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I have my own October surprise! This Bama native is moving to DC in Nov. to be a reporter in Nexstar’s Washington Bureau covering Congress and the White House. I could not think of a better time to be working in the most important Capitol in the world.
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@SenSherrodBrown
tells reporters he plans to run for re-election in 2024.
"I run to win, and people recognize that I get up every day and fight for the dignity of work."
White House announces
@VP
Kamala Harris will travel to Selma, Alabama, Sunday, to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to commemorate the Anniversary of Bloody Sunday. She will also meet with civil rights leaders and deliver remarks.
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@SecDef
on
@SenTuberville
military promotion blocks:
“Three of our military services are operating without Senate-confirmed leaders. This is unprecedented, it is unnecessary, and it is unsafe.”
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@SecretaryPete
tells me he wants Congress to increase the fines his department can slap on rail companies for safety violations that cause death or injury, right now it's just over $225,000.
"For multibillion-dollar railroad companies, that's just not enough to be a deterrent."
A bipartisan group of senators, led by
@SenatorBaldwin
@senrobportman
, announce a deal to move forward on the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to protect same-sex marriage.
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@VP
Kamala Harris on the Alabama IVF ruling:
“On the one hand, the proponents are saying that an individual doesn't have a right to end an unwanted pregnancy, and on the other hand, the individual does not have a right to start a family.”
During my interview with President Biden I asked him about former President Trump's legal woes and claims that he is behind the criminal prosecution.
“His lack of ethics has nothing to do with me,”
@POTUS
.
MLK tribute concert featuring choirs of Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University, Birmingham-Southern, Miles and Talladega colleges, Tuskeegee University and UAB, with an orchestra conducted by UAB Professor Henry Panion III.
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@KamalaHarris
is in Columbus, Georgia, ahead of the January Senate runoffs. Harris says once the rally is over she is headed back to DC to vote on the COVID relief bill.
VIDEO: Chaos in the Alabama Senate.
@willainsworthAL
just gaveled down the amendments creating rape and incest exceptions, during abortion bill debate.
#Alpolitics
Spoke with
@SenSherrodBrown
about his bill to crack down on employers that unfairly withhold wages from their workers.
"If you've earned that pay, you ought to get it."
#NexstarDC
From Montgomery to the nation’s capital, our very own
@ReshadHudson
will be moving to Nexstar’s Washington, D.C. bureau in November to work as a national correspondent, where he will cover Congress and the White House!
A bipartisan group of House members lead by
@RepTimRyan
are calling for local commanders to allow members of the National Guard deployed to the nation’s capital to be reimbursed for missed meals.
Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the commencement address at the graduation ceremony for the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs earlier today.
Sen. Del Marsh (R) Anniston, says he wants to see more people get
#coronavirus
to build up an immunity. I asked was he concerned about Alabama's latest surge in cases.
For the first time in school history the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band has been selected to play in the 2020 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!
#RollTide
Lawmakers say Sec. Buttigieg was late to speak out on train derailment in East Palestine.
"I do think that it's important to speak out about that. And I could have spoken out sooner. And I'm making sure that we are focused on the actions that are going to make a difference."
Democratic Reps. Val Demings, Robin Kelly, Gottheimer, Evans, Espaillat, O'Halleran are holding a news conference on the national increase in violent crime.
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference,
@VP
Harris responds to reports Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in a Russian prison.
"Whatever story they tell, let us be clear, Russia is responsible."
Sen. Fetterman:
"If those jagoffs in the House stop trying to shut our government down, and fully support Ukraine, then I will save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor next week."
Sen. Joe Manchin speaking to reporters about his Inflation Reduction Act of 2022:
“This is not a Democrat bill, this is not a Republican bill. this is an American bill.”
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@GovernorKayIvey
met her mini-me today. 4th grade student Cate McGriff met with the Governor this afternoon. Little Cate will back on this when she's governor one day.
Alabama becomes the latest state to ban TikTok on state devices and the state network:
“Protecting the state of Alabama and our citizens’ right to privacy is a must, and I surely don’t take a security threat from China lightly,”
@GovernorKayIvey
.
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@RepPressley
&
@RepCori
are introducing the Abortion Justice Act:
“In a just America bodily autonomy is treated as a right codified in law, and your Access to care is not dependent on your zip code or your immigration status.”
CNN's
@AlisynCamerota
: "From what you've heard on that call, do you think this should be referred to the Georgia Attorney General to investigate?"
Georgia Lt. Gov.
@GeoffDuncanGA
:
Today marks one year of the Biden-Harris Admintration.
I'm live this morning on
#Nexstar
stations with a one on one interview with
@VP
Kamala Harris as she reflects on one year in office.
Talking with basketball star Maori Davenport. She was recently banned from the game she loves, because she was sent a $857 check from USA basketball for playing on team USA in an international game. She says she doesn’t regret playing for her country.
#MaoriDavenport
Jeff Sessions responding to Birmingham school board's decision to end its partnership with Church of the Highlands after a social media controversy surrounding its pastor.
The actions taken by
@HousingBham
& Birmingham Board of Education against
@HighlandsAL
represent an attack on both religious liberty and freedom of speech. This cannot happen in America & should never happen in Alabama. Birmingham will not become Berkeley.
NEW: Mugshot of State Rep. Will Dismukes, booked into Montgomery Co. jail this afternoon on for theft of property 1st, for reportedly stealing from a former employer.
Happening now: Refuse Fascism is holding a protest outside of the General Services Administration with makeshift body bags and signs. This is the agency tasked with approving President-elect Biden’s transition.
To highlight the need for public safety reforms
@TheBlackCaucus
is bringing family members impacted by deadly police force to the State of the Union Address tonight.
#SOTU
The EPA announces new vehicle emissions to 40 miles per gallon by the 2026 model year.
"The standards are achievable, affordable, and will deliver significant pollution reduction"
@EPAMichaelRegan
.
#NexstarDC
Biden thanks “Bernie Sanders and his Republican colleagues” for additional stimulus money for Americans. Biden says his plan will call for more stimulus.
Georgia Senator Jon
@ossoff
wants to make stock trading by lawmakers a thing of the past.
"It's common sense members of Congress should not be playing the stock market."
#NexstarDC
Alabama GOP chair is blasting Rep. Will Dismukes, R-Prattvile for attending a celebration of the first Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan yesterday, same day the state honored Rep. John Lewis.
Just spoke with Rep.
@michaelgwaltz
about what he wants to hear from Pres. Biden as he delivers remarks on Afghanistan.
"I don't want to hear excuses, finger pointing to his predecessor or finger pointing at the Afghans for not standing strong in the wake of our abandonment."
For days veterans and supporters have been protesting outside of the Capitol pushing for another vote in the Senate on the PACT Act.
#NexstarDC
#BurnPit
#PACTAct
Today at 2:30 p.m. ET, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Sen.
@ossoff
will unveil the results of his 18-month bipartisan investigation into medical mistreatment of women in U.S. detention.
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@SenatorBaldwin
reacts to Supreme Court blocking Pres. Biden's COVID vaccine mandate for businesses:
"I think this ruling injures public health and causes more people to die and causes more people to have serious illness."
The League of Women voters of Alabama are calling on both US senate candidates to debate ahead of the November election. They've heard back from
@DougJones
's campaign about interest in debating, but not from Tommy Tuberville's.
@TTuberville
the deadline was Sept. 29th.
@LWVAL