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Five House Republicans helped Democrats kill a motion to censure Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver (NJ) on Wednesday. GOP Congressman Clay Higgins forced a censure vote on LaMonica McIver after she was charged with assaulting federal agents at an ICE facility in May. Every Democrat, with the help of five insufferable Republicans, killed the motion. The five Republican lawmakers included: Don Bacon, Mike Flood, Dave Joyce, Mike Turner and David Valadao.

Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) said in a Wednesday interview that he would support a theoretical vote to remove from the GOP conference the eight colleagues who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in the historic Tuesday vote. “If it was up to me, I’d vote for it,” Joyce said in an interview on CNN’s “Inside Politics.” “It’s a waste of time having conversations with these people,” he added. “And I think we need to start working and, going forward, as a unified group.” Joyce, who chairs the moderate caucus known as the Republican Governance Group, criticized his Republican...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) lashed out on Wednesday when she learned that Israel’s president will deliver a speech next week to the U.S. Congress. The Messenger asked Omar about the President Isaac Herzog’s upcoming speech on July 19th – to which she first expressed outrage before admitting that she had no idea he was even coming. Omar said that there was “no way in hell” that she would attend the speech, adding: “I didn’t even know he was coming.” Omar, who has a long history of spewing anti-Semitic hate, generated pushback across the political spectrum over her remarks. “She didn’t...

Synopsis: This morning, a former prosecutor from Ohio, Rep. Dave Joyce, went on Fox & Friends and blasted the notion that FBI text messages have been lost. He says as a prosecutor, he could subpoena them from the big phone companies and they would gather them up swiftly.