Congress
July 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress for the fourth time. Senate Majority Leader Schumer grudgingly joined in the invitation and grudgingly attended when Netanyahu spoke yesterday. Johnson and Netanyahu appeared publicly together for brief statements before the speech (video below). Thank you for your leadership, Speaker Johnson. Roughly half of the Democrats in Congress boycotted the speech. Rashida Tlaib
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May 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In yesterday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt, a catfight broke out among Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Democrats Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Insults were traded, involving Crockett’s fake eyelashes and Greene’s “bleach blonde bad built butch body.” You have to see it to believe it: This video lays out what happened in tonight’s heated exchange in the oversight hearing pic.twitter.com/7QTmpsa1eA — Acyn
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March 20, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Control of both the House and the Senate will be up for grabs in November. It would be great for Republicans to take control of the Senate, but it is absolutely vital that they retain, and if possible expand, their grip on the House. Today, Rasmussen Reports released their most recent generic Congressional preference numbers: With less than eight months to go before election day, Republicans have a six-point lead
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March 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
DEI (racial and other quotas) is intrinsically evil. At The Hill, Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson reveal a shocking, practical downside to DEI hysteria: “DEI killed the CHIPS Act.” The issue is critical because Taiwan now produces 90% of the world’s advanced microchips, and China has indicated its intention to annex Taiwan in the near future. So the CHIPS Act sought to incentivize chip production in the U.S. Unfortunately, that
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February 3, 2024 — John Hinderaker
People often talk about one thing or another as being “broken.” But what is really broken is the legislative process in Congress. The manner in which vitally important bills are enacted today is light years away from what the Founders intended and the Constitution contemplates. When Congressmen are voting for bills sight unseen–bills that have been crafted and negotiated in darkness–we have at best a semi-democracy. This tweet by Senator
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December 19, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
Sen. Ben Cardin, Maryland Democrat, has fired aide Aidan Maese-Czeropski for, as John explains, posting online an amateur porn video of himself receiving anal sex in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing room. “While some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement,” Maese-Czeropski said in a statement, “I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace. Any attempts to characterize my actions otherwise are fabricated.” In reality,
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September 4, 2023 — Scott Johnson
When I attended the Pritikin program in 2016, Rep. Charlie Rangel was one of my classmates. Rep. Rangel’s long career in politics was preceded by his distinguished Army service in Korea. Contrary to my first impression when I met him in the waiting room before our initial physical on Monday morning, I found him to be a gregarious guy. He attended by himself, but he joined the group tables at
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July 24, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Devon Archer is one of Hunter Biden’s former business partners. He is now facing jail for his role in a $60 million bond fraud, but is scheduled to testify this week before the House Oversight Committee. Miranda Devine reports that Archer will testify about meetings he witnessed that were attended by Joe Biden either in person or via speakerphone when Hunter would call the gentleman we have come to know
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July 15, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
A new Issues&Insights/TIPP poll found that 56% of those surveyed think it’s either very likely or somewhat likely that President Joe Biden took bribes from foreign nationals during his vice presidency. Just 27% said it was not very likely and 18% were not sure. Participants were asked, “How likely is it that the claims made by government whistleblowers alleging that President Biden, his son Hunter, and other members of his
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June 8, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I have been waiting for a New York Post editorial or column to bring us up to date on House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s struggle to extract the Form FD-1023 in which the FBI “recorded allegations, from a long-term trusted, paid confidential FBI source, that Joe Biden was allegedly paid a $5 million bribe by someone in Ukraine while he was vice president.” Miranda Devine performs the service in
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May 23, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
During a Monday meeting with House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), the FBI refused once again to turn over an FD-1023 (a report from an informant) that allegedly details a bribery scheme between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national. Comer issued a subpoena for this document three weeks ago. In a May 3 letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Chuck Grassley
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March 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Do not get within spitting distance of Dem Rep. Jamaal Bowman when he is instructing the press (“ask them every day — what are they going to do about gun violence?”), expounding on the need for “gun control” (“Why the hell won’t you do anything to save America’s children?”), and condemning colleagues who who disagree with him (“they’re all cowards,” “they’re freaking cowards,” “they’re gutless,” etc.). You are highly likely
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March 10, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
In testimony before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday, former Centers for Disease Control and Protection Director Robert Redfield confirmed that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had deliberately tried to shut down debate about the lab leak theory. Lawmakers focused on a Jan. 31, 2020, email from Scripps Research Institute virologist Dr. Kristian Andersen to Fauci in which
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March 10, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I think the Twitter Files revelations are the most important story out there. Yesterday morning journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified at the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files conducted by the House Judiciary Committee. This was Taibbi’s opening as posted at his Racket News site (C-SPAN video of the hearing is posted below in its entirety — Taibbi’s statement begins at about
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March 8, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Happier with their government, anyway? I find this Rasmussen poll finding inexplicable: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 28% of Likely U.S. Voters rate Congress’ performance as good or excellent, up from 25% in December and the highest approval in more than 15 years of polling this question. Thirty-nine percent (39%) think Congress is doing a poor job, down from 45% in December, and the
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March 8, 2023 — Elizabeth Stauffer
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was not amused by Tucker Carlson’s airing of unseen footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Monday night. He took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to express his anger: Last night, millions of Americans tuned into one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on cable television. With contempt for the facts, disregard of the risks, and knowing full well he
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January 11, 2023 — Scott Johnson
AP congressional reporter Farnoush Amiri report via Twitter (below) that Speaker Kevin McCarthy will follow through on his promise to remove Reps. Eric Swalwell (Intelligence), Adam Schiff (Intelligence), and Ilhan Omar (Foreign Affairs) from their committee assignments. Of the three, I think Schiff is the worst. He should be tarred and feathered and run out of town for abuse of his position as Intelligence Committee chairman to perpetuate the Russia
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