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WASHINGTON - President Biden has struggled this week to contain an escalating gasoline shortage in the Southeast, prompting Republicans to open a new line of attack against him on an issue that has long been fraught with political peril for the party that controls the White House. In Congress, Republicans seized on Biden’s moves to transition away from fossil fuels, suggesting it imperils the country’s energy security. On Fox News, conservative hosts have blamed the president for rising prices at the pump and long lines of cars snaking around gas stations, with one dubbing it “Biden’s gas crisis.” And in midterm battleground states where gas is running low, Republican leaders have panned Biden’s response.
Chuck Grassley is the 80-something everyone’s waiting on Source: By BURGESS EVERETT, Politico • Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2021
If Iowa’s incumbent senator runs for reelection in 2022, the seat is safe for Republicans. If he retires, they’ll have a battle on their hands.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is under pressure to save his party from defending yet another open seat as it labors to retake the majority. | Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images
OSSIAN, Iowa Chuck Grassley still gets up at 4 a.m. every day and often goes for a 2-mile run. The 87-year-old does push-ups, too.
“You want me to do 35 for you?” he responded when asked about his regimen as he waited for a burger at Bambino’s, a haunt in this town of about 800 people.
Cheney shames colleagues who will purge her for disloyalty to Trump
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) gives remarks from the House floor one day before House Republicans are expected to vote to remove her from leadership.
Posted: May 12, 2021 12:30 AM
Updated: May 12, 2021 12:30 AM
Posted By: Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
In a short, powerful speech late Tuesday, the lawmaker from Wyoming shamed colleagues who will vote on Wednesday to strip her of her No. 3 House GOP leadership post, showing the guts to speak truth to the ex-President s malevolent power that most Republicans lack.
History is likely to remember her remarks far longer than the tortured explanations of Republican power brokers like Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California as to why she must be purged after pointing out Trump s lies and dangerous authoritarianism.
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