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Today, the Republican-led House is poised to ballot connected 2 abortion-related measures. One would condemn attacks “on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches,” portion the different would unit aesculapian practitioners to supply attraction to infants who past an termination — a precise uncommon occurrence. Neither is expected to beforehand successful the Senate, but the measures underscore a marked alteration successful messaging connected the contented present that Republicans power the chamber.
President Biden has nary nationalist events scheduled Wednesday but is accompanying archetypal woman Jill Biden for country to person a tegument lesion removed astatine Walter Reed National Military Medical Center successful Bethesda, Md. Before departing the White House, Biden spoke concisely with reporters astir the impermanent Federal Aviation Administration outage that caused question disruptions crossed the country.
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Noted: Pence cites Jan. 6 onslaught arsenic inspiration for Brazil attack
Former vice president Mike Pence said successful an interrogation broadcast Wednesday that helium believed the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump played a relation successful inspiring the caller effort to overthrow the authorities successful Brazil by supporters of erstwhile far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.
“It is grounds that what happens successful the United States has repercussions astir the world,” Pence told CBS News. “I person nary uncertainty that that tragic time successful January of 2021, successful this country, played immoderate relation successful sowing the seeds of what’s taking spot successful Brazil.”
This conscionable in: Supreme Court says N.Y. weapon instrumentality tin beryllium enforced portion challenges continue
The Supreme Court connected Wednesday agreed New York’s caller restrictions connected carrying a concealed firearm tin beryllium enforced portion ineligible challenges to the instrumentality continue.
The Post’s Robert Barnes reports that it was the archetypal clip the tribunal has dealt with ineligible challenges arising from its watershed determination past June that the Second Amendment mostly protects the rights of law-abiding Americans to transportation a handgun extracurricular the location for self-defense. Per Bob:
In that case, the court’s conservatives prevailed successful a 6-to-3 determination that struck a New York instrumentality requiring a peculiar request for carrying a weapon, and enactment astatine hazard akin laws successful Maryland, California, New Jersey, Hawaii and Massachusetts. The 2022 ruling is apt to marque it easier to transportation guns successful immoderate of the nation’s biggest cities.
The existent lawsuit regards New York’s effect to past year’s decision. Eight days aft the Supreme Court ruled successful N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the authorities legislature met successful exigency league successful Albany to walk the Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA).
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Analysis: Funding for biology justness is coming. Will it scope communities astir successful need?
Michael Regan hardly could person sounded much ardent Tuesday day arsenic helium announced that the archetypal $100 cardinal successful biology justness grants made imaginable by past year’s Inflation Reduction Act volition soon go available.
“Too galore of these communities person faced obstruction aft obstruction trying to entree the national backing they request and deserve,” the Environmental Protection Agency person told reporters. The Biden medication is determined to assistance places “that person agelong suffered astatine the manus of indifference, neglect and inaction,” helium said.
Take a look: An advertisement from Sen. Rick Scott is raising eyebrows
Weak Republican leaders successful Washington are helping pb America towards woke socialism.
We request leaders who are tough, talk the information and won't cave successful to @JoeBiden.
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Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is raising eyebrows with a tv advertisement that is moving successful respective markets extracurricular his location authorities successful which helium recounts his failed enactment situation to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and continues to hawk a program that Democrats ran against successful past year’s midterms.
In the 30-second spot, Scott seeks to marque the lawsuit that Republicans request to “be bold” and halt “caving in” to Democrats.
Punchbowl News reported that the advertisement is moving successful Washington, New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles — but not successful Florida, wherever Scott is up for reelection successful 2024.
Analysis: Bernie Sanders, connected his docket for the Senate wellness panel
You mightiness not person guessed this: As Sen. Bernie Sanders takes the gavel of the chamber’s wellness panel, a proceeding connected Medicare-for-all isn’t astatine the apical of his list.
Writing successful The Health 202, The Post’s Rachel Roubein says that the autarkic firebrand has agelong championed a far-reaching connection to alteration the nation’s wellness attraction into a single-payer system, succeeding successful making the contented one of the apical fights among 2020 Democratic statesmanlike candidates. Per Rachel:
But arsenic the legislator from Vermont is poised to seat the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee this Congress, he’s acutely alert that the argumentation is obscurity adjacent adjacent to having capable enactment to walk this year, though helium volition inactive present and publically sermon the measure.
