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• Biden kicks off effort to cement legacy, starting with work on internet access 

  19-09-2024 16:30 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is making a push to highlight his agenda in the final months of his presidency, kicking off a series involving conversations with voters by focusing on his work to expand access to high-speed internet.The “Investing in America” digital series launched on Thursday with two Americans, Camille and Emile, who spoke virtually with Biden. They live in a rural Wisconsin community of 129 people and said they were able to access high-speed internet because of Biden&r
  
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• Moskowitz swipes after Comer says to take medication: ‘We know who’s taking more’

  19-09-2024 21:28 via thehill.com
  
  House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) traded personal swipes over who takes more medication after Moskowitz attacked Comer’s leadership of the committee.The exchange came during an Oversight panel hearing titled “A Legacy of Incompetence: Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Failures.”Moskowitz used his time during the hearing, though, to criticize Comer, particularly the impeachment in
  
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• Jeffries: New election rules are ‘nonstarter’ for Democrats in funding fight

  19-09-2024 20:53 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats will oppose any federal funding bill that includes conservative policy riders pushed by former President Trump.“Donald Trump has ordered extreme MAGA Republicans in the House to shut the government down unless they can jam parts of Trump’s Project 2025 agenda down the throats of the American people,” Jeffries said during a press briefing in the Capitol. “That’s a non-starter.”The
  
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• Democrat calls GOP stopgap fight 'fanatic-on-fanatic violence'

  19-09-2024 20:42 via thehill.com
  
  The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday called the Republicans’ stopgap funding fight “fanatic-on-fanatic violence,” calling out his colleagues for not being able to agree on what he said were two extreme views. “There's nothing funny about it, you know, and it is serious business, but it just amuses me that, let's just call them the extremists within the Republican party, can't even decide on how they want to be extreme together. I thought
  
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• Biden pitches ‘better choice’ in economic speech, seeking contrast with Trump

  19-09-2024 20:21 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Thursday touted what he called a “declaration of progress” after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates, arguing his economic agenda had put the country on strong footing and warning of the risks that could come with a return to former President Trump’s policies.Biden addressed the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., one day after the central bank cut interest rates for the first time since 2020. The president welcomed the Fed’s decision, calling it a &l
  
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• Biden, Harris to host Zelensky at White House next week

  19-09-2024 19:19 via thehill.com
  
  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the White House next week and meet with both President Biden and Vice President Harris to discuss the state of the war against Russia.Zelensky will be at the White House on Thursday, Sept. 26, when White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said he would meet separately with Biden and Harris, who is the Democratic nominee for president."The leaders will discuss the state of the war between Russia and Ukraine, including Ukraine’s strateg
  
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• Great Smoky Mountains National Park peak reverting to Cherokee name

  19-09-2024 19:16 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted Wednesday to officially change the name of the highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park back to its Cherokee name.The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians submitted a request earlier this year to change the name "Clingmans Dome" back to its Cherokee name "Kuwohi," which translates to "mulberry place," according to a press release from the National Park Service issued Wednesday.“The Great Smoky Nati
  
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• GOP lawmaker: 'It doesn't feel safe right now to be in politics'

  19-09-2024 17:24 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) on Wednesday said in an interview on NewsNation's CUOMO that she is more concerned with her safety as a member of Congress than when she served in the military following apparent threats against her."It doesn't feel safe right now to be in politics, and I really want to emphasize that we're at a point in American history where you have people afraid to come to work," Luna said in the interview with host Chris Cuomo.At the same time, Luna said that she's still "
  
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• GOP lawmakers from Nebraska urge state to flip to winner-take-all electoral system

  19-09-2024 16:53 via thehill.com
  
  Republican members of Congress from Nebraska in a Wednesday letter called on their state to apportion all of its five electoral votes to the popular vote winner of the presidential election in the state.Nebraska, unlike most states, splits its five votes. Two of the votes go to the winner of the popular vote in the state. The other three are linked to the three congressional districts in the state and are given to who wins the popular vote in those districts.This is a critical factor in his year
  
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• Artist Fazzino gives White House a 3D pop art makeover

  19-09-2024 16:00 via thehill.com
  
  SPOTTED: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. getting a pop art makeover, as artist Charles Fazzino unveiled his latest work that will be showcased at a state-of-the-art facility from the White House Historical Association. "The White House is really the center of the world," Fazzino told ITK before dramatically revealing his artwork on Wednesday before a crowd of D.C. movers and shakers at Cafe Milano in Washington.Fazzino's 3D art will be on display at The People's House: A White House Experience, a 33
  
