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      Senate Defeats Cruz Amendment That Would Have Authorized War With Iran

      One observer called the Texas Republican's proposal "pernicious."

      Jake Johnson
      Mar 28, 2023

      Update:

      The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted 55-41 to reject an amendment from Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, that would have empowered the president to wage war against Iran.

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      McConnell Among GOP Senators Calling 'Bullsh*t' on Tucker Carlson Jan. 6 'Whitewash'

      "The American people saw what happened on January 6," said one Republican lawmaker. "They've seen the people that got injured, they saw the damage to the building."

      Brett Wilkins
      Mar 07, 2023

      After Fox News' Tucker Carlson falsely dismissed the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump as mostly nonviolent, numerous Republican senators including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday blasted the right-wing opinion host's "whitewashing" of the deadly insurrection.

      Carlson—who publicly promoted former President Donald Trump's 2020 election lies while privately calling the GOP loser's claims "absurd"—said Monday on his program that "very little about January 6 was organized or violent" and that "surveillance video from inside the Capitol shows mostly peaceful chaos."

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      Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy will hold a town hall meeting at the Fox Theater in Bakersfield.

      Can a Discharge Petition Save Economy From GOP Hostage-Taking Over Debt Ceiling?

      The great debt limit game of chicken has begun. How do we stop it.

      Fred Wertheimer
      Jan 21, 2023

      We knew this was coming.

      Last year, there were signals that Congress would have to deal with increasing the debt limit ceiling sometime in the second half of 2023. “Extraordinary measures” could extend that deadline closer to the end of the year.

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