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Britt Wins Tumultuous Alabama Senate Race Scrambled by Trump
Katie Britt has won the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama, defeating six-term Congressman Mo Brooks in a primary runoff after former President Donald Trump endorsed and then un-endorsed him. The loss ends a turbulent campaign for Brooks, a conservative firebrand who had fully embraced Trump’s election lies and had run under the banner “MAGA Mo.” But it wasn’t enough...
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Jan. 6 Panel Wants Testimony From GOP Reps. Brooks, Biggs, Jackson
The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested for three more House Republicans to come in and testify.
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After Capitol Hill Bomb Threat, GOP Rep. Mo Brooks Sympathetic to ‘Anger Directed at Dictatorial Socialism'
Republican Rep. Mo Brooks said he understands “citizenry anger directed at dictatorial Socialism” in a statement responding to a bomb threat on Capitol Hill.
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Republican Mo Brooks' Senate Campaign Paid Over $25,000 to Trump's Mar-A-Lago
GOP Rep. Mo Brooks’ U.S. Senate campaign paid just over $25,000 to former President Trump’s private club for catering and event space.
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DC Attorney General Considers Riot Incitement Charges Against Donald Trump Jr., Giuliani, GOP Rep. Brooks
The D.C. attorney general is considering whether to charge Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks for inciting the Capitol riot.
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Budget Plan's $1 Trillion Deficit Sours Some Republicans
Republicans rode the tea party wave to power eight years ago on a message of fiscal responsibility and attacking budget deficits, and kept at it during President Barack Obama’s two terms. That was then. The Republican-led Congress on Thursday was rounding up support for a bipartisan budget bill that would put the government on track for annual deficits topping $1...
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Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks Discloses Cancer Diagnosis
Republican Rep. Mo Brooks says he has prostate cancer. The four-term Alabama lawmaker made the announcement Wednesday on the House Floor. In an interview, he said he will undergo treatment and was optimistic about the outcome. Brooks sought the GOP nomination in the Senate race and lost. He said that after losing the primary he got a physical in which...
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Racial Politics Haunt GOP as Trump Goes ‘Rogue': Analysis
The statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the focus of an emotional debate in the state’s Republican primary election weeks before it became a flashpoint in the nation’s struggle over race. Corey Stewart, an outsider candidate for governor sometimes compared to President Donald Trump, seized on possible removal of the Confederate general’s memorial as an “attempt to...
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Rep. Mo Brooks Uses Sounds of Scalise Shooting in Campaign Ad
An Alabama congressman running for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ former Senate seat is facing criticism for using in a campaign ad audio recorded of the June shooting that seriously injured House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise....
The ad opens with the sounds of gunfire and frantic yelling from the shooting, which took place during a congressional baseball team practice, NBC News... -
House Panel Unveils $1.6B Plan for Building US-Mexico Wall
A House panel Tuesday unveiled legislation to begin building President Donald Trump’s long-promised wall along the U.S-Mexico border. Mexico, however, will not be footing the bill. The move by the House Appropriations Committee again puts the Trump administration and its allies on Capitol Hill on a collision course with Democrats who oppose the wall and succeeded in blocking a request...
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Trump Jr. Releases Emails Showing Offer of Russian Gov't Dirt on Clinton to Aid Trump Campaign
Donald Trump’s eldest son revealed Tuesday that he was eager to hear damaging information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government, disclosing a series of emails that marked the clearest sign to date that Trump’s campaign was willing to consider election help from a longtime U.S. adversary.
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Congressman Describes Va. Attack: ‘The Gunfire Was Non-Stop'
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., describes the moment a gunman opened fired as the Republican congressional baseball team held an early-morning practice in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Pence Makes Late-Night Trip to Revive Health Care Bill
President Trump says he never gave up negotiating on health care. Now it looks like he could be making progress. After flatlining less than two weeks ago, the Republican health plan may be coming back to life.
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Hispano muere al autoinflingirse disparo
President Trump says he never gave up negotiating on health care. Now it looks like he could be making progress. After flatlining less than two weeks ago, the Republican health plan may be coming back to life.