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• Michael McCaul moves to hold Blinken in contempt over Afghanistan subpoena 

  12-09-2024 22:52 via thehill.com
  
  House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) has scheduled a markup to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress, saying the secretary has failed to respond to a subpoena issued last week for his testimony about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.The markup is scheduled for Sept. 19. Following a markup in the committee, the full House would need to vote on the measure to refer it to the Department of Justice for prosecution — a move u
  
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• House Democrats introduce resolution supporting emergency abortion care

  12-09-2024 22:52 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats on Thursday introduced a resolution to make it clear that a federal emergency care law must allow physicians to perform emergency abortions. The resolution comes after the Supreme Court in June dismissed a case regarding Idaho’s abortion ban without settling the underlying question on whether federal law allows physicians to perform abortions in medical emergencies. The court ruled to dismiss the case as improvidently granted, which means doctors in
  
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• GOP chair moves to hold Blinken in contempt over Afghanistan subpoena 

  12-09-2024 22:52 via thehill.com
  
  The Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has scheduled a markup to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress, saying the secretary has failed to respond to a subpoena issued last week for his testimony about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.The markup is scheduled for September 19. Following a markup in the committee, the full House would need to vote on the measure to refer it to the Department of Justice for prosecution — a mo
  
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• DOJ invests $700M in grant funding for survivors of domestic violence

  12-09-2024 22:26 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday it is providing almost $700 million in grant funding to better support survivors of domestic violence and gender-based violence under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The funding, a part of the fiscal 2024 year budget, is administered by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). Part of the funding will be allocated for addressing online gender-based violence, assisting victims and survivors of domestic violence and dating violence,
  
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• Parents push for kids' online safety bill markup, vote after it stalls in House

  12-09-2024 21:59 via thehill.com
  
  Parents whose children have died or been seriously harmed as a result of social media are pushing for the House to mark up and vote on stalled legislation intended to increase kids’ safety and privacy online as momentum stalls in the lower chamber. The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed the Senate in a 91-3 vote in late July as part of a package that also included the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Action Act (COPPA 2.0). Despite receiving wide support in the upper
  
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• White House: Loomer mocking Harris’s Indian heritage is ‘racist poison’

  12-09-2024 21:51 via thehill.com
  
  The White House on Thursday condemned right-wing activist Laura Loomer for mocking Vice President Harris’s Indian heritage.Loomer, a former congressional candidate, recently said on social media that if Harris wins the election, “the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center,” among other comments.White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the comments “repugnant” when questioned about them during t
  
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• US proposes two permanent seats for Africa on UN Security Council

  12-09-2024 20:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is calling for adding two permanent seats for African nations to the United Nations Security Council, and an elected seat for a small-island developing nation.U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas Greenfield announced the proposal on Thursday, capping off her nearly four-year effort to give more power to countries historically isolated from decision-making on international peace and security. The announcement comes ahead of the United Nations General As
  
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• US proposes 2 permanent seats for Africa on UN Security Council

  12-09-2024 20:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration is calling for adding two permanent seats for African nations to the United Nations Security Council, and an elected seat for a small-island developing nation.U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield announced the proposal Thursday, capping off her nearly four-year effort to give more power to countries historically isolated from decisionmaking on international peace and security. The announcement comes as the United Nations General Assembly is
  
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• Jeffries: Dems to reject Trump-backed policy provisions in CR

  12-09-2024 19:24 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will reject any short-term spending bill that includes Trump-backed policy provisions or kicks the issue of 2025 spending into next year.Jeffries noted that Republican leaders in both chambers have already backed legislation, known as the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), that set government spending levels for both fiscal year 2024 and fiscal year 2025. He’s accusing Republicans of walking away from that deal at th
  
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• Biden outlines 'personal' fight against domestic violence

  12-09-2024 17:52 via thehill.com
  
  Three decades after passing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), President Biden plans to commemorate its signing at the White House on Thursday and announce actions that the Biden-Harris administration will take to address gender-based violence. “My dad was a gentle, kind man who always taught me to stand up to the abuse of power—whether psychological, economic, or physical. That lesson was the driving force behind my decision to create the Violence Against Women Act 30 years
  
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• Greene, Loomer get into back-and-forth over 'racist' Harris attack

  12-09-2024 17:21 via thehill.com
  
  Two top allies of former President Trump are warring on social media over a bigoted social media post mocking Vice President Harris's Indian heritage, exposing fault lines within the Republican candidate's inner circle.Right-wing activist Laura Loomer, a former congressional candidate with a lengthy history of anti-Muslim comments, and Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) have been engaged in a war of words on the social media platform X, with the latter calling Loomer "appalling and extremel
  
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• Biden to host Quad allies for summit in Delaware

