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MAGA shivs McCarthy on gas stove bill

"Fundamental commitments that allowed Kevin McCarthy to assume the speakership have been violated," says Matt Gaetz

Salon

GOP hardliners tank vote to force McCarthy reckoning

"I think leadership now understands it is a matter of some urgency."

Axios

Kevin McCarthy’s victory lap over the debt ceiling bill could end early

Hard-right Freedom Caucus members argued the deal should have enacted deeper spending cuts and shorter borrowing limits

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Meet the House members who voted against the debt limit deal - Roll Call

Much of the debt limit bill opposition came from the far right and left wings of Congress, but there were some surprising “no” votes.

Roll Call

MAGA threatens McCarthy's speakership

Growing number of House Republicans threaten to use McCarthy's key concession to become speaker to remove him

Salon

Debt bill dissatisfaction threatens deeper GOP rift - Roll Call

Ahead of debt limit bill action, opponents are warning the break in GOP unity could reverberate beyond the Wednesday night vote.

Roll Call

DeSantis launches attack on Trump over crime

Florida governor portrays Trump as soft on crime for signing 2018 bill that freed some from prison.

Axios

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Two Republicans left House floor calling Ilhan Omar committee removal the ‘stupidest vote in the world’

Two conservative Republicans cricitised the House’s vote to remove Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Independent UK

Ilhan Omar’s removal from panel was ‘stupidest vote’, says Republican – report

Ken Buck reportedly makes remark in Capitol Hill elevator as another Republican, Mike Simpson, agreed

The Guardian - US

GOPers beg reporters not to tell on them

Two House Republicans didn't want GOP leaders to know they slammed the vote to oust Ilhan Omar in an elevator

Salon

House Republicans vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee

Republicans have cited the Minnesota Democrat's past controversial comments about Israel. Omar, who herself has faced anti-Muslim bigotry since taking office, called the move "purely partisan."

WEKU

Embattled Representative George Santos steps down from committees

The Republican from New York faces ongoing scrutiny into his finances as well as falsehoods he made during his campaign.

Al Jazeera

Kevin McCarthy's bid to oust Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs in peril as third GOP rep. objects

"I think that we should not engage in this tit for tat," Colorado Republican Rep. Ken Buck said.

Axios

Big tech antitrust push in Congress is blunted by GOP-led House

The new GOP House majority is turning away from last year’s bipartisan efforts to rein in the dominance of the largest tech companies with a change in leadership on a key panel.

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Chaos in the House: McCarthy's plea, and begging for votes

Just one vote short of becoming speaker of the House, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy stood up from his chair and asked the defiant Matt Gaetz to change his vote from “present” to “McCarthy.”

Tribune News Service

McCarthy overcomes GOP rebellion to be elected House Speaker

WASHINGTON — Republican Kevin McCarthy achieved his long-held ambition of becoming House speaker early Saturday after quelling a rebellion by GOP conservative hardliners, but at the cost of further weakening his precarious position within a sharply divided party.

Axios

Musk reignites debate over Apple's power

Twitter owner's complaints about the App Store echo those by other business leaders and some lawmakers.

Reason

Let States Issue Immigration Visas—a Federalist Response to GOP Governors' Migrant Busing Stunts

GOP governors' ploy highlights the value of giving states the power to issue their own migration visas. It can simultaneously ease labor shortages, reduce disorder at the border, enable more migrants to escape poverty and oppression, and help restore the original meaning of the Constitution.

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Axios

House Freedom Caucus plots return to relevance as GOP eyes majority

The ultra-conservative group is so far refusing to back Kevin McCarthy for speaker.

Tribune News Service

Congress’s big tech crackdown quickens with rare show of unity

A bipartisan group of lawmakers defended a bill to rein in big technology companies, signaling that momentum is building for the first major piece of legislation to curb the power of giant online platforms.

Tribune News Service

He got Congress to care about antitrust again. Now time is running out, Rep. David Cicilline says

WASHINGTON — David Cicilline was late getting into antitrust, at least for him.

Axios

Tech antitrust's big foe: The calendar

The clock is ticking down on the bipartisan effort in Washington as summer recess and then midterms loom.

Roll Call

He got Congress to care about antitrust again. Now time is running out, says David Cicilline - Roll Call

If Democrats lose control in the midterms, as most election handicappers expect, it could spell trouble for the push to rein in Big Tech.

Salon

Boebert, Greene privately clash: report

An onlooker reportedly feared it would “escalate beyond the verbal cage match” before another Republican stepped in

The Independent UK

Homeland security secretary hits back at Republican who compares him to Benedict Arnold: ‘It is so profoundly offensive’

Republicans are trying to portray the Biden Administration as wanting to abolish all immigration enforcement to benefit non-white migrants

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