Meet the House GOP’s newly crowned comedy king

Every class has its clown, and in the House GOP no one has earned that reputation quite like Rep. Tim Burchett. When the Tennessee Republican first met the wife of Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) in 2018, he simultaneously complimented her appearance while jokingly digging at her husband’s — taking off his glasses, handing them to her and saying: “Ma’am, you need these more...

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McCarthy relents on key conservative demand — but uncertainty remains over speaker bid

Kevin McCarthy has made perhaps his biggest concession so far to the band of conservatives standing in the way of his path to speaker. Yet it’s not clear if it will be enough to clinch his gavel. In a lengthy conference call on Sunday, McCarthy and his team informed members that he would lower the barriers for rank-and-file members to attempt to depose a sitting speaker,...

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Outgoing Republican leaders condemn Santos, suggest resignation

Scandal-plagued Rep.-elect George Santos "is certainly is going to have to consider resigning," outgoing Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) said on "Fox News Sunday." "Right now, he would not be on the committee that I led," said Brady when asked by guest anchor Gillian Turner whether he would have been comfortable chairing a committee that included Santos. "And, frankly, he's got...

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Opinion | The House Should Not Have Released Trump’s Personal Tax Returns

The House Ways and Means Committee just released to the public six years of personal tax returns for former President Donald Trump. Trump could have released those returns when he was first a candidate, or as president, or when he recently announced his third candidacy. His excuse for withholding his personal tax returns from public scrutiny — that he could not release them...

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Lula set for inauguration to preside over polarized Brazil

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be sworn in Sunday in the capital, Brasilia, and assume office for the third time, marking the culmination of a political comeback sure to thrill supporters and enrage opponents in a fiercely polarized nation. But Lula’s presidency is unlikely to be like his previous two mandates, coming after the tightest presidential...

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‘New chapters’ as Croatia joins euro and free-movement area

European Commission’s von der Leyen hails “two immense achievements.” from Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories https://ift.tt/r7Z2OkH via IFT...

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Appeals court upholds Florida high school’s transgender bathroom ban

MIAMI — A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida school district’s policy of separating school bathrooms based on biological sex is constitutional. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced its 7-4 decision on Friday, ruling that the St. Johns County School Board did not discriminate against transgender students based on sex, or violate federal civil rights...

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