  12-09-2024 17:20 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will host the leaders of Australia, India and Japan for a summit of the Quad alliance later this month in his home state of Delaware, the White House said Thursday, marking the first time Biden will welcome foreign leaders to his home state.Biden will meet Sept. 21 in Wilmington with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio. The four nations make up the Quad alliance, which has been a major focus for
  
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• Dogs descend on Capitol for Pet Night

  12-09-2024 16:54 via thehill.com
  
  SPOTTED: Rep. Claudia Tenney on the receiving end of some puppy love, as the New York Republican joined other canine-cuddling lawmakers and plenty of four-legged visitors at an event dubbed "Pet Night on Capitol Hill."The Wednesday reception at the Cannon House Office Building, hosted by the Human Animal Bond Research Institute, the Pet Food Institute and the Pet Advocacy Network, brought together adoptable puppies, registered therapy animals and show cats for some bipartisan tail-wagging action
  
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• Jan. 6 certification designated for Secret Service protection

  12-09-2024 16:18 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security has designated Jan. 6 an event worthy of Secret Service planning and protection, buttressing security after the 2020 certification of election results was halted by a mob of Trump supporters.Designating the Jan. 6 counting as a “national security special event” puts the Secret Service in charge of security planning, just as it does for the Super Bowl and both parties’ political conventions.“National Special Security Events are even
  
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• Jan. 6, 2025, certification designated for Secret Service protection

  12-09-2024 16:18 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Homeland Security has designated the Jan. 6, 2025, vote certification an event worthy of Secret Service planning and protection, buttressing security after the certification of 2020's election results was halted by a mob of supporters of then-President Trump.Designating the electoral vote counting as a “national security special event” puts the Secret Service in charge of security planning, just as it does for the Super Bowl and both parties’ political co
  
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• Republican AG Alberto Gonzales backs Harris, warns against Trump

  12-09-2024 15:25 via thehill.com
  
  Former George W. Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed Vice President Harris Thursday, citing in part the Supreme Court’s immunity decision in calling former President Trump “perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation.” Gonzales, who also served as White House counsel, wrote in an op-ed in Politico that “the character of the person we elect in November is particularly important today” due to the court&r
  
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• Former Republican AG Alberto Gonzales backs Harris, warns against Trump

  12-09-2024 15:25 via thehill.com
  
  Alberto Gonzales, attorney general during former President George W. Bush's administration, endorsed Vice President Harris on Thursday, citing in part the Supreme Court’s immunity decision in calling former President Trump “perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation.” Gonzales, who also served as White House counsel, wrote in an op-ed in Politico that “the character of the person we elect in November is particularly important today&
  
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• HBCUs, though underfunded, provide billions in economic stimulation 

  12-09-2024 14:00 via thehill.com
  
  A new report details how Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have continued to provide opportunities of upward mobility for Black Americans even as they remain woefully underfunded compared to Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs).The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) released its 2024 HBCU Economic Impact Report — Transforming Futures: The Economic Engine of HBCUs — Thursday, providing data about the economic power, policy reform and partnerships needed to ensure t
  
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• Rick Scott to run ad during Miami Dolphins game hitting Mucarsel Powell as a ‘socialist’

  12-09-2024 13:00 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Sen. Rick Scott's (R) reelection campaign will run an ad labeling his opponent, former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel Powell, a "silly socialist" during a Miami Dolphins game on Thursday. The 30-second spot hits Mucarsel Powell over her record on immigration, accusing her of wanting to give "tax money to people here illegally." The Hill is the first outlet to view the ad, a part of a seven-figure television and digital statewide ad buy airing in English and Spanish. In the ad's
  
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• Republicans push for clean stopgap as leaders regroup on shutdown plan

  12-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  A growing number of House Republicans say they know how the current government funding drama ends: with a clean continuing resolution (CR) that kicks the shutdown deadline to after Election Day.The question is how Congress arrives at that conclusion.Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) scrapped plans for the House to vote on his conservative funding bill Wednesday when it became clear it didn’t have the GOP votes to pass, catapulting the conference back to square one with less than a month until t
  
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• 7 sleeper races to watch in November

  12-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Marquee toss-up races and high-profile candidates have dominated the political conversation as both parties battle for the House and Senate, but some potential sleeper contests could offer political observers a surprise.Democrats’ razor-thin edge in the Senate is at risk this fall, and observers are eyeing a small handful of races that could deliver surprise upsets against Republican incumbents, possibly giving the party some room for error. And both parties are targeting under-the-radar p
  
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• DHS designates Jan. 6 a National Special Security Event

  12-09-2024 04:42 via thehill.com
  
  The Secret Service said Thursday that the upcoming Jan. 6 “has been designated a National Special Security Event by the Secretary of Homeland Security.”“The 2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral Votes in Washington, DC on Jan. 6, 2025, has been designated a National Special Security Event by the Secretary of Homeland Security,” a press release from the Secret Service said.Almost four years ago, to halt Congress certifying the 2020 election results, supporters of fo
  
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