Hints and tips:
...“I filed the motion to vacate today, but it’s more of a warning and a pink slip,” Greene told reporters after making the move on Friday....
...“I do not support Speaker Johnson but I will never stand by and let MTG . . . take over the people’s House,” Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democratic congressman, wrote on X on Friday, referring to Greene by...
...I don’t think in my career I’ve ever seen a law have a greater impact on economic development in this country,” said Gregory Wetstone, chief executive officer of the American Council on Renewable Energy,...
...Johnson, speaking just days after Iran launched its aerial attack on Israel, said he was a “wartime Speaker”, adding: “I didn’t anticipate that this would be an easy path.”...
...The package has failed to win over Johnson’s hardline critics from within his own party, such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, who are vehemently opposed to more aid for Ukraine....
...“I voted No tonight on the foreign aid package for one simple reason: US taxpayers should not be providing billions more to the extremist Netanyahu government to continue its devastating war against the...
...“I do expect that this will be done this week.”...
...“And I ask each of you to engage in communication with our American partners to make their support really happen.”...
...Marjorie Taylor Greene, the flame-throwing Republican congresswoman, has threatened to use the same manoeuvre that led to McCarthy’s departure to force a vote to remove Johnson....
...“I will not demonise immigrants . . . I will not separate families. I will not ban people from America because of their faith,” he said....
...“I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: we stand with our friends, and we won’t let Iran or Russia succeed.”...
...“I think that Hunter Biden should be arrested right here, right now and go straight to jail,” she later added....
...“I simply fell short of values,” she said....
...But this year I will be on edge. For I have been integrally involved in a secret plot to use Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl to head off a second Trump presidency....
...Biden also cracked jokes at his own expense, saying: “I know I may not look like it, but I’ve been around a while. And when you get to my age, certain things become clearer than ever before.”...
...Clearly, Marjorie Taylor Greene was not best pleased. It is hardly representative of Capitol Hill. It’s a question I put to the FT’s foreign editor, Alec Russell, who’s just returned from DC....
...I am not being cynical....
...Steve Cohen, the Democratic congressman from Tennessee, told Axios that McCarthy “did the right thing . . . and I’ll definitely vote not to vacate. I expect a good number of Democrats will as well.”...
...I don’t know.” The abrupt downfall of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week has created chaos in the House, leaving the lower chamber unable to do anything of consequence....
...“The only thing I’d say in response to that is, President Biden is my president as well,” he said....
...That’s not the party I belong to.”...
...“I think it makes the difference in this race,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon....
...Scalise previously called that decision “a mistake I regret”....
...“I am not against what [Gaetz] said. I just don’t like the strategy.”...
...“If I can help them during the process, I would do it. But we have some great people in the Republican party that could do a great job as Speaker.” Who will be Speaker of the House?...
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