Republicans

The Meidas Touch reports: Twenty-six House Democrats filed a complaint with Speaker Johnson’s office over his sponsorship of Pastor Jack Hibbs to serve as a Guest Chaplain for the House. Hibbs delivered the Opening Prayer to the House on January 30, 2024. In the letter, they describe Hibbs as a “radical christian nationalist who helped fuel the January 6 insurrection …

“What we are seeing here in our country is actually a nation that is losing its morals and turning away from and turning its back on God, perverting the innocence of children, pushing sex, perversion and inappropriate content younger and younger. When we look at the big picture, this isn’t so much about books. This battle is between good and …

Memphis’s CBS reports: A bill working its way through the Tennessee legislature could put a chill on cold beer sales in the state. SB 2636, according to its summary on the state website, “prohibits a beer permittee from selling at retail refrigerated or cold beer.” It passed two votes in the Senate and was referred to a committee. The bill …

Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports: Clint Hickman announced Thursday he would not seek reelection to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. Hickman, a Republican, is the second supervisor this cycle to forgo another opportunity to serve as part of the five-member board. Abuse targeted at Hickman and other elections officials can …

The Daily Beast reports: Three years after her stint performing as a pink bear on The Masked Singer, Sarah Palin showed up on Wednesday night’s episode of We Are Family. The Fox game show, hosted by Anthony Anderson and his mom, features non-famous relatives of celebrities performing solo, then duetting with their secret famous family member on stage. Palin’s big …

Politico reports: Incoming Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi is expected to be sworn back into the House on Feb. 28, according to a GOP leadership aide. That will officially cut the GOP’s majority down to just two votes, after Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip in the special election for a Long Island congressional district. It was previously held by expelled …

“Republicans can’t govern, the New York voters claim. They have a point. Look at our southern border disaster and foreign aid funding. Completely off the charts. Recently, Americans are fed up with Republicans – not for political reasons, but because they cannot govern. Democrats are better at calculating political outcomes and make their decisions based on those calculations. While the …

Raw Story reports: Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives have introduced a resolution that would seek to declare former President Donald Trump the winner of the 2024 presidential election — regardless of what the voters decide, reported KPNX’s Brahm Resnik. The resolution would not carry any force of law because it is not a bill, noted Resnik. It is …

“Until this election cycle, I frankly had not heard of Mazi Pilip. We put her on the show, see if we can give her a chance to win. A lot of friends of mine cared a lot about the race. And with the small margin of majority that the Republicans have on the House, they can ill afford to lose …

Politico reports: House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green is expected to announce plans to retire as early as Thursday, marking a surprise exit for a prominent committee chief. Green is expected to announce he will not seek reelection just days after he spearheaded the GOP push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, according to two Republicans familiar with his …

ABC News reports: Congressional House Ethics investigators have obtained text messages allegedly showing that a few months after first joining Congress, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz asked a young woman, who at the time had received payments for sex from Gaetz’s then-close friend Joel Greenberg, to join him and others on a three-day trip to the Florida Keys in May 2017, …

NBC News reports: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner, R-Ohio, released an unusual statement Wednesday warning of a “serious national security threat” without providing additional details, pre-empting what the White House said was a planned briefing for congressional leaders. Four sources with knowledge of the issue said the threat is a Russian military capability. Turner, in his statement, did not …

Mediaite reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) claimed during a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday that Special Counsel Robert Hur found that President Joe Biden “broke the law, but he’s not going to be charged.” “We conclude that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,” begins the report, which goes on to detail Hur could not establish a …

The Jewish Insider reports: In a series of interviews and public appearances spanning nearly two years, Jim Marchant, a Republican candidate for the Senate seat in Nevada, has frequently invoked antisemitic tropes claiming that “evil people” including the “Khazarians,” “the cabal,” “globalists” and “central bankers” have controlled the government and conspired to oppress the American people and the world for …

The New York Post reports: Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley is ushering in Valentine’s Day with a tongue-in-cheek dig at her old boss, former President Donald Trump, by penning some “love letters” on his behalf. “Happy Valentine’s Day from Donald Trump to dictators around the world! Over the years, Trump has professed his love for the world’s most brutal dictators …

The New York Times reports: The House speaker names impeachment managers from the chamber who would be tasked with arguing the case against the impeached official, serving as the prosecution team in the Senate trial. In the case of Mr. Mayorkas, the impeachment articles also appoint 11 impeachment managers. The group includes Representatives Mark E. Green of Tennessee, the chairman …

“We forced this issue. We kept forcing NATO all the way to eastern Europe and Putin just got tired of it. He said, ‘Listen, I do not want missiles on my border from the United States. It’d be like Russian coming to Mexico and putting missiles in Mexico.’ I can understand what he’s talking about. This administration does not know …

“Here’s what I can tell you. The RNC needs to be the leanest, most lethal political fighting machine we’ve ever seen in American history. That is the goal over the next nine and a half months. “If I am elected to this position, I can assure you, there will not be any more $70,000 or whatever exorbitant amount of money …

CBS News reports: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office said Tuesday night the upper chamber will start Mayorkas’ impeachment trial after senators return to Washington on Feb. 26. “The House impeachment managers will present the articles of impeachment to the Senate following the state work period,” his office said. “Senators will be sworn in as jurors in the trial the …

The Tennessean reports: Hours after a bill allowing marriage officiants to decline to solemnize weddings if they have moral objections received final passage from lawmakers, a vibrant crowd rallied on Capitol Hill advocating against a slate of bills aimed at placing new restrictions on Tennessee’s LGBTQ community. Senate Bill 596, which would allow officiants to decline to perform weddings, passed …