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Congressional Conflicts: Curb on lawmakers’ stock trades draws fire for being weak
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, said he expects by early next year to vote on a bill that would permit lawmakers to keep stocks they own but bar them from buying new stocks.
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Former GOP Sen. Ben Sasse says he has advanced pancreatic cancer: 'it’s a death sentence'
"I’m not going down without a fight," Sasse says, citing "jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same."
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Dogs on meth, 'binge drinking ferrets' featured in Rand Paul's Festivus report on wasteful spending
Long after NIAID director's retirement, Anthony Fauci's beagle experiments are "still funded by three different Fauci-era NIAID grants which have cost taxpayers over $13.8 million so far," says report informed by anti-testing watchdog.
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Johnson, Scalise, not expected to attend annual bipartisan Israel trip led by Democrat Hoyer
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress on July 24
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House passes resolution to automatically enroll men aged 18-26 in military draft
The resolution was included in the National Defense Authorization Act which approves the defense budget for the next fiscal year, and includes the government's top priorities when it comes to defense and national security policies.
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Johnson says House will take Garland subpoena to court after DOJ's response to contempt vote
Johnson said the DOJ's decision is "another example" of the Biden administration's two-tiered system of justice, and that the House would move to enforce the subpoena of Garland in federal court. The contempt order comes after Biden invoked executive privilege over the tapes, but Congress has received a transcript of the interview.
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Louisiana congressman will not seek reelection this year
The redistricting placed the majority of his district in GOP Rep. Julia Letlow’s fifth congressional district, which would mean he'd have to challenge her in the primary.
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Schumer urges Congress to pass ban on bump stocks after Supreme Court ruling
Schumer claimed that the Supreme Court was even further to the political right than Trump, and urged Congress to pass legislation that closes the loophole that allows bump stocks to be used by the public. The Democrat also claimed that he would need votes from Senate Republicans in order to achieve this ban.
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'Tainted and corrupted': Gingrich calls on GOP-led House to 'repudiate' Jan. 6 Committee
Both former Trump advisors Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon have been convicted of contempt of Congress over their refusal to comply with subpoenas from the committee.
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House passes $883 billion defense spending bill with abortion, LGBT provisions
Among the more contentious points in the bill were provisions that would block funding for certain transgender treatments, defund and/or freeze DEI programs in the military, and block funding for military servicemembers to travel out of state to obtain an abortion.
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Tim Scott calls for Secretary Yellen to provide overdue report on sanctioned Iranian assets
The report, which was mandated as part of the national security supplemental package passed in April, was due May 24, according to Scott.
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Comer investigates news-rating group NewsGuard over allegations of left-wing bias
Comer said the probe is seeking documents on NewsGuard’s business relationships with government entities, its adherence to its policies that are intended to protect it against appearances of bias, and the way it tries to avoid and manage potential conflicts of interest.