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Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY) was caught paying a Chinese Communist Party agent thousands of dollars to place ads in a Chinese-owned newspaper. Suozzi also happens to be on the House committee currently investigating China’s alleged ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-AR) easily rebuffed a challenge to his speakership set forth by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-LA), who submitted a motion to remove the current speaker from his office to a chorus of boos from the House chamber.
The vote was 359-43, with 7 votes abstaining. The majority of Democrats, 163, voted down the measure, joining 196 Republicans, who did the same. Donald Trump praised the vote, saying “[I]f we show DISUNITY, which will be portrayed as CHAOS, it will negatively affect everything! Mike Johnson is a good man who is trying very hard.”
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The House voted overwhelmingly to protect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from a conservative coup Wednesday, torpedoing an effort by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to oust the GOP leader from the top job for his willingness to cut deals with Democrats on weighty legislation.
The chamber voted 359-43-7 on a motion to table, or dismiss, Greene’s motion-to-vacate resolution, preventing the removal proposal from being considered.
In an extraordinary move in the deeply divided House, 163 Democrats — more than three-quarters of their caucus — voted to keep Johnson in power. And in a demonstration of the GOP’s support for Johnson, only 11 conservative Republicans voted to send Greene’s motion to the floor. The chamber erupted in boos on both sides of the aisle when Greene began reading her resolution.
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On Wednesday, Mike Johnson gathered with other Republican lawmakers in front of the Capitol to promote their “election integrity” bill to stop residents who are not U.S. citizens from voting. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare, and there is already a law prohibiting it. Speaker Johnson was joined by far-right figures including Stephen Miller and Republican lawmakers Chip Roy and Mike Lee, who participated in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
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Excerpt from www.politicususa.com
As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene initiated her motion to vacate against Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), she was loudly booed in the House.
Video of Greene being booed:
Marjorie Taylor Greene initiates the motion to vacate called and is booed by the House pic.twitter.com/TqCDx5Xl6g
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 8, 2024
Greene announced that she was initiating her motion to declare the speaker chair vacant and the boos grew in the House chamber.
Rep. Greene seriously listed one of the reasons for Johnson to be removed as that he allowed a vote on expelling George Santos:
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants Mike Johnson gone because he allowed the vote to expel George Santos. pic.twitter.com/zbBr3cuIBO
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 8, 2024
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A pair of top House Republicans are demanding the Department of Justice (DOJ) open up a criminal probe into former Trump attorney Michael Cohen for allegedly lying to Congress.
On Wednesday, the GOP chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on federal law enforcement to examine Cohen’s 2019 testimony to Congress as evidence of perjury. Lawmakers first made the criminal referral on Feb. 28, 2019.
“Cohen’s testimony is now the basis for a politically motivated prosecution of a former president and current declared candidate for that office,” wrote James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in the joint letter. “In light of the reliance on the testimony from this repeated liar, we reiterate our concerns and ask what the Justice Department has done to hold Cohen accountable for his false statements to Congress.”
Comer and Jordan outlined six specific times they say Cohen lied to federal lawmakers, including claims that he never committed fraud (Cohen pled guilty to fraud charges in 2018). Cohen was sentenced to three years behind bars following the guilty plea deal with federal prosecutors on charges of tax evasion, making false statements to banks, and violations of campaign finance laws.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was booed on the House floor Wednesday afternoon after she tried to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.
Greene first vowed to force a motion to force Johnson from power in March, citing deals the speaker had cut with Democrats to fund foreign wars and governments.
Each of those deals ignored the ongoing crisis at the country’s border with Mexico, irking Greene and eventually a number of other House Republicans who supported her plan to oust Johnson.
The Hill reported Greene moved to force a vote on the matter Wednesday. A C-SPAN camera caught the moment Greene introduced her resolution to vacate Johnson.
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., can breathe a little easier now that more than 80% of his House colleagues put an end to the latest drama gripping Capitol Hill.
Six months after ascending to the speakership, a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted to table a motion to vacate the chair—the House’s terminology for removing its leader. The final vote was 359-43; seven voted present and 21 others didn’t cast a vote. (See how your representative voted.)
“Hopefully, this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress,” Johnson said after Wednesday’s vote. “It’s regrettable. It’s not who we are as Americans and we’re better than this. We need to get beyond it.”
Don’t count on it.
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Excerpt from japantoday.com
Hardline Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in a brazen push to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but the resounding rejection by Republicans and Democrats tired of…
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) finds herself facing a renewed wave of opposition as House Republicans prepared a second censure resolution on Tuesday over anti-Semitic remarks. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) initiated the resolution in response to Omar’s comments at Columbia University, where she referred to Jewish students as “pro-genocide.”
This comes as a series of criticisms aimed at Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, over her rhetoric surrounding Israel and Jewish people. The four-page resolution aims to reprimand Omar for her “recent hateful comments and history of antisemitism.”
“She is perpetuating and increasing antisemitism in our country,” Bacon said after submitting the resolution. “The House of Representatives needs to take a strong stand and condemn these divisive and racist remarks that she has made, and those who continue to excuse her egregious behavior must stop.”
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A south Texas Democratic member of Congress is facing federal charges of accepting bribes.
Rep. Henry Cuellar is accused of accepting $238,000 in cash disguised as consulting fees from a bank controlled by a Mexican billionaire, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Cuellar is also accused of accepting $360,000 from an Azerbaijani oil company in return for delivering political favors for the nation’s regime.
BREAKING: Democrat Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife have been charged by the DOJ for allegedly taking $600,000 in bribes from an oil & gas company owned and controlled by the government of Azerbaijan.
That’s now two Democrats in Congress indicted for taking foreign bribes. pic.twitter.com/YgYHnE4IZZ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 3, 2024
