Co-Founder of Punchbowl News. Yankees fan forever. john @ punchbowl.news
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I think McCain would get a kick out of the fact that he had been dead for 6 months but is still pissing off Trump
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Unbelievably, a number of members - almost all of whom are Republicans - are walking around without masks on. Which is about as dumb a thing as I’ve seen in 26 years of covering Congress.
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.@SenSanders says Democrats “should ignore” the parliamentarian’s ruling on minimum wage & Democrats must make it happen
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Pennsylvania Democratic officials are privately telling Biden campaign officials that they believe final margin of victory for Biden in Pennsylvania will be 100K-200K votes when the counting is finally done
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Some of these CPAC speeches are a good reminder why Trump lost the election by 7 million votes
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NEWS - Pelosi weighs bringing House back early to address Postal Service crisis. @heatherscope @sarahnferris & me politico.com/news/2020/08/15…
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“A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed against Rachel Maddow, finding she did not defame One America News when she said it was ‘Russian propaganda.’” variety.com/2020/biz/news/ra…
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New - Metal detectors set up outside of House chamber. Members have to go thru them too. Never seen that before
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Republicans - Please make sure you’re posting pics with John Lewis & not Elijah Cummings. Come on
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Clinton easily won this debate. She won all 3 debates. I'm not sure Trump ever understood the nature/goal of these debates.
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Fwiw, Trump never mentioned “liquified natural gas” or “energy” or “Rick Perry” during the Juky 25 call with Zelensky, according to WH record on call. Zelensky mentioned “energy independence” for Ukraine, but Trump was focused on the Bidens.
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A very angry @SenatorLeahy just said he’s going to introduce his own bill to fund the US Capitol Police & dare Republicans to vote against it
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No congressional spouses allowed in Rotunda but billionaires get to bring theirs
$$$ talks
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.@SenSchumer is threatening to keep the Senate in over the weekend unless @SenTuberville agrees to allow cloture votes today on several senior military nominees
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NEWS - Mnuchin has agreed to “significant oversight” over $500B “Exchange Stabilization Fund,” per 3 sources. This is a major issue for Democrats, who called it a “$500 billion slush fund” with no accountability.
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Some House Republicans are STILL not wearing masks. It’s hard to believe but it’s true.
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Safe to say that GOP senators are stunned - not in a good way - on Matt Gaetz for Attorney General
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.@GOPLeader has met with @mtgreenee but neither says anything as they leave his office. McCarthy literally jogged away from reporters
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.@BernieSanders: “It would be a policy & political disaster for Democrats to cave.”
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Fact check - US ships aren’t charged more at the Panama Canal, and the canal isn’t run by China
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!!! 7 Senate Dems file an ethics complaint against @SenTedCruz & @HawleyMO over their role in Jan. 6 attack on Capitol.
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7 House Republicans voted against naming a post office for the late Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), who died in office last year after 31 years in Congress: Flores, Grothman, Harris, Massie, Rice (SC), Rouzer, and Roy. Repeat - they voted against naming a post office after her.
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.@SpeakerPelosi says on “This Week” that Trump is rushing a Supreme Court pick so the new justice can be in place for Nov. 10 hearing on Obamacare. “He doesn’t want to crush the [coronavirus], he wants to crush the Affordable Care Act.”
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Kristen Clarke is confirmed by the Senate 51-48. She is the first woman & woman of color to head Civil Rights Division at DOJ
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US Capitol Police on lookout for young white woman who yelled “Mr. President, f— you!”
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.@ChuckGrassley releases a letter from 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in high school (showing Rs knew about this high-school rape allegation.) These women say Kavanaugh “behaved honorably and treated women with respect.”
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Pelosi's trip to Afghanistan had been a closely held secret due to security concerns, of course. Very few people knew she was heading there. @SteveScalise mentioned Pelosi was headed to Brussels in his presser this morning, which angered Dems.
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I’m not sure many people know this, but Eli Manning & the NY Giants beat Brady twice in the Super Bowl. Twice!
