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Kevin McCarthy, a Republican, has represented the Twenty-second Congressional District of California in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007. (map)

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If former President Donald Trump wins the November election, who he would put in charge of his White House is down to a small handful of names. And a new report details how there's already a bitter fight brewing over the position.

The Daily Beast recently reported that candidates competing to be the ex-president's next White House chief of staff are in a "knife fight" to gain favor with Trump and undercut their rivals. According to the Beast's Sean Craig, some of the top choices include Brooke Rollins — who was Trump's Domestic Policy Council acting director during his first administration — as well as his current campaign senior advisor, Susie Wiles. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) is also rumored to be in consideration.

"The MAGA world around his campaign is swirling with chatter about three key figures that could be his chief of staff." Craig wrote, noting that unnamed Trumpworld sources are sniping at each of the three as they jockey for position.

Trump has previously complimented Rollins, saying that he likes how she's "tall" and has "the look." But she's relatively inexperienced, and only became the acting head of the trump White House's Domestic Policy Council during his last year in office. She went on to help launch the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), which rivals say could actually hurt her bid given AFPI's position on tariffs is opposite of what the former president has called for.

Under Rollins' leadership, AFPI was also hacked on multiple occasions, and at least one of these security breaches were reportedly carried out by Chinese operatives. This is reportedly already being used as ammunition to undermine her bid for the top job in a second Trump administration.

“The knife-fighting is underway,” one unnamed "Trump World confidant" told Politico. “Someone’s like, ‘Oh, she wants to be chief of staff? Well, she can’t even stop her own organization from getting hacked.’”

The Beast reported that Wiles is credited with "professionalizing" Trump's 2024 bid for the White House, and the chief of staff job would be hers "if she wants it." However, her critics have pointed out that she has little practical experience in D.C. outside of the 1970s and 1980s, when she was a Republican operative.

Wiles has, however, dealt with a "power struggle" earlier this year when Trump brought on his one-time 2016 campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, back into the fold. And she may not have the stomach to contend with the chief of staff job after running a nationwide presidential campaign for more than a year.

Surprisingly, Kevin McCarthy may be a strong contender to be chief of staff. As a previous House speaker, he's uniquely familiar with the legislative process and knows how to get legislation passed through Congress. But his true motivation may be to get back at the eight Republicans who voted with all Democrats to strip him of the gavel in October of 2023.

"He wants to hold to account those who pushed him out," an unnamed California-based Republican operative told Politico.

*:{Click here to read the Beast's report in its entirety (subscription required).

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He’ll never be over it': GOP reps say McCarthy’s anti-MAGA effort 'throwing money down a well'

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'He looks unhinged': Kevin McCarthy suggests Matt Gaetz was on drugs at RNC

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Kevin McCarthy is Doing Just Fine. No, Really. He is. Stop That.

All of his friends are just out of frame, laughing too.

JOE PERTICONE

JUL 16, 2024

When Kevin McCarthy walked onto the Republican convention floor yesterday afternoon during the lull between speech sessions, he had the distinct vibe of a popular high school kid returning to campus after he graduated.1

McCarthy gave handshakes, accepted the occasional selfie request, and even took questions from reporters meandering the red carpet. He didn’t look quite as down as he did the day he was removed as speaker. But he didn’t exactly exude high-spiritedness, either.

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Last year, I described the look on McCarthy’s face during his defenestration as a “blank, blood-rushed stillness that comes over you when you run into an ex for the first time after a bad adolescent breakup.” Yesterday, his facial expressions brought to mind the classic Nathan Fielder tweet about having a great time with your friends, who are all just slightly off camera. (Arguably, this is better than having a bad time in front of your friends and then running to get off camera, as happened to Mike Johnson following a teleprompter failure.)

McCarthy’s current place in Republican politics is hard to define. He is the embodiment of the maxim that no one survives their time with Donald Trump unscathed. But unlike others who suffered that fate, McCarthy has not left the political scene. Instead, he’s stuck around in a weird quasi-involved state. He does TV appearances and goes to political functions. And he’s open about seeking revenge against those who orchestrated his demise.

On the floor Monday, he ran into one of the people who was helping him with that task: John McGuire, who recently beat Rep. Bob Good to become the Republican nominee in Virginia’s 5th congressional district. This time, it was McCarthy requesting a selfie.

After I caught this exchange, McCarthy greeted me with a slap on the shoulder. I asked him what McGuire’s win over Good, who voted to oust him as speaker, meant on a personal level. He said the following:

It sent a clear message to those who just want chaos and wanna work with the Democrats: that doesn’t work. There’s people that’ll take their place. Bob Good’s place. It was one of the best elections yet.

But McGuire’s success is McCarthy’s only win so far in his revenge tour against the eight conservatives whose votes to strip him of the gavel tipped the scale last October. And a selfie with the guy on the convention floor is a cold comfort for a person who was once second in line for the presidency. He’ll have to settle for it, though, because he doesn’t have much else going on. McCarthy was not granted a speaking slot at the convention, despite being both a member of Republican leadership for the better part of the past decade and, until recently, a major fundraiser for the Republicans, who took back the House of Representatives thanks in part to money the former speaker brought in.

McCarthy continued walking up and down the aisles alongside a uniformed U.S. Capitol Police officer while onlookers snapped pictures of him and shouted “Kevin!” I heard his first name far more often than “Mr. Speaker,” the honorific he spent so much of his life chasing. Eventually he departed, and I didn’t see him again for the rest of the night....

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few days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) criticized former President Donald Trump, saying he "bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters."

However, it didn't take long for the GOP leader — who would eventually go on to endorse a second Trump presidency — to pivot.

The Washington Post reported three months later:

McCarthy pulled something close to a 180 on this, at least in his emphasis. 'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace asked McCarthy about Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s (R-Wash.) claim that Trump had told McCarthy during the riot, 'Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.'*McCarthy declined to confirm or deny it. What he did do, though, was suggest Trump had in fact responded sufficiently to his pleas for action.

READ MORE:['Completely detached': Johnson’s speakership in danger amid GOP’s far right revolt

But even the California lawmaker's loyalty to Trump could not save his title, when he became the first to be ousted from the speakership.

In a Monday, April 22 op-ed published by MSNBC, Rachel Maddow Show producer Steve Benen writes, "it’s hardly a stretch to wonder whether the former House speaker is stumbling through unfortunate media appearances as part of an elaborate audition to serve on Team Trump."

He notes, "Earlier this month, McCarthy falsely claimed on Fox News that President Joe Biden tried to prevent Trump from running for a second term. In the same interview, the former speaker insisted that Democrats are being driven “crazy” by how much Americans love Trump."

Benen then points to McCarthy's Sunday, April 21 Fox News interview, in which the ex-Speaker argued, “Why wouldn’t Joe Biden, caring about the voters, say, ‘You know what? This is wrong. If I had nothing to do with this, they should not have this trial right now so the American people could actually spend time on what the issues are.’ I think that’s even, that would be the real position for this Biden to take.”

READ MORE:['Embattled' Mike Johnson’s speakership may be on life support

The host contended that it seemed like McCarthy was encouraging Biden to “meddle with the justice system.

Benen raises the question, "What, exactly, does McCarthy hope to achieve by constantly appearing in the media and clumsily peddling partisan talking points?"

The MaddowBlog editor emphasizes, "I think we know the answer. In December, when the Californian formally endorsed Trump’s candidacy, he publicly conceded that he was willing to serve in Trump’s cabinet if the former president returns to the White House."

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When Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California was struggling to be chosen as House speaker from January 3-6, it was clear that he wasn’t going to give up easily. McCarthy, thanks to a group of far-right MAGA lawmakers who were dubbed the “Never Kevin” Republicans,” was rejected in 14 roll-call votes in a row. But on Friday night, January 6, McCarthy was finally chosen as House speaker when a 15th roll-vote was held and enough “Never Kevin” holdouts agreed to support him.

McCarthy had to make a lot of promises and agree to a lot of conditions with MAGA Republicans in order to finally make it past the finish line. In a :{column published by }::{The Bulwark}: on January 9, Never Trump conservative Charlie Sykes warns that House Speaker McCarthy is indebted to way too many extremists for his own good or for the good of the United States.

Sykes’ column is headlined, “What Could Go Wrong?” That expression is typically delivered with major sarcasm, and Sykes warns that with McCarthy having needed the support of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and former President Donald Trump, a lot could go wrong. Greene and Trump both urged the Never Kevin Republicans to reconsider when they were voting against him repeatedly.

“In the last several weeks,” Sykes notes, “Donald Trump: (1) expressed solidarity with the January 6 insurrectionists, (2) dined with a Neo-Nazi, (3) flung racial slurs at the wife of the Senate GOP leader, and (4) called for the termination of the Constitution so that he could be restored to power. And yet, within minutes of being elected to the third highest constitutional office in the land — in the early morning hours after the second anniversary of the attack on the Capitol — this is what My Kevin had to say…. ‘I do want to especially thank President Trump. I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was with me from the beginning. He was all in.’”

Sykes notes that McCarthy also took a “selfie” with Greene.

“What, exactly is the GOP’s plan?” Sykes writes. “Wielding the threat of a catastrophic default on the national debt, the GOP’s Real Men of Genius ‘agreed to drive a hard line in upcoming budget talks, potentially including demands for significant changes to Social Security and Medicare.’ Punchbowl also reports that ‘three of the first 12 bills that the House will vote on are designed to tighten abortion restrictions.’ Really, what could go wrong?”

Sykes continues, “But as Republicans are about to find out, it’s one thing for the right to rail against wokeness and demand endless investigations of the FBI and Hunter Biden’s laptop. It’s quite another to go after Social Security and Medicare, programs that were popular even among Tea Party supporters, and which Trump famously promised to protect. Besides Social Security and Medicare, Republicans are also threatening deep cuts to the military budget, which will also be a strange new flex for the party of Fire and Fury…. The politics of all of this is, shall we say, deeply problematic.”

The conservative columnist laments that having to kowtow to extremists is nothing new for Republicans who want to be successful in the Trumpified version of their party. Sykes comments, “All of this seems so familiar: the nihilism, truckling toadyism, recklessness, and extremism that The Bulwark has been writing about for the last four years on days that end in ‘y’….Dysfunction is the point. So strap in, because the chaos theater is about to become very real.”

In his January 9 column, Sykes also points out that some of Trump’s MAGA allies have been applauding a coup attempt in Brazil that is being described by many pundits as a “Brazilian January 6.” On January 8, 2023 in Brasilia, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded Brazil’s Congressional and Supreme Court Buildings and surrounded the Brazilian Presidential Palace. The insurrectionists were demanding that far-right Bolsonaro be reinstated, and leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowed to fight back against the “fascist forces” trying to overthrow his presidency. Lula was sworn in as president on New Year’s Day.

Sykes comments, “No points for subtlety here. Steve Bannon is openly applauding the coup, calling the rioters ‘Brazilian freedom fighters.’”

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United States Congressman Scott Perry (R-Pennsylvania) claimed on Sunday's edition of This Week that there is nothing remiss about him serving on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-California) proposed committee to investigate the Justice Department's probes of the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection, despite the fact that he was a central player in former President Donald Trump's corrupt scheme to remain in power after he lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

According to the now-disbanded House Select Committee that amassed evidence of a vast conspiracy behind the January 6th Capitol attack, Perry was the brains behind a plot to replace then-Attorney General Bill Barr with Jeffrey Clark, who was the acting assistant attorney general for the civil division at DOJ during the Trump presidency. The plan was to fire Barr and install Clark in exchange for his cooperation in the ploy to have fraudulent electors from key swing states – such as Pennsylvania – award the Electoral College votes that Biden won to Trump. This ruse was based on Trump's false insistence that widespread voter fraud cost him the election. There is no evidence that this was the case, yet it remained the foundation of Trump's efforts to overturn the election and thwart the peaceful transfer of power.

In August 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized Perry's cell phone. White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the Select Committee that Perry purportedly sought a presidential pardon from Trump, although he denied having done so.

Regardless, however, these facts prompted ABC News moderator George Stephanopoulos to grill Perry on the ethics of his participating in congressional investigations of the agencies with which he is entangled.

"The speaker has also reportedly said that he's going to appoint a church-style committee to investigate the investigations. Since you’re part of the investigation by the Justice Department, will you – will you pledge not to serve on that committee?" Stephanopoulos asked the GOP lawmaker.

Perry objected to the question itself:

Well, why should I be limited – why should anybody be limited just because someone has made an accusation? Everybody in America is innocent until proven otherwise. And I would say this, the American people are really, really tired of the persecution and the instruments of federal power being used against them. We're talking aboutparents that go to school board meetings for the schools that they pay for with their taxes and having the temerity to question the curriculum, and then they're put on, you know, the red-flagged, or they’re flagged by the Department of Justice and the FBI for attending a meeting. That's not what America is supposed to be about. That sounds like some tin horn third-world dictatorship. Sure, we're going to investigate and we need to. We need to make sure that these agencies aren't running amuck and aren’t out of control which clearly they are.

Stephanopoulos pressed Perry a second time:

Doesn't that pose a conflict to you since you’re also part of the investigation?

Again, Perry deflected:

So, should everybody in Congress that disagrees with somebody be barred from doing the oversight and investigative powers that Congress has? That's our charge. And again, that's appropriate for every single member regardless of what accusations are made. I get accused of all kinds of things every single day, as does every member that serves in the public eye. But that doesn't stop you from doing your job. It is our duty and it is my duty.

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Three years ago in January 2020, reports of a then-new disease in Wuhan, China were becoming increasingly disturbing. That disease came to be called COVID-19 and has since killed more than 6.7 million people worldwide,according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Over one million of the fatalities have occurred in the United States.

In 2023, COVID-19 remains highly contagious but isn’t killing nearly as many people as it was in 2020 and 2021. Millions of people around the world have been vaccinated, and at this point, most COVID-19 infections aren’t fatal and aren’t serious enough to require hospitalization.

But in an op-ed published by the Daily Beast on January 9, Dr. Peter J. Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston notes that COVID-19 is “still killing hundreds of Americans every day.” And he fears that as House speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California won’t give this problem the serious attention that it deserves.

