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We all know how poorly members of Congress behave and represent the American people, but now lawmakers are dropping damning information allegedly revealing how dire the situation on Capitol Hill really is. As TGP readers know, several members have shown multiple signs of cognitive decline, and there are two glaring examples that immediately come to mind. The first is late California Senator Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein held onto office despite being so diminished mentally that she had no choice but to give up power of attorney to her daughter as the New York Post notes. Then, in December 2024, Texas GOP...

Capitol Police arrested a 35-year-old man from Virginia on Wednesday (January 8) after he allegedly attempted to set his car on fire near the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on Capitol Hill. The incident occurred as President-elect Donald Trump was visiting Republican lawmakers and paying respects to the late former President Jimmy Carter. The man, identified as Adrian J. Hinton, reportedly parked his vehicle in front of the memorial and set a bag on top of it ablaze. The bag extinguished itself before officers arrived and detained the suspect. Capitol Police's Hazardous Incident Response Division inspected the vehicle and found no...

The government spending bill pushed by Speaker Johnson appears to have failed after Elon Musk and President Trump came out against it. What I would give to be a fly on the wall during this meeting.

Transgender activists broadcast their intrusive takeover of at least one women’s bathroom on Capitol Hill on December 5. The transgender takeover marked an escalation by the mostly male movement in their campaign to demand access to spaces that are used by women to guard their sexual privacy and career opportunities in a diverse society. The activists were later constrained by the U.S. Capitol policy, according to a tweet shared by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC). She has recently pressured GOP leaders to recognize that incoming House Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride is a man, despite establishment media support for his claim of...

Well, this is a bit odd. The U.S. Capitol Police arrested a congressional staffer on Monday morning after he was caught trying to smuggle ammo into the Cannon House Office Building. The staffer works for Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), who currently serves on the House Appropriations Committee and is the Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration. The USCP said in a statement: At approximately 8:45 a.m., a House staffer entered the Cannon House Office Building and put his bag through screening. USCP officers noticed what appeared to be ammunition on the x-ray screen. After a hand search of...

Personal information for some 3,191 congressional staffers has been leaked across the dark web, according to new research from internet security firm Proton being released Tuesday. The firm said the data available in the hidden online hubs includes passwords, IP addresses and information from social media platforms. “Many of these leaks likely occurred because staffers used their official email addresses to sign up for various services, including high-risk sites such as dating and adult websites, which were later compromised in data breaches,” Proton said in a statement. “This situation highlights a critical security lapse, where sensitive work-related emails became entangled...

ANALYSIS — President Joe Biden on Wednesday headed to Italy for a G7 summit that lacks a central theme — but with the Middle East on fire, Europe drifting to the right, China flooding markets with cheap goods and his own political future in doubt. He also left one day after his son, Hunter Biden, was found guilty by a Wilmington, Del., jury on three gun-related charges, possibly slowing any momentum he picked up from recent positive economic trends and a state visit in France that honored D-Day veterans while talking of increased cooperation with America’s oldest ally. The trip...

An Instagram account called “Dear White Staffers,” which was once a voice for “people of color” on Capitol Hill, has reportedly become a font of anti-Israel propaganda that, critics say, is driving antisemitism among congressional staff. The Jewish Insider published an investigative report on the Dear White Staffers account on Tuesday: Dear White Staffers began as an account focused on the experience of staffers of color on the Hill, rising in prominence in 2022 for posting anonymous, unvetted testimonials from congressional staffers about lawmakers and staff for whom they worked. The account, whose owner had been highly secretive, has grown...

Federal lawmaker staff members heard about the joy of saving your child’s life from chemical abortion this week as Heartbeat International hosted a Congressional briefing on the life-saving Abortion Pill Reversal protocol. Heartbeat regularly takes moms and their children to Capitol Hill to raise awareness of pregnancy help and educate Members of Congress that pregnancy help organizations are good for America. APR mom Katelynn bravely told her story of feeling like she had no choice but abortion when facing an unplanned pregnancy, and of how she immediately regretted taking the chemical abortion pill, changed her mind, found the Abortion Pill...

