Congress critters going nuts & breaking bad

Rep. Jasmine Crockett Trademarks Her Viral Clapback to MTG​

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) isn’t just doubling-down on her viral slam against Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene—she’s cashing in.

On Sunday, Rep. Crockett reportedly filed for a trademark on the phrase “bleach blonde bad-built butch body,” a devastating line she riffed in response to a similarly derisive comment about her appearance from Greene during a chaotic House Oversight Committee last week.

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House Republicans vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress​

WASHINGTON – House Republicans voted on Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress in a dramatic escalation of the GOP’s broader war against the Biden administration's Department of Justice.

The lower chamber voted along party lines 216-207 to hold Garland in contempt as retaliation against the DOJ for withholding the audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur over his mishandling of classified documents.

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They have time for horseshit but when it comes time to help Americans they're a no show.

single payer health care
raise in social security
increasing veterans benefits
affordable housing
getting us outta the middle east
food security
getting the feds & cops out of our personal lives
ending civil asset forfeiture

No time for good stuff, only lunacy.

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Nothing to help the people who put them in office.

Republicans will again try to slash defense secretary's salary to $1​

House Republicans will again try to slash Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's annual salary from $221,000 to just $1 in retaliation for a host of conservative complaints against current military policies.

An amendment to the chamber's annual defense appropriations bill offered by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., over the weekend would mandate the salary change. It's the second consecutive year she has offered the idea, which was adopted by House Republicans last fall but ultimately stripped out of the final legislation in negotiations with the Senate.

The pay reduction for the secretary of defense will be considered by the House Rules Committee on Tuesday and, if ruled in order, voted on by the full chamber later this week. It is one of more than 400 amendments to the $833.1 billion spending measure, many dealing with partisan fights and priorities.

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House leaves town until September with little to show voters​

WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders have canceled next week’s work session and sent lawmakers home for a six-week summer recess with little they can brag about to constituents and voters heading into the final months before the election.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his leadership team had hoped to pass all 12 bills that fund the government before the long August recess, setting up negotiations with the Democratic-led Senate on how to keep the government open ahead of a shutdown deadline on Sept. 30.

But that goal now looks out of reach with the House not returning until Sept. 9, leaving just three weeks to avert a shutdown. The House has already passed five funding bills and had planned to take up four more this week. But leaders managed to push through only one of them — focused on the Department of Interior — and yanked three others over intraparty disputes and the GOP’s minuscule three-seat majority.

“They can’t pass their own bills. They haven’t been able to pass their own bills all Congress. This is nothing new,” said Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.

Both the House and Senate need to pass all 12 bills to fund the government for the 2025 fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1. A stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, to temporarily keep the lights on is now likely with the election fast approaching.

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This may or may not really be germaine to this thread, but it was the closest fit I saw while skimming the Politics forum:


Lulz

DM post. Lotta pics and stuff. May not want to open on a phone.

lol

Sen. Tommy Tuberville Accidentally Comes Up With A Demonic New Name For A Triangle​

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Wednesday came up with an unexpected way of trying to describe a triangle as he called for cuts to the Defense Department.

And he name-checked a demon from the DC Universe in the process.

“We have to start in the Pentagon,” he said on Fox News as he advocated for budget cuts pushed by tech billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. “We need to make a trigon, three sides instead of five sides, in the Pentagon.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=19444818e2894ec4ffce3f45c0ddeab3&ei=41

Democratic Congresswoman Resigns Before Her Party Can Expel Her​

Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has become the third member of Congress to resign in one week.​

foolsgold said:

Democratic Congresswoman Resigns Before Her Party Can Expel Her​

Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has become the third member of Congress to resign in one week.​

Democratic Congresswoman Resigns Before Her Party Can Expel Her

Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has become the third member of Congress to resign in one week.

newrepublic.com

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While insisting the entire way out the door that "She din' do Nuffin'".