“McCarthy and his fellow Republicans have a disturbing set of plans for so-called oversight of the coronavirus that could divert precious resources from what must be our main goal in the coming years: preventing the next pandemic,” explains Hotez, who is known for his expertise in virology. “It’s still early, and the shape of GOP intentions — and their ability to enact them — are still very much coming into focus. But it’s clear that after years of far-right, anti-science resistance to vaccines or basic pandemic safety, the Republicans plan to satiate their base’s lingering anti-government rage. This could mean fresh epidemiological disaster — and not in 20 or 30 years, but within this decade.”

Hotez fears that McCarthy, as House speaker, will cater to unscientific members of his party.

“Just prior to the new year,” Hotez observes, “Republican members on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform also made a series of misleading or downright outlandish claims. Among them: that they had evidence that COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, that experimental and risky coronavirus research was funded by the NIH, and that said information may have been covered up by Dr. Anthony Fauci. The problem is these views represent an alternative reality to the findings from the mainstream community of biomedical scientists, especially the virologists.”

The Baylor College researcher continues, “Yes, it’s true that the so-called lab leak theory is not confined to the total fringe, and that well-credentialed experts — including Fauci — remain open to it. But three papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA last year tell a very different story for COVID-19 origins…. No findings can entirely rule out the possibility of lab leak, and I have long argued it is theoretically plausible. But the extensive studies and information collected even in the past year overwhelmingly point to animal origins of COVID-19.”

Hotez warns that in the future, new coronaviruses could lead to deadly pandemics.

“We have now had three serious epidemics or pandemics from human coronavirus infections in this 21st Century — first SARS, then MERS, and now, COVID-19,” Hotez notes. “This is a reason my research group began making coronavirus vaccines a decade ago. Mother Nature is not being obscure or coy with us. She has let us know the plan: Every seven to nine years, the world will experience a serious, potentially worldwide pandemic from coronaviruses that likely first arise from bats before they jump to humans.”

The severity of COVID-19 infections varies from person to person. Some people test positive for COVID-19 but never have any symptoms; other infections could resemble anything from a minor cold to a bad case of the flu.

Millions of people who are getting sick with COVID-19 will feel bad for a week or two but go on to make a full recovery; those who have the misfortune of getting “long COVID,” however, can suffer debilitating symptoms that drag on for months.

According to a new study authored by University of Washington scientists Sarah Wulf Hanson and Theo Vos and published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, “even mild COVID-19” infections can have “long-lasting effects on people’s health.”

“Long COVID is defined as the continuation or development of symptoms three months after the initial infection from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,” Hanson and Vos explain. “These symptoms last for at least two months after onset with no other explanation. We found that a staggering 90 percent of people living with long COVID initially experienced only mild illness with COVID-19. After developing long COVID, however, the typical person experienced symptoms including fatigue, shortness of breath and cognitive problems such as brain fog — or a combination of these — that affected daily functioning. These symptoms had an impact on health as severe as the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury. Our study also found that women have twice the risk of men and four times the risk of children for developing long COVID.”

Hanson and Vos found that “nearly one out of every seven” people suffering long COVID “were still experiencing these symptoms a year later.”

“We found that patients who were hospitalized for COVID-19 had a greater risk of developing long COVID — and of having longer-lasting symptoms — compared with people who had not been hospitalized,” Hanson and Vos report. “However, because the vast majority of COVID-19 cases do not require hospitalization, many more cases of long COVID have arisen from these milder cases despite their lower risk.”

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During a House GOP meeting this week, $_{tensions rose}_$ as the party proceeded to determine who will be the next Speaker of the House.

Current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) reaffirmed his competence in the position to colleagues who oppose his second term. During $_{a CNN segment}_$ , Chief Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju said that McCarthy passionately raised his voice, saying “I have earned this job!”

“Bulls***!", Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R) exclaimed in response.

Raju noted that even if McCarthy does not receive all 218 House votes, the congressman is saying that he is “not going anywhere.”

Strains continued to linger after the meeting during Raju’s interview with Texas GOP Rep. and McCarthy ally Dan Crenshaw, who declared that McCarthy's supporters will be “more stubborn” [than McCarthy's opposers] when it comes to the vote.

“This handful of members are very clearly looking for notoriety over principle,” Crenshaw told Raju. “And anyone who suggests differently is in some kind of make-believe fantasy reality.”

Crenshaw said, “they lost those debates, and that should’ve been the end of it.” But, “if you’re a narcissist and you believe your opinion is so much more important than everyone else’s and you’ll threaten to test down the team for the benefit of the Democrats just because of your own sense of self-importance.”

“We will not vote for anyone else other than McCarthy,” Crenshaw said. “These people think they’re stubborn; we’re more stubborn.”

He asserted, “They are enemies now. They have made it clear they prefer a Democrat agenda over a Republican one.”

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A new report is shedding light on far-right Republicans' change of heart regarding conspiracy theorist lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).

In a piece published by The Daily Beast, reporter Zachary Petrizzo explained how the Republican lawmaker is losing the support of some of her most significant supporters for presumed lies she's told.

Petrizzo offered details about the backstory fueling Republicans' disapproval. "Why fellow extremists are upset?" Petrizzo asks, before adding, "That’s three-fold—and it involves Greene’s vocal support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House, her public spat with onetime friend Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and the finalization of her divorce."

He added, "White nationalist leader-turned-Kanye West informal campaign associate Nicholas Fuentes additionally turned on Greene earlier this month after she denounced him in late November, despite speaking at Fuente’s annual AFPAC conference months earlier in March. Fuentes–who now refers to Greene as 'Large Marge'—has since encouraged his white nationalist 'groyper' followers to heckle Greene at her campaign events."

Taking to Telegram to express his concerns about Greene, January 6 organizer Ali Alexander accused Greene of attempting to protect House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). “MTG wants to protect McCarthy from being removed if he is elected Speaker,” Alexander wrote. “There is something so odd about what is going on between McCarthy and MTG. I’ve only ever once before seen anything like it. It may be time for me to intervene.”

Stew Peters also sounded off on Greene amid her ordeal with Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) On December 19, he took to Twitter with his remarks.

"I see you've stopped talking about dildos and butt plugs to stand by your China/Israel Owned FTX boy Kevin. Marje - You claim you want to 'Defeat the Democrats,'" he tweeted. "You haven't ONCE demanded that Kevin get rid of Pelosi's rules and bring back the Motion to Vacate the Chair."

During a phone interview with The Beast on Friday, Peters had strong remarks to say about Greene insisting that she was “'actually a threat to national security' and declared that she would 'burn in hell' one day."

“Marjorie is NOT America First, but regrettably a faker and a liar who raised millions claiming she would impeach Biden, and now backs a man for Speaker who refuses to impeach Biden,” he said.

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having vacated the far right and joined "centrist" Republicans in supporting sycophant Kevin McCarthy in his bid for speakerdom, Georgia peach Marjorie Taylor Greene is losing the support of her hardline fans. Not only has she engaged in a spat with former ally, the mathematically challenged Lauren Boebert, now a whole array of right-wing hacks, nutjobs, racists, anti-semites, and other former friends are now speaking out against her.

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Peters suggested the "wholesome Christian mom" image she ran under was a farce, apparently in light of her divorce, calling her a "two-bit whore."

Likewise, former Right Side Broadcasting Network host-turned-failed Republican congressional candidate Mike Crispi suggested that Greene was being "blackmailed" by McCarthy, which he called the "only logical explanation" for her fervent support.

"All she does is bully and try to discredit," he continued of the Georgia Republican.

White nationalist leader-turned-Kanye West informal campaign associate Nicholas Fuentes additionally turned on Greene earlier this month after she denounced him in late November, despite speaking at Fuentes's annual AFPAC conference months earlier in March.

Fuentes—who now refers to Greene as "Large Marge"—has since encouraged his white nationalist "groyper" followers to heckle Greene at her campaign events.

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As right-wing and pro-Donald Trump as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been, some MAGA Republicans serving in the U.S. House of Representatives believe that he isn’t far enough to the right. And they are trying to prevent him from becoming House speaker after the GOP’s new House majority is seated on January 3, 2023. Those McCarthy opponents have been dubbed the “Never Kevin” movement.

But according to CNN reporters Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, McCarthy’s defenders are fighting back against those members of the MAGA caucus by threatening to deprive them of committee assignments.

In an article published by CNN’s website on December 15, Grayer and Zanona report, “As frustration inside the House GOP has grown over a small band of anti-Kevin McCarthy lawmakers, an idea to strike back at the rebellious group has been floated among some Republicans: kicking these members off their committees, according to multiple members involved in the conversations. While discussions over retributions for McCarthy’s foes, which have not been previously reported, have not gone beyond casual conversations among rank-and-file members, the threat shows how Republicans — particularly moderates — are wrestling with ways to act as a counterweight to the so-called ‘Never Kevin’ movement, which is threatening to derail the California Republican’s speakership bid.”

The “McCarthy holdouts,” according to Grayer and Zanona, are also “weighing whether to oppose a rules package if it includes reinstating an arcane tool that would empower any member to bring up a floor vote to oust a speaker at any time, as well as the longshot idea of teaming up across the aisle with Democrats to elect a speaker if the race goes to multiple ballots and no one budges.”

Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who co-chairs the Main Street Caucus, is among the House Republicans who is pushing back against the Never Kevin Republicans.

Bacon told CNN, “Teams win. Fractured teams lose. We can’t let a handful hold the conference hostage.”

Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina is a conservative Republican but views the outcome of the 2022 midterms as proof that the new Republican House majority shouldn’t go too far to the right. And that includes its choice of a House speaker.

Mace told CNN, “People need to recognize we don’t need to double down on failed policies and failed candidates. There’s a reason the midterms were the way that they were: people who are left of center, right of center were the most successful.”

But Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, one of the far-right House Republicans who is part of the Never Kevin movement, is showing no signs of backing down. Biggs even hopes to become House speaker himself.

The Arizona Republican told CNN, “When you do the right thing, if somebody wants to punish you for doing the right thing? That’s on them.”

Another far-right MAGA Republican who is pushing the Never Kevin message is Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida.

Gaetz told CNN, “We are in a community of common fate. We have to acknowledge that the ship isn’t going anywhere if five people won’t row in that direction. And that’s true on impeachment, it’s true on the speakership vote, it’s true on the budget, it’s true on policy choices.”

Meanwhile, one far-right MAGA Republican who isn’t part of the Never Kevin movement is Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. The conspiracy theorist and QAnon ally is supporting McCarthy for House speaker, although she is making it clear that if he takes over that position, she expects a lot in return for her support. And that could include becoming a member of the House Oversight Committee.

During a recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, Greene said of the Never Kevin Republicans, “I actually think that's a bad strategy when we're looking at having a very razor-thin majority, with potentially 219 (seats).”

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There is an understandable eagerness to celebrate that the Republican party failed to generate a “red wave,” and even experienced some major defeats, in this year’s election. Equally understandable is the inclination to seize on post-election Republican in-fighting as a hopeful sign of the party’s weakening.

There is currently a blame game going on the right, and for perhaps the first time since 2016, some once-significant Republican leaders—former Governors Chris Christie and Larry Hogan, former House Speaker Paul Ryan, even Trump’s Attorney General William Barr—have called for a break with Donald Trump. Others, most notably former Vice President Mike Pence and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, have distanced themselves from Trump, positioning for possible runs in a 2024 presidential primary. The blame game is real. Equally real is in-fighting within the Republican Senate and House caucuses, especially the latter, where titular leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy face challengers who are making real demands as a condition of future support—demands that will no doubt be met, for both McConnell and especially McCarthy are unprincipled cowards willing to do whatever is necessary for them to hold power.

This is all very real. And every fissure within the Republican Party is worth noting and—if possible—exploiting. But it would be a huge political and even moral mistake to exaggerate the importance of these intra-Republican differences.

It is tempting to believe that voters this November repudiated election denialism and an obsession with The Big Lie and registered a preference for “normality.” And some voters did do this in some settings, like Michigan. But a great many did not. Wisconsin voters returned Democratic Governor Tony Evers; but they also returned Republican majorities to both houses of the state legislature, and re-elected Ron Johnson, one of Trump’s strongest supporters, to the U.S. Senate. Texas voters re-elected far-right Governor Greg Abbott, and Florida voters re-elected even farther-right Governor Ron DeSantis, both of whom remain wedded to The Big Lie to this day, however much they might be out of favor with Trump, and however much their “accomplishments” extended beyond the re-litigation of 2020.

The voters who returned a majority of Republicans under the leadership of McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Elise Stefaniak, and Jim Jordan to the House surely did not repudiate election denialism. As CBS News observed: “In the next Congress, there are projected to be 156 GOP House members who have raised doubts about the validity of the 2020 election, an increase from the 147 GOP House members who, in January 2021, voted to object to the certification of the Electoral College.” Virtually every House Republican who voted against the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory on January 6, and then voted against any effort to investigate that insurrection, is returning to Congress. Indeed, they will be accompanied by some new members who actually participated in or at least actively supported the January 6 episode. As the Washington Post reports: “While the Republican Party suffered surprising losses in the midterms, including defeats of many who bought into Trump’s false election claims, the arrival of freshman lawmakers who had come to Washington as pro-Trump activists on that violent day underscores the extent to which the House Republican caucus remains a haven for election deniers.”

The House Republican leadership made very clear, long before the election, that if the party was returned to power, it would use this power to subject the Biden administration and even House Democrats to relentless investigation. And now that its control of the House in 2023 is assured, the same leaders have reiterated this promise. Kevin McCarthy, virtually certain to be the next Speaker of the House, has gone further, pledging to remove three high-profile Democrats—Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar—from their important committee assignments in retaliation for Nancy Pelosi’s similar treatment of Marjorie Taylor-Greene in 2021. (Back in February 2021 Pelosi, when asked if she had concerns about a precedent being set, replied: “None, not at all . . . If any of our members threatened the safety of other members, we’d be the first ones to take them off a committee.” Now McCarthy will punish some of the Democrats’ most public defenders of democracy, while elevating neo-fascist Greene to a major role in the new Congress.)

