Reps. Nadler, Jackson Lee and Cohen today released the following joint statement upon introduction of the legislation:
“For the last two years, House Republican leadership sat idly by, and often joined in, as President Trump attempted more than once to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller and launched serious attacks on senior Department of Justice officials in an effort to end the Russia investigation. Now that Trump has fired Attorney General Sessions and removed Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein from overseeing the investigation, we are faced with an acting Attorney General whose intentions are questionable.
“As the Special Counsel announces new indictments and guilty pleas from Trump’s closest allies and associates, it’s clear that the threat to the Mueller investigation will only grow stronger. Democrats and Republicans in Congress have mentioned their support for the inquiry to continue unimpeded. Now is the time for Congress to finally act and pass this legislation to protect the integrity of the Special Counsel’s investigation and the rule of law.”
The Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act is bipartisan legislation that has 123 cosponsors. The Senate counterpart, S. 2644, was introduced last Congress by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Christopher Coons (D-DE), and Thom Tillis (R-NC), and passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 26, 2018 by a vote of 14 to 7.
Trump left the Briefing Room so fast it was like Mueller was sitting in the back.
Reporter just had the best shout out in the White House briefing room after the president and friends exited without taking questions. “The point of a press briefing room is to take questions from the press.”
After a brief appearance in the White House briefing room and some remarks on border security, the president and his press secretary left answering exactly ZERO questions from the press.
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The House is in recess subject to the call of the Chair.
Pelosi:
In 2010, we marked the 20th anniversary of the (Americans With Disabilities) Act by making it possible for our colleagues with disabilities to preside over the House.
In that same spirit of equality and justice, let me announce that, this afternoon, the first Speaker Pro Tempore of the 116th Congress will be: Congressman Jim Langevin of Rhode Island.
Rep. Langevin (D-RI) is the first quadriplegic elected to Congress and will preside over debate later this afternoon.
Pelosi:
We will make America fairer by passing the Equality Act to end discrimination against LGBTQ Americans.
And we will make America more American by protecting our patriotic, courageous Dreamers!
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Paul Krugman's comment on the article:
As Joe Biden said in a loud stage whisper when Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, this is a big f**** deal
Let's get those investigations and subpoenas underway.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today introduced the Washington, D.C. Admission Act (H.R. 51) to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, her first bill of the 116th Congress. She introduced the bill with 151 original cosponsors, a new record, up from the previous record Norton set in the 115th Congress (116). Norton also announced that the Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD), has committed to holding a hearing and markup in 2019 on H.R. 51.
“We are gratified by the overwhelming support from my Democratic colleagues as we seize this new moment for statehood and press our bill in the 116th Congress with unprecedented momentum,” said Congresswoman Norton. “I am particularly grateful to Chairman Cummings for his support of H.R. 51 and his commitment to holding a hearing and markup in 2019, the first such House hearing or markup since 1993, when I got the first-ever House floor vote on it. A hearing and markup will provide a prime opportunity to inform and remind Americans that over 700,000 of their fellow citizens who live in the nation’s capital are denied their basic democratic rights.”
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Norton’s bill would create a state from the eight hometown wards of the District. The 51st state would have no jurisdiction over the federal territory or enclave that now consists of the Washington that Members of Congress and visitors associate with the nation’s capital. The U.S. Capitol premises, the principal federal monuments, federal buildings and grounds, the National Mall and other federal property here would remain under federal jurisdiction. Norton’s bill provides that the State of Washington, D.C. would be equal to the other 50 states in all respects, as is always required for states, and the residents of the state of Washington, D.C. would have all the rights of citizenship as taxpaying American citizens, including two senators and, initially, one House member.
H.R. 51 was introduced to make D.C. the 51st state. It has 151 original co-sponsors in the House.
HR 1 will be introduced later on to reopen the government. It'll also include things like "Democratic priorities on voting rights and health care" and it "would require presidential candidates to release... a decade of returns."
Total women in the U.S. House:
1989:
- 16 Democrats
- 13 Republicans
2019:
- 89 Democrats
- 13 Republicans
On the 13th day of a government shutdown, the U.S. House opens the 116th Congress, elects a new speaker, and plans to take up legislation to reopen the government.
The stream starts at 12 pm ET.
Washington state Democratic caucuses on March 26, 2016:
Sanders - 19,169 72.72%
Clinton - 7,140 - 27.10%
Washington state Democratic primary on May 24, 2016:
- Clinton - 420,461 - 52.38%
Sanders - 382,293 - 47.62%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Washington_Democratic_caucuses
Primaries let more people vote.
Trump already looks foolish for this ongoing political stunt. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Trump doesn't seem to understand that No means No.
(CNN) Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who announced on Monday that she is exploring a presidential run, has hired Brendan Summers, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' Iowa caucus director in 2016, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Summers will help Warren on both Iowa and national efforts, the source said, and has already been involved in planning the senator's visit to Iowa this weekend. Warren is set to hold events in Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Storm Lake and Des Moines over the course of her trip.
The Summers hire sends a powerful early message to progressive activists and political strategists closely watching how the Democratic field takes shape. Warren's path to the nomination will depend in large part on who else -- from the party's progressive bloc, in particular -- decides to jump in the race and the position Warren stakes out for herself in that crowded field.
Warren snagged Sanders' Iowa caucus director from 2016.
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