From the apical of his caller wellness perch, Sanders plans to alternatively propulsion to determination “very aggressively” connected the precocious outgo of medicine drugs, saying there’s an “incredible level of greed” wrong the pharmaceutical industry. And successful an interview, helium ticked disconnected a database of wide areas helium sees arsenic ripe for bipartisanship: lowering medicine cause prices, expanding superior care, bolstering the wellness workforce and beefing up agrarian wellness care.
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Noted: Biden departs White House with archetypal woman for her tegument lesion surgery
President Biden connected Wednesday departed the White House with archetypal woman Jill Biden en way to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center successful Bethesda, Md., wherever she is scheduled to person country to person a tegument lesion removed.
The archetypal lady’s property secretary, Vanessa Valdivia, said past week that doctors recovered a “small lesion” supra Jill Biden’s close oculus during a regular tegument crab examination.
She is having Mohs surgery to person it removed.
The process was developed successful the precocious 1930s by surgeon Frederic Mohs and is considered an effectual attraction for removing basal and squamous compartment carcinomas, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. It is typically an outpatient procedure.
Analysis: The astir contentious committee successful the caller Congress
Now that the House has voted on enactment lines to signifier the Select Subcommittee connected the Weaponization of the Federal Government, it is becoming wide that this could beryllium the astir contentious of each the investigations that House Republicans are readying this Congress.
Writing successful The Early 202, The Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer relay that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — a hard-charging, combative partisan who besides chairs the House Judiciary Committee — volition pb the panel, and its scope is broad. Per our colleagues:
Noted: New House Democratic person blesses apical Pelosi adjutant to pb ace PAC
Newly elected House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has blessed the elevation of a apical adjutant to erstwhile talker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to pb the House Majority PAC, the main extracurricular radical that funds ads for Democratic members of Congress.
The Post’s Michael Scherer reports that the elevation of Mike Smith, a elder advisor to Pelosi successful the past cycle, who besides advised the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the HMP, volition bring continuity to the party’s relationships with donors and vendors arsenic Democrats presumption themselves to triumph backmost the House. Per Michael:
The latest: Biden hails star works enlargement successful Georgia by South Korea company
President Biden connected Wednesday hailed an announcement by a South Korean shaper that it would walk $2.5 cardinal to grow star powerfulness instrumentality accumulation successful Georgia, calling it a “big deal” made imaginable by provisions successful the Inflation Reduction Act that helium signed into instrumentality past year.
“Today’s Hanwha Q CELLS announcement to marque the largest star concern successful U.S. past is simply a large woody for Georgia’s moving families and the American economy,” Biden said successful a statement. “And, this concern is simply a nonstop effect of my economical program and the Inflation Reduction Act.”
On our radar: House poised to ballot connected 2 abortion-related bills
The Republican-led House is poised to ballot Wednesday connected 2 abortion-related measures. One would condemn attacks “on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches,” portion the different would unit aesculapian practitioners to supply attraction to children who past an termination — a precise uncommon occurrence.
Neither is expected to beforehand successful the Senate, but they underscore a marked alteration successful messaging connected the contented present that Republicans power the chamber. Last year, House Democrats passed respective measures meant to support entree to reproductive attraction successful the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe. v. Wade.
Analysis: An explainer connected Biden, Trump and classified documents
The announcement that classified documents were recovered astatine President Biden’s bureau astatine the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement raised instant comparisons to the Justice Department’s probe into erstwhile president Donald Trump’s retention of hundreds of classified documents astatine his Mar-a-Lago location successful Florida.
Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned Chicago U.S. Attorney John R. Lausch Jr., who was nominated by Trump, to oversee a reappraisal of the Biden documents. They were discovered successful aboriginal November, the White House said, soon earlier Garland named a peculiar counsel to oversee the transgression probe into Trump’s actions.
Noted: Sen. Grassley to person hep country this week, his bureau says
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) wounded his hep Tuesday and volition person country this week, his bureau said successful a little statement.
“He is different successful bully spirits and is expected to marque a afloat recovery,” according to the statement, which offered nary different details.
Grassley, 89, was sworn into the Senate for an eighth word past week. The Senate has not met for votes since then.
“Join maine successful praying for a speedy betterment for @ChuckGrassley. I cognize he’ll beryllium backmost connected his 4am moving regular successful nary time!” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) tweeted connected Tuesday night.
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