Writing in The New Republic, Alex Shephard argues that “A New Republican Civil War is About to Begin,” explaining that “the GOP’s old guard is pinning their renaissance on a Ron DeSantis renaissance. But Donald Trump’s counterestablishment has beaten them once before.” Shepherd’s piece nicely outlines the sources of friction within the Republican party and the foolishness of counting out Trump. At the same time, the piece’s caption is misleading. For there really is no longer a GOP “old guard,” though there are some, like McConnell, who are old and whose loyalty to the party preceded Trump and has often been tested by him. The GOP is the party of Trumpism even if there are now others, beyond Trump, who now might vie for its leadership—or might ultimately refuse to vie for leadership, ceding it to the twice-impeached, disgraced former President who remains the most popular leader among Republican voters, currently holding a 30 point lead over his nearest rival, DeSantis.

Yascha Mounck writes in The Atlantic about “How Moderates Won the Midterms.” Yes, some fanatics were defeated. But who are the “moderates” among the current leaders of the Republican Party either inside of Congress or outside of it? It is true that a handful of pretty far-right Republicans who refused to embrace the January 6 insurrection, such as Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, won election. But these candidates are hardly “moderates”; Kemp’s support for the Senate candidacy of Herschel Walker furnishes clear proof of that.

Perhaps the best clue to the meaning of the current recriminations among Republicans is contained in a recent Guardian piece entitled “Trump for 2024 would be ‘bad mistake,’ Republican says as blame game deepens.” The piece quotes an important Republican who recently vacated his House seat to run for the U.S. Senate: “It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have Donald Trump as their nominee in 2024. . . Donald Trump has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans. Even a candidate who campaigns from his basement can beat him.”

These are powerful words . . . . spoken by Mo Brooks, until very recently one of Trump’s most fanatical supporters, who refused to concede Biden’s victory in 2020, and who spoke at Trump’s January 6 Ellipse rally, declaring “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”

If ever there was a MAGA-inspired insurrectionist, it was Brooks, who entered the Alabama Senate race in 2021 with the blessing of Trump, only to run afoul of Trump’s ego, causing Trump to shift his support in the Republican primary to Big Lie proponent Katie Britt. Here is how Politico described the bitter battle that ensued between the two Republican candidates:

Even after Trump put his weight behind Britt in the runoff — and as public and internal polling showed Brooks’ prospects as weak — top conservative commentators like Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Mark Levin and Charlie Kirk declared their support for Brooks up to the final day of the campaign. Kirk, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward spent Monday night on a tele-town hall in support of Brooks, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) also continued to lend their support.

. . . Throughout the runoff campaign, Britt continued to rack up her own endorsements from high profile Republicans, including Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). In the final weeks, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the GOP nominee for governor in Arkansas, and commentator Steve Cortes have also put out statements and videos in support of Britt’s campaign. That follows several other incumbent senators endorsing her earlier this year.

Britt proceeded to win the primary and then the Senate seat in November’s election. The first woman elected to an Alabama Senate seat, Britt’s victory hardly attests to the failure of Trump-aligned election denial. And Brooks’s very public denunciations of Trump hardly attest to ascendancy of Republican “old guard moderates”—unless the likes of Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Charlie Kirk, Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, Rand Paul and Marjorie Taylor-Greene are considered voices of moderation. Indeed, once Britt won the primary, these leaders of The Grand Old Party came together behind her, just as they have all more recently denounced the Justice Department investigation of Trump, rallying behind Jim Jordan’s demand for Congressional investigation of the well-known Critical Race Theorizing Marxist, Merrick Garland.

This is moderation? This signifies real disagreements within the Republican Party?

It is surely true that some Republican voters have lost their appetite for Trump. It is just as true that Trump remains by far the most popular leader among Republican voters, and that, just as in 2016, it is very possible for him to win the Republican nomination, and the presidency, even without the support of a majority of voters. But the more important truth is that should Trump fail to be the Republican nominee in 2024, the nominee is very likely to be another far-right Republican, someone, like Ron DeSantis, whose intelligence and proven autocratic savvy make him even more dangerous.

As Jelani Cobb has recently argued in The New Yorker, Trumpism has an enduring power that far exceeds Trump himself, and “the forces of intolerance, racism, and belligerence he harnessed in American politics will persist” regardless of whether Trump ever again runs for political office.

These forces continue to circulate in civil society and the body politic, spreading lies and conspiracy theories, taking over school boards across the country, and waiting to be re-mobilized by Republican leaders in 2024. In the meantime, House Republicans will use their very real congressional powers to obstruct the Biden presidency, relentlessly attack the Democratic Party, and create chaos in the heart of the federal government.

Only a few short weeks and months ago it was widely understood by a wide range of commentators that the Republican Party is an explicitly illiberal party that most resembles “autocratic parties in Hungary and Turkey,” and is indeed an “antidemocracy party.” No less an authority than retired U.S. Judge J. Michael Luttig, one of the premier Republican jurists in the country, said as much in public testimony before the House January 6 Committee, declaring that “one of our national political parties . . . the former President’s party cynically and embarrassingly rationalizes January 6,” refusing to commit itself to the Constitution and continuing to undermine the legitimacy of liberal democracy.

Yes, in this year’s election some of the most cynical and embarrassing Republican candidates were repudiated—though many were not. Yes, there is back-biting and in-fighting among Republican leaders jockeying for position as the next election cycle looms. But has the Republican Party really changed? Some might wish it has. But wishing does not make it so. And so the party continues to represent a clear and present danger to American democracy.

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In addition to threatening cuts to Social Security and Medicare, congressional Republicans are reportedly plotting to use the debt ceiling and an end-of-year clash over government funding to target popular climate investments approved in August as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Washington Post reported Tuesday that "while some Republicans do favor brinkmanship over Medicare and Social Security... some aides and analysts think the GOP may be more likely to demand changes to other Democratic priorities."

"GOP leaders have discussed using the debt limit and government shutdown fights to press for cuts to clean energy spending," the Post noted. "Republicans are also eyeing demands for the administration to slow or reverse its plans to ramp up Internal Revenue Service enforcement of the nation's tax laws, although the GOP planning is preliminary and expected to evolve."

Allying with the oil and gas lobby, Republicans in the House and Senate unanimously opposed the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes nearly $370 billion in climate investments aimed at helping the U.S. transition to renewable energy and meet its emission-reduction targets.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who is hoping to take the majority gavel next year, derided the historic investments as "green boondoggles" while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called them "socialist scams."

In recent weeks, Republicans have openly floated the idea of using a fight over the federal borrowing limit—which must be raised to prevent a disastrous default—as leverage to secure concessions from Democrats, including Social Security and Medicare cuts.

Another potential opportunity for Republicans could come in mid-December, when a recently passed government funding bill is set to expire.

Top Republicans, including McCarthy, have made clear that they intend to take advantage of those opportunities if they win control of the House or the Senate in the November 8 midterms.

"If Republicans take over Congress, they plan to hold the government hostage and ransom our future," warned Dave Willett, a spokesperson for League of Conservation Voters.

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it's not clear which specific green energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act the GOP intends to target. E&E News reported last month that "some are eyeing provisions... like the electric vehicle tax credit" and "mineral sourcing requirements."

Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, told the outlet that he believes the GOP will "try to unwind a number of the bad policies that were enacted."

Democrats, meanwhile, are facing growing pressure to diffuse GOP threats by either raising or eliminating the debt ceiling, an arbitrary restriction on the amount of money the Treasury Department can borrow to meet its obligations. The federal government is projected to reach the current $31.4 trillion borrowing limit at some point next year.

A group of House Democrats led by Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) is calling on the Democratic leadership to act during the upcoming lame-duck session to "permanently undo the threat posed by the debt limit."

The Post noted Tuesday that "some Democrats have advanced legislation to effectively eliminate the debt ceiling by raising it to an impossibly high number, such as googolplex."

"Using the budget process known as reconciliation would make that move possible with only Democratic votes, bypassing a GOP filibuster in the Senate, but Biden's opposition appears to at least for now have put an end to those efforts, which would likely face opposition from centrist Democrats," the newspaper added.

During a speech late last week, Biden warned that Republicans are "determined to hold the economy hostage" to secure Social Security and Medicare cuts.

While the president vowed to oppose any cuts to the key programs, he also rejected calls to support debt ceiling repeal—a proposal backed by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said in an interview Sunday that he too opposes repealing the debt limit entirely but stressed the importance of lifting the ceiling to avert economic disaster.

"You have to increase the debt ceiling," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper. "What Republicans are basically doing—and I hope everybody understands this—they are saying, 'Look, we are prepared to let the United States default on its debt, not raise the debt ceiling, unless you talk about making cuts.'"

"You know what they're talking about? Cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid," Sanders added. "Is that irresponsible? It is absolutely irresponsible. You don't use the debt ceiling to do that."

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It won’t take a major red wave for Republicans to retake the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 midterms. Democrats have only a small House majority — definitely smaller than in 2019 or 2020 — and Republicans won’t need to flip a lot of Democrat-held seats to obtain a House majority.

House Republicans, in their :{“:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}::{Commitment to America,”:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}: have discussed their plans for the House in 2023 if they become its majority party — and liberal Washington Post opinion column Eugene Robinson, in a biting September 26 column, slams it as devoid of substance. Above all else, Robinson stresses, Republicans’ plans for the House are motivated by a desire for “revenge.”

“Pay no attention to the House Republicans’ substance-free ‘Commitment to America,’” Robinson argues. “The actual GOP plan, if the party takes control of the lower chamber in January, is a campaign of performative revenge.”

Robinson, a frequent guest on MSNBC, continues, “Ginned-up investigations, cruel attacks on the marginalized, even a concocted impeachment of President Biden — that’s what the nation has to look forward to if Republicans win the House. Those are the only things the party agrees on, except fealty to Donald Trump and an all-consuming desire for power.”

The liberal columnist notes that although House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy “made a big deal” of the release of the “Commitment to America,” it was full of empty rhetoric calling for “a nation that’s safe” and “a future that’s built on freedom.”

“A Republican majority would disband the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol, ending its important work,” Robinson notes. “Perhaps the Senate could try to take up the baton if Democrats retain control there. But it might be that the Justice Department is left on its own to finish writing the definitive story of what happened on that awful day and why. McCarthy and his committee chairs would also quickly launch a series ofshow-trial investigations. Think Benghazi after Benghazi after Benghazi.”

If McCarthy becomes House speaker, Robinson warns, anti-abortion bills are a possibility.

“On culture-war issues, how far the House would try to go under McCarthy would depend on how vulnerable he feels to the far-right wing of his caucus,” Robinson explains. “Opinion polls indicate, for example, that any attempt to pass a nationwide abortion ban would hurt the GOP among independent voters. But if enough House Republicans want to barrel down that road, McCarthy might be compelled to go along.”

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A woman picked to sit in on Republican Minority Leader **Kevin McCarthy**‘s staged town-hall styled rollout of the House GOP’s latest “Commitment to America,” complained to the California lawmaker that a “new” program, “social emotional learning,” which teaches children to have greater self esteem, and be aware of their emotions and those of others, is “Marxist.”

Social Emotional Learning, or “SEL,” is not new, it was developed starting in the 1960s at the Yale University School of Medicine.

But according to the woman chosen to help McCarthy introduce what he admits is the GOP’s “plan” to win back the House, SEL is just the next big “concern,” after “CRT.” Critical Race Theory has been used by far-right wing extremists to delegitimize that systemic racism exists in America.

“There are many other public education issues, concerning parents like myself,” the woman, reading from a script, tells McCarthy, who is seated among an almost entirely white audience in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area.

The woman identified herself as Lori McRoberts “a mama bear,” who says she has three children, ages 19, 17, and 14.

In her remarks she also complained about “abusive COVID protocols, or mandates,” in schools, “or what they called the ‘health and safety plan,'” she said, reading from her typewritten remarks. She described lunchtime for students as sitting like “prisoners,” while mocking the fact that COVID is airborne, can be spread via talking, and those infected can be asymptomatic. She also described signs in schools urging children and teachers to “mask up for safety,” as “propaganda,” while lamenting that parents were not given decision-making abilities for COVID policies, neglecting to note they should be science-based, while expressing anger the protocols came from guidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

After several minutes she got to the part where she blasted social learning programs.

“The slow creep of critical race theory,” she said, reading off her list of concerns, as her voice became angered, “diversity, equity, and inclusion, gender identity, and allowing biological boys to enter girls spaces in sports.”

“Now we have SEL,” she lamented, “which is ‘social-emotional learning,'” she said with disdain. “It’s indoctrination disguised as programs, like ‘kindness initiatives,’ or anti-bullying programs, or diversity projects.”

“These are all Marxist-style programs, targeting our children,” she claimed.

The Pittsburg, Pennsylvania public schools’ website says: “We all know that it is essential for children to master important academic skills, such as reading and mathematics. That’s why they go to school. But it is equally important for students to develop the ‘soft skills’ that we all need to navigate the world successfully. These include things like how to manage their own feelings and emotions, how to respect others and how to build strong, positive relationships. This is called Social-Emotional Learning (SEL).”

McRoberts continued her pre-written rant.

“Then, to make it all better, the current administration weaponized the Dept. of Justice,” she claimed, “and all the parents speaking up at school board meetings or challenging any of these programs, like I was, was now labeled a ‘domestic terrorist,'” she said, which is false.

“Our Dept. of Justice is calling me, a mom, a domestic terrorist,” she claimed, again, falsely.

After her lengthy and angry remarks, she asked how the Republican Party will “protect our children from the radical agenda of the left?”

After she spoke, to applause from the audience, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, seated directly behind Congressman McCarthy, looked at McRoberts knowingly, repeatedly mouthing, “good job, good job.”

McCarthy responded to McRoberts, agreeing that DOJ had called parents “domestic terrorists,” which he knows is false, after The Washington Post and others have called him out on it for months.

Watch McRobert’s remarks on SEL, and the full town hall staged presentation, below or at this link.

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/09/kevin-mccarthy/

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/new-report-details-expansion-of-trump-wing-in-the-house/

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Republican outrage was described as a “small political side circus,” after U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) succeeded in having several fact-checking articles exposing Republicans’ false claims made part of the Congressional Record.

The articles all debunked the false and baseless claims conservatives and the far right have been making for nearly a year, that Attorney General Merrick Garland called parents speaking at school boards “domestic terrorists,” and was investigating them.

