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...The last time David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, urged Capitol Hill to pass Ukraine aid, he was told to “kiss my ass” by Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of the most vocal pro-Russia Republicans....
...The US House of Representatives has approved over $60bn in military aid for Ukraine in its fight against Russia, in a major breakthrough after months of inaction on Capitol Hill....
...While British diplomats said Cameron had brought “heft” to the job, he was left struggling to make an impression on Capitol Hill with Republicans involved in an intensely political debate over providing...
...The panel votes followed a chaotic day on Capitol Hill, as Hunter Biden’s appearance before an oversight hearing quickly descended into chaos....
...Marjorie Taylor Greene Trump loyalist The outspoken Georgia congresswoman has been a lightning rod for controversy since she arrived on Capitol Hill in early 2021 because of her past embrace of conspiracy...
...The clock is ticking for Republicans on Capitol Hill to elect a new leader, after the dramatic ouster of Kevin McCarthy this week left the House of Representatives without a Speaker and brought the dysfunction...
...“I think it makes the difference in this race,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon....
...Some hardline Republican House members, including Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, suggested that Trump, the current frontrunner for the party’s nomination for president in 2024, should enter the race....
...While the setting was serene, with industry, military and Congressional officials mingling amid the backdrop of rolling hills and blue skies, several attendees said the mood was gloomy....
...Cameron wrote a piece for US political website The Hill, urging Congress to back a new military support package for Ukraine. Clearly, Marjorie Taylor Greene was not best pleased....
...“Matt Gaetz made a lot of good points today,” said Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican congresswoman from Georgia who was among McCarthy’s loudest supporters....
...That plan has widespread support on Capitol Hill, but House Republicans have balked at Biden’s plans for one big piece of legislation and want to break it up, under the influence of rank-and-file lawmakers...
...McCarthy has been facing rising heat from the right flank of the Republican party, including Georgia’s firebrand lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene....
...In a bizarre display of support earlier this week, House Republicans held a fundraising auction for McCarthy’s used cherry lip balm, with controversial Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene placing...
...As I’m sure you know, congresspeople have special rooms with telephones off Capitol Hill where they are cajoled by their staff to do their fundraising....
...Thus he condemned Trump while it was fashionable after the storming of Capitol Hill on January 6 2021....
...While intraparty elections would be held on Capitol Hill to install chairs of those committees, there are indications Republican committee chairs would open several of their own investigations into everything...
...When Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on conservative radio show Voice of Rural America this week, she launched a full-throated defence of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of...
...Marjorie Strider’s “Girl with Radish” (1963) explodes out of her corner of the gallery, a red root vegetable clenched between her teeth. Taking sexiness to voracious extremes, she mocks men’s desire....
...Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican lawmaker from Georgia and one of Trump’s closest allies on Capitol Hill, wrote on Twitter....
...People see big houses and celebrities but if you are on the 17th floor with four or five kids during the pandemic you were struggling,” say Marjorie Brown, vicar at St Mary’s, a local church on Elsworthy...
...“You are going to end up being basically the figurehead for Marjorie Taylor Greene or Lauren Boebert.”...
...Don’t miss Andrew Hill’s (entirely imaginary) examples of titles to avoid in 2022....
...Elected to Congress in November, Greene is among the most junior Republicans on Capitol Hill....
...Marjorie recognised this in our conversation. I hold her to her word, as well as her actions going forward.”...
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