Tester will also hold a subcommittee hearing on the spy balloon
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The Biden administration will brief the Gang of 8 next week on the Chinese spy balloon, according to a Schumer spokesperson
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SCOOP: George Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the Broadway Spider-Man Musical. Turns out, that wasn't the case.
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NEW: Spy balloons have been around since the late 1700s, but why are militaries around the world still flying them in 2023? My latest for .
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This comes as many Pennsylvania Republican officials are eager for DeSantis to challenge Trump in 2024 > twitter.com/hollyotterbein
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Three subpoenas, reviewed by POLITICO, from Jordan/Judiciary today:
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Cardona at DOE twitter.com/jordainc/statu
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Spartz won't seek any elected office in 2024. twitter.com/ercovey/status
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Dem Sen. Tester taking aim at Biden admin over Chinese spy balloon:
“We are still waiting for real answers on how this happened and what steps the Administration took to protect our country, and I will hold everyone accountable until I get them.”
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Interesting look at Rep. Tony Gonzales from and , who is taking a different approach on immigration than most in the House GOP
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NEW: Sen Ben Cardin (D) hasn’t decided if he’s retiring in 2024 but the shadow race for #MDSEN has begun anyway
PG County Exec Angela Alsobrooks + Rep David Trone are in process of hiring staff. Rep Jamie Raskin could run too
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Dems fret policing talks will be tangled with Tim Scott’s presidential hopes
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A month after the new Congress opened, the Senate is finally organized after Republicans approved their panel assignments.
The upper chamber had been running on the old roster of committees.
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Senate finally approves resolutions to organize committees
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What if the field is smaller than people think? and me on the strangely static state of the GOP primary, in which few have been eager to be a Trump target and most major donors are frozen
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McConnell and McCarthy announce Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the GOP response to Biden’s State of the Union next week.
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on being chosen to deliver the SOTU GOP response:
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Stabenow: "This is not a gang discussion.Not on the question of whether or not we’re going to crash the economy."
Senate gangs are not coming to the rescue on the debt limit,
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Cruz focusing on Senate race for now ... but he could get into the presidential if Trump flames out per . He's got a huge political network now which he could mobilize pretty quickly for a national campaign
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Several Dems are weighing runs against Cruz, especially after O'Rourke rose to national prominence in 2018 and raised more than $80M.
Dems view him as more vulnerable than his GOP counterparts, noting the close 2018 race and his 2021 trip to Cancun amid a power grid emergency
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Cruz could face another close Senate race, after O'Rourke lost by 2.6 points in 2018, a closer margin than is typical for the red state.
With a tough Senate map, Texas and Florida, both red states, are the only even conceivable pick up opportunities for Dems
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Graham suggested that Cruz is among the potential contenders who will assess Trump's strength in the primary.
"I think he’d be one of the people who will sort of look and see how Trump does and see what happens.”
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Republicans are wary of having another crowded field like in 2016. And as the GOP deals with the dynamic of having a former president mount a White House bid, many are eager to see another candidate
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He isn't explicitly ruling out another White House bid. But Cruz described the Senate as the "battlefield right now"
If he passes on running, he'll join several other senators who were once thought of as 2024 contenders but who aren't jumping in this cycle
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Cruz was the first Republican to jump into the 2016 presidential race. As 2024 approaches, though, he’s playing it uncharacteristically cool.
Right now, the Texas Republican is only talking about his Senate re-election
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🚨 Nothing is final. No decisions made and could change. But right now at least it looks like Lael Brainard for NEC; Jared Bernstein for CEA.
They’d join incoming CoS Jeff Zients as new Biden econ team charged with navigating a dangerous moment. 🚨
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Romney calls Nikki Haley “terrific” and notes she endorsed his presidential run.
“My guess is my endorsing her would be like handing her an anvil, so I’m not going to do that.”
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Very cool graphic and reporting by and on where the 21 McCarthy detractors landed on committees
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Schumer: "we're hopeful that we will put the committees in place tomorrow "
Dem Whip Katherine Clark addressed the coming Omar vote in Dems’ whip meeting today: “Kevin McCarthy is acting out of revenge instead of focusing on the real issues,” she said, per person in the room. Noted McCarthy got Santos to leave cmtes but said he should ask him to resign
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Schumer on Biden-McCarthy meeting on debt limit: "Speaker McCarthy if you don't have a plan you can't seriously pretend you're having any real negotiation"
"He doesn't have the votes for one, in all likelihood"
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Thune: "Any candidate in ’24 that has, as their principal campaign theme, a stolen election, is probably going to have the same issues that some of the ’22 candidates had"
on GOP angst over Arizona Senate
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Ilhan Omar, at times a lightning rod for House Democrats, is now a unifying force in her party’s quest to frustrate the GOP at every turn.
Today’s TOP READ via :
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NEW - in interview on eve of committee vote opens up about Foreign Affairs + becoming a Dem unifier.
What's she make of Dem support after being a lightning rod in the past? She responded with her father's advice: “It’s hard to hate up close.”
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A new complaint to Congress raises ethical concerns around the legal recruiting work of Jane Roberts, the wife of Chief Justice John Roberts w/
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Musk blows off Dems in first Capitol tour as Twitter CEO
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New: House now planning to *tomorrow* on Omar resolution
House Rules going to meet tonight on resolution from Rep Max Miller
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