Cicilline first tried to read the articles into the record, but Republicans immediately objected.

The Democrat from Rhode Island appeared genuinely surprised that the Judiciary Committee Republicans would object to the very basic and standard procedure. He was forced to describe the articles to have them included in the official record – something the Republicans also caused a commotion over.

Referring to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Cicilline said that “the ranking member made reference to a Department of Justice whistleblower memo and grossly mischaracterized its content. So I’d ask unanimous consent that I’d be permitted to read the memo into the record.”

Republicans objected.

“You object to reading into the record the memo?” Cicilline, shocked, asked. “Then I ask unanimous consent that the document that the Republicans were afraid to have be read aloud be introduced into the record.”

He read the titles into the record (NCRM has linked to those titles online below.)

“No, the federal government isn’t using the Patriot Act to treat parents like domestic terrorists,” which refutes a claim Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) made last year in October during another Judiciary Committee hearing.

“:{McCarthy’s:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}::{ false claims that Garland called parents ‘terrorists’:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:” was the title of another article made part of the record.

“Attorney General never called concerned parents ‘domestic terrorists’” was yet another article.

“Kevin McCarthy keeps repeating false claim that attorney general called parents terrorists for wanting to attend school board meetings,” was the final article.

Cicilline then asked “unanimous consent” that Republicans “read these documents and stop making false claims,” to which the Chair responded, “Good luck with that.”

Republicans were outraged.

“Point of order!” yelled one.

“The gentleman just impugned our integrity!” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) decried. “I would demand that his words be taken down. He is not allowed under the rules to impugn false statements by this side.”

Gohmert literally pointed his finger at Cicilline as he yelled.

“And as far as Politifact, and some of those, they couldn’t find the truth with both hands,” Gohmert, making what would likely be a “pants on fire claim,” also charged.

The Jim Jordan Louie-Gohmert part of the GOP caucus did not appear to have the full support of their fellow members.

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, a far-right Republican of Texas, held his head in his hand during part of the outbreak, and later ignored it by using his cell phone. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was laughing toward the end.

Watch below or at this link.

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When Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona famously told President Richard Nixon, during the Watergate scandal in 1974, that he could not count on his support, it was obvious that he prioritized country over party — and Goldwater was by no means the only conservative Republican who felt that way. Nixon, realizing that both Republicans and Democrats were likely to remove him from office if an impeachment trial were held in the U.S. Senate, resigned; Vice President Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as president on August 9, 1974.

But much has changed in the Republican Party since 1974. Even after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, countless Republicans remain loyal to former President Donald Trump — including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. And journalist Mark Leibovich slams them as examples of pathetic careerists in a scathing article published by The Atlantic on July 7.

The article’s headline is not subtle: “The Most Pathetic Men in America,” and Leibovich makes no effort to hide his disdain for Trump’s army of enablers in the Republican Party.

Leibovich recalls seeing Graham and McCarthy in public places in Washington, D.C. during Trump’s presidency, noting, “I would sometimes see them around the lobby or steakhouse or function rooms, skipping from table to table and getting thanked for all the wonderful things they were doing to help our president. They had long been among the most supplicant super-careerists ever to play in a city known for the breed, and proved themselves to be essential lapdogs in Trump’s kennel.”

READ MORE: Are we supposed to believe Republicans were duped?

The journalist adds, “McCarthy is a good bet to become the next speaker of the House in the likely event that Republicans win a majority in November. Graham remains perhaps Trump’s closest collaborator in the Senate, a frequent golf partner and nuanced handler of the presidential ego.”

Leibovich slams Graham and McCarthy as examples of “the slavishly devoted Republicans whom Trump drew to his side,” stressing that they were hardly alone in that regard.

“It’s been said before, but can never be emphasized enough: Without the complicity of the Republican Party, Donald Trump would be just a glorified geriatric Fox-watching golfer,” Leibovich writes. “I’ve interviewed scores of these collaborators, trying to understand why they did what they did and how they could live with it. These were the McCarthys and the Grahams and all the other busy parasitic suck-ups who made the Trump era work for them, who humored and indulged him all the way down to the last, exhausted strains of American democracy.”

Leibovich applauds the “handful of brave Republicans” who have been “willing to speak the truth about Trump in public,” including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. But he laments that they are the exception rather than the rule and predicts that Trump will have no shortage of sycophants if he runs for president in 2024.

READ MORE: Conservative insider denounces Republicans who wanted Trump to provide pardons for their involvement in his election scheme

“McCarthy will not be winning any Profile in Courage Award anytime soon,” Leibovich writes. “In fairness, that could make him a good fit for the cowardly caucus he is so eager to lead. Soon enough, 2024 will not be a long way away, and Trump is well-positioned to claim his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination. Again, Trump will do as he pleases and take what he can take. Because really, who’s going to stop him?”

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/06/critics-blast-republican-climate-agenda/

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'Poisoning our communities and cooking our planet': Critics blast 'destructive' Republican climate agenda

Matthew Rozsa.

Brett Wilkins and Common DreamsJune 02, 2022

Climate campaigners and progressive U.S. lawmakers reacted with disdain and derision Thursday to news that House Republicans would put forth a purported climate strategy that calls for increased fossil fuel production and sets no targets for reducing planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions.

Politico reports the "energy, climate, and conservation task force" created last year byHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will release a six-point strategy that recommends increasing all types of energy production with the goal of reducing record-high fuel and other energy costs, and with an eye on the 2022 midterm elections.

The plan—which would also boost gas exports while easing the permitting process for fossil fuel infrastructure—contains six elements: "Unlock America's Resources," "Beat China and Russia," "Let America Build," "Build Resilient Communities," "American Innovation," and "Conservation with a Purpose."

While the U.S. Chamber of Commerce welcomed the proposal, Jamal Raad, executive director at the climate advocacy group Evergreen Action, blasted it as "little more than a how-to guide for accelerating the climate crisis."

Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement that "this climate plan sounds like it was concocted by a comic book supervillain."

"Republicans have managed to devise a scheme that would make climate change even more destructive," Hartl added. "It's an oil industry wish list that would throw future generations under the bus to make a buck."

The advocacy group Food & Water Action called the plan a "climate farce" and a "pro-fossil fuels road map to climate chaos."

"Over a dozen years ago, no one would have mistaken 'Drill, Baby, Drill' for serious climate policy," the group's managing director of policy Mitch Jones said in a statement referring to 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's infamous campaign slogan.

"The fact that Republicans have not changed course in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence and cascading climate-fueled disasters speaks volumes," Jones continued. "What's needed now are serious plans that meet the monumental scale of the crisis, and also deliver the economic benefits and job opportunities that are so desperately needed."

"We need to elect climate champions this year who will prioritize shifting off of dirty fossil fuels that poison communities and enrich corporate polluters," he added.

Those corporate polluters contribute tremendous amounts of campaign cash to congressional lawmakers and candidates. The House Oversight Committee noted last October that just four fossil fuel giants—BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Shell—plus the industry group American Petroleum Institute spent a combined $452.6 million lobbying the federal government since 2011.

According to the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, McCarthy has received nearly $2.1 in career oil and gas industry contributions. GOP task force chair Rep. Garret Graves—whose Louisiana district is one of the most fossil fuel infrastructure-intense in the nation and is experiencing climate-driven sea level rise and increased illness—has taken nearly $700,000 in Big Oil donations.

With $414,824 in campaign contributions during the 2022 election cycle alone, McCarthy is the House's leading beneficiary of oil and gas contributions, according to data from the watchdog group OpenSecrets.

In return, the government lavishes the fossil fuel industry with around $20 billion in annual subsidies,which Joe Biden promised to end while campaigning for president.

However, doing so would require congressional approval, and even members of his own party—notably Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Congress' number one recipient of fossil fuel contributions during the 2022 election cycle and the seven-figure beneficiary of a family coal business—are fighting to protect subsidies.

"Lining the pockets of fossil fuel companies is not a long-term fix; it puts American families' health and the future of the planet at risk," tweeted Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). "The cost of climate-fueled extreme weather events in the most recent year for which we have data was $100 billion."

"The solution is blindingly obvious: clean energy," he added. "The more we are able to shift to clean energy, the better it will be for our health, and the less dependent we will be on fossil fuels, and the less susceptible our economy and American families will be to oil price swings."

Raad of Evergreen Action asserted that "real and effective climate solutions are at our fingertips, but McCarthy and his caucus are so beholden to their donors in the fossil fuel industry that they'd rather double down on the technologies of the past that are poisoning our communities and cooking our planet."

"Every election year, Republicans in Congress try to greenwash their records to mislead voters who overwhelmingly support common-sense climate action—and every time they seize power, they stand in the way of real solutions and subsidize the industries that are fueling this crisis," he added. "This stunt is a not-even-thinly veiled attempt to bullshit the press and the public. It's time to stop falling for it."

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says many things, mostly because he desperately wants to become Speaker of the House. He recently promised that he's going to have a talk with Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA.) and and Paul Gosar (R-AZ) about their "appalling" decision to speak at a conference organized by a far-right fringe figure and self-proclaimed white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Greene smiled and waved to the crowd right after Fuentes asked for a “round of applause for Russia” as Vladimir Putin rained down missiles and mortars on Ukraine. It's not clear exactly what McCarthy plans to say to Greene and Gosar or when, but as Politico reports he might be postponing "the talk" because there's really nothing he can do to control their behavior.

The two already have been stripped of committee assignments and any move to censure the pair only would draw attention to the far right faction of the GOP. One House Republican, Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.), says the wanna-be speaker should focus on issues much more important than Greene and Gosar.

“Dealing with dumb, stupid things people do in Congress should probably go down — and go pretty far down — on the list when you’ve got peacekeeping tanks rolling into a country that was not in conflict, when you’ve got record inflation, when you’ve got all of these things,” Armstrong said.

One centrist Republican, who spoke about the flap on the condition of anonymity, observed that the GOP leader has few options with which to threaten Greene and Gosar because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats have “fired all our shots” by stripping their panel assignments.

“I want them to shut up. Just stop it,” this Republican said. “[But] there’s nothing else. What else can Kevin do officially through the conference?”

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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who recently bowed out of a much-anticipated U.S. Senate bid, revealed that he was "bothered" after conversations with dozens of Republican Senators, who apparently wanted him to be a "roadblock" until the GOP retakes the White House.Sununu told The Washington Examiner this month that he was initially "pretty close" to running, explaining: "I wasn't ready to make an announcement, but I was like, 'OK, this makes sense. I think I could be a voice nationally.'" But after chatting with "most" of the GOP Senate caucus, Sununu reportedly soured on the role once it became apparent that they wanted him to be a legislative mule.

"They were all, for the most part, content with the speed at which they weren't doing anything. It was very clear that we just have to hold the line for two years," he told the Examiner. "OK, so I'm just going to be a roadblock for two years. That's not what I do."

"It bothered me that they were OK with that," the governor added.

Sununu's comments come in the wake of an intense legislative standoff between Democrats and Republicans over voting rights, an issue which became the focus of President Biden's agenda after negotiations on the "Build Back Better Act" – the president's $2.2 trillion social safety net plan – fell apart.

On Wednesday, Senate Republicans successfully filibustered Biden's sweeping voting rights overhaul – known as the "Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act" – which would standardize voting laws across all 50 states and clamp down on voter suppression. Not a single Republican backed the measure, even though the bill is supported by nearly 70% of Americans, according to a Navigator poll from November.

With Republicans having dashed Biden's hopes of passing the party's two signature pieces of legislation – the "Build Back Better Act" and the "Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act" – Democrats now question whether their colleagues believe in anything other than mindless obstructionism.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Biden echoed the spirit of Sununu's remarks, asking reporters, "What are Republicans for? What are they for? Name me one thing they're for."

That same day, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., sidestepped questioning when asked to lay out GOP's official agenda. "That's a very good question," McConnell said. "And I'll let you know when we take it back."

According to a recent Axios report, the Kentucky Republican has privately told colleagues and donors that the Republicans have no legislative agenda and are more interested in picking apart Democrats'.

Meanwhile, the House GOP caucus appears to be adopting the opposite strategy, according to The Washington Post, with its leadership drumming up a "list of policy pledges" designed to buoy support for the party in 2022.

Among those helming this effort are House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and House Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., both of whom ardently supported Donald Trump's election fraud conspiracy and voted to overturn the 2020 election.

Playing an advisory role to McCarthy is former Republican House SpeakerNewt Gingrich, who crafted the "Contract with America," a legislative platform widely linked to the GOP's successful campaign to flip both chambers in 1994.

Gingrich told the Post that McCarthy doesn't believe an anti-Biden agenda is sufficient for 2022, saying, "We need a positive message."

"I think that's clearly what McCarthy wants to do and I've offered to look at stuff and offer advice," Gingrich added. "There's lots of people in the House working on it. It will be a widespread commitment."

While the exact details of McCarthy's agenda remain hazy, the broad contours of the plan are clear.

So-called "parental rights" are expected to be front and center as Republican state officials continue to decry the alleged instruction of "critical race theory" – whose prevalence appears to be vastly overstated. For remedy, McCarthy has already released an informal "Parents Bill of Rights," which includes such provisions as the "right to be heard" and the "right to know what's being taught in schools and see reading material."

The House Speaker is also expected to assemble seven "issue-specific task forces" that will tackle a variety of other policy objectives, such as countering China's economic prowess, combating the recent crime wave, securing the nation's borders, regulating Big Tech,cutting corporate taxes, bulldozing environmental regulations, and curtailing inflation.

The soaring cost of consumer goods has proven an evergreen source of whataboutism for Republicans, even as the year-end jobs numbers indicate that Biden has steered the economy through an unprecedented economic recovery since he took office. Fox News called inflation a "top weapon" for the GOP to wield against Democrats in the upcoming midterms.

Throughout 2021, the consumer prices index rose 6.8% – the highest increase it has seen since 1982.

But when it comes to actually tackling inflation, lawmakers have historically had to walk a tightrope, said Brian Riedl, who served as an aide to Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

"There is nothing that messages well, significantly reduces inflation and is painless," Riedl told the Post. "It's easier to criticize inflation than to map out an actual solution going forward, and that's the box Republicans are currently in."

https://www.alternet.org/2021/10/gop-mitch-mcconnell/

corp tax hike?!