ROANOKE, VA — Local man Kamal Ram found himself this morning pining for the good old days when a guy could log onto the internet without seeing gay Capitol sex tapes. "Ah, those were the days," said Ram wistfully. "We lived in simpler times, last Thursday." According to sources, Ram had enjoyed a morning cup of coffee and had a nice devotional time before innocently opening his laptop to watch some basketball highlights. "Oh, come on!" said Ram as his eyes were immediately assaulted with a gay Capitol sex tape. "I didn't sign up for this! I just wanted to...

It was a shock to see the Insurrectum in the Hart Senate Building in which an aide to Senator Ben Cardin, Aidan, got his Maese Czeropskied. However, that video was recorded by the Mounter filming Aidan, the Mountee.So what about the official surveillance cameras which are all over the buildings on Capitol Hill? Did they not happen to be on in that chamber? If so, what did the Capitol Hill police do with that recording of an Insurrectum? Did they just avoid taking any action because the Insurrectum involved the aide to a Democrat Senator?

VIDEOHunter Biden declared before his God...and his dealer...on Capitol Hill that he is an innocent man without a trace of corruption nor crack in his bloodstream. It was a performance that brought tears of joy to MSNBC...and tears of laughter to almost everybody else.

Breaking: Anti-Israel protests take place on Capitol Hill

US Capitol Police evacuated the Senate office building in Washington, DC, Wednesday after receiving reports of a possible active shooter. “Our officers are searching in and around the Senate Office Buildings in response to a concerning 911 call,” the department tweeted at 2:45 p.m. Police asked everyone inside to shelter in place, although reports of gunshots were not confirmed. The city’s Metro Police Department said the active shooter report “appears to be a bad call” and no shooter was located and there were no injuries, according to Politico. The office building is just a few blocks from the courthouse where...

Trump-Ukraine impeachment conspirator Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, USA Ret., had a meltdown Wednesday night over the censure of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) by the Republican controlled House of Representatives over his lies and deceitful conduct falsely accusing President Trump of Russian collusion. Vindman attacked Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Breitbart reporter Kristina Wong, calling Wong a “bitch.” To McCarthy, Vindman said: Vindman replied, “You are pathetic. And your deceptive efforts to damn & damage the valiant work of honorable men like @AdamSchiff will bare no fruit. In 2024, you will be sweep away & become a footnote...

President Biden fired the opening shots of the battle over spending and taxes that will consume Capitol Hill this year when he proposed on Tuesday a 5 percent Medicare surtax on people who earn more than $400,000 a year. The White House is hailing the proposal, which is part of Biden’s budget plan, as something that will extend Medicare’s solvency by 25 years, but Republicans are slamming it as a “massive” tax hike and key Democrats are ducking for cover, declining to say whether they will back it. The proposal reopens the fierce political battle that wracked Capitol Hill more...

NBC News kicked off White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend by unveiling a new studio on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Friday night. Friday’s bash was attended by top NBC executives and journalists from across the network’s various news brands, including MSNBC, CNBC and Peacock.

The "aggressive" fox that Capitol Police captured Tuesday tested positive for rabies after biting at least nine people around Capitol Hill, according to District of Columbia Department of Health officials. The female fox was "humanely euthanized" earlier Wednesday in order to test it for rabies, DC Health said Wednesday evening, noting that the agency is contacting "all human victims who were bitten by the fox." Some on the internet were quick to call for the fox -- who was captured with the help of the Humane Rescue Alliance -- to be freed. "As a fox, I cannot speak. And too...

The trucks appeared on Capitol Hill early Saturday morning. Not 18-wheeler rigs, barreling down across the Canadian border from Ottawa. But perhaps in anticipation of those vehicles arriving. They were big trucks. Dump trucks. Garbage trucks. Snow plows with salt spreaders. Some emblazoned with the Architect of the Capitol stenciling on the side. The trucks blocked off portions of Pennsylvania and Maryland Avenues on the west end of the U.S. Capitol. U.S. Capitol Police then stationed some other cruisers with lights in other locations around the Capitol complex. "Due to the Truckers Convoy, the following road closures are in effect...

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger said Tuesday that an officer conducted a security check of a Capitol Hill office that was left open, rejecting a GOP congressman’s claim that police were involved in an illegal probe last November. In a Twitter thread Tuesday, Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Tex.) claimed without evidence that “The @CapitolPolice Intelligence Division investigated my office illegally and one of my staffers caught them in the act.” Nehls accused Capitol Police leadership after one of the officers entered his office in the Longworth House Office Building with no prior notice Nov. 20, 2021, ahead of the...