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☆ The furor over Biden's classified documents rekindles House Republicans' sweeping impeachment agenda
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

House Republicans sought to impeach Biden, Merrick Garland, Alejandro Mayorkas and others last year. 57; H. Res. 596; H. Res. 597; H. Res. 598; H. Res.

☆ An annotated look at Rep. George Santos's resume with made-up work experience and fake degrees
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Republican Rep. George Santos admitted to lying about his accolades during his campaign. He's facing calls to resign and potential legal trouble. Insider annotated a copy of his resume obtained by The New York Times. The New York Times obtained a copy of his error-riddled resume which he sent to the Nassau County Republican Committee in 2020 after showing interest in running for office. His resume offers a window into his previously unchecked deception that led to his candidacy and inauguration.

☆ Rep. George Santos was paid by a company that the SEC called a 'classic Ponzi scheme' but he never disclosed the payments as a candidate, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

On Wednesday, WaPo reported he was paid by a firm accused of being a Ponzi scheme in April 2021. A financial disclosure filed by Santos as a candidate that covered January 2021 to December 2022 did not list any payments from Harbor City Capital. An SEC complaint was filed against Harbor City Capital on April 20, 2021. The complaint, which did not name Santos, said the company's founder spent investors' money on personal expenses and paid them monthly interest payments in "classic Ponzi scheme fashion." Santos previously told The Daily Beast he did not know about what was going on at the company.

☆ The 6 possible ways Rep. George Santos' situation gets resolved
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) watches proceedings during the fourth day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2023 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesRep. George Santos lied about his education, work history, and more while on the campaign trail. Additionally, fellow New York Rep. Anthony D'Esposito became the first Republican member of Congress to call for Santos to resign on Wednesday. Republican Rep. George Santos of New York in the House chamber on January 4, 2023. Needless to say, this is a rather unlikely outcome for the career of Rep. George Santos.

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Embattled U.S. Representative George Santos said he had no plans to heed fellow New York Republicans' calls to step down, a plea they made on Wednesday due to what they called "lie after lie after lie" about his career and history. The New York Republicans made their plea at a news conference two days after a nonpartisan watchdog accused Santos of breaking campaign finance laws in a filing with the Federal Election Commission. "It's just lie after lie after lie. Republican Representative Nick Langworthy from western New York and Representative Anthony D'Esposito, who represents a district next to that of Santos, were also among those calling on the first-term congressman to step down. During the news conference, officials said they would direct Santos' constituents to Representative D'Esposito in some cases, who had agreed to help residents of Santos' district.

☆ Biden aides find second batch of classified documents at new location, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Aides to U.S. President Joe Biden have discovered at least one more batch of classified documents in a location separate from a think tank office he used after serving as vice president, news outlets reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. The NBC News report said the classification level, number and precise location of the additional documents was not immediately clear. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters. A spokesperson for Senator Marco Rubio, the committee's Republican vice chair, said Rubio and Warner had written to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, asking for access to the classified documents. The Justice Department is separately probing Trump's handling of highly sensitive classified documents that he retained at his Florida resort after leaving the White House in January 2021.

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to members of the news media outside of a Steering Committee meeting at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2023. Leah Millis | ReutersHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday said he would not urge embattled Republican Rep. George Santos to resign from Congress, hours after local GOP officials tore into the New York legislator and pushed him to step down. "Look, the voters decide," McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters on Capitol Hill when asked whether he would welcome Santos' resignation if it was offered, according to NBC News. "That's what his decision is to make," McCarthy said, adding, "The voters elected him to serve. The GOP lawmaker has apologized for embellishing pieces of his resume but has said he did not commit any crimes.

The party-line vote on Tuesday aims to do just that, setting up a "Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government." The body is set to launch a wide-ranging probe of Democrat Biden's administration, which Republicans accuse of "weaponizing" the FBI against Trump. Among the federal agencies targeted are those looking into Trump's attempt to overturn his 2020 defeat and alleged mishandling of classified documents. On Monday the White House said that lawyers for Biden found classified documents at a Washington think tank affiliated with the president. That would create a situation where he could seek to oversee a federal investigation into himself.

☆ Two U.S. House Democrats file ethics complaint against Republican George Santos
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Two U.S. House Democrats filed an ethics complaint on Tuesday against newly elected Republican Representative George Santos after revelations that he made false claims about his background and work experience during his campaign. The ethics committee is chaired by a Republican but has traditionally functioned in a bipartisan manner. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise told reporters on Tuesday that the party was looking into the matter. The Democrats' letter came the day after a federal watchdog accused him of breaking campaign finance laws by concealing funding sources. Santos has since faced pressure to resign, including from some Republicans such as Representative Nick LaLota, who called for an ethics investigation into his fellow Long Islander.