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After being closely aligned for decades, it appears that Republicans and top business lobbying groups are having a very public falling-out over conservative lawmakers' lack of support for a bipartisan infrastructure deal currently languishing in Congress.

According to digital politics site The Hill, every major business group in Washington, D.C. — including Business Roundtable and the National Association of Manufacturers, among others — has expressed some measure of support for the bill, which was crafted by a group of lawmakers in both parties alongside the White House.

Business groups have long been a key constituency for Republicans, who worked closely with K Street lobbyists to craft a 2017 tax cut that offered hefty benefits to both corporations and the wealthiest Americans. Yet no more than a small handful of Republican members of Congress have agreed to vote for the legislation favored by these groups this time around.

In a conference call with reporters last month Michael Johnson, CEO of the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association, a longtime conservative-leaning lobby that stands to gain heavily if the bill passes, seemed flabbergasted by Republicans' refusal to vote for such a popular piece of popular piece of legislation, which polls well across most demographics, including conservatives.

"That's why it boggles the mind that the progressives in the House have decided to take a very popular hostage and Republican leadership has decided to not rescue that very popular hostage when they easily could," Johnson said.

So what's behind this right-wing change-of-heart?

Neil Bradley, the executive VP and chief policy officer for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, blamed "misinformation" surrounding the bill during an interview with CQ Roll Call last month — adding that some House GOP members have privately told him that they'd like to vote for the infrastructure deal but feared angering Trump and the new constellation of ultra-conservative groups that were empowered during his tenure.

"I think there are some unfortunate things going on, and I'm being generous with the term unfortunate," Bradley said.

"If this vote today was occurring on the merits of the bill, the outcome wouldn't be in doubt and we'd have a supermajority," he added. "It's not the substance that people are disagreeing with here."

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in particular has become a flashpoint of conservative ire after endorsing a small number of Democratic candidates in Congressional races last year. The group, along with a number of other influential pro-business organizations, also stopped PAC donations to hundreds of Republican lawmakers who voted to overturn the 2020 election results on the evening of Jan. 6.

Following that news, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has taken to saying the U.S. Chamber "sold out" and that he no longer considers it an ally.

"I didn't even know the Chamber was around anymore," McCarthy told the political newsletter Punchbowl News.

The feud reached a head this week when Republican leaders kicked representatives for the U.S. Chamber off its conference calls.

Brett Horton, the chief of staff for House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., didn't hold back when asked about Republicans shunning the pro-business group.

"People care what their local Chambers of Commerce and business owners have to say, not the U.S. Chamber," Horton told The Hill. "If the U.S. Chamber sent me a meeting request right now, I wouldn't even staff that meeting out to an intern, and I don't see that changing."

In response to being iced out of the Republican inner circle, Axios reported this week, the group abruptly reversed its support for the bill. The Chamber disputed the report by arguing that it still supports the bill "as a stand-alone bill unlinked to the proposed tax and spend reconciliation bill" that it has been linked to from its inception — which makes its support for the infrastructure package merely theoretical.

In addition to the Republicans' beef with business groups over the pending infrastructure legislation, the two sides also clashed over their differing opinions on raising the U.S. debt ceiling this past week. Business groups saw the writing on the wall if Congress decided to default on the country's sizeable debts, and feared catastrophic consequences if the limit was not raised.

But most Republican lawmakers, especially Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, instead concluded that their responsibilities to their constitutents lay in obstructing the Democratic agenda — no matter what.

"Democrats have the full ability to raise the debt ceiling as a part of reconciliation," Cruz told POLITICO on Thursday. "They want political cover."

After a last-minute deal brokered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the debt ceiling was ultimately raised Thursday night — though only for a few months. McConnell said Saturday that he does not intend to make another deal come December, when the deal will likely expire — regardless of what business groups say.

McConnell's justification for the obstruction appeared to be rooted in a statement Sen. Chuck Schumer made after the Thursday vote, blasting Republican efforts to stymie any change to the debt ceiling.

"I am writing to make it clear that in light of Senator Schumer's hysterics and my grave concerns about the ways that another vast, reckless, partisan spending bill would hurt Americans and help China, I will not be a party to any future effort to mitigate the consequences of Democratic mismanagement," McConnell said in a statement.

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/social-media-explodes-with-reactions-to-kevins-mccarthys-jan-6-committee-picks/

before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy made his selections for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee on the January 6 insurrection, Democrats on Capitol Hill were hoping to God that he wouldn't have the bad taste to pick the buffoonish Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. But sure enough, Jordan is one of the five House Republicans McCarthy has picked — along with Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, Rep. Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota, Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois and Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas. Jordan has been an unapologetic promoter of the Big Lie, the false and debunked conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump because of widespread voter fraud.

And Jordan, Nehls and Banks all voted against certifying now-President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory on January 6, although Davis and Armstrong were among the House Republicans who did vote to certify Biden's win.

Twitter has been exploding with reactions to McCarthy's picks. Journalist Seth Abramson devoted an entire thread to the subject:...

'It is pathetic': Democrat unloads on Kevin McCarthy as 'unfit to serve' after 1/6 commission betrayal

David Badash The New Civil Rights Movement

May 18, 2021

The top Democrat on the powerful House Rules Committee is furious with **Kevin McCarthy** after the Republican Minority Leader on Tuesday pulled his support for a January 6 Commission Tuesday. McCarthy had initially supported one and even set demands on how it should be structured. Democrats honored McCarthy's demands but he pulled the rug out from them anyway.

"I'm pissed to be honest with you," **Chairman Jim McGovern** (D-MA) told reporters, after reading McCarthy's statement, as Talking Points Memo reports.

"What's frustrating to me is that this does not seem to be a disagreement over substance or policy," Chairman McCarthy added. "I do think this is an issue of character and fitness to lead."

"I assume what happened is that Trump got wind of what we were doing and called up the minority leader and said 'I don't like it,'" McGovern said with "disgust," TPM reports, calling it "pathetic."

Fox News notes McGovern said he was 'stunned" and called McCarthy's statement "alarming."

"If there's anybody in this chamber who doesn't believe it's important to get to the truth about what happened on the sixth, or who wants to make believe that what happened on the sixth didn't happen on the sixth, like a typical tourist day on the Capitol, they are not fit to serve in this chamber," McGovern said.

Fox News reported he was "raising his voice," and added: "It is pathetic."

McGovern wasn't done. On Twitter he blasted McCarthy even more.

"We gave him what he asked for. But now? He's going back on his word. He cares more about worshiping Trump & spreading The Big Lie than upholding his oath."

Here's a letter @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy sent Democratic leadership stipulating his requests for a January 6th Com… https://t.co/VA3BaDF3om

— Rep. Jim McGovern (@Rep. Jim McGovern)1621365496.0

Some political experts are calling McCarthy's move an "open-air cover up" and "a replay of the GOP attempt to scuttle the Russia investigation."

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McCarthy's strange real estate saga: Where does he live — and who's paying for it?

Zachary Petrizzo Salon

May 17, 2021

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has evidently been living the high life when he's at work in Washington. But back in his home district in Bakersfield, California, McCarthy leads a far less glamorous

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QAnon Congresswoman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) caused quite an uproar when she revealed her plan to file articles of impeachment against newly-elected President Joe Biden just one day after his inauguration. Many of Biden's Democratic supporters have pushed back against Greene's efforts, but they are not the only ones who disapprove.

According to The Hill, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has also made it clear he does not agree with Greene's stance or her effort to move forward with articles of impeachment against Biden.

On Friday, Jan. 23, McCarthy conducted an interview with Greta Van Susteren where he weighed in with his opinion on the newly-elected lawmaker's plan. While he admitted that he does not agree with her, he also noted that she does have a right to move forward with her agenda.

"I called her. I disagree with that. That's exactly what the Democrats did with President Trump, and why we disagreed with when they wanted to come after him for purely political reasons," McCarthy said. "I think Republicans are better than that. That this is one of the arguments we used against the Democrats, and I don't think we should use it either."

"She has a right to, as an elected member of Congress to submit those," he added, "I just don't think the timing and the case is right at this time, in this moment."

McCarthy's remarks come just days after Greene released a statement arguing that Biden is "unfit to hold the office of the presidency." Less than one day after Biden was elected Greene also charged that Biden displayed a pattern of abusing his powers when he served as Vice President from 2008 to 2016.

"President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama's Vice President is lengthy and disturbing," Greene said in a statement on Thursday, Jan 21. "President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family's pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies."...

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trumps-limp-coup-is-falling-apart-but-right-wing-media-and-certain-gop-politicians-dont-know-when-to-cut-bait/

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Most still-rational Americans, watching Donald Trump's atrocity of a press conference on Thursday night, had two simultaneous reactions: Wow, that man really is the worst living American, and also, yeah, this is all over except for the paperwork.

It was an odd mix of emotions. There was the disgust of watching the actual president of the actual United States demand that legal votes be thrown out insinuating that millions of American voters were somehow fakes. But there was also the relief of seeing Trump's facade of bravado collapsing, exposing the loser that was always hiding behind that wall of bluster. Even many Trump voters knew, at that moment, that it was over. Trump's attempted coup is collapsing under the weight of his own incompetence and laziness.

We are now at the portion of the right-wing cycle of failure where the supporters of the corrupt and failed Republican president slink away and pretend that they were never that into him in the first place. (See: Nixon, Richard M., and Bush, George W.) But for whatever reason, a decent number of rats are clinging fiercely to the side of the sinking ship, insisting, as the water starts lapping against their skinny tails, that Captain Bleach-Injector can still somehow save himself.

Thursday night, a frantic Sean Hannity was on Fox News, baselessly claiming that Philadelphia election officials counting Pennsylvania ballots are "violating the law" and suggesting, apparently not as a joke, "a do-over in that state." On his radio show, Hannity begged for state-appointed electors who'll vote for Trump, defying the actual voters of Pennsylvania. (State GOP leaders have declined.)

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show and falsely claimed that "Trump won this election," demanding, "Everyone who's listening, do not be quiet." He then tweeted out the video clip, in case there was any doubt he was trying to rile up Republican voters with these lies. Twitter put a content warning on the video.

Ingraham went along with McCarthy's antics, demanding that other Republican politicians "better stand and fight" for Trump and claiming that "we have huge amounts of money from Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros and others flooding" into "canvassing, you know, states like Pennsylvania." This claim is not only untrue but also nonsensical: The apparent implication is that, while Republicans are allowed to canvass and organize, Democrats have no such right.

Tucker Carlson was relatively limp, trying to boost Trump's conspiracy theories and complaining about "the media" calling the election. The latter is a particularly shameless play, as Trump's entire coup plot — which he has laid out in great detail over the past couple of months— was to seize on the appearance that he was ahead in early media reports on Tuesday night as evidence he had "won," even though all votes hadn't counted.

On Hannity's show, South Carolina's Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham let loose with baseless accusations, which carried a strong whiff of racism, that Philadelphia's elections are "crooked as a snake" while Arizona's are to be trusted. (News flash: Trump will probably lose that state too.)

Even former football coach Tommy Tuberville, having defeated Democratic Sen. Doug Jones in Alabama, decided that one of his first acts as a senator-elect was to declare that "the game is over" but "the referees are suddenly adding touchdowns to the other team's side of the scoreboard." It's a false analogy that elides the fact that votes are always counted after the polls close.

Salon's Sophia Tesfaye has an astounding list of other examples from GOP politicians, so readers can get the full scale of how bad this is.

Right-wing media whining has already drifted toward violent fantasies. Newt Gingrich, after letting loose with a racist rant about the "Philadelphia machine," the "Atlanta machine" and the "machine in Detroit," demanded on Fox News that Attorney General Bill Barr arrest election workers and menacingly declared that "federal agents can carry guns in the pursuit of people who are breaking the law."

While interviewing Rudy Giuliani on his radio show, Trumpian pseudo-fascist crackpot Sebastian Gorka declaredthat "we should just force our way in" to voting centers to keep votes from being counted. This was a bridge too far even for Giuliani, who suggested "that would require a fistfight, which I guess our people don't want to get involved in."

After falsely announcing that"Trump won an overwhelming victory" and was already "in his second term" in a Fox Business interview, disgraced former Trump adviser Steve Bannon went on his own radio show and fantasized about killing Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

"I'd put the heads on pikes," Bannon said, "as a warning to federal bureaucrats."

All of this, it should go without saying, is deeply evil. These people aren't just undermining democracy and telling outragous lies, they're often trying to incite violence against their fellow Americans. But evil is, sadly, to be expected. That's what has become of the Republican Party after decades of dehumanizing propaganda and five years of Trumpism.

But what's more puzzling is how irrational this behavior is. All these pundits and politicians are out there, flailing around and lying for Trump, and for what? He's a dead man walking, and they know it. The lawsuits Trump's team are filing are unbelievably feeble, so much so that it's clear they're less meant as a serious effort to rescue Trump from electoral defeat than to bolster his delusions that he's being unfairly victimized.

There's no point in defending Trump now, especially not in the stick-your-neck-out way we're seeing from Fox News hosts and politicians like Graham or McCarthy. It's certainly not going to make it more likely there's some miracle where Trump pulls himself out of a nosedive.

The only purpose of all this nonsense is to soothe Trump's injured ego with pretty lies about how he should have won and it's all rigged and he's the real winner here and not the massive loser he looks like to the whole world right now.

And I have to ask: To what end? It's one thing to flatter Trump when he's the president — it's gross and cynical, but entirely rational, to want the power of having a president on your side. It's another thing entirely to keep at it when he's on his way out. It's especially weird to demonstrate loyalty to Trump, a man who will never return it and would sell out all his bootlickers to black-market organ salesmen if he thought that might save his sorry ass.

I'm forced to conclude that these people merely stunned and falling back on bad habits. After four years of relentless lying and toadying to this reality-TV villain who sleazed his way into the Oval Office, the Trump apologists don't know how to quit him. Even as the building collapses around them, they're carrying on as if Trump will somehow find a way to survive this, because that's what they've been conditioned to believe.