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• White Dudes for Harris unveils eight-figure swing-state campaign

  19-09-2024 15:15 via thehill.com
  
  The group White Dudes for Harris rolled out a new $10 million ad campaign on Thursday, with the first ad of the effort targeting white men in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The over one-minute-long spot addresses former President Trump’s grip on the white male vote but works to appeal to voters in the bloc who are disillusioned with him and his campaign. “All they’ve ever done is screw us over, but if you’re not on the MAGA train, where do you g
  
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• Lawmakers point fingers after apparent assassination attempt against Trump

  19-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pointing fingers over whether heated political rhetoric is contributing to violence in the wake of Sunday’s apparent assassination attempt on former President Trump.It's the second time the fierce debate has ignited in as many months, and lawmakers are getting more personal.House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) — who was critically wounded by a left-wing gunman during a 2017 congressional baseball practice — was notably passionate and forcefu
  
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• Democrats seek public’s help in learning about Project 2025 launch plan

  19-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats are seeking outside help in deciphering conservatives’ plans for launching their Project 2025 agenda under the next Republican president.Leaders of the Democrats’ Project 2025 task force — a group formed in June to push back against the expansive right-wing policy document — launched a confidential tip line on Thursday designed to glean the details of that nebulous rollout strategy, which the groups behind Project 2025 are pushing to deliver in t
  
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• Biden to give 'declaration of progress' to economic club after Fed cuts

  19-09-2024 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is set to give remarks at the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on Thursday, during which he will give a “declaration of progress” a day after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates.White House chief of staff Jeff Zients previewed that Biden’s speech is “not meant to be a declaration of victory, it’s meant to be a declaration of progress — significant progress.”Zients highlighted that inflation and interest rates have fallen, wh
  
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• These 3 Dems, 14 Republicans crossed aisle on funding bill vote 

  19-09-2024 04:55 via thehill.com
  
  House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) government funding bill was sunk through the combined efforts of Democrats and Republicans in the lower chamber on Wednesday.Fourteen members of Johnson’s own party voted alongside most Democrats against the Louisiana Republican’s spending plan, which joined a six-month stopgap bill with a measure aiming to require proof of citizenship to vote. However, three Democrats bucked their party and voted in favor of the measure.Here are the lawmake
  
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• Newark official wins special election to fill late New Jersey Rep. Payne's seat

  19-09-2024 02:14 via thehill.com
  
  Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver (D) has won the special election to fill a vacant House seat representing New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District, Decision Desk HQ projects.McIver defeated Republican Carmen Bucco, a businessman, to serve the remainder of the term for the late Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D), who died following a heart attack related to complications from diabetes in April. Her victory is not a surprise in the solidly blue district, the most liberal-leaning in New
  
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• House GOP torpedoes Speaker Johnson’s funding bill

  19-09-2024 00:48 via thehill.com
  
  A diverse group of House Republicans torpedoed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) proposal to fund the government on Wednesday, dealing an embarrassing blow to the GOP leader and derailing his strategy to avoid a shutdown at the end of the month.Fourteen Republicans joined virtually every Democrat in voting against the spending plan — which paired a six-month stopgap bill with a measure that would require proof of citizenship to vote — bringing the final tally to 202-220, with
  
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• Iran attempted to pass hacked Trump campaign info to Biden campaign

  19-09-2024 00:08 via thehill.com
  
  The FBI and other intelligence agencies revealed Wednesday that Iran sent information stolen during its hack on the Trump campaign to the Biden campaign and continues to send material to various media outlets.“Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden’s campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump’s campaign as text in the emails,
  
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• Biden hits Trump over rhetoric on migrants at Hispanic Heritage Month celebration

  19-09-2024 00:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday hit former President Trump for his rhetoric on migrants during a celebration at the White House to mark Hispanic Heritage Month.“We don’t demonize immigrants, we don’t single them out for attacks, we don’t believe they’re ‘poisoning the blood’ of the country. We’re a nation of immigrants and that’s why we’re so damn strong,” Biden said to room full of Latinos at the reception.“Hispanic history is
  
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• Biden hits Trump for rhetoric on migrants at Hispanic Heritage Month celebration

  19-09-2024 00:02 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday hit former President Trump for his rhetoric on migrants during a celebration at the White House to mark Hispanic Heritage Month.“We don’t demonize immigrants, we don’t single them out for attacks, we don’t believe they’re ‘poisoning the blood’ of the country. We’re a nation of immigrants and that’s why we’re so damn strong,” Biden said to a room full of Latinos at the reception.“Hispanic history
  
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• Watch live: House votes on stopgap funding bill

  18-09-2024 23:34 via thehill.com
  
  The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a partisan spending plan that is seemingly doomed to fail.Republicans who forced Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to scrap a vote last week due to their intense opposition have said they have still not changed their positions on the bill.Lawmakers are scrambling to pass a funding package before an end-of-the-month deadline for a government shutdown.The vote is scheduled to take place at 5:40 p.m. ET.Watch the live video above.
  
