Commanders owner offers to testify before House panel in later July
Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder offered to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee at a later date in July in relation to the panel's investigation into the workplace misconduct allegations against the team. In a letter sent on Thursday to committee chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), Snyder’s attorney Karen Patton Seymour told the committee that she hasn’t heard back from them since a June 30 phone conversation in which they discussed her client’s conflicts on the dates the panel proposed Snyder appear for a deposition. According to Seymour,
Read MoreUpton on Trump officials speaking out about Jan. 6: 'Where were they a year and a half ago?'
Rep. Fred Upton (D-Mich.), one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection, said Thursday that other GOP members now speaking out about Trump's actions that day “should’ve helped us” at the time. “What disappoints me the most is here we are a year and a half later, we’re now just getting other Republicans within the former administration to step up, to tell what they thought, what they saw happened,” Upton told NBC’s Peter Alexander on “Meet the Press” Thursday afternoon. “Where were they a year and a half ago, when t
Read MoreFeinstein says she'd vote for filibuster carveout to codify abortion rights
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday said she supports the Senate removing the procedural filibuster rule in order to codify abortion rights into law. Feinstein said she "certainly would vote" to support a carveout to the filibuster to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act and codify federal-level abortion protections. "Let me be clear: If it comes down to protecting the filibuster or protecting a woman’s right to choose, there should be no question that I will vote to protect a woman’s right to choose," she said in a
Read MoreGraham, Blumenthal meet with Zelensky in Kyiv
Sens. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Thursday to push for legislation that would classify Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism.” The bipartisan duo introduced a resolution in May seeking to make Russian the fifth addition to the U.S.
Read MoreNewsom announces California will produce its own 'low cost' insulin
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Thursday that his state will be producing its own "low cost" insulin, stating, "People should not go into debt to get life-saving medication." Newsom said that the state budget he recently signs includes $100 million for California to "contract and make [its] own insulin a
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