The saddest part? Their audiences and supporters will forget all this when Trump finally leaves office. That's when the right will move seamlessly into Phase II: Forget This Ever Happened.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-revealed-the-danger-of-the-decades-long-conservative-movement/

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How the coronavirus crisis revealed the danger of the decades-long conservative movement

Written by Amanda Marcotte / Salon March 13, 2020

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell smelled an evil liberal conspiracy on Thursday, one designed to steal away his decades of tireless work to kneecap the federal government. The Democratic-majority House had passed a large emergency bill, designed to combat the coronavirus pandemic, and McConnell was absolutely certain Democrats, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, were trying to pull one over on him.

“Unfortunately, it appears at this hour that the speaker and House Democrats instead chose to produce an ideological wish list that was not tailored closely to the circumstances,” McConnell said. He accused Democrats of exploiting this situation, saying the bill addresses “various areas of policy that are barely related, if at all, to the issue before us.”

There’s a lot at stake here, but apparently the big sticking point for McConnell was a provision requiring employers to offer paid sick leave to employees, which McConnell claims would “put thousands of small businesses at risk.”

In reality, of course, this is just common sense. As the New York Times editorial board noted, companies that don’t offer paid sick leave “are endangering their workers and customers.” A lot of workers with public-facing jobs — such as food service workers and retail employees — come into close contact with dozens or hundreds of people a day. But they are the people least likely to be allowed to stay home without losing their jobs, or at least losing a paycheck.

McConnell is so poisoned by his right-wing ideology that he can’t see this, or chooses not to. Instead, he’s standing firm on the long-standing Republican tendency to view employers as feudal lords who should be allowed to treat employees however they wish — even, apparently, if that means allowing a deadly disease to rip through the population, potentially killing hundreds of thousands of people if it is not checked.

So far, most of the panic over the coronavirus outbreak has been driven by the undeniable incompetence of Donald Trump. At every turn, Trump has made this situation worse — even going so far as to try to discourage testing to bamboozle the public and, I suspect, tanking the markets by screwing up an Oval Office address because he’s too vain to wear glasses so he can see well enough to read a teleprompter.

That’s all true. But it’s also important to understand that the larger Republican Party, even without Trump, is also to blame for what looks to be a serious public health crisis. Right-wing ideology, often marketed as “rugged individualism” but perhaps better understood as an aversion to the very concept of a common good, is one major reason why the U.S. government, hamstrung for decades by Republican power, isn’t better equipped to handle a crisis.

This isn’t just a Trump problem. This is a widespread Republican problem. For decades, GOP strategy has been consistent: Whenever they get power, they slash regulations and gut spending, with the goal of making government less effective. This is a deliberate strategy to make the public broadly distrustful of government, and therefore increasingly open to shifting more and more power to the wealthy individuals who control the private sector.

This ideological commitment to an every-man-for-himself ideology, which is terrible in any circumstances, is exposed as particularly dreadful in the face of a pandemic. Disease is a reminder that humans are a herd species, wholly dependent on each other for survival, and that government must be a way to formally organize that joint survival pattern. It’s not some villain in a racism-inflected right-wing morality fable about the importance of “personal responsibility.”

Simply put, we need our government to be able to protect us from disease. Republicans have spent years tearing it down, and even in a crisis are incapable of accepting that “small government” is not always a good thing.

As Max Moran at Talking Points Memo argued, the fact that Vice President Mike Pence — deemed a “normal” Republican — is in charge of the coronavirus comforts some people, because they believe he is more adult and responsible than Trump. Pence’s track record suggests otherwise. As governor of Indiana, he oversaw an HIV outbreak that led to 10% of the population people in a single county becoming infected because Pence thought preaching the value of personal responsibility was better than following the recommendations of public health experts.

“[A] Pence-led response is dangerous, not in spite of, but precisely because he is a typical Republican,” Moran writes, because normal Republicans “apply their competence and considerable resources” to the task of “protection for the powerful, callousness for the afflicted, and a special disdain for the ‘other.'”

The right-wing idiocy that is going to get people killed is all over the Republican response to this situation. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy joined McConnell in denouncing the Democratic bill, even though everything in it — including expanding food-stamp spending — will either help slow the spread of the disease or stimulate the American economy to offset the inevitable slowdown caused by this epidemic.

Instead, McCarthy is resorting to racism instead of sensible public health measures, calling the coronavirus the “Chinese coronavirus” for no apparent purpose except to feed the assumptions of the Fox News base than their whiteness and their racist attitudes will somehow protect them. (This assumption, by the way, is leading many older Americans to take serious and completely unnecessary risks with their health.)

The right-wing ideology poisoning is so bad that the coronavirus bill was held up in part because Republicans wanted to inject some anti-abortion language into it. There is absolutely no reason to believe that helping people protect themselves against a viral epidemic will lead to more abortions, but that’s the modern GOP for you: They’re always worried that somehow or other the Democrats have a sneaky agenda to “let” women have sex. (Which women will undoubtedly do, whether the Democrats authorize it or not.)

Even the so-called Republican “moderates” are to blame for this situation. For instance, Politico reporter Michael Grunwald uncovered this little tidbit about Sen. Susan Collins of Maine from his book about the Obama era.

Michael Grunwald

@MikeGrunwald

I had forgotten my own reporting that @SenatorCollins stripped $870M for pandemic preparations out of the 2009 stimulus.

Zooming out, it’s easy to see how decades of damage to our government are likely to make this epidemic worse. Republicans have been stingy about health care spending and have blocked Democratic efforts to increase access, especially when it comes to the Medicaid expansion under the Obama administration. The result is that we have fewer doctors and hospitals ready to handle what we know is coming, and we will probably have a lot of infected people who won’t get tested, either because they can’t afford it or don’t even know where to go for testing and treatment.

By all means, blame Trump for the current crisis. His incompetence is especially central to the panicked reaction of the financial markets. Even a slightly steadier president, whatever his or her party or ideology, would bolster investor confidence a whole lot more.

But this isn’t just about Trump. Republicans have a profound hostility to good government, and whatever slapdash response they may grudgingly accept in an effort to save their skins at the ballot box this November will be hamstrung by the fact that they refused, for decades, to invest in the infrastructure necessary to weather the big shock that is hitting us right now. Viruses are the ultimate reminder that humans are interconnected and need each other, and that the ideal of “rugged individualism” is childish and often racist nonsense.

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‘Insulting’: Dem lawmaker in Trump-leaning district takes down Kevin McCarthy for blatantly lying about reasons for impeachment

Brad Reed / Raw StoryDecember 18, 2019

During an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Slotkin slammed McCarthy for shamelessly misrepresenting House Democrats’ arguments for impeaching the president.

https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/top-house-republican-kevin-mccarthys-ad-defending-trump-on-impeachment-features-stock-footage-from-russia

the top Republican in the House of Representatives this week released an ad defending President Donald Trump which includes footage from Russia.

The ad itself has been widely mocked, but now that CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski has identified the stock footage is from Russia, it’s becoming all the worse for McCarthy. Several years ago McCarthy was caught saying he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is paying Trump...

This weekend, there were two more mass shootings, in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH. As I write this, at least twenty people were murdered in El Paso, and 9 were killed in Dayton. This follows the mass shootings last weekend in Gilroy, CA, and Brooklyn, NY.

NBC News reporter Ben Collins reported on the El Paso shooter’s alleged manifesto, writing, “The screed posted to the anonymous extremist message board [8chan] railed against immigrants in Texas and pushed talking points about preserving European identity in America.”

8chan is a far-right message board where shooters like this are portrayed as heroes; the New Zealand shooter and the Poway Synagogue shooter both posted there. The Gilroy shooter recommended a book that white supremacists there often tout. In his assessment, Collins was blunt: 8chan has a "body count." [DN founder wants it taken down?]

The El Paso shooter's alleged manifesto is built around the "great replacement" theory-- the white supremacist conspiracy theory that immigrants are being brought into the United States to replace white people. That should sound familiar: It is a regular part of Fox News prime time. It's specifically one of the things that Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson have been criticized for pushing.

I spent a lot of time watching Fox News’ Saturday coverage of the El Paso shooting, and it was striking how the coverage bent toward propaganda. There were numerous interviews with survivors and witnesses that could have been done by any news outlet. But in between those interviews, Fox went out of its way to avoid any conversations about easy access to guns and the rash of far-right white nationalist shooters.

Thenetwork multiple times speculatedon a link between video games and the El Paso shootingOn Sunday morning, Republicans Lt. Gov. of Texas Dan Patrick and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) both talked to Fox News about the dangers of video games as well. NBC's Collins pointed out in return that “Nowhere did this shooter mention video games. The screed shows he had an encyclopedic knowledge of real-life guns, posted to a community of white nationalists, and wrote about doing this as part of a cause against immigration.”

Fox News also speculated on a link to ISIS, given the proximity to the border (their implicit and evidence-free theory being that an ISIS terrorist came over the border). A Fox guest even suggestedthat this type of mass shooting is why the American military is performing "counter-terrorism work" around the globe. But, of course, Fox News also said that now was not the time to talk about gun violence as a systemic problem.

Republicans are already hiding behind Fox News.CNN's Jake Tapper reported that a number of top Republicans declined to appear on CNN today to talk about the mass shootings. The list included the White House, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine, and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

Patrick instead appeared on Fox & Friends, where he used the El Paso shooting to call for federal government intervention into the video game industry, more prayer in schools, and more saluting of the flag. Patrick has appearedon Fox previously to push the Great Replacement theory.

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2018

Western National Group	$0	$538,400	$538,400
Pisces Inc	$0	$347,700	$347,700
Northwest Excavating	$0	$345,200	$345,200
A Wilsey Properties	$0	$286,100	$286,100
Medical Facilities of America	$0	$248,800	$248,800
Boyden Gray & Assoc	$0	$243,100	$243,100
Raine Group	$0	$242,300	$242,300
Bank of America	$0	$241,000	$241,000
Federated Investors Inc	$0	$240,000	$240,000
Oracle Corp	$0	$180,400	$180,400
San Pablo Lytton Casino	$0	$154,300	$154,300
Jennmar Corp	$0	$140,250	$140,250
Jackson Family Enterprises	$0	$135,900	$135,900
Capital Group Companies	$10,000	$111,300	$121,300
Charles Schwab & Co	$0	$110,600	$110,600
Argyros Family Foundation	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Arnel & Affiliates	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Entrepreneurial Corporate Group	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Grimmway Enterprises	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Hess Corp	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Leach Capital	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Tommar LLC	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Western Refining	$0	$100,000	$100,000
Yucaipa Companies	$0	$100,000	$100,000

Total Receipts	$13,545,440
Total Spent	$13,558,474
Begin Cash	$186,817
Cash on Hand	$173,782
Debts	$0
Date of Report	December 31, 2018

ca gs tax prop

https://www.alternet.org/its-more-tweet-kevin-mccarthys-tweet-targeting-george-soros-reveals-troubling-history

...

California lawmaker has come under intense scrutiny in recent days after he suggested on Twitter last Tuesday that Jewish people are trying to buy the midterm elections this November, just four days before a gunman opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue, leaving 11 people dead and six others injured. The suspect allegedly made anti-semitic remarks to police after his arrest.

In a tweet posted last Tuesday,McCarthy wrote, "We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election. Get out and vote Republican November 6th! #MAGA." The tweet accompanied a video of McCarthy making the same remarks.

McCarthy's tweet, which has since been deleted, referred to George Soros, Tom Steyer and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg — three billionaires who donate heavily to liberal causes and have Jewish family backgrounds. Soros is a Hungarian American Holocaust survivor; Steyer has a Jewish father; and Bloomberg is Jewish and was named the first recipient of the Genesis Prize, dubbed as "the Jewish Nobel Prize." The tweet was pinned to the top of McCarthy's Twitter profile until it was deleted on Wednesday. Soros and Steyer were among high-profile Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump who received packages containing explosive devices last week.

Several critics and political observers have expressed concern that McCarthy and his wife's comments are dog whistles for people like Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man who arrested in connection with the suspected bombings, and Robert Bowers, the suspect in the Pittsburgh shooting. Others have pointed out that McCarthy's tweet didn't mention top Democrat donor Fred Eychaner, who gave $68 million to Democrats this election cycle, because he's a Methodist.

It is unclear why McCarthy pinned the tweet to the top of his Twitter page and why he deleted that tweet. It is unknown if the tweet was pre-scheduled. Matt Sparks, McCarthy's communications director, told Salon, "Kevin McCarthy's legislative record, personal experience, and regular participation in bipartisan, pro-Israel policy conferences make it unquestionably clear he loves the Jewish people and the Jewish State. We will not dignify this hurtful accusation with further comment."

But Steyer, whose father was Jewish, said he felt McCarthy's tweet about him was anti-semitic during a Sunday appearance on CNN. "In terms of interpreting what he said, that seems, to me, like a straight-up anti-semitic move. I think that there – that is a classic attempt to separate Americans. I think that absolutely falls into the category of what I'm describing as political violence," Steyer said. He also accused the Republican Party of creating a politically violent environment and blamed Trump of "routine, systematic, lawlessness." While Steyer said he did not blame Trump for the shooting, he said, "I'm absolutely associating and blaming him for creating the atmosphere that exists."

Trump responded on Twitter, writing that he watched "Wacky Tom Steyer," who he said, "comes off as a crazed & stumbling lunatic who should be running out of money pretty soon."

On Monday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested Saturday's synagogue shooting was part of "the anti-religiosity in this country," which she said is demonstrated by late-night comedians who crack jokes about Christians. During an appearance on Fox & Friends, Conway said that the president "denounced anti-Semitism," before citing the racist massacre in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine worshippers dead in 2015.

"These people were gunned down in their place of worship," she said of both the Charleston victims and those of Saturday's shooting. She concluded that the shootings are a sign that "this is no time to be driving God out of the public square." Conway conveniently forgot that Dylann Roof, the convicted Charleston church shooter, is a white supremacist who was motivated by racial hatred. Similar to the Pittsburgh shooter, Roof publicly broadcasted his racist beliefs and motivations for his attack. Sayoc, the suspected bomber, was also radicalized. Even Jeff Sessions, Trump's Attorney General, confirmed the suspected bomber is a "partisan" at a press conference Friday afternoon.

