democrats are holding out for language that will restrict Trump and DOGE from being able to slash government programs already authorized and funded by Congress. House Democrats from across …

“They disrupted the proceedings of the House. So there’s some irony there. We have to keep decorum. We have to keep control of the proceedings, because we’re the greatest deliberative body in the world, and we need to act like it. And I think this went way over the line, by the way, these censures. “This is not a normal …

The Heartland Signal reports: Amidst a flood of concerned constituents descending on Republican town halls, U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI) told a local news station that he would prefer it if people stopped calling his office. During an interview with WWMT Kalamazoo on Tuesday, Huizenga said he believes most of his constituents support President Donald Trump’s actions so far, even …

The Hill reports: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) went after Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), accusing him of being a “complete and total fraud” over his vow to remove Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) and others from committee assignments. Ogles said Thursday that he is looking to strip some of his Democratic colleagues from their posts after they sang a song …

NBC News reports: Hayden Haynes, the chief of staff to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and one of the most powerful aides on Capitol Hill, was arrested after President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on suspicion of drunken driving after his car struck a Capitol vehicle, two law enforcement sources told NBC News. One of the sources told NBC …

NBC News reports: The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday. The vote was 224-198, with 10 Democrats joining all Republicans in voting in favor of the censure resolution. Green voted present. As the vote proceeded, Green sat by himself along the center aisle. Following the …

“There are a lot of people driven by hatred, which is what I think causes them to become Democrats in the first place. They want a revolution, they want America to permanently change. And out of their anger comes this violence. Right now, the federal government has about 90 programs to discourage people from getting married. Low income housing, food …

Fox News reports: Competing resolutions to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, are causing some division within the House GOP on Wednesday. The Texas Democrat was thrown out of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night after repeatedly attempting to interrupt the speech, minutes after it began. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-WA, a moderate Republican, announced …

Roll Call reports: After a cycle that delivered them full power in Washington, Republicans are still pushing to change federal election law — and some Democrats are sounding a renewed alarm. A proposal that aims to bar noncitizens from voting could disenfranchise millions of American women and serve a larger strategy, Rep. Delia Ramirez argued Tuesday. “The SAVE act is …

Houston’s ABC affiliate reports: Sylvester Turner, the former mayor of Houston who won election last November to fill late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’s seat in District 18, has died, ABC13 learned Wednesday morning. He was 70. Turner served two terms as mayor of the City of Houston after being elected in 2016. His tenure ended last January. Ten months later, …

First, a reminder about Ross Ulbricht: President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison. Ulbricht was found guilty of charges …