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Morgan Rimmer

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Producer with @CNN on Capitol Hill | Atlanta/Nashville/Charleston/DC | @VanderbiltU ‘20 | send tips to [email protected] | dm for signal

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After a 70-minute meeting with Mike Johnson, MTG told us she aired her grievances with him, told him not to move forward with any aid to Ukraine and drop his FISA plans. She doesn’t say when she’d move to oust him.
She also says that Johnson offered her a position on an advisory…

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House managers brought second Trump impeachment articles to Senate on 1/25/2021. Motion to dismiss vote was on 1/26/2021. All but 5 Senate Rs voted to dismiss

Pretty similar to the timing Dems would be taking now

apnews.com/article/senate…

apnews.com/article/trump-…

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McConnell backs legislative effort to take aim at Chinese ownership of TikTok

“Requiring the divestment of Beijing-influenced entitlement from TikTok would land squarely within established constitutional precedent, and it would begin to turn back the tide of an enormous threat…

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Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s strongest backers, breaks with Trump over his abortion stance. 

“I respectfully disagree with President Trump’s statement that abortion is a states’ rights issue. Dobbs does not require that conclusion legally and the pro-life movement has always…

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New — Speaker Mike Johnson is now responding to MTG, telling us in a statement: “I respect Marjorie. She will always have an open door to the Speaker’s office. We do have honest differences on strategy sometimes but share the same conservative beliefs.

“In spite of our…

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New: Congress just fully funded the government. The Senate passed the minibus by a 74-24 vote. Now goes to POTUS for signature

And it only took roughly half a year and multiple rounds of stopgap bills, and creating this whole new 'laddered' system, and two House speakers, and

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A beautiful sight: Senators actually sitting in their seats and voting one by one, plowing through amendments.

Why can’t it be like this all the time?

A beautiful sight: Senators actually sitting in their seats and voting one by one, plowing through amendments. Why can’t it be like this all the time?
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Schumer reiterates that members need to sit in their seats to vote, to make the process move faster.

The second vote took around 12 minutes (this is so much faster than the Senate usually votes). 8 more roll call votes are expected (as well as three voice votes)

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