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  3 days ago

  The House GOP’s investigations are flopping

  Vox - Christian Paz

  Even before they had taken control of the House, House Republicans were promising payback. Using the powers of the various congressional committees that they would soon take over, ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus members, led by Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio, were …

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  3 days ago

  Jim Jordan doesn’t understand his job

  The Washington Post - By Jennifer Rubin

  MAGA Republicans, devoid of policy solutions and addicted to performance politics, act as if their House majority invests them with the power to rove the landscape to spot MAGA victims, skewer their enemies and defend their political allies. That’s not their job, and, as we are seeing with their …

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  5 days ago

  The Party that Says It's Protecting Kids Pushes to Bring Back Child Labor

  Esquire - Charles P. Pierce

  How else are young teens going to pull themselves up by their boot straps? An education on a full stomach!? LOL! During one of the 2012 presidential debates, when Barack Obama and Mitt Romney engaged in a spirited debate about tariffs, I remember being struck by the fact that they were debating an …

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  Mar 23

  In hush money scandal, Republicans need to start pacing themselves

  MSNBC - Steve Benen

  Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan thought it’d be a good idea to interfere in an ongoing local criminal investigation. Amidst …

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  6 days ago

  The GOP’s War on Obamacare Is Screwing Up Its War on Abortion

  The Nation - By Elie Mystal

  It’s an irony so delicious I hope Alanis Morissette writes a song about it. The Supreme Court was eager to revoke reproductive rights in Dobbs v. …

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  Oklahoma lawmaker cites Bible while voting to allow corporal punishment for kids with disabilities

  TODAY - Danielle Campoamor

  One representative argued that the Bible endorses the use of corporal punishment on children. Oklahoma legislators failed to pass a law that would have banned the use of corporal punishment on children with disabilities in schools. The bill, House Bill 1028, would have outlawed physical punishment — …