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“I think our greatest strength is when we speak with one voice to China," Speaker Kevin McCarthy said.

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Democrats are decrying “hypocrisy” after Republicans ousted U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

With a party-line vote, the House has removed Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, the latest disgrace for a chamber where Speaker Kevin McCarthy has ceded control to his party’s militant fringe.

The move was political revenge after they booted conservatives marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar in the last congress for threatening statements, but committees. >> i had a member of the republican caucus threatened my life, and you all and the republican caucus rewarded him. >> reporter: speaker kevin mccarthy says it wasnt tit for tat. >> with it was tit-for-tat, we have picked people, took them off of all committees, and said nothing about it. >> no longer recognized. >> reporter: progres...

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the committee will come to order. the committee will come to order. i want to thank the members for their patients this morning. we are in the process of re-organizing the democratic caucus. i dont know how this will all work out. we are going to get started. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. this hearing is entitled, boom and bust. the need for bold...

[inaudible] >> the committee will come to order. i want to thank the members for their patience this morning. we are in the process of re-organizing the democratic caucus. i dont know how this all work gonna out. we are going to get started. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. this hearing is entitled, boom and bust; the need for bold investments in fair and affordable housing to combat inflation. i now recognize myself for four mi...

The freshman fabricator is showing no signs of a departure that would trigger a special election. But his GOP and Democrats are preparing anyway.

What is there to say about an anniversary like today’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, falling on the date when the Red Army entered a camp in occupied Poland that the fleeing Germans called Auschwitz? That the Nazis were villains? That a million Jews were murdered there and millions more were murdered elsewhere across Europe by the Germans? That we can never forget?

>> yeah, i mean, look, i think someone is definitely going to have to give. but if history is any guide, it is not popular to breach the debt ceiling. it is not popular to bring the country to that brink. republicans actually learned that back in 2013. and they ended up caving in that case. and getting almost nothing in exchange for increasing the debt limit. i mean practically nothing and certainly not what they were holding out for. so i think it is a question of how far do the brink are they ...