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• Democrats urge Supreme Court to strike down Tennessee gender-affirming care ban

  03-09-2024 23:35 via thehill.com
  
  More than 160 House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday called on the Supreme Court to protect access to gender-affirming health care for transgender minors by striking down a Tennessee law that bans treatment for youths under 18 when the justices review the law this fall. The Supreme Court in June agreed to review the constitutionality of Tennessee’s law, which transgender rights advocates and families have argued discriminates against transgender youths and infringes on the ri
  
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• McClellan defends Democrats’ opposition to SAVE Act, calls it a ‘modern poll tax’

  15-09-2024 18:20 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) defended Democrats’ opposition to the SAVE Act, calling it a “modern poll tax,” in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”“The devil in that bill is in the details, and the SAVE Act puts barriers on American citizens voting, and actually is a modern poll tax,” she told host Chris Stirewalt on Sunday.Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has remained adamant in his support for pairing a continuing resolution with the S
  
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• 5 Republican factions to watch in the government funding fight

  15-09-2024 18:05 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republican leadership encountered resistance from all corners of the GOP conference to their government funding bill last week.The measure was intended to be the opening salvo in the budget showdown with Democrats, but Johnson was forced to cancel a planned vote on it Wednesday when it became clear it didn’t have the Republican votes to pass. Complicating the matter, the opposition came from varying, and sometimes contradictory groups.Here are the GOP facti
  
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• GOP plays blame game after funding bill failure

  14-09-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  The House GOP’s inability to coalesce around a strategy to address a looming government funding deadline is sparking a blame game among Republicans, after opposition from multiple factions helped thwart Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) strategy to avert a shutdown at the end of the month.Grappling with his razor-thin House majority, Johnson opted to try the spending plan proposed by hard-liners in the House Freedom Caucus: attach a conservative proposal, a bill to require proof of citi
  
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• A Historic Achievement Despite White House Silence – CGWALL MEDIA - CGWALL

  14-09-2024 11:55 via news.google.com
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• Harris organizer objects to subpoena from Republican House Judiciary Committee Chair Jordan

  14-09-2024 04:56 via thehill.com
  
  A Democratic strategist who helped organize a “White Dudes for Harris” call said he is fighting back against a subpoena from Republican House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday.“I am objecting to the subpoena issued by Jim Jordan and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in its entirety. This subpoena serves no legitimate legislative purpose—making it invalid, unconstitutional, and unenforceable,” Authentic Campaigns CEO Mike Nellis said
  
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• Harris organizer objects to subpoena from Judiciary Committee Chair Jordan

  14-09-2024 04:56 via thehill.com
  
  A Democratic strategist who helped organize a “White Dudes for Harris” call said Friday he is fighting back against a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).“I am objecting to the subpoena issued by Jim Jordan and the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in its entirety. This subpoena serves no legitimate legislative purpose — making it invalid, unconstitutional, and unenforceable,” Authentic Campaigns CEO Mike Nellis said Friday in a
  
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• GOP lawmaker predicts shutdown will be avoided 

  14-09-2024 03:43 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) predicted on Friday that a government shutdown will be avoided as one looms.“Do you believe that Republicans will be able to avoid a government shutdown?” NewsNation’s Blake Burman asked Harris on “The Hill.” “And do you think shutdowns are useful tools, or not?”“There will not be a government shutdown, you know, one month before an election, that I can tell you,” Harris responded. Lawmakers are racing to avoid a
  
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• Democrats go all in on tying Project 2025 to House GOP

  14-09-2024 00:29 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats have adopted an aggressive strategy of linking Project 2025 to House Republicans in the final stretch of this year’s campaign, hoping the controversial conservative document will help them flip control of the lower chamber in November’s elections.The Democrats are invoking Project 2025 at every turn – in leadership press conferences, chamber-floor debates, public committee hearings and private hallway conversations – warning that Republicans in Congre
  
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• Family of Tyre Nichols: Congress has ‘blood' on its hands for holding up police reform

  14-09-2024 00:15 via thehill.com
  
  The family of Tyre Nichols said Congress is responsible for Black Americans who have died at the hands of police following inaction on police reform. In an emotional address to the press on Friday, RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’s mother, joined civil rights attorney Ben Crump, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and other families who lost loved ones to police violence to demand why police reform has stalled. “Back in 2020 when George Floyd was killed in front of everyone's eyes, in f
  
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• Family of Tyre Nichols: Congress has ‘blood on its hands’ for holding up police reform

