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NEW: Democrat Rep.-elect Brian Poindexter disappeared from CPC PAC and Blue Dog PAC endorsement lists around Election Day.
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🟡 Rep. Ilhan Omar, wants to return to the House Foreign Affairs Committee after Republicans removed her in 2023.
If Omar gets back on HFAC, she could chair its Africa subpanel w/ top Dem Gregory Meeks saying it is Omar’s “choice” on the matter.
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Just a lot of new news and intel in @semafor DC on a crazy day in Washington. semafor.com/newsletters/wash…
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News w @nicholaswu12
A TON of chatter among Dems about Minnesota Rep. Kelly Morrison being the favorite to succeed Sen. Klobuchar when she becomes governor. Rep. Angie Craig now viewed as a longshot.
Klobuchar hasn't made any final decision.
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More admin changes expected as Stephen Miller settles into his role as chief of staff — a WH official tells me Meghan Bauer, who heads up the Office of Cabinet Affairs, will be working in the WH in a new role; Walker Barrett, a senior policy advisor to Susie Wiles, will work for the deputy chief of staff for policy.
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House Freedom Caucus in presser argues GOP lost the midterms because party didn’t deliver on core conservative priorities. Seeks to cut $1 trillion before current Congress ends
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🚨 NEW FLY OUT DAY STREAMING TOMORROW ✈️
@RepCasar (D-Texas) sits down with @apalmerdc and @JakeSherman at the townhouse to break down the blue wave, including his survival of the redraw, Sen.-elect James Talarico’s (D-Texas) flip, working with Hakeem Jeffries and MUCH more.
Stick around: @NBCNews' @ryanobles and @semafor's @nicholaswu12 stay to break down the interview.
Streaming tomorrow. Subscribe now! hubs.li/Q04D_tPH0
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Rep. Greg Murphy concedes to Rep.-elect Raymond Smith
Murphy had a lead on election night, but provisional ballots published yesterday put Smith on top #nc03
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The Oversight Committee has not received this letter yet.
🚨BREAKING NEWS in @PunchbowlNews AM
The White House counsel warned Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming House Oversight Committee chair, in a new letter that some of the new majority’s investigations could cross the line into criminal behavior.
It’s an audacious claim that signals the White House is taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance toward Democratic oversight in the 120th Congress.
The letter, penned by White House counsel Will Scharf, says that Congress can only investigate matters for a legislative purpose — a position that Republicans have relied on and stretched in recent years.
Further, the Scharf letter, sent to Garcia on Monday, says that Democratic investigations are designed to “harass and aggrandize rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.”
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🚨BREAKING NEWS in @PunchbowlNews AM
The White House counsel warned Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the incoming House Oversight Committee chair, in a new letter that some of the new majority’s investigations could cross the line into criminal behavior.
It’s an audacious claim that signals the White House is taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance toward Democratic oversight in the 120th Congress.
The letter, penned by White House counsel Will Scharf, says that Congress can only investigate matters for a legislative purpose — a position that Republicans have relied on and stretched in recent years.
Further, the Scharf letter, sent to Garcia on Monday, says that Democratic investigations are designed to “harass and aggrandize rather than to advance any legitimate legislative end.”
punchbowl.news/wh-hill_lette…
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Scoop w/ @Eleanor_Mueller: @SenatorBennet presses Trump administration on Megaspeed probe, demands answers from Lutnick, Blanche, Rubio & Clayton by Nov. 24: cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6bs…
Bennet wants answers on Megaspeed, including:
The DOJ's probe, whether Commerce will block its Nvidia chip buys or put it on the Entity List, closing export loopholes via Southeast Asia, and what the IC knows
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Republicans face BIG problems in getting one last reconciliation bill through in lame duck
- Budget Chair Johnson says he's "not getting engagement from the White House, from either Senate or House leadership"
- Kennedy: “If you’re asking me if we have a plan right now, I wouldn’t recognize it if it jumped up and yodeled and bit me in the butt"
- Hawley + Rand say they won't vote for more war funding. Rand calls it "tone deaf" and "not listening to our electorate"
- Hawks say it's imperative to restock the Pentagon after 9 months of war.
- Murkowski + Collins don't like reconciliation
- Logistical challenges: Would need to survive two budget vote-a-ramas and get 50 in Senate and majority in the House
- Many Rs want to put lots more than Pentagon funding. Justice: “What we’re trying to do is jam 18 things into a four-thing box"
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A look at the progressive campaign to beat Schumer/Jeffries, which gives me strong Bannon/Gaetz deja vu - not the outcome, but a new political/media force seeing how big a swing it can take. semafor.com/article/11/10/20…
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“I’m going to be considering it,” Dean said in an interview with POLITICO regarding a potential Senate run.
Madeleine Dean ‘considering’ Senate bid against Fetterman politi.co/4zOSa0T
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury explains why she missed the Hegseth vote ⬇️
Tonight, House Republicans used a procedural motion to kill the impeachment of Pete Hegseth, by referring it to the Judiciary Committee.
Like other Members of Congress, Rep. Stansbury was blocked from entering the Capitol to vote due a traffic incident and a police escort of a bus during the vote. When she reached the chamber the vote had just gaveled out. She immediately filed a report of her vote of “NO” to the motion meant to kill the impeachment articles and refer them to the Judiciary Committee, as documented in the Congressional Record.
Pete Hegseth must be impeached now.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Despite this "traffic incident", 415 other members of the House were able to appear to vote.
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The date and time of the procedure was known since November 9th.
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BREAKING: The Kennedy family has filed for an injunction against President Trump's arch, saying it would destroy the solemn memorial to the Kennedy family at Arlington National Cemetery, disrupting sightlines and casting a shadow over JFK + RFK graves. s3.documentcloud.org/documen…
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Asked whether House Democrats will pursue Hegseth impeachment in a majority, Hakeem Jeffries told reporters:
“We'll have that conversation at the appropriate time, and that'll be led by Adam Smith, soon to be chair of the Armed Services Committee, and Jamie Raskin, the next chair of the judiciary.”
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Sen. Gillibrand giving a very passionate defense of Sen. Schumer, including raising money for candidates like Scott Colom. Says he had the strategic vision to pick up so many seats and foresees gratitude for Schumer for that vision
“This wave is bigger than the last wave in 2006”
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News: The Senate Republicans voted to proceed with their leadership elections rather than delay them and is now voting to reelect Sen. Thune and the rest of his team. Sen. Johnson is walking out rather than vote in leadership elections
“I really don’t like walking out but that’s what I said I would do and I did it”
Johnson also said Thune has been “unfairly attacked by our base”