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Johnson is making it worse every time he talks about Jan. 6. “All the violence was on the House side,” the insurrectionists on the Senate side were peaceful. Which, of course, is not true
1/ @SenRonJohnson talked about his remarks about not being concerned about violent protesters on Jan. 6
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Yovanovitch's statement is devastating for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo & other top State Dept. leadership under Trump
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NEWS: A memo sent to House cmtes said NO cmte staff will get their next paycheck if a House rules package isn’t in place by Jan. 13
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Tom Price was trying to avoid press, ran to Senate subway. But then subway BROKE DOWN & he was stuck facing reporter questions
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/3 But clearly it took some effort to fund 65 women who attended high school at same time as Kavanaugh 30-odd years ago. This took some time to round up signatures
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It shouldn’t be news that a Republican senator publicly acknowledges that Biden won an election he carried by millions of votes, but hey, 2020
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Some personal news - After 14 great years at Politico, I’ll be leaving in mid-December. I’m so proud of what we’ve achieved on the Congress team since Politico began & I’ll miss all of my colleagues deeply. More news on future plans will be coming soon.
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President's son is openly admitting he met with a Kremlin-tied lawyer looking for damaging info on Hillary Clinton. How will GOP respond?
Read Don Jr.'s new statement to the Times. He doesn't deny that he was open to this alleged damaging info on Clinton nyti.ms/2uZjiJM
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News: House Democrats had an angry caucus mtg this morning over government funding & a possible shutdown. Rank-and-file Dems want party leaders - especially Schumer - to be willing to shut down the government in order to get what they want on Obamacare & Medicaid
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The Senate Judiciary Cmte has approved @POTUS first 5 judicial nominees, sending to the full Senate for confirmation
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Thousands of anti-Kavanaugh protestors chanting “Vote them out!” Dozens being arrested on East Capitol steps now
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Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman - up in ‘22 - will oppose Electoral College challenge to Biden’s election. “I cannot support allowing Congress to thwart the will of the voters,” per statement
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This House GOP move on Office of Congressional Ethics is a disaster. Republicans are gutting any independent ethics reviews
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Federal judge refuses to release R. Kelly, “citing risk of flight and history of alleged obstruction.” Home detention denied.
“A trial date was set: May 18, 2020.”
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Never seen a US senator treated like this. Wow.
Yes, he interrupted Noem’s presser but that’s a US senator
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This is a powerful speech by Biden. You may disagree with his decision, but this is a clear, precise statement of his reasons for making it.
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Per his office, @SenSchumer “secured a provision in the agreement that will prohibit businesses controlled by the President, Vice President, Members of Congress, and heads of Executive Departments from receiving loans or investments from Treasury programs.”
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.@SenSchumer says Senate will have confirmed 55 nominations by the end of day, plus cloture on 2 more judges
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New: Harris’ campaign announces $90 million more in paid media buy for August.
Per campaign: “This $90 million paid media buy will target voters in every battleground state and expand the campaign’s reach into markets like Marquette, Alpena, Toledo, Erie, and Youngstown – markets where the Trump campaign is ceding the airwaves as their candidate spends this crucial stretch consumed by personal grievance and his latest conspiracy theories instead of communicating with the voters who will decide this election.”
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.@ChuckGrassley was so exasperated by Gaetz questions that he stopped talking to reporters & stood there stomefaced for 30 seconds
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NEWS: @LeaderHoyer will step down from Democratic leadership but remain in Congress. Hoyer will back @RepJeffries for Democratic leader. He will aid the caucus/leadership in an advisory role if requested. w/@heatherscope & @JakeSherman
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From WH official on CBO score of Build Back Better Act: “This is very good news for Democrats. The cost elements came in lower than the White House estimates - in the ballpark of $50
billion lower cost.”
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Members-elect are asking for an investigation into the election in which they were elected? Are they saying they’re not members-elect or there should be questions about it? Or no fraud in their own races, just on the presidential vote? Huh
The pile on continues. All eight members of Georgia’s 2021 GOP House delegation sign a letter urging the state’s top elections official, a fellow Republican, to investigate claims of fraud (still without any evidence) before certifying the results of the election. #gapol
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Let me repeat this - The House has been in session for just 20 days over nearly 5 months
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/5 Sanders: “Let me be very clear - if we fail in this legislation, I will be back. We’re going to keep going it takes 10 votes. We are going to raise that minimum wage very shortly to $15 an hour.”