Lawyers for rap legend Dr. Dre are demanding that Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stop his using his music, after the controversial politician used the hit “Still D.R.E.”“I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one,” Dre, who was born Andre Young, said in a statement. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday. The letter from Dre’s attorney, Howard King, dated Monday, demands that the Greene immediately cease and desist from using Dre’s music. "One might expect that, as a member of Congress, you would have a passing familiarity with the laws of our country. Music publication Rolling Stone reported that the recognizable “Still D.R.E.” beat was used in a video posted to Twitter, which appears to have since been removed.

☆ C-SPAN is calling on McCarthy to allow its cameras in the House after its unprecedented coverage of the leadership fight
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The public affairs network on Tuesday sent a letter to new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy asking for permission to operate its own independent cameras in the House chamber. But during special events, such as last week during the election of the House speaker, independent cameras from outlets like C-SPAN are permitted. Instead, we request to install a few additional cameras in the House chamber,” Swain added. But other members of Congress have expressed openness or outright support for letting C-SPAN cameras into the chamber. “Last week’s [C-SPAN] coverage was worthy of an Oscar,” Pocan tweeted.

☆ House Republicans voted to gut the House Ethics Committee, and George Santos said it was 'fantastic'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

House Republicans voted on Monday to hobble the Office of Congressional Ethics. George Santos, facing multiple investigations and ethics complaints, called the changes "fantastic." The Office of Congressional Ethics, first established in 2008, is a quasi-independent body tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct against members of Congress. It then makes a determination as to whether those allegations are worth investigating further, at which point it makes a referral to the House Ethics Committee, which is evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. In 2017, House Republicans voted in conference to subsume the office under the House Ethics Committee, effectively neutering it.

☆ GOP-led House creates a new committee to tackle threats from China, McCarthy's first big bipartisan win
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is seen outside a House Republican Steering Committee meeting to select committee chairs in the U.S. Capitol Monday 9, 2023. WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. House from both the Democratic and Republican parties voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to establish a new select committee to address the multifaceted threats that China poses to the United States. The new panel will be called the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party. According to the resolution creating the new select committee, its powers will be largely investigative, not legislative. There will 16 members on the committee, nine Republicans and seven Democrats.

☆ House GOP establishes committee targeting 'weaponization' of federal government with 'at least as much' funding as the January 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The House GOP voted to create a new subcommittee that they say is modeled after the Church Committee. The new subcommittee is officially known as the "Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government" and will be housed under the House Judiciary Committee. Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar had previously publicly expressed some interest in the committee, but ultimately voted against its creation on Tuesday. He added that the committee would have "at least as much as the January 6 committee" in terms of its budget and staffing. Under the language of the resolution establishing the committee, the 13-member panel will be composed of eight Republicans and five Democrats.

☆ Biden 'surprised' about finding of classified documents, vows cooperation
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Biden told reporters at a joint news conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada that he takes classified documents seriously. A Democrat, Biden has faced criticism from Republicans after his Justice Department launched an investigation last year into Republican former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents discovered at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Investigators tried to get Trump to return any remaining classified records through a grand jury subpoena and a visit to his Mar-a-Lago estate. On that visit, Trump's advisers returned a few dozen additional classified records, and attested that no other classified material remained in the residence. And as soon as they did, they realized there were several classified documents in that box.

☆ House Democrats brace for Speaker McCarthy to block their committee assignments in retaliatory strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Warren Rojas | Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has pledged to bar three Democrats from sitting on two committees. Republicans are targeting Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar. Democrats declined to speculate on next steps if McCarthy follows through on his plan. Swalwell has served on the Intelligence committee since 2015, and is also a member of the Homeland Security Committee and Judiciary Committee. Staff for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment about defending Democratic members' committee assignments.

☆ New U.S. House creates committee focused on competing with China
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Patricia Zengerle | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The House voted 365 to 65 in favor of a resolution establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, which will investigate the issue and make policy recommendations. Democratic Representative Jim McGovern, a co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, a grouping of House members and senators which studies China policy, said he would vote to create the select committee despite concerns it might be overly partisan. This will be a bipartisan committee," McCarthy said in remarks urging the House to back the bill. He said the committee would address issues such as bringing jobs back from China to the United States, securing intellectual property and bringing supply chains back to the country. The new committee will be chaired by Republican Representative Mike Gallagher.

