House tables resolution to censure Maxine Waters over remarks about Chauvin trial By Kathryn Watson CBSN
Democrats narrowly defeated a resolution brought by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Tuesday to censure Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, after she encouraged protesters in Minnesota to stay on the street and get more confrontational if they don t see a guilty verdict returned in the Derek Chauvin trial regarding the death of George Floyd.
The House voted to table the resolution 216 to 210 along party lines. This was a victory for House Democratic leadership, since they could afford just two Democratic defections on the vote. There were zero defections on either side, with all Democrats present voting to table and all Republicans voting to move forward. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer were spotted by the doors of the chamber talking to members as they entered, indicating how important Democratic leadership considered the
House Democrats Defeat G.O.P. Attempt to Censure Maxine Waters
Republicans sought to use the Black congresswoman’s comments to racial justice protesters as a political weapon, claiming she had incited violence and daring Democrats to stand by her. They did.
Representative Maxine Waters on Saturday in Brooklyn Center, Minn., where she rallied with demonstrators protesting the death of Daunte Wright.Credit.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
April 20, 2021, 7:05 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON Democrats on Tuesday defeated an effort by Representative Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, to censure Representative Maxine Waters for suggesting that racial justice protesters should “get more confrontational” if the Derek Chauvin jury did not return a guilty verdict.
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As the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin was taking place, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was engaging protestors and rioters with promotions of civil unrest.
In an interview with FoxNews, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Waters was on the streets encouraging protestors in Minneapolis to engage in violence, to engage in riots.
This past weekend, while joining an angry mob, Waters said if Chauvin should be found not guilty in the murder of George Floyd, We’ ve got to stay on the street and we ve got to get more active, we ve got to get more confrontational. We ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.
With new goal of cutting greenhouse gases in half, Biden will signal US is again fighting climate change
Updated April 21, 2021, 1 hour ago
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In this Feb. 1, photo, emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun in Independence, Mo.Charlie Riedel/Associated Press
President Biden will announce Thursday that the United States intends to cut planet-warming emissions nearly in half by the end of the decade, which would require Americans to transform the way they drive, heat their homes, and manufacture goods.
The target, confirmed by three people briefed on the plan, is timed to a closely watched global summit Biden is hosting Thursday and Friday, which is aimed at sending a message the United States is rejoining international efforts to fight global warming after four years of climate-change denial from the Trump administration.