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It’s worth noting that Paul Mitchell was in the House GOP leadership. Now he’s leaving the party entirely.
NEWS: Rep. Paul Mitchell, who is retiring this year, tells @jaketapper on @CNN he's leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent, a la fellow Michigander Rep. Justin Amash
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That ain’t tourists
An actual quote from an actual elected member of Congress: “You know, if you didn’t know the TV footage was a video from January the 6th, you would actually think that was a normal tourist visit.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Wow - Former GOP Rep. Steve Stockman (Texas) gets a 10-year prison sentence for illegally using charitable funds to cover personal expenses & pay for campaigns for public office. That's one of the longest prison sentences ever handed out to an ex-lawmaker.
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News - @SpeakerPelosi, @RepThompson & Gabby Giffords will introduce a universal backgrounds checks bill on Tuesday, the 8th anniversary of Giffords' shooting. The bill will be "H.R. 8" in her honor politico.com/story/2019/01/0…
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6/ Sherman: “If I see a picture of a woman, might I look at it longer than a sunset? Yeah.”
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/4 Sanders also said there would be political fallout for all those senators who vote against the minimum wage increase. “I would suggest that those who vote against it from a political point of view, that’s a mistake. The American people want to see that minimum wage raised.”
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NEWS: @WhipClyburn will run for Assistant Democratic Leader in the next Congress. The House Democratic leadership will be @RepJeffries @RepKClark @RepPeteAguilar as 1-2-3.
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/5 Told by other reporters that @laurenboebert apparently was allowed on floor despite refusing her bag to be searched
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Stunning fundraising numbers from Harris. Trump raised $139 million in comparison
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/2 Sanders: “There will be a roll call vote, and we’ll see who votes for it and doesn’t.”
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News: 3 House Rs tried to change @Lancegooden’s vote last nite on Dems’ police reform bill. They put in “red cards” to change Gooden’s vote to no. The cards were rejected by House clerks. A possible ethics violation by Louie Gohmert, Randy Weber & Kelly Armstrong. @PunchbowlNews
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.@senatemajldr, a polio survivor, is publicly admitting he won’t go to the West Wing to see the president because of the White House lax coronavirus protocols. A stunning statement
McConnell avoids visiting White House over its handling of coronavirus. @marianne_levine politico.com/news/2020/10/08…
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Trump will move on & leave Obamacare in place if he doesn't get AHCA vote, per Mulvaney
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I’ve been covering Congress a long time, more than 26 years. Never seen anything like what this candidate is saying. Yet Republicans will allow her to be part of their conference if she wins.
GOP-backed House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene pushed a conspiracy theory that the Obama administration used MS-13 to assassinate Democratic staffer Seth Rich. That smear echoes a QAnon post. (w/ research from @AlKapDC) mediamatters.org/seth-rich-c…
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Sheriff: Ronny Jackson threatened to ‘beat’ state trooper after being handcuffed at rodeo dallasnews.com/news/politics…
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If @Liz_Cheney is gonna lose her leadership post, she’ll go down swinging
The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.
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NEWS from @heatherscope @JakeSherman & me: Reps. Jerry Nadler, Mark Takano, Don Beyer and Adam Smith said Biden should step aside as Democratic nominee during a private leadership call this afternoon. Most said Kamala Harris should be the nominee
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/5 Pollsters & pundits took it on the chin tonight. Huge blow to the media’s credibility. There has to be changes in how these races are covered.
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New: Sources close to AOC says she intends to move ahead with this contest in the full Democratic Caucus despite Steering Cmte vote. AOC feels good about her chances of winning, per sources
New - Gerry Connolly wins Oversight Cmte ranking members spot inside Steering Cmte (34-27.)
But this isn’t over yet. AOC has a really shot to win inside full Democratic Caucus. That’s a “better room” for her, says one Democrat
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NEW - Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is the designated survivor, per a source familiar.
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If this is true - big if - it would probably lead to shutdown & would mark the 2nd time a GOP speaker made a deal with Democrats & then reneged.
NEWS — @RepRalphNorman says @SpeakerJohnson is going to back out of his spending deal with @SenSchumer
“No. It’s not going to be the current deal.”
Norman says there will be a CR.
Norman just emerged from a meeting with Johnson.
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