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NBC News reports: A freshman Republican lawmaker received bipartisan condemnation after he allegedly yelled at a group of high- school-age Senate pages for “defiling” the Capitol on Wednesday. New details shared with NBC News paint an even more disturbing picture of what took place that night. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., told the teenagers to “get the f— out” of …

“At this point, an inquiry is different from an impeachment vote and is another tool in the toolbox. But I will tell you, every time we walk the plank, we are putting moderate members, members that won Biden districts, we are putting those seats at risk for 2024. We are putting the majority at risk. “And it’s not just impeachment …

Congress Minutes reports: An eclectic group of House lawmakers is asking Speaker Kevin McCarthy to establish a special committee with subpoena power to investigate “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” or UAPs, commonly known as UFOs. The bipartisan group includes Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.). “No governmental program, no matter how sensitive, can …

NPR reports: “I understand that late last night a member of the House majority thought it appropriate to curse at some of these young people,” Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor. “I was shocked when I heard about it. I am further shocked at his refusal to apologize.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., agreed with Schumer, adding “everybody …

Politico reports: Rep. Abigail Spanberger , a centrist Democrat from Virginia who sits in a must-win seat for her party in 2024, has told multiple people she will run for governor in 2025. Spanberger, a powerhouse fundraiser who recently earned a spot at House Democrats’ leadership table, has been laying the groundwork for a statewide run for months — even …

“The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead. If anyone …

CNN reports: The House will leave on Thursday for August recess without resolving a key spending fight that has exposed divisions among Republicans with the threat of a government shutdown looming in the fall. In a sign of how difficult the road ahead will be, House Republicans were unable to pass an agriculture funding bill this week as hardline conservatives …

The Messenger reports: Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisc., reportedly chewed out Senate pages in vulgar fashion for taking pictures of the Capitol dome Wednesday night. Punchbowl News broke the story, reporting that Van Orden spotted a group of pages lying on the floor of the rotunda to take pictures of the dome’s interior and reportedly called the pages “lazy shits” …

Syracuse.com reports: U.S. Rep. Brandon Williams has been admitted to a Washington hospital to be treated for complications related to heart bypass surgery he had two weeks ago in Syracuse, a spokesperson said Wednesday. “A complication has arisen that requires immediate treatment and will prevent the congressman from fulfilling his House duties for the remainder of the week,” Taylor Weyeneth …

Mediaite reports: South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace got quite the answer from a witness at the House Oversight committee’s UFO hearing on Wednesday. Mace asked whether he believes “we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted” crashed crafts that are in possession of the government. “As I’ve stated publicly already in my NewsNation interview, Biologics came with some …

The New York Times reports: About a year before George Santos was elected to Congress, he and three other men approached a loyal campaign donor with a potentially lucrative opportunity. A wealthy Polish citizen wanted to buy cryptocurrency, they said, but for reasons unclear, his fortune was frozen in a bank account. They asked the donor, a wealthy investor in …

Axios reports: House Democrats are preparing a resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) after his office linked to a website that has posted Holocaust denial content, Axios has learned. The resolution targets Gosar for “using taxpayer money to spread resources to pro[-Hitler], Holocaust denialism.” This Sunday’s edition of Gosar’s weekly newsletter, This Week with Gosar, included a link to …

C-SPAN has the transcript: On July 19, 2023 federal Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial and confirmed that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. I’m going to submit this Court ruling into the Congressional Record, and now I’m going to read you what the judge found. On page 43 the judge wrote Miss Carol testified …

The Washington Examiner reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke on the House floor Tuesday, renewing impeachment articles for President Joe Biden and pushing to clear the record of twice-impeached former President Donald Trump. Greene has sponsored multiple articles of impeachment against Biden since he entered the White House in January 2021, and in her newest calls, she cites information …

The Washington Post reports: House Democrats are preparing to file a censure resolution targeting a Republican lawmaker for the second week in a row, this time against far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Freshman Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) is expected to introduce the censure this afternoon, which would condemn Greene for fanning “the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, …

Axios reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday raised a possible “impeachment inquiry” into President Biden. McCarthy has dangled impeachment against Biden cabinet officials, but this is the closest he’s come to making that threat against the president personally. The House speaker went so far as to kill a right-wing effort to hold a House vote on impeaching Biden …

The Hill reports: The House this week will be flooded with talk about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as a House panel gets set to hold a hearing on the increased sightings of such objects. The hearing — titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency” — is set for Wednesday …

Politico reports: The Club for Growth is preparing to spend millions of dollars to help reelect the 20 House Republicans who opposed Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid. David McIntosh, the president of the anti-tax group known for antagonizing the party establishment, told donors he was preparing a $20 million defense fund to help “The Patriot 20”, according to a memo obtained …

“This is about being afraid. As I’ve said before, Donald Trump is the puppeteer and what does he do all of the time but shine the light on the strings. These people look pathetic. Kevin is playing politics. It is not even clear if he constitutionally can expunge those things. If he wants to put his members on the spot, …

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy denies he made any deal with Donald Trump to expunge his impeachment record. Even if the speaker did call for such a vote, a bloc of House GOP centrists would likely defeat it. “What is there to expunge? He was acquitted at trial. I don’t really see the purpose of it,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) told …