On Friday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced additional House committee assignments.
Congresswoman-elect Sara Jacobs (D-CA) was the only incoming House freshman named to the Foreign Affairs Committee. “I look forward to bringing my experience in U.S. foreign policy and international organizations and my voice as a millennial who has never known a day in my adult life that the United States has not been at war to the committee as we work to rebuild America’s standing in the world,” Jacobs told
Jewish Insider in a statement.
Congresswoman-elect Kathy Manning (D-NC) told JI last month that she was hoping to join Foreign Affairs. Instead, Manning was tapped for the Education and Labor Committee. Additional committee assignments are likely to be announced in January.
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THE CORONAVIRUS RELIEF and government funding bill is on its way to the House and Senate floor today. The House is likely to take it up in the morning late Sunday night, sources told us the Rules Committee plans to meet at 8 a.m., as long as the bill is posted by 7 a.m., although this is fluid. Expect a late-morning procedural vote, followed by a midday final passage in the House. It’s wild that Congress is going to try to vote on a relief and
me, though. josh scheinblum from kcrg tv, thank you so much. thank you. now to an unlikely player in the health care debate, jimmy kimmel, defending his emotional monologue last week about his newborn son s health scare and his plea to lawmakers to help people with pre-existing conditions. the late-night comedian offering a backhanded apology to his critics. listen. one week ago tonight i made an emotional speech that was seen by millions, and as a result of my powerful words on that night, republicans in congress had second thoughts about repeal and replace. they realized that what is right is right, and i saved health insurance in the united states of america. thank you! [ cheers and applause ] and i would like to apologize for saying that children in america should have health care. it was insensitive. it was offensive, and i hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me. bill cassidy is the united states senator for louisiana. he s a doctor. he s a gastroenterologist, marr
could set up our cameras, and that was that. okay, so, you set up the interview, and he went after this right into a town hall meeting. how did that go? so, our interview was before the town hall. that s right. and after your interview that he walked out of, he then had a town hall at this school. was this contentious? well, i was not at the town hall meeting. we had another report who was covering that. and actually, representative blum talked with that reporter and said that he was under the impression that we would be talking about the tour that he was doing with that school, that the reason that we were there was simply to talk about that, and that he felt as though he was ambushed. all right, he felt as though he was ambushed. sounded like valid questions to
and it is a very nice prison. so, you don t have the freedom of movement to be able to just take a walk or to sit at a cafe. bubble? we ve heard him talk about the bubble. i don t know if we ve heard him talk about the prison, though, but maybe not surprising to hear that. reporter: right, exactly. remember that one time he left the white house and there was talk of the bear s loose and he took that nice little walk around outside the white house? this certainly, it is an isolating place, and we ve seen this current president go to more familiar places to him, like mar-a-lago and to his other club in new jersey that he s been frequently lately. the thing that s interesting about obama coming out and spotlight being on him is it comes at a time where he is having to defend key items of his legacy, which are, of course, obamacare, which republicans are aiming to finish repealing, and also climate