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Live: House Voting on Infrastructure Plan
Join us here at News Views to discuss the infrastructure plan being voted on today in the House of Representatives.
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Sen. Josh Hawley says liberals’ attacks on manhood are driving men to pornography and video games
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Sunday night told fellow conservatives they must stop liberals from attacking masculinity and creating a nation of “idle men” who watch pornography and play video games instead of working and MORE
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger announces he will retire from Congress
In a video released on Twitter, Representative Adam Kinzinger announced he will retire from Congress at the end of his term. A strong critic of TFG, Kinsinger voted in favor of impeaching the Orange Ass MORE
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One 74 Year Old Man Blocks Universal Paid Family Leave
“There’s a solid body of evidence that suggests paid leave has a positive effect on parents and doesn’t adversely affect employers. Paid maternity leave is associated with improved physical and mental health for both mothers and infants, MORE
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Mo Brooks denies role in planning Jan. 6 Insurrection; implicates his own team instead
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) disputed the Rolling Stone report citing him as one of the key members of Congress who spoke on planning calls for the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., tweeted CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona. MORE
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‘Dirty Coal’ Joe Manchin makes even more demands
Axios has learned that the esteemed Senator from West Virginia has made even more demands that will “dramatically weaken one of President Biden’s signature programs to help working families.” Now Manchin wants to ‘mean test’ MORE
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McConnell Tells Biden Republicans Won’t Raise the Debt Ceiling Again
The Senate Minority Leader wrote President Biden a letter stating that Senate Majority Leader Schumer’s speech chastising Republicans had “poisoned the well,” and that Democrats would have to raise the debt ceiling on their own MORE
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Schumer Takes GOP Heat After Debt Ceiling Crisis Averted
Late Thursday the Senate passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling until December on a 50-48 vote. No Republicans voted for the measure, but several — including Mitch McConnell — did join Democrats to MORE
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McConnell “Respectfully” Tells Biden It’s Time For Democrats to Raise the Debt Ceiling
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is telling President Biden to lean on Pelosi and Schumer to get the debt ceiling raised without GOP votes. Congress has until October 18, according to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, MORE
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“Manchema” Exasperating Democrats By Rejecting Price Tag Without Saying What is Acceptable
House Democrats’ worries are spiraling, concerned that President Biden’s agenda is falling apart because of two Democratic Senators. Both Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have said Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan to improve health care access, MORE
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Republican Senator Tim Scott lies about the breakdown in bi-partisan police reform negotiations
Following the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other high-profile, fatal police shootings last year of Black people, bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices ended Wednesday without an agreement. “It was clear that MORE
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House Democrats Introduced the ‘Protecting Our Democracy Act.’
Democratic lawmakers have been negotiating with the Biden White House to refine their broad set of proposals, which amount to a point-by-point rebuke of the ways that President Donald J. Trump flouted norms. The legislation, MORE
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Senate Parliamentarian rules the Democratic Party cannot include immigration provisions in their $3.5 trillion budget proposal
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled late Sunday evening that the Democratic Party “can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs for their plan to give millions of immigrants a chance to become MORE
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Ohio House Republican, Calling Trump ‘a Cancer,’ Bows out of 2022
Gonzalez, a Rocky River Republican first elected to Ohio’s 16th Congressional District in 2018, attributed his decision to the “current state of our politics” and a toxic environment within his own party. In an interview with the MORE
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Kevin McCarthy issues veiled threat to telecom and social media companies that comply with January 6 committee records requests
On Tuesday, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Idiot-CA) issued a veiled threat to telecom and social media companies that comply with the January 6 committee records request. McCarthy’s office cannot cite a specific federal statute that MORE
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Jim Jordan Admits More Than One Phone Call to Trump on January 6
Ohio Rep Jim Jordan has previously stated he talked to Trump on January 6, but he just can’t remember when. Now he’s saying there was at least one more conversation with Trump on that deadly MORE
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Gaetz associate providing feds intel, documents as probe into congressman continues: Sources
As the federal investigation into Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz continues into the summer, sources tell ABC News that Gaetz’s one-time wingman has been steadily providing information and handing over potential evidence that could implicate the Florida congressman MORE
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US Senate Passes $1 Trillion Dollar, Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
The US Senate just approved a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan, which provides momentum for this first phase of Biden’s “Build Back Better.” The vote tally was 69-30; it now heads to the House of Representatives MORE
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Covid Positive Graham Attended Cookout on Manchin Houseboat
Senator Lindsey Graham, who announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, was in attendance at a cookout on Saturday with several other senators on Joe Manchin’s Washington, D. C., houseboat. The South Carolina Republican MORE
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Trump-Backed Candidate Loses in Texas Special Election
A Trump-endorsed candidate lost Tuesday to a fellow Republican in a closely watched Texas congressional race, undermining Trump’s claims that his endorsement is essential to a candidate’s success and emboldening his political opponents ahead of the 2022 MORE
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Elise Stefanik Blames Nancy Pelosi For Capitol Riot as Officers Testify in Hearing
Elise Stefanik (MAGAt- NY) blamed Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the pro-Trump Capitol insurrection as the first hearings began with the House Select Committee on Tuesday morning. “There is a reason that Nancy Pelosi is the MORE
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#TuckerTantrum: Rep. Swalwell posts a heated text exchange with Tucker Carlson that Tucker is ‘losing his mind that I won’t return his calls’
Rep. Eric Swalwell took aim at Tucker Carlson on Twitter Friday, sharing a screenshot of a testy text exchange the two shared. Swalwell, a Democrat from California, said he is refusing to return Carlson’s calls MORE
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McCarthy pulls his 5 GOP members from 1/6 committee after Pelosi rejects 2 of his picks
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pulling his five Republican members selected to join the House committee that’s investigating the January 6 insurrection, following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to reject two of McCarthy’s picks. The MORE
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Pigs fly: McConnell weighs giving Biden a bipartisan win
Something strange is happening in Washington: Mitch McConnell might go along with a central piece of Joe Biden’s agenda. The self-appointed “Grim Reaper” of the Senate, a minority leader who said just two months ago MORE
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The main man of the 117th Congress, Senator Joe Manchin, now entertains Biden’s ‘human infrastructure’ plans and undoing some Trump tax cuts
Support for President Biden’s agenda in an evenly split US Senate seems to center around whether Senator Joe Manchin supports it or not. On Tuesday, Manchin “opened the door to investing in President Joe Biden’s MORE