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The New York Times reports: Representative Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, was taken to a hospital on Tuesday, according to a social media post. A post on Mr. Wilson’s official social media account confirmed that he experienced a medical emergency. “Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) was taken ill and is being evaluated at a local hospital in Washington, DC.,” the …

The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took issue with former President Trump’s call to shut down the federal government later this month unless the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is included in a stopgap spending bill. “A government shutdown is always a bad idea — at any time,” McConnell told reporters at the Capitol when asked …

Politico reports: The speaker announced last week that he planned to link a government funding bill to legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. The package would keep spending levels mostly steady, punting a government shutdown deadline currently set to hit on Oct. 1 to March 28. First, there are conservatives who oppose short-term spending bills …

The Tampa Bay Times reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the use of his election police to question people who signed petitions for an amendment that would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban, saying it’s part of an investigation that has already uncovered fraud. “They’re doing what they’re supposed to do,” DeSantis said when asked during a news conference in Miami …

Florida Politics reports: Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance is making headlines again, this time for spreading an unsubstantiated rumor that Haitian migrants are stealing and eating pets in Ohio. Yes, you read that right. Now Haitian leaders in South Florida are taking Vance to task. North Miami Democratic Rep. Dotie Joseph said that as a lawyer, Vance knows how …

The Daily Beast reports: Leonard Leo, a conservative activist and the former executive vice president of the Federalist Society, told the Financial Times his nonprofit group was pledging $1 billion to “crush liberal dominance” in corporate America. The conservative activist told the British broadsheet he would “direct resources to build talent and capital formation pipelines in the areas of news …

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Tommy Tuberville has blocked the promotion of an Army general who is a senior aide to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Tuberville (Ala.) has frozen the nomination of Lt. Gen. Ronald P. Clark to become the four-star commander of all U.S. Army forces in the Pacific, according to the senator’s spokeswoman, Mallory Jaspers. The maneuver, which …

NBC News reports: Police in Springfield, Ohio, said Monday they had received no credible reports of immigrants harming pets, contradicting a claim by Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance as well as other Republican lawmakers and several conservative commentators. The Springfield Police Division said in a statement that they were aware of the “rumors” and had no information to …

“Donald Trump and JD Vance need to change the way they speak about women. You don’t need to call Kamala dumb. She didn’t get this far just by accident. She’s here, that’s what it is, she’s a prosecutor. “You don’t need to go and talk about intelligence or looks or anything else. Just focus on the policies. When you call …

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis is demanding that elected Florida Republicans join him in opposition to the proposed amendment that would enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. And he wants some of their campaign money to help fund the effort to defeat Amendment 4. DeSantis laid down the political law for Republicans on Saturday night in …

Manchester’s ABC affiliate reports: New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu sprang into action Sunday after a contestant at the Hampton Beach Lobster Roll Eating Competition began to choke. “The gentleman at the far end, who I was kind of watching — I glanced over, I could tell very quickly, he took, took a pause — he was having trouble getting something …

CNN reports: Sen. Bob Casey is bracing for a GOP onslaught. After a summer where he and his GOP opponent, David McCormick, have engaged in a brutal exchange of attacks in the marquee US Senate race in Pennsylvania, leaving the race in a dead heat, Republicans are preparing to drop more than $100 million across the airwaves in the final …

NBC News reports: After a six-week summer recess, lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday facing a changed political landscape but a vexing, very familiar problem: figuring out how to avert a shutdown. They have just three weeks to do so. Funding for the government runs out at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, and former President …

“I have a very simple message for my Democrat friends, my independent friends, and those who may not be sure about who they’re voting for in this election. Dick Cheney has just made the choice very clear. A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney, the architect of everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East …

“I assume she’ll come in very, very aggressive, and she will try to bait him, getting very angry, and she’ll be personal and try to demean him. I think, I hope, what he’ll do is be a guy who’s been a real president — while she has been kind of a semi-vice president — and a guy who knows all …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Travis County to block an effort to register more voters before the November election. Paxton’s lawsuit follows a decision by the Travis County commissioners to hire Civic Government Solutions to contact non-registered county residents and encourage them to register. Travis County includes Austin. “We just thought it was nice …

The Daily Beast reports: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) doesn’t seem to care that the Department of Justice revealed a Russian plot to once again influence a presidential election. To him, they’re just “a few memes or videos.” His comments came days after the DOJ announced Russia Today employees paid $10 million to a U.S.-based media company that hosts various right-wing …

“I think it’s [the debate] actually more important for Vice President Harris, somebody who doesn’t speak to the media, doesn’t take questions. “It is absurd that she does not take questions from the press, from the American people, and so I think this is actually a much more important night for her because it’s so rare that we hear from …

“It’s not helpful. It’s not helpful. Look, you can either look at style or you can look at substance. I choose as a voter to look at substance. The substance is cutting taxes, making housing more affordable, immigration, national security, that’s the substance. “No, it is not helpful to talk about whether women have children or whether they don’t. It’s …

NOTUS reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz may soon face a document dump in federal court that could expose — for the first time — details about the alleged sex parties tied to the accusations that Gaetz had sex with an underage teen. The trove of information — which is expected to include sworn testimony from a number of people involved in …