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Rep. Elliot Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced Friday the Committee would begin working on a resolution to hold Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in contempt after he spoke at the Republican National Convention this week. Engel, D-N.Y., said the resolution was a result of Pompeo’s “ongoing refusal” to comply with subpoena records for “political misuse” of State Department resources. At the convention, Pompeo broke with diplomatic tradition to deliver a speech from Jerusalem touting the president’s foreign policy agenda. The speech stirred an outcry from Democrats who claimed it violated the Hatch Act, but Republicans shrugged...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives voted on Saturday to provide the cash-strapped Postal Service with $25 billion and block policy changes that have stirred concerns about mail-in balloting ahead of the Nov. 3 election. **SNIP** As lawmakers prepared to vote, Trump took to Twitter to accuse Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of seeking unnecessary funding for the Postal Service and trying to pull off a “Universal Mail-In Ballot Scam.” “Vote NO to the Pelosi/Schumer money wasting HOAX which is taking place now,” the president wrote. DeJoy told a Senate committee on Friday that the...

The House of Representatives kicked off heated debate Saturday morning over a $25 billion funding bill for the United States Postal Service (USPS) that Democrats say is needed to prevent President Trump from trying to "destroy" the Post Office before the 2020 mail-in election, while Republicans dismissed this "conspiracy theory" and blasted Democrats for staging a purely political vote between two presidential conventions. "I am again on the floor of the House of Representatives watching a cartoon," said Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark. "About the only outcome this debate is going to have today is one of entertainment value -- nothing...

@RepThomasMassieSpeaker Pelosi said we'd probably be back in August to vote on a PPP bill. What she didn't say is that PPP would stand for "Pelosi's Political Posturing." Here's the two-minute floor speech I delivered today debunking the Post Office conspiracy theory the Democrats cooked up. Video...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has denounced the QAnon conspiracy theory, becoming the highest-ranking congressional Republican to publicly condemn the theory. McCarthy said during an interview on Fox News on Thursday evening that “there is no place” in the GOP for the theory, which posits that President Trump and his allies are working to expose an elite group of Democrats, media figures and celebrities who are running an international child trafficking ring. The unfounded theory drew broader attention after Marjorie Taylor Greene won the GOP primary for Georgia’s 14th District last week. Greene previously embraced the theory in YouTube...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered the power to be shut off at TikTok influencers’ “party house” over gatherings at the residence in violation of new rules implemented in the wake of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Garcetti has authorized the city to disconnect utility service at a “party house” in the Hollywood Hills that has been deemed in “violation of public health orders,” according to a statement on Wednesday by the Los Angeles mayor.

Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, called the House's planned monthlong recess "absurd" and urged Congress to continue working on coronavirus relief legislation. Khanna, a progressive, said he's remained in Washington advocating for a deal between Congress and the White House. "I think Congress should be in session," Khanna said Tuesday during a Facebook town hall with his constituents. "I think it's absurd for Congress to be going on a break during a pandemic and a national crisis."

Georgia House candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene is coming under renewed scrutiny for her past racist rhetoric and embrace of conspiracy theories as she heads into Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff. Greene, who faces neurosurgeon John Cowan in the 14th Congressional District, has made a number of bigoted remarks, such as calling African Americans “slaves to the Democratic Party.” She has also embraced conspiracy theories like those put forth by QAnon. If Greene wins on Tuesday and in November, she would be the first open QAnon supporter elected to Congress.And while House GOP leaders have condemned videos showing Greene making racist and...

Washington - The House's No. 2 Democrat announced Monday the lower chamber will not return for votes in Washington until mid-September after negotiations between Democratic leaders and the White House on the next coronavirus relief measure collapsed last week, leaving millions of jobless Americans without immediate relief. According to the schedule released by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Monday, the House will not convene for votes until September 14. Members will be working in their home districts and conducting committee work for the first two weeks of September. Lawmakers were initially scheduled to return September 8. Hoyer said lawmakers...

On Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) talks about what he was trying to expose about Washington in HBO's The Swamp and explains what really bothers him about what happens behind the scenes. Audio...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) will endorse the primary opponent of Rep. Ross Spano, a fellow Florida congressman under investigation by the Department of Justice over a possible campaign finance violation. Gaetz's camp is casting the decision to endorse Scott Franklin as a response to House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney's (R-Wyo.) support of a primary challenger to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). Gaetz and other Republicans criticized Cheney at a House GOP conference meeting two weeks ago over that issue. They also questioned whether Cheney was sufficiently loyal to Trump. After the meeting, Gaetz publicly called on Cheney to step down...

