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The House of Representatives voted 223-207 to pass the censure resolution on Wednesday, with Reps. Adam Kinzinger (Illinois) and Liz Cheney (Wyoming) the only Republicans to break with their party and side with Democrats across the aisle. Ohio Republican David Joyce voted ‘present,’ declining to take a position.  With the …

The former president once again blasted the House investigation into January 6, with a Sunday statement asking why that “protest” continues to be investigated, but those who “violently burned down and took over Democrat-run cities” are not, referring to 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in cities like Portland, Oregon.  “If …

The disclosure was made by the committee chair, Representative Adam Schiff (D-California), to Yahoo News, the same outlet that exposed the agency’s lethal connivance. He said the congressional body was “seeking information about it,” having reached out “to the agencies” — an apparent reference to the CIA and Office of …

You might have missed this over the weekend, but the Biden Administration chose to remove border wall contracts while using all the unspent cash on environmental projects instead – including “biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys” in the border region, according to the statement. Think about that and you will …

The CEO of Facebook posted a lengthy reaction to this week’s outage of company services and the congressional testimony of Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager who accused the company of various sins, including putting profit before the safety of children. Much of the essay was a rejection of …

Biden spoke with lawmakers from his party on Friday afternoon, shortly before they were set to decamp from Washington after another day without the passage of two mammoth spending bills: a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that already has bipartisan support in the Senate, and a whopping $3.5 trillion bill rolling …

Western mainstream media yesterday began posting in tandem a purported ‘study’ from which Reuters spun its own headline: ‘China’s Belt and Road plans losing momentum as opposition, debt mount – study’.  The study, as noted in the report, was sponsored by the US government through the surrogate of its own …

“We now estimate that Treasury is likely to exhaust its extraordinary measures if Congress has not acted to raise or suspend the debt limit by October 18,” Yellen wrote in a letter, released Tuesday, to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and other congressional leaders.  Failure to raise the debt ceiling, …

Inan article published by Responsible Statecraft, the online magazine of the Quincy Institute, Anatol Lieven, a senior research fellow on Russia and Europe at the institute, comments on the ‘Sustaining Deterrence in Europe’ amendment to the Defense Authorization Act 2022. The amendment reads as follows: “The [House Armed Services] Committee …

The Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks (HAVANA) Act was approved by the House on Tuesday in a vote of 427-0.  The bill now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk, as the Senate passed it without opposition back in June. The bipartisan brainchild of Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), …