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George Santos Survives 2nd Expulsion Vote From House
Controversial Republican congressman George Santos survived a second vote of expulsion on Wednesday. The vote this time was brought by fellow New York Republicans incensed over new criminal indictments returned against Santos last month.
Rep. Virginia Foxx Yells “Shut Up,” GOP Boos Black Reporter
A Black reporter with ABC News was booed and told to "shut up" when she asked Representative Mike Johnson about his support of Donald Trump and election denial on Tuesday. The moment was caught on video by C-Span.
Lawyer For AOC Rips Potential House Ethics Probe
A lawyer for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted a probe by the House Ethics Committee over her 2021 Met Gala attendance and her "Tax The Rich" dress she wore among other items. The committee questioned her lack of payment for the items received at the time. The congresswoman expressed that the situation was "regrettable" in interview documents released. The post Lawyer For AOC Rips Potential House Ethics Probe appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Delivers Powerful First Speech As House Minority Leader
HipHopWired Featured Video Rep. Hakeem Jeffries decided that his first order of business as the new House Minority Leader was to address the division in the House of Representatives between the Republicans and Democrats. The congressman then launched into a speech employing the alphabet that took some slight digs at Republicans and urged collaboration. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, 52, graciously extended his party’s hand to the newly-elected House Speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, and members of his party vowing to find “common ground” in their future proceedings. Related Stories “We do extend our hand of partnership to you and want to make clear that we extend and intend to try to find common ground whenever and wherever possible on behalf of the American people,” Jeffries said. “Not as Democrats, n...
Rep. Cori Bush Says GOP Is Pushing Token Black For Speaker Role
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tasos Katopodis / Getty Rep. Cori Bush is currently making waves in the U.S. House of Reprensativies amid the ongoing debacle that is the Speak of the House selection process. After Rep. Kevin McCarthy repeatedly failed to gain support from his Republican Party cohorts, Bush claims that a Black Republican congressman is being used as a “prop” by the MAGA faction of the party. Rep. Cori Bush, 46, is one of the rising star members of Congress after assuming office back in 2021 and is known for her outspoken views and unwavering critique of the GOP. The Democratic Party congresswoman fired a shot toward the opposing party after McCarthy failed yet again to assume the Speaker role due to some fringe members of the Republican Party withholding their vote over ...
Rep.-elect George Santos Admits To Lying On His Résumé
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 15 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first...
House Passes Build Back Better Act Despite GOP Minority Leader Shenanigans
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty After weeks of combative debate, Democrats in the House of Representatives came together to push forward their expansive social and environmental bill to a vote of approval despite the lengthy objections of GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The final version of the Build Back Better Act passed the House of Representatives with a near party-line vote of 220-213. A lone Democrat, Rep. Jared Golden of Maine voted against it. The Build Back Better Act’s price tag is estimated at $1.68 trillion dollars by the Congressional Budget Office who made its report on the 2,100-page bill after the vote took place. “If you are a parent, a senior, a child, a worker, if you’re an American, this bill’s for you,” House Speaker Pelosi s...
Rep. Cori Bush Called Out White Supremacy On House Floor, Was Unjustly Booed
Source: Caroline Brehman / Getty During the hours-long debate in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding a successful second impeachment of President Donald Trump, both sides of the aisle made their stated points. However, freshman Congresswoman Cori Bush received boos after she called signaled Trump as a white supremacist and called out white supremacy overall. In a debate that was at times tense and most certainly filled with partisan talking points on either side of the aisle, Bush, who represents the 1st District in Missouri, used her time at the podium to call out the so-called insurrectionists and placed the blame at their de facto leader in Trump. “If we fail to remove a white supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection, it’s communities like Missouri’s 1s...
Republican senator: Donald Trump must ‘go away as soon as possible’
A second Republican senator in the United States has called on Donald Trump to step down after some of the president’s supporters overran the Capitol building in Washington, DC this week in a deadly riot. In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press news programme on Sunday, Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey said Trump should resign for the good of the country. “I think the best way for our country is for the president to resign and go away as soon as possible,” he said. Toomey said president’s resignation is the “best path forward, the best way to get this person in the rear-view mirror for us”, but added that he did not believe Trump would step down before his term ends on January 20. He also said the president’s role encouraging the riot was an “impeachable offence”. Momentum has been buildi...
US election: Oye Owolewa made Nigeria proud – minister
The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, on Thursday, described the feat achieved by 31-year old Oye Owolewa in the 2020 United States election as national pride. The minister tweeted, “Congrats are in place for the 31-year old Adeoye Owolewa for making Nigeria proud by being the first Nigerian to win a seat in the United States Congress.” Owolewa was on Tuesday elected as a shadow member of the US House of Representatives from the District of Columbia, making him the first Nigerian-American to achieve the milestone. According to election results on the website of the District of Columbia Board of Elections on Wednesday morning, Owolewa polled 81.59% of the votes, which represents 164,026 votes against Joyce Robinson-Paul, who scored 18,600 votes, and Sohaer Syed with 15,...