  14-09-2024 00:15 via thehill.com
  
  The family of Tyre Nichols said Congress is responsible for Black Americans that have died at the hands of police following inaction on police reform. In an emotional address to the press on Friday, RowVaughn Wells, Nichols’s mother, joined civil rights attorney Ben Crump, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) and other families who lost loved ones to police violence to demand why police reform has stalled. “Back in 2020 when George Floyd was killed in front of everyone's eyes, in
  
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• Biden congratulates McBride: 'Beau's looking down from heaven'

  13-09-2024 23:19 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Wednesday called Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride (D) to congratulate her on her primary win for the state’s only House seat, a victory that all but guarantees McBride will be the first openly transgender person elected to Congress in November. "I called her, and I said, 'Sarah,' I said, 'Beau's looking down from heaven, congratulating you,'" Biden told the Washington Blade in an interview published Friday, referring to his late son, Beau Biden, who served as
  
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• Heritage Action urges House panel to advance kids' online safety bill

  13-09-2024 22:40 via thehill.com
  
  Heritage Action for America, the advocacy arm of conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday to advance legislation meant to boost kids’ safety and privacy online. In a letter to Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-Wash.), Heritage Action President Kevin Roberts argued that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) “represents our best opportunity to implement meaningful protections for children online this Congress.”&n
  
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• Biden requests extension for delivering $5.8 billion in Ukraine aid

  13-09-2024 20:57 via thehill.com
  
  The Biden administration has requested Congress include an extension of the presidential drawdown authority (PDA) for sending weapons to Ukraine through 2025, to make approximately $5.8 billion available beyond Sept. 30. The White House has requested the extension be included in a continuing resolution that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has proposed. The money faces a use-it-or-lose-it deadline at the end of this month.  “We have $5.9 billion left in Ukraine Presidentia
  
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• Biden stumbles with ‘Black jobs’ gaffe

  13-09-2024 20:23 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden on Friday appeared to stumble over reference to “Black jobs,” a phrase Democrats have bashed former President Trump for using, and pivoted to jab the Republican over the line. “With your help, in just three and a half years we created over 2 million new Black jobs for Black- Black Americans,” Biden told a crowd at a Black Excellence brunch hosted at the White House. He held a hand up as the crowd audibly reacted with laughter to the line. “
  
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• GOP's Luna says her opinion on Florida abortion measure 'doesn’t really matter'

  13-09-2024 19:22 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) said this week that her opinion on the state’s ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution “doesn’t matter.”
  Luna told Politico on Thursday that she believes the topic is a “state’s rights issue.” “I don’t think that questions of policy should be placed on the ballot, and I think that there’s some things that are up for debate within the medical community
  
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• Six House Republicans join bipartisan commitment to uphold election results

  13-09-2024 17:30 via thehill.com
  
  Six moderate House Republicans signed on to a bipartisan letter spearheaded by centrists pledging to respect the results of the 2024 election. The “unity commitment” released on Friday is led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), and has the support of 32 House members.By signing the letter, members pledge — after “all legal means to challenge election results in the courts have been exhausted” — to acknowledge the election wi
  
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• 6 House Republicans join bipartisan commitment to uphold election results

  13-09-2024 17:30 via thehill.com
  
  Six moderate House Republicans signed on to a bipartisan letter spearheaded by centrists pledging to respect the results of the 2024 election. The “unity commitment” released Friday is led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and has the support of 32 House members.By signing the letter, members pledge — after “all legal means to challenge election results in the courts have been exhausted” — to acknowledge the election winner cer
  
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• Trump complicates Speaker Johnson’s plan to avoid government shutdown

  13-09-2024 11:30 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Trump is adding another layer of complication to the government funding fight as Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) plots his next step to address the looming shutdown deadline. Trump for months has called on Republicans to pair a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote with a stopgap measure to keep the government open past Sept. 30. The Speaker attempted to bring up a bill pairing that policy measure with a six-month funding extension this week — only to be
  
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• Democrats cautious to claim election victory after Harris debate

  13-09-2024 11:30 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats in Washington — flying high after Vice President Harris's sharp debate performance this week — are also forcing themselves back to earth in the face of a stark political reality: The race for the White House is still neck-and-neck, and plenty of work remains if they hope to keep former President Trump from winning a second term.Despite what many saw as a slam dunk for Harris on debate night, those in her party are cautious to claim victory just yet. “I don't thin
  
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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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