Clarke, Biden’s nominee to lead the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, touts career-long record fighting antisemitism at Senate hearing.
Amid GOP attacks, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs sent a letter to the Senate defending Kristen Clarke’s record on antisemitism.
Progressive Rep. engaged in ‘thoughtful conversation’ after slamming Israel’s ‘cruel’ treatment of the Palestinians in vaccination distribution.
‘I didn’t even know and didn’t find out until recently that the Rothchilds were Jewish,’ the Georgia Republican told an Orthodox publication.
The Georgia congresswoman blamed a left-wing journalist for coming up with the bizarre term.
Wendy Sherman, the lead U.S. negotiator on the Iranian nuclear deal under Obama, suggests Biden’s goals are different.
In one of her first votes in Congress, Malliotakis voted to remove QAnon-affiliated GOP congresswoman from committee assignments.
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland said Thursday that he “felt a tremendous sense of history and responsibility” in leading the second impeachment case against former President Donald Trump, and still feels “we should have gotten 100 votes” to convict. But Raskin expressed no regrets about how the trial unfolded, and shifted focus to the group of nine House managers he led, describing it as “remarkable teamwork.”
Rep. Thomas Emmer, a Minnesota Republican, was the subject of social media mockery on Wednesday as he got stuck upside down during a virtual House Financial Services meeting on the COVID-19 relief bill.
“In the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and God known by many names by many different faiths. Amen and a-woman,” Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver said.