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• Watch live: Biden celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with White House reception

  18-09-2024 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden is hosting a reception in the East Room Wednesday in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 to honor the lives and achievements of Americans who share ancestry from a diverse group of countries on the Iberian Peninsula, Central and South America and the Caribbean.Independence days are marked in several of the countries, including Mexico, five Central American nations and Chile during mid-September.Events are slated to begin at 5 p.m. EDT.Watch
  
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• Watch: Biden celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with White House reception

  18-09-2024 22:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden hosted a reception in the East Room Wednesday in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15 to honor the lives and achievements of Americans who share ancestry from a diverse group of countries on the Iberian Peninsula, Central and South America and the Caribbean.Independence days are marked in several of the countries, including Mexico, five Central American nations and Chile during mid-September.Watch the video replay above.
  
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• White House briefing delivered partially en español

  18-09-2024 21:54 via thehill.com
  
  Wednesday’s White House briefing featured a Spanish-language segment to commemorate the start of Hispanic Heritage Month.White House director of coalitions media Luisana Pérez Fernández delivered the remarks, outlining President Biden’s schedule to commemorate the month-long celebration.Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a White House reception for Hispanic leaders later Wednesday, and Biden will address the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI
  
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• House panel advances Kids Online Safety Act despite pushback

  18-09-2024 21:19 via thehill.com
  
  A House panel advanced the Kids Online Safety Act bill, also known as KOSA, on Wednesday, pushing forward legislation intended to boost online privacy and safety for children.The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s advancement of KOSA hands advocacy groups a temporary win following weeks of uncertainty about the bill’s future amid GOP pushback. Some lawmakers could be heard opposing in the voice vote, though the roll was not called.Wednesday’s markup suggested the uncertainty
  
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• House awards Billie Jean King Congressional Gold Medal in history-making vote

  18-09-2024 20:34 via thehill.com
  
  The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to award a Congressional Gold Medal to tennis legend and equal rights advocate Billie Jean King, bestowing the nation’s highest civilian honor on a female individual athlete for the first time.Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) introduced the bill to recognize King last September on the 50th anniversary of the tennis Hall of Famer’s 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs in the “Battl
  
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• House, Senate Democrats press leadership to quickly extend ObamaCare subsidies

  18-09-2024 19:32 via thehill.com
  
  House and Senate Democrats are pressing leadership to quickly pass legislation extending ObamaCare’s enhanced subsidies before they expire at the end of 2025. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) led a letter sent Wednesday to bipartisan leaders in both chambers urging them to act “at the next possible legislative opportunity.” It was signed by 41 Senate Democrats and 154 House Democrats.
  The enhanced subsidies were first put into effect dur
  
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• New partnership unveiled touting White House efforts in Black, Latino communities

  18-09-2024 18:59 via thehill.com
  
  Black and Latino voting organizations have teamed up for a new campaign touting the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to support the two communities over the last three years. The Voto Latino Foundation and Vote To Live Foundation announced a new six-figure digital education campaign in partnership with Building Back Together for Black and Latino communities. The campaign, unveiled Wednesday, will highlight the White House's accomplishments on things like lowering the price o
  
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• Rep. Luna says authorities investigating 'very serious shooting threat' against her

  18-09-2024 18:18 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) said she was the subject of a “very serious shooting threat,” and she blamed "rhetoric" coming from "the left." "Over the last few weeks, I have received an increasing number of threats and doxxing attacks. An online page was encouraging strangers to send threatening packages to my home,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “This weekend, it escalated to a very serious shooting threat, and
  
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• US passport renewal can now be done online

  18-09-2024 16:36 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. is making passport renewal fully available online, the State Department announced on Wednesday, getting rid of the need to print application forms and send a check through the mail. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the online passport renewal system “a significant step forward in ensuring that Americans can more easily access passport services.” “The Department of State is making our new online passport renewal system fully available to the public tod
  
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