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Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, is making her case to be
House Republican Conference Chair, promising a disciplined, unified message, after her
GOP colleagues ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from the position Wednesday. I strongly believe that one of the most important qualities in any leader is the commitment and ability to listen, Stefanik wrote in a letter to colleagues, formally announcing her candidacy.
She added that she has had hundreds of productive and informative conversations with Members from all corners of our Conference this week.
She criticized President Biden s policies made within his first 100 days in office as the most significant Far-Left Socialist dismantling of America by any President or Congress in our Nation’s history.
House GOP hits FBI s suicide by cop ruling in 2017 attack on congressmen Follow Us
Question of the Day By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Tuesday, May 11, 2021
More than a dozen House Republicans signed a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray demanding he investigate how the bureau came to classify a near-massacre of GOP members by a crazed gunman as merely “suicide by cop.”
“We fear that the FBI’s inability or unwillingness to fully investigate this shooting as a matter of domestic extremism four years ago leaves a blind spot within the Bureau in fully assessing risks we face today,” the letter states. “The FBI telling us that James Hodgkinson’s attempt to assassinate dozens of Members of Congress was simply ‘suicide by cop’ does nothing to alleviate this concern.”
The bottom line stunned the Hodgkinson-targeted lawmakers assembled in the U.S. Capitol visitors center.
Mr. Hodgkinson was committing “suicide by cop,” the FBI briefer said. In essence, the bureau had relegated the near-mass killings aimed at Washington’s legislative branch to a self-centered personal decision by a leftist activist from Illinois.
“What are you talking about?” Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Ohio Republican, recalls asking the briefer.
“I said ‘if you want to do suicide-by-cop, just pull a gun on the cop,’” he told The Washington Times in an interview. “‘Where are you getting this?’ They just kind of stood by it. We were pretty dismayed.”
Devin Nunes hosts Freedom Festival to promote conservatism in California Follow Us
Question of the Day By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Sunday, May 9, 2021
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes on Saturday hosted his inaugural “Freedom Festival,” where conservative stars denounced the liberal media and tech billionaire censors while talking up ways to reach California’s middle 40% of voters.
The speaker lineup included Donald Trump Jr., Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona and James O’Keefe of Project Veritas.
Mr. Nunes’ central California district sits in the conservative San Joaquin Valley, north of Democratic-dominated Los Angeles County and south of San Francisco. Changing demographics have pushed the country’s most populous state, with the most Electoral College votes, to the left and to a guaranteed win for Democratic presidential candidates.