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July 4, 2020

Rep. Eric Swalwell calls for a nationwide mask mandate: 'You're protecting others'

Democratic California Congressman Eric Swalwell said Saturday that he agrees there should likely be a nationwide mask mandate amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

July 3, 2020

Jim Banks on Russian bounty report: Nancy Pelosi is attacking ‘career intelligence officers’

Rep. Jim Banks pushed back on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticism of President Trump’s response to the Russian bounty report, saying that the call was made by “career intelligence officers.”

July 2, 2020

Not all statues are the same: Pelosi says difference between removing Confederate leaders, past presidents

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday made a distinction between taking down statues of Confederate leaders and those of past U.S. presidents who were slaveowners. 

July 2, 2020

Pelosi denies prior knowledge of Russia bounty reports: 'Intelligence community should have brought it to us'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wasn't aware that U.S. intelligence officials believed Russian was paying bounties to Afghan fighters to kill American soldiers and said she should have been briefed on such "consequential" information.

July 2, 2020

Pelosi attacks Trump over coronavirus, Russia hostility: 'The president himself is a hoax'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attempted to turn one of President Trump's favorite attack lines back on him Thursday, claiming that "the president himself is a hoax" rather than the coronavirus or Russian interference in U.S. elections.

July 2, 2020

Pelosi: 'I'm trying to save the world from coronavirus'

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said Thursday she’s “trying to save the world from coronavirus” after a Republican lawmaker accused her of being too busy to comment on the rioters tearing down statues in her district. 

July 2, 2020

Gang of Eight briefed by intelligence chiefs on Russia bounty allegations

The country's top intelligence officials on Thursday held a classified briefing with congressional leaders amid demands for more information on the reports that Russian agents offered Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan thousands of dollars in bounties for killing American troops.

July 2, 2020

Sen. Tom Cotton: When Trump gets hawkish on Russia, Dems 'curl up in the fetal position'

Although Democrats claim to be outraged over explosive reports alleging that President Trump had been aware of classified intelligence indicating that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban for the deaths of American soldiers, when the administration gets "hawkish" on Russia they "curl up in the fetal position," Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said.

July 2, 2020

House passes bill to sanction Chinese entities that menace Hong Kong, banks that work with them

The House of Representatives on Wednesday night passed a bill to impose sanctions on entities that help violate Hong Kong's autonomy and financial institutions that do business with them, a response to the passage of a "national security" law that tightened Beijing's grip on Hong Kong.

July 1, 2020

Sen. Thom Tillis: Democrat majority in Senate — goodbye filibuster and hello radical, socialist agenda

It’s time for Senate Democrats to come clean about their plan to fundamentally transform America through one simple procedural vote.