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Congress barely does it’s only jobWIZMnews.com Congratulations Congress.  You finally did your job. At the 11th hour, Congress passed legislation to fund the government and avoid a shutdown. Of course, it should have never come to this. This was a manufactured crisis from the start. It was months ago when Congress overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan agreement to suspend the debt ceiling […] The post Congress barely does it’s only job appeared first on WIZM 92.3FM 1410AM. ….. Read More.WIZM News |General News & Views | U.S. National NewsTue, October 3, 202317 hours ago

New Alabama congressional map almost ready for implementation, judge saysA federal judge said Tuesday that the court will soon adopt new congressional districts for Alabama, choosing among proposals aimed at giving Black voters a greater opportunity to influence election outcomes in the Deep South state. U.S. District Judge Stanley Marcus, noting a ruling will be issued “shortly,” said the three-judge panel is aware of the time constraints posed by elections next year when the state’s seven U.S. House seats will be on the ballot. The court could rule as early as this week. The panel is stepping in to adopt new district boundaries after ruling that the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature failed to remedy a Voting Rights Act violation when lawmakers adopted new lines this summer. The judges said the state-drawn plan — which had one majority Black district out of seven in a state that is 27% Black — illegally…

The Dianne Feinstein ParadoxJames Haas was a San Francisco land use attorney, and a gay man who was not yet out in 1970, when he became an informal advisor to Dianne Feinstein. During Feinstein’s first term in office as a member of the Board of Supervisors, the city’s legislative body, Haas organized a group of professionals, dubbed “The Think Tank,” to develop policy on matters from traffic flows to taxes.He also authored the city’s most abiding epigram about Feinstein’s relationship to the gay community: “Dianne Feinstein doesn’t care who you sleep with,” he famously quipped, “as long as you’re in bed by 11 o’clock.” The one-liner helps decode Feinstein’s complex, half-century of interactions with gay people — gay voters, gay colleagues and the gay community writ large. Politically, Feinstein was among the nation’s first, tiny handful of officeholders to advocate for gay rights and anti-discrimination laws, a throughline of her…

McCarthy rips ‘chaotic’ GOP rebels led by Gaetz: ‘They are not conservatives&#8217…In his first appearance since being ousted from the House speakership, Rep. Kevin McCarthy told reporters Tuesday night that hardline Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., “are not conservatives.” “They voted against one the greatest cut in history that Congress has ever voted for 2 trillion, they voted against work requirements, they voted against NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) reform. They voted against border security — they don’t get to say they’re conservative because they’re angry and they’re chaotic,” McCarthy said.  His comments come just hours after Gaetz introduced a motion to vacate McCarthy — and succeeded — with the help of hardliners in his own party and 208 House Democrat votes. McCarthy said he would not seek to be re-elected as speaker. Hardline conservatives and Democrats voted in sync to seal the deal on Tuesday, as the…

‘They Are Not Conservatives’: McCarthy Flames ‘Angry and Chaotic’ GOP Hardliners On His Way …Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) railed against the Republican members of Congress who voted to oust him as speaker on Tuesday, arguing they did not “have the right” to call themselves conservatives. After a reporter said McCarthy had been “pushed out by so-called more conservative members,” McCarthy interrupted, “They are not conservatives. They voted against, one, the greatest cut in history that Congress has ever voted for, two trillion. They voted against work requirements. They voted against NEPA reform. They voted against border security.” He continued: They don’t get to say they are conservative because they are angry and they are chaotic. That’s not the party I belong to. The party of Reagan was if you believed in your principles, that you could govern in a conservative way. They are not conservatives and they do not have…

Kevin McCarthy Ousted as House SpeakerIn January, a small faction of right-wing House Republicans relented in their efforts to sink Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become House speaker. Their support came at a price.  Among several concessions, McCarthy (R-Calif.) agreed to lower the number of Republican members required to initiate the process to oust him from the speakership from five members to one. On Monday night, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) signaled to McCarthy that it was time to pay his bill. The metaphorical invoice came in the form of what the House calls a “motion to vacate” that passed by a narrow majority, 216-210, on Tuesday afternoon. Eight Republicans and all Democrats present voted to remove McCarthy. The unprecedented events at the Capitol marked the first time in more than 100 years that the House has held a vote on whether to remove a House speaker—and the first time in…