August 4, 2020: Arizona - State Primary Kansas - State Primary Michigan - State Primary Missouri - State Primary Washington - State Primary MICHIGAN polls close at 8 pm EDT KS 7 CDT MO 7 CDT . Michigan #3 leaders are : Lynn Afendoulis (R) Peter Meijer (R) Michigan 10, OPEN .... safe Republican: Doug Slocum (R) $532,505 Lisa McClain (R) raised $1,772,125 Shane Hernandez (R) Michigan #11 Eric Esshaki (R) Carmelita Greco (R) . District 13: Rashida Tlaib (D)* - SQUAD leader Brenda Jones (D) - Detroit City Council President . Missouri: I don’t see any competitive GOP primaries....

This is a great 30 minute local radio interview with Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) the most conservative member of the House!Rep. Thomas Massie talks about the upcoming documentary on HBO: "The Swamp". Also talks: - Big Tech censorship. (Gives a shout out to Parler!). - Doctors summit promoting HCQ. - More HCQ and mask mandates. - Dr. Birx and her antics. - The lockdowns in Kentucky and legal battles against the governor. - Unemployment in Kentucky thanks to the Democrat governor (over 40%!). - Coronavirus relief package. - False positive tests for COVID-19. Host says the results are a LIE!-...

Anthony Fauci, the most clear and present danger to the survival of the American Republic today, appeared before some committee or other in the House of Representatives Friday morning. There he had to face a Jim Jordan who was armed for bear, determined to expose Fauci for the raging hypocrite he truly is. I don’t have time to transcribe the clip below, but you should take the time to watch and hear it. As you do, you will see Fauci repeatedly refuse to admit to the obvious fact that the enormous crowds of protesters and rioters we saw throughout the...

The Congressional hearings over the past 2 days – AG Barr on Tuesday and tech CEOs yesterday – clearly demonstrate a major source of the problems in America today: the caliber of people the American people keep electing to represent them. As a result both hearings were basically a waste of time. The Barr hearing was intended to provide campaign footage for Democrats.  The Big Tech antitrust hearings that theoretically examined the conservative bias of various platforms simply served as an arena for the CEOs to provide plausible deniability. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon – oddly nobody from Twitter – all...

House Democrats Madeleine Dean (Penn.) and Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) accused Attorney General William Barr of being sexist and hostile during his contentious Judiciary Committee testimony on Tuesday. Democrats repeatedly interrupted Barr at the hearing and condemned him as corrupt, racist, and dangerous, but Dean said Wednesday that Barr was "disrespectful" and particularly mistreated women. "We have to hold him accountable to the American people," Dean said on MSNBC. "You saw his affect yesterday. He was disrespectful, spoke over top of every one of us. In particular, he spoke over women. He was flanked by at least 10 staffers, not a...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that lawmakers will be required to wear masks on the House floor to avoid potential spread of the coronavirus. Pelosi first floated the mask mandate during a Wednesday call with House Democrats and later unveiled the rule in the chamber. Lawmakers and their staff members will be required to wear face masks while they are in the House except when recognized to speak. Failure to comply will be considered "serious breach of decorum," the California Democrat said. The decision comes after Rep. Louis Gohmert tested positive for the coronavirus earlier in the day. The Texas...

TEXAS Representative Louie Gohmert has tested positive for coronavirus just before he was set to accompany Donald Trump on Air Force 1. The 66-year-old tested positive in a pre-screen at the White House on Wednesday. The eighth-term Republican attended the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday where Attorney General Bill Barr was quizzed by reps. He was sat at the podium asking questions without wearing a face mask. Gohmert previously told CNN that he was not wearing a covering as he was regularly being tested for the virus. "[I]f I get it, you'll never see me without a mask," he...

GOP House Conference Chairwoman and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney was confronted by several Republican members of the House during a closed-door meeting of party representatives earlier this week over her “non-support” of President Donald Trump, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie told Newsmax TV on Thursday. Video...

Rep. Massie appears on One America News Network (OAN): - Talks about his opposition to new stimulus - Liability protections for small businesses - COVID-19 and potential for election fraud - Discusses the Kentucky couple who were forced to wear ankle bracelets