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The bipartisan spending deal reached in the House of Representatives contains some provisions that are certain to raise some eyebrows, reports Punchbowl News' Melanie Zanona. Specifically, it seems that lawmakers have slipped themselves "a cost-of-living pay raise for first time since 2009"... 
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At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms "receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation," a report published Thursday revealed.
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42 members of Congress have violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act by failing to properly disclose their personal stock trades. Some lawmakers want to ban members of Congress and their immediate family members from trading stocks.
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Congress punted once again on a massive Covid-19 relief package, leaving President Joe Biden's administration in limbo on one of its top requests from Congress this spring.
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Ousted U.S. vaccine chief Dr. Rick Bright testified on Thursday that “lives were lost” because the Trump administration failed to ramp up the production of personal protective equipment like N95 respirators.
During testimony before a House committee, the former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority said that he sounded the alarm about the need for protective equipment at the outset of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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The Office of Congressional Ethics does not have subpoena power, so lawmakers have increasingly decided that not cooperating is the better approach.
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Cliven Bundy may be in jail, but he still has friends in Congress.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
This stupid idea looks like the direct result of what Pope Francis calls "diseased leadership."
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The high-profile trial of two former Ron Paul presidential campaign staffers accused of buying an Iowa senator's endorsement and then lying about it ended Thursday with a muddled verdict from a jury stuck at an impasse. The jury acquitted Jesse Benton, Paul's former campaign chair, of lying to FBI agents and convicted deputy campaign manager Dimitri Kesari of a charge of causing false records.
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Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, lashed out at President-elect Donald Trump's former Department of Justice for obtaining records of lawmakers, staffers and journalists during an investigation of leaks.
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Congress plans to spend just 35 days between now and the end of the year in the nation’s capital, a fitting end to one of the least productive sessions in decades.
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After taking the global economy hostage to secure painful cuts to aid programs and other federal spending, House Republicans are proposing a pay raise for themselves and other members of Congress for the coming fiscal year.
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Most troubling for McSally?The Trump-loving Republican is down nearly 20 points in Arizona's most-populous county...
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Months after it was revealed that he had made dozens of questionable stock trades ahead of a global pandemic—and advised wealthy constituents to do the same—Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina had his cellphone seized by federal agents Wednesday night. The agents were at the senator’s Washington, D.C., residence.
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Prior to Donald Trump taking office, his lawyers railed against unconstitutional presidential overreach that bypasses Congress — but they appear to have changed their tune with a change in the Oval Office’s occupant.
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When thousands of people are suffering, don't talk about how difficult it is for you.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
The question begs, "why isn't this man in prison yet?"
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