"We will not tolerate such lawlessness, especially political violence," Sessions said. He warned, "Let this be a lesson to anyone, regardless of their political beliefs, that we will bring the full force of law against anyone that who attempts to use threats, intimidation and outright violence to further an agenda. We will find you, we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law."

Despite Conway and McCarthy's claims that Christians suffer anti-Christian bias, Christians are the least targeted group for anti-religious hate crimes, according to FBI hate crime statistics for 2016. Of the total 1,538 offenses reported by law enforcement, Jews and Jewish institutions constituted more than half of the victims — 54 percent. Muslims were victims of 24 percent of anti-religious crimes and Christians and their churches were victims of only 11 percent of the incidents. Statistics for 2017 have not yet been published.

http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/06/13/44705/does-kevin-mccarthy-s-rise-spell-trouble-for-calif/

It's looking all but certain that Bakersfield Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy will be elected as the next House Majority Leader. But his rise to the number two GOP leadership position could mean trouble for one of Gov. Jerry Brown's pet projects: high speed rail.

McCarthy has long opposed spending federal dollars on California's bullet train. Testifying before a House hearingearlier this year, he called the California High Speed Rail's Authority's business plan "deeply flawed," saying it left him with "serious concerns with the authority's finances and how they plan to come up with the tens of billions of additional funds needed to complete the project."

Now, with McCarthy almost a heartbeat away from the Speaker, some are wondering whether federal funding for high speed rail is doomed.

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Record and controversies

State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)

In 2007, Congress took up the reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which provides health care for about 6 million children and 670,000 adults from families who earn too much money qualify for Medicare but not enough to afford health insurance. Congressional Democrats and many Republicans tried to use the opportunity to dramatically expand the program but were opposed by President George W. Bush and other Republicans. In 2006, 5.4 million children were eligible but not enrolled in SCHIP or Medicaid and 9.4 million total children were uninsured.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy voted against the first House bill, which passed along party lines. It would have added $47 billion over five years to the $25 billion cost of the program and added about 5 million people to the program, including children, some legal immigrants, pregnant women and adults aged 18 and 19. The bill was financed mainly by an increase in cigarette taxes.[1]

House Democrats, with 45 Republicans, later compromised and passed a bill which expanded the plan by $35 billion and would have insured about 3.5 million more children from families generally making between 250% and 300% of the federal poverty line (about $51,000 to $62,000 for a family of four). Most non-pregnant, childless adults were excluded, as were most legal immigrants and all illegal immigrants. McCarthy voted against the bill.[2]

After President Bush vetoed the bill, Democratic leaders attempted to override the veto with the same bill but failed. McCarthy voted against the bill.[3]

House Democrats then attempted to override it with another bill, which gave into Republican demands for increased checks for citizenship, the quick phasing-out of adult coverage, a hard limit of 300% of the federal poverty level and funding for families that covered their children through private insurance instead. Republicans, angry that the vote was scheduled during massive fires in California, blocked the veto override. McCarthy voted against the bill[4]. For details on the bills and the debate, see the main State Children's Health Insurance Program page.

Iraq War

For more information see the chart of U.S. House of Representatives votes on the Iraq War.

Environmental record

For more information on environmental legislation, see the Energy and Environment Policy Portal

Biography

Born in 1965, McCarthy earned both his undergraduate degree and Masters of Business Administration from California State University, Bakersfield. He opened his first business, Kevin O's Deli, at the age of 21 to raise money to for college. He and his wife Judy have two children, Connor (12) and Meghan (10). [5]

From the late 1990s until 2002, McCarthy served as the District Director for U.S. Congressman Bill Thomas. In 2000, he was elected as a Trustee on the Kern Community College District Board. In 2002, McCarthy was elected to the California state assembly and became the first person to be elected Republican Assembly Leader as a freshman.[6]

2006 election

McCarthy defeated Democrat Shannon Beery to replace retiring Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) in the 2006 congressional elections. He received 71% of the vote.

Committees and Affiliations

Committees

House Committee on Agriculture
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
- Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture
House Committee on House Administration

More Background Data

Contact

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turns out to punch above his wt in fundraising PAC

Total Receipts	$2,097,747
Total Spent	$2,076,359
Begin Cash on Hand	$56,909
End Cash on Hand	$78,297
Debts	$0
Date of last report	August 31, 2014

2014 PAC Contribution Data

Contributions from this PAC to federal candidates (list recipients) (0% to Democrats, 100% to Republicans)	$959,073
Contributions to this PAC from individual donors of $200 or more ( list donors)	$973,452

Contributions from this PAC to federal candidates (list recipients)

(0% to Democrats, 100% to Republicans)

$959,073

Contributions to this PAC from individual donors of $200 or more ( list donors)

$973,452

Official PAC Name:

MAJORITY COMMITTEE PAC--MC PAC

Location: BAKERSFIELD, CA 93389

Industry: Leadership PACs; Republican leadership PAC

Treasurer: THOMSON, JILL

FEC Committee ID: C00428052

(Look up actual documents filed at the FEC)

l Receipts	$1,947,557
Total Spent	$2,095,689
Begin Cash on Hand	$205,040
End Cash on Hand	$56,909
Debts	$0
Date of last report	December 31, 2012

==

Blue Cross/Blue Shield	$51,869	$1,500	$50,369
Chevron Corp	$44,500	$17,000	$27,500
Goldman Sachs	$42,100	$21,600	$20,500
Occidental Petroleum	$41,000	$10,000	$31,000
National Assn of Realtors	$40,500	$500	$40,000
AT&T Inc	$40,000	$0	$40,000
Altria Group	$36,500	$0	$36,500
Independent Petroleum Assn of America	$35,500	$0	$35,500
American Bankers Assn	$35,000	$0	$35,000
California Dairies Inc	$35,000	$0	$35,000
New York Life Insurance	$34,250	$1,250	$33,000
American Health Care Assn	$34,000	$0	$34,000
California Portland Cement Co	$33,999	$0	$33,999
National Auto Dealers Assn	$33,500	$0	$33,500
Bank of America	$32,500	$2,000	$30,500
Edison International	$32,500	$2,500	$30,000
National Beer Wholesalers Assn	$32,500	$0	$32,500
Pacific Advisors	$32,400	$32,400	$0
Oracle Corp	$32,250	$24,750	$7,500
Credit Union National Assn	$31,750	$2,250	$29,500

Real Estate	$480,025
Insurance	$464,596
Securities & Investment	$449,000
Health Professionals	$424,594
Oil & Gas	$382,800
Crop Production & Basic Processing	$317,167
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products	$316,400
Lawyers/Law Firms	$213,900
Commercial Banks	$176,816
Electric Utilities	$173,550
Health Services/HMOs	$167,800
Casinos/Gambling	$167,750
Computers/Internet	$163,050
Beer, Wine & Liquor	$153,928
TV/Movies/Music	$149,050
Retail Sales	$146,500
Accountants	$145,119
General Contractors	$140,975
Lobbyists	$136,700
Food & Beverage	$131,050

Sector Totals

Sector	Total	PACs	Indivs
Agribusiness	$752,584	$330,427	$422,157
Communications/Electronics	$432,400	$348,800	$83,600
Construction	$416,174	$172,499	$243,675
Defense	$80,500	$70,500	$10,000
Energy & Natural Resources	$713,200	$464,750	$248,450
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate	$2,003,806	$1,301,004	$702,802
Health	$1,030,544	$797,328	$233,216
Lawyers & Lobbyists	$350,600	$91,250	$259,350
Transportation	$287,284	$203,484	$83,800
Misc Business	$967,256	$541,428	$425,828
Labor	$19,500	$19,500	$0
Ideological/Single-Issue	$173,200	$115,950	$57,250
Other	$170,825	$16,500	$154,325

Chris Van Hollen, Kevin McCarthy Spar Over Keystone XL Pipeline

The Huffington Post | By Lucia Graves Posted: 03/18/2013 11:24 am EDT | Updated: 03/18/2013 12:14 pm EDT

Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), appearing on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday, sparred briefly over the State Department's pending approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

McCarthy claimed the pipeline would create "20,000 new jobs," and urged its construction. "Why do we have to wait?" he asked. The jobs numbers he referenced are actually off by several thousand, however, according to a study conducted by the Cornell University Global Labor Institute.

The study found that the project "will create no more than 2,500-4,650 temporary direct construction jobs for two years, according to TransCanada’s own data supplied to the State Department," and that the "claim that KXL will create 20,000 direct construction and manufacturing jobs in the U.S is not substantiated." The State Department's own study found the pipeline will createjust 35 permanent jobs.

Van Hollen said that, while he was still reviewing the State Department’s “very complicated” assessment of the project, he thought the pipeline could be safely built. "Now the question is whether or not the overall climate effects, the overall energy impacts, are something we support," he said.

The State Department -- which has purview over the approval process since the pipeline crosses an international border -- will issue a final assessment of the project following a 45-day public comment period. The Obama administration is expected to reach a final decision by July or August.

The 'Young Guns' Are Here: Cantor, Ryan, McCarthy Hit Media Tour

Chris Good 9/14/12

The "Young Guns" are here: House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Budget Committee Ranking Member Paul Ryan, and National Republican Congressional Committee recruitment chair Kevin McCarthy are posing themselves as "the leader," "the thinker," and "the strategist" in a new book the three have released today, pitching the co-authored "Young Guns: The Next Generation of American Leaders" in a media tour that began this morning with a stop on NBC's "Today":

Released Sept. 14, the 191-page paperback was penned jointly by House Republican leaders Eric Cantor of Virginia, Kevin McCarthy of California, and Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. The book lays out broad conservative talking points and tackles Democrats on health care legislation, taxes, and social security. It makes little to no mention of fellow Republican heavy-hitters John Boehner (R-OH) and Mike Pence (R-IN), instead showcasing "young, reform-minded Republicans" as the key to overhauling Washington.

The congressmen founded the book's namesake organization, Young Guns, during the 2007-2008 election cycle. By the end of Aug. 2010, the National Republican Congressional Committee's associated program, which recruits and assists congressional hopefuls to "build a foundation for victory," showcased more than fifty conservatives - of all ages - with "young gun" status.

"We were fired in 2006, and part of what this is about, Young Guns, is finding candidates that will run on ideas, and actually solve problems using conservative beliefs," McCarthy, who is the chief recruiter for House Republican candidates, told NBC's TODAY Show Tuesday morning. "I think that's one of the fundamental differences you'll find in this election."

Read the full story from Fox News. See the book cover and description on the Barnes & Noble site. It's a clear effort by these three lawmakers to raise their profiles and promote their brand of House leadership...which could, one easily surmises, get pitted against Minority Leader John Boehner if Republicans take over the House and Cantor runs for Speaker. The Washington Post's Perry Bacon, Jr. reports that Cantor is disavowing a "power grab" with the new book.

LOIS HENRY, Californian columnist lhenry@bakersfield.com

House Speaker John Boehner dug his shiny loafers into a swath of powder dry Kern County dirt on Wednesday and promised to move quickly on legislation aimed at easing the pain of California's historic drought.

Boehner and his partners on the legislation -- House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Visalia, and Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford -- all agreed that, yes, the drought is the biggest obstacle to farmers getting adequate water in the near term.

But they denounced as "idiocy" and "nonsense" California's management of its water system.

"In my part of the world we would shake our heads at how things work here, " Boehner said. "It's nonsense that a bureaucracy would favor fish over people."

He referred to the delta smelt and other fish protected under the Endangered Species Act. In an attempt to bolster those populations, water exports from the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta have been curtailed.

The proposed bill would attempt to bring "reason" to how the system is managed, if only during the drought emergency, the politicians said.

The bill has yet to be written, but its three main prongs would seek to increase pumping out of the delta -- if water is available -- to agreed-upon 1994 levels, suspend the San Joaquin River restoration settlement and create a Senate-House task force to come up with long term solutions.

The consequences of the drought were brought into sharp focus when local farmer Larry Starrh talked about his family being forced to let 1,000 acres of productive almond trees die this year for lack of water.

"Water is life," he said, his voice thick with emotion. "But sadly in this world, water has become about power, water is used as a weapon."

As real and painful as the water situation is, there was more than a hint of politics lurking around the edges of Wednesday's press conference. The first two prongs of the proposed bill have already been rejected by the Senate last year. Increased pumping and suspension of the San Joaquin River restoration agreement were both parts of H.R. 1837, introduced by Nunes, passed by the House and left to whither and die on the steps of the Senate.

Though all the politicians at Wednesday's conference insisted this bill was different because it would implement those measures on an emergency-only basis, Senate reaction is likely to be the same.

Indeed, a press release from Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office Wednesday warned that "I am concerned that (the new proposed bill) may follow the pattern of previous House bills which seek to either preempt state law or waive state water quality and Endangered Species Act requirements which could spur serious litigation and likely delay any action."

The likelihood of strong opposition cast Wednesday's event in a suspect light. Was it a sincere attempt to help California in a time of need or an unofficial reelection kickoff for Valadao, who is being heavily targeted by Democrats?

While Boehner's presence brought a great deal more media attention to California's water plight, any meaningful change in federal law or a federal-state partnership would have to get Senate buy-in, meaning Feinstein, who's long been a heavyweight in California water politics, not Boehner.

However, if freshman Valadao needed a boost to help loosen wallets before the mid-term elections this fall, Boehner would be a great leg up. Since Valadao, himself a dairy farmer, has made water a key issue, Wednesday's event would look to be a smooth political fit.

Meanwhile, California's reaction to the proposed bill pitched by Boehner, et al, was wary.

John Laird, secretary of the state's Natural Resources Agency, provided testimony in 2011 vehemently opposing Nunes' bill, H.R. 1837. The state was particularly upset by the portions of H.R. 1837 that would have set pumping levels at those agreed to in 1994 and suspension of the San Joaquin River restoration settlement, which he said would essentially toss out California water law and upend long held water rights.

The exact same measures are being discussed for this new bill, albeit on an emergency basis only.

In an email on Wednesday, Laird said that if this new bill proves sufficiently similar to the old H.R. 1837, the state would again stand in opposition.

"We are rarely forced to confront water allocations this low, salinity in the delta, and difficulty moving water during a crisis. Now is not the time to be divided -- now is the time to bring people together to find solutions," Laird said.