☆ Katie Porter Launches 2024 California Senate Bid, Isn't Waiting on Feinstein
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Katie Porter of California on Tuesday officially announced a 2024 Senate bid. Sen. Feinstein is up for reelection in 2024, but hasn't yet announced whether she'll run for another term. "In times like these, California needs a warrior in Washington," she said in her official campaign announcement on Tuesday. In entering the race, Porter is staking out a lane as an lawmaker who would usher in a different sort of governance. In November, Porter won a tough reelection race, edging out former California assemblyman Scott Baugh by four points (52%-48%).

☆ GOP Rep. blasts 'backroom' deals to get Kevin McCarthy the speakership: 'Matt Gaetz is a fraud'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Kevin McCarthy became House Speaker Saturday morning after conceding to far-right lawmakers. On CBS's "Face The Nation," Rep. Nancy Mace condemned Rep. Matt Gaetz for capitalizing on the vote. "I ran out of things I could even imagine to ask for," Gaetz told CNN after the 15th vote. "We don't know what they got or didn't get," Mace told Brennan, condemning the "backroom" deals. Representatives for Mace, Gaetz, and McCarthy did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ Watchdog group accuses George Santos of campaign finance violations in FEC complaint
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A national watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Republican U.S. Rep. George Santos for allegedly violating numerous campaign finance laws during his successful run for Congress. The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan campaign watchdog organization, filed the complaint with the FEC on Monday. The group accuses the Santos campaign of allegedly violating three counts of campaign finance laws, including one tied to a $705,000 loan the lawmaker made to his campaign. Santos is under scrutiny by congressional lawmakers and federal authorities for lying and embellishing key elements of his resume during his 2022 campaign for Congress. The Campaign Legal Center claims that the loan he made to his campaign may have come from a straw donor.

☆ George Santos hit with 3 new ethics complaints over his campaign spending, fundraising, and financial disclosure
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Santos was sworn into office on Friday despite a record of alleged fraud and lies about his background. Now, End Citizens United is filing complaints against Santos with the FEC, OCE, and DOJ. Santos faces a slew of other campaign finance-related complaints and is under investigation in 2 countries. The trio of complaints add to a barrage of other complaints the congressman is already facing. Santos' history and finances are also under investigation by prosecutors at the federal level, in New York state, and in Brazil.

☆ GOP lawmakers reject critics, say there were 'positives' in chaotic House Speaker vote: 'We accomplished an enormous amount'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Texas Republican argued on CNN Sunday morning that "a little temporary conflict is necessary in this town." "Some of the tensions you saw on display when we saw some of the interactions there between Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz, you know some of that is, we need a little of that. Kentucky Republican Rep. Andy Barr told ABC's "This Week" that the process "was quite healthy from the standpoint of getting all of these issues resolved now." "I understand the American people's frustration with the delay in electing a speaker," Barr said. "Not only did the framers of our Constitution expect us to debate the operations of the House and the House rules and how we're going to function, that's what a healthy democracy actually requires."

☆ Rep. Tim Burchett said colleague Rep. Mike Rogers is a 'redneck' who 'shouldn't be drinking' following House floor brawl
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

GOP Rep. Tim Burchett called Rep. Mike Rogers a "redneck" after he lunged at Rep. Matt Gaetz on the House floor. Burchett went on to say that his colleague "shouldn't have crossed that line." C-SPAN cameras captured Rep. Rogers of Alabama lunging at Rep. Matt Gaetz and being restrained by Rep. Richard Hudson, after Gaetz had what appeared to be a tense exchange with Kevin McCarthy. "People shouldn't be drinking, especially when you're a redneck, on the House floor," Rep. Burchett told CNN's Kate Sullivan about the incident. Burchett went on to say that it was an "unfortunate moment" and that Rogers "shouldn't have crossed that line."

☆ Republican representatives say they are not worried McCarthy conceded too much
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Following a chaotic week in the U.S. House of Representatives over Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker, Republican representatives said Sunday they are not worried that he gave up too much in order to secure the gavel. Republican Rep. Scott Perry, who was among the most outspoken opponents of McCarthy's speaker bid, flipped his vote for McCarthy on the 12th ballot. "This is never about Kevin McCarthy. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., said Sunday he's not worried that Kevin McCarthy conceded too much to get the speakership. But House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said if McCarthy is willing to try and find common ground, he will find willing partners among House Democrats.

☆ Joe Rogan said 'the morons had a king' with Donald Trump during a podcast episode
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-07 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Joe Rogan said that "the morons had a king" with former President Donald Trump. Rogan has previously been dismissive of the former president despite Trump's positive words about him. Rogan commented on a Thursday episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast while speaking to Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy about politics. There's a lot of morons," Rogan said. Trump has previously spoken positively of Rogan, calling him an "interesting and popular guy" and defending him following controversy about the podcast host's past use of the N-word.

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