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Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in a statement to reporters said Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is a “lunatic” for refusing to wear a mask to protect others from Covid-19.
Asked about colleagues who don’t wear masks, Brown told the Cincinnati Enquirer, “One of them that’s an M.D., isn’t, but he’s kind of a lunatic,” a reference to Paul. “He thinks he wants to be different but it doesn’t serve the public interest.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared to try and distance himself from the controversy surrounding efforts by Republicans to oust Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) because she has refused to back former President Donald Trump’s falsehoods about the 2020 general election.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki took down Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) for lying about the CDC being influenced by unionized teachers.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) slammed the CIA’s new “Humans of the CIA video” which features a first-generation Latina CIA agent who discusses intersectionality.
“I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who’s been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise,” the CIA agent says.
Sen. Chuck Grassley tried to attack Google and cable companies but unleashed a typo-filled tweet that made zero sense.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said that Washington, D.C. should get representation in Congress by joining Maryland, not becoming a state.
House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said that McConnell is trying to create ignorant Americans with his opposition to teaching about systemic racism.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) admitted that he ignored a warning from the FBI that he was being targeted and pushed Russian propaganda anyway.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) lost his temper on the Senate floor after Democrats objected to him trying to fix a typo to his amendment.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) proclaimed that there is no systemic racism in America because Obama and Kamala Harris got elected.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed that MLB moving the All-Star Game cost Georgia 100 million jobs, but Georgia only has 10 million people.
Senate Majority Leader Schumer (D-NY) called for the end of the federal prohibition on marijuana on the Senate floor.
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Schumer said:
Today is what you might call a very unofficial American holiday: 4/20.
In a new ad, the Republican Accountability Project took Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) to task for his continued support of former President Donald Trump despite warning voters in 2016 that Trump “would shatter the party and the conservative movement.”
Sen. Ted Cruz claimed that Democrats are encouraging riots and violence after he enabled terrorists who attacked the Capitol.
An excerpt from journalist Susan Page’s biography of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) titled Madame Speaker shows Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have an icy relationship.
Six Republican Senators, including Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Rand Paul, voted to block debate on the Asian-American hate crimes bill.
Sahil Kapur tweeted:
An interesting strategy from McConnell not to filibuster the bill on the front end; to have a debate, push amendments (of which Republicans have many) and engage Democrats.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made the dishonest and disingenuous claim that only Democrats have passed Jim Crow laws to limit voting.
Senate Republicans are demanding that Democrats raise the gas tax, which impacts the poor, than raise taxes on corporations.
Sen. Maize Hirono (D-HI) said that not a single Republican in the Senate signed on to her anti-Asian American hate crimes bill.
More than 100 corporate and business leaders responded to Mitch McConnell’s threat by meeting to discuss cutting off the GOP.
The online call between corporate executives on Saturday “shows they are not intimidated by the flak. They are not going to be cowed,” Sonnenfeld said. “They felt very strongly that these voting restrictions are based on a flawed premise and are dangerous.”