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x22866465/Boehner-comes-to-Kern-to-pitch-water-bill

maj pac 2012

1	Elliott Management	$47,500	$47,500	$0
2	Blue Cross/Blue Shield	$20,500	$5,500	$15,000
3	Amgen Inc	$15,000	$5,000	$10,000
4	UBS AG	$12,500	$2,500	$10,000
5	DaVita HealthCare Partners	$12,200	$2,200	$10,000
6	Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney	$11,000	$3,500	$7,500
7	Abbott Laboratories	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Aetna Inc	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Altria Group	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	American Assn of Orthopaedic Surgeons	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	American Bankers Assn	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	American College of Emergency Physicians	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	American College of Radiology	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	American Dental Assn	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	American Resort Development Assn	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Anheuser-Busch	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Associated Builders & Contractors	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Association for Advanced Life Underwriting	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	AT&T Inc	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Automotive Free International Trade PAC	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Barona Band of Mission Indians	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	BASF Corp	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	BNSF Railway	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Boeing Co	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	California Dairies Inc	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Capital One Financial	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Comcast Corp	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Darden Restaurants	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Doris Fisher	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	Edison Electric Institute	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Eli Lilly & Co	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	FedEx Express	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Florida Power & Light	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	FMR Corp	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Goldman Sachs	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Grimmway Farms	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	Health Net Inc	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Home Depot	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Honeywell International	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Humana Inc	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Indep Insurance Agents & Brokers/America	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	International Council of Shopping Cntrs	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	International Franchise Assn	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Investment Co Institute	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	JPMorgan Chase & Co	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Kleiner, Perkins et al	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	Koch Industries	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	KPMG LLP	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Laura Fisher	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	Lockheed Martin	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Merck & Co	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Microsoft Corp	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Morongo Band of Mission Indians	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	National Assn of Broadcasters	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Assn of Convenience Stores	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Assn of Home Builders	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Assn of Realtors	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Beer Wholesalers Assn	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Cable & Telecommunications Assn	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Football League	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Multi Housing Council	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	National Restaurant Assn	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	New York Life Insurance	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	Pfizer Inc	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	PG&E Corp	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	PricewaterhouseCoopers	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Property Casualty Insurers Assn/America	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	Skybridge Capital	$10,000	$10,000	$0
7	Southern Co	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Tenet Healthcare	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Time Warner Cable	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Union Pacific Corp	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	United Parcel Service	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	USAA	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Wine Institute	$10,000	$0	$10,000
7	Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation	$10,000	$10,000	$0

Securities & Investment	$195,608	$134,608	$61,000
Insurance	$123,250	$3,750	$119,500
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products	$95,500	$6,000	$89,500
Health Services/HMOs	$93,700	$10,700	$83,000
Casinos/Gambling	$85,000	$77,500	$7,500
Health Professionals	$83,000	$5,500	$77,500
Electric Utilities	$68,000	$0	$68,000
Real Estate	$67,500	$5,500	$62,000
TV/Movies/Music	$57,500	$5,500	$52,000
Lobbyists	$57,125	$57,125	$0
Retail Sales	$49,000	$0	$49,000
Commercial Banks	$47,000	$0	$47,000
Beer, Wine & Liquor	$45,000	$0	$45,000
Hospitals/Nursing Homes	$43,500	$6,500	$37,000
Food & Beverage	$43,500	$0	$43,500
Air Transport	$42,000	$12,000	$30,000
Lawyers/Law Firms	$39,500	$7,000	$32,500
Oil & Gas	$37,500	$17,500	$20,000
Computers/Internet	$33,500	$6,500	$27,000
Accountants	$30,000	$0	$30,000

2012 maj pac:

House

Total to Democrats: $0

Total to Republicans: $1,174,421| Recipient | Total |

Adams, Sandy (R-FL)	$5,000
Altschuler, Randy (R-NY)	$5,000
Amodei, Mark (R-NV)	$5,000
Anderson, Lee Ivey (R-GA)	$7,500
Archer, John H Jr (R-IA)	$5,000
Bachus, Spencer (R-AL)	$2,500
Barletta, Lou (R-PA)	$5,000
Barr, Andy (R-KY)	$5,000
Bartlett, Roscoe G (R-MD)	$5,000
Bass, Charles (R-NH)	$5,000
Benishek, Dan (R-MI)	$12,500
Bentivolio, Kerry (R-MI)	$5,000
Biggert, Judy (R-IL)	$10,000
Bilbray, Brian P (R-CA)	$10,000
Black, Diane (R-TN)	$7,500
Bonner, Jo (R-AL)	$5,000
Bono Mack, Mary (R-CA)	$10,000
Brady, Kevin (R-TX)	$0
Bridenstine, James (R-OK)	$5,000
Brooks, Maggie (R-NY)	$5,000
Brooks, Mo (R-AL)	$5,000
Brooks, Susan (R-IN)	$5,000
Buchanan, Vernon (R-FL)	$5,000
Bucshon, Larry (R-IN)	$10,000
Buerkle, Ann Marie (R-NY)	$10,000
Calvert, Ken (R-CA)	$5,000
Campbell, John (R-CA)	$2,500
Canseco, Francisco (R-TX)	$9,000
Capito, Shelley Moore (R-WV)	$7,500
Coffman, Mike (R-CO)	$10,000
Cole, Tom (R-OK)	$0
Collins, Chris (R-NY)	$5,000
Collins, Doug (R-GA)	$5,000
Conaway, Mike (R-TX)	$0
Cook, Paul (R-CA)	$5,000
Coors, Joe (R-CO)	$2,500
Cornilles, Robert (R-OR)	$5,000
Corwin, Jane (R-NY)	$5,000
Cotton, Tom (R-AR)	$10,000
Cramer, Kevin (R-ND)	$10,000
Cravaack, Chip (R-MN)	$5,000
Crawford, Rick (R-AR)	$5,000
Crenshaw, Ander (R-FL)	($2,000)
Daines, Steven (R-MT)	$10,000
Davis, Rodney (R-IL)	$5,000
Delong, Gary (R-CA)	$10,000
Denham, Jeff (R-CA)	$10,000
DeSantis, Ron (R-FL)	$5,000
Desjarlais, Scott (R-TN)	$10,000
Djou, Charles (R-HI)	$10,000
Doheny, Matt (R-NY)	$5,000
Doherty, Brendan P (R-RI)	$5,000
Dold, Bob (R-IL)	$5,000
Duffy, Sean P (R-WI)	$10,000
Duncan, Jeff (R-SC)	$2,500
Ellmers, Renee (R-NC)	$10,000
Farenthold, Blake (R-TX)	$10,000
Fincher, Steve (R-TN)	$10,000
Fitzpatrick, Michael G (R-PA)	$5,000
Fleischmann, Chuck (R-TN)	$10,000
Fleming, John (R-LA)	$5,000
Flores, Bill (R-TX)	$2,500
Gardner, Cory (R-CO)	$5,000
Garrett, Scott (R-NJ)	$5,000
Gibbs, Bob (R-OH)	$10,000
Gibson, Chris (R-NY)	$10,000
Gill, Ricky (R-CA)	$10,000
Goodlatte, Bob (R-VA)	$2,500
Gosar, Paul (R-AZ)	$2,500
Gowdy, Trey (R-SC)	$5,000
Graves, Tom (R-GA)	$2,000
Griffin, Tim (R-AR)	$5,000
Grimm, Michael (R-NY)	$10,000
Guinta, Frank (R-NH)	$9,000
Guthrie, Brett (R-KY)	$2,500
Hall, Ralph (R-TX)	$5,000
Hanna, Richard (R-NY)	$5,000
Harmer, David Jeffrey (R-CA)	($2,000)
Harper, Gregg (R-MS)	$5,000
Harris, Andy (R-MD)	$2,500
Hartzler, Vicky (R-MO)	$2,000
Hasner, Adam (R-FL)	$10,000
Hayworth, Nan (R-NY)	$5,000
Heck, Joe (R-NV)	$10,000
Herrera Beutler, Jaime (R-WA)	$5,000
Holding, George (R-NC)	$10,000
Hudson, Richard (R-NC)	$15,000
Huelskamp, Tim (R-KS)	$2,500
Huey, Craig (R-CA)	$2,000
Huizenga, Bill (R-MI)	$2,500
Hultgren, Randy (R-IL)	$5,000
Hunter, Duncan D (R-CA)	$5,000
Hurt, Robert (R-VA)	$10,000
Jenkins, Lynn (R-KS)	$4,000
Johnson, Bill (R-OH)	$10,000
Johnson, Sam (R-TX)	$5,000
Johnson, Timothy (R-IL)	$5,000
Joyce, David P (R-OH)	$5,000
Kelly, Jesse (R-AZ)	$5,000
Kelly, Mike (R-PA)	$7,500
Kinzinger, Adam (R-IL)	$5,000
Koster, John (R-WA)	$5,000
Labrador, Raul (R-ID)	$0
LaMalfa, Doug (R-CA)	$10,000
Lance, Leonard (R-NJ)	$10,000
Lange, Ben (R-IA)	$5,000
Lankford, James (R-OK)	$5,000
Latham, Tom (R-IA)	$7,500
Latta, Robert E (R-OH)	$5,000
Long, Billy (R-MO)	$2,500
Love, Mia (R-UT)	$5,000
Luetkemeyer, Blaine (R-MO)	$2,500
Lummis, Cynthia Marie (R-WY)	$5,000
Lungren, Dan (R-CA)	$10,000
Maldonado, Abel (R-CA)	$5,000
Marino, Tom (R-PA)	$5,000
Massie, Thomas (R-KY)	$5,000
McHenry, Patrick (R-NC)	$5,000
McKeon, Buck (R-CA)	$5,000
McKinley, David (R-WV)	$2,500
McSally, Martha (R-AZ)	$5,000
Meadows, Mark R (R-NC)	$10,000
Meehan, Patrick (R-PA)	$10,000
Messer, Luke (R-IN)	$10,000
Miller, Candice S (R-MI)	$5,000
Miller, Gary (R-CA)	$5,000
Mullin, Markwayne (R-OK)	$5,000
Murphy, Tim (R-PA)	$0
Myrick, Sue (R-NC)	$5,000
Noem, Kristi (R-SD)	$7,000
Nugent, Richard (R-FL)	$5,000
Nunnelee, Alan (R-MS)	$5,000
Olson, Pete (R-TX)	$5,000
Palazzo, Steven (R-MS)	$7,500
Parker, Vernon (R-AZ)	$5,000
Paton, Jonathan (R-AZ)	$10,000
Paulsen, Erik (R-MN)	$500
Perry, Scott (R-PA)	$10,000
Pittenger, Robert (R-NC)	$5,000
Plummer, Jason (R-IL)	$5,000
Pompeo, Mike (R-KS)	$5,000
Posey, Bill (R-FL)	($1,000)
Quayle, Ben (R-AZ)	$10,000
Radel, Trey (R-FL)	$5,000
Raye, Kevin (R-ME)	$5,000
Reed, Tom (R-NY)	$7,500
Renacci, Jim (R-OH)	$10,000
Ribble, Reid (R-WI)	$9,000
Rice, Tom (R-SC)	$5,000
Rigell, Scott (R-VA)	$2,500
Rivera, David (R-FL)	$5,000
Roby, Martha (R-AL)	$10,000
Rokita, Todd (R-IN)	$5,000
Rooney, Tom (R-FL)	$4,000
Roraback, Andrew (R-CT)	$5,000
Ross, Dennis (R-FL)	$0
Rothfus, Keith J (R-PA)	$5,000
Rouzer, David (R-NC)	$5,000
Runyan, Jon (R-NJ)	$10,000
Salmon, Matt (R-AZ)	$5,000
Scalise, Steve (R-LA)	$0
Schilling, Bobby (R-IL)	$10,000
Schweikert, David (R-AZ)	$2,500
Scott, Austin (R-GA)	$0
Scott, Tim (R-SC)	$10,000
Shuster, Bill (R-PA)	$0
Smith, Adrian (R-NE)	$5,000
Snuffer, Richard (R-WV)	$5,000
Southerland, Steve (R-FL)	$10,000
Stewart, Chris (R-UT)	$5,000
Stivers, Steve (R-OH)	$5,000
Stockman, Steve (R-TX)	$5,000
Strickland, Tony (R-CA)	$10,000
Stutzman, Marlin (R-IN)	$10,000
Sullivan, John (R-OK)	$5,000
Tarkanian, Danny (R-NV)	$5,000
Tavaglione, John F (R-CA)	$10,000
Terry, Lee (R-NE)	$5,000
Tipton, Scott (R-CO)	$5,000
Tisei, Richard (R-MA)	$5,000
Valadao, David (R-CA)	$10,000
Vann, Kim Dolbow (R-CA)	$5,000
Wagner, Ann L (R-MO)	$5,000
Walberg, Tim (R-MI)	$10,000
Walorski, Jackie (R-IN)	$10,000
Walsh, Joe (R-IL)	$7,500
Webb-Edgington, Alecia (R-KY)	$5,000
Weber, Randy (R-TX)	$5,000
Webster, Daniel (R-FL)	$10,000
Wenstrup, Brad (R-OH)	$5,000
West, Allen (R-FL)	$5,000
Westmoreland, Lynn A (R-GA)	$9,421
Williams, Roger (R-TX)	$5,000
Wittman, Rob (R-VA)	($1,000)
Womack, Steve (R-AR)	$5,000
Woodall, Rob (R-GA)	$0
Yoder, Kevin (R-KS)	$10,000
Yoho, Ted (R-FL)	$5,000
Young, C W Bill (R-FL)	$5,000
Young, Todd (R-IN)	$5,000

Senate

Total to Democrats: $0

Total to Republicans: $30,000| Recipient | Total |

Berg, Rick (R-ND)	$7,500
Emken, Elizabeth (R-CA)	$2,500
Heller, Dean (R-NV)	$10,000
Mack, Connie (R-FL)	$5,000
Turner, Robert L (R-NY)	$5,000

Presidential

Total to Democrats: $0

Total to Republicans: $2,500| Recipient | Total |

Pawlenty, Tim (R)

$2,500