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Meanwhile, both of the state’s Republican U.S. Senators have been critical of the Democratic bill that would change election laws. One of the few Tennessee Republicans dissenting on Cheney’s ouster, former Congressman Zach Wamp, says it represents a split in the Republican Party that could have implications in next year’s mid-term Congressional elections.
With much of the plan already outlined well before Wednesday’s speech, reaction from the city’s two congressmen and the state’s two U.S. senators was set along partisan lines. There was a social media blitz by all during President Joe Biden’s remarks.Related story:
The city’s two representatives in the U.S. House were on different sides in the Wednesday, March 10, vote to approve the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief act known as the American Rescue Plan Act.
Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty pushed the narrative that Republican-led states were getting less money in the relief bill at the expense of Democratic led states.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen’s tweets on Trump’s appearance offered a contrast to the social media reaction from Blackburn and Hagerty. Republican U.S. Rep. David Kustoff didn’t comment on CPAC but did post on his vote against the Democratic COVID stimulus package that passed in the House.
The state’s two Republican Senators telegraphed their votes for acquittal in former President Trump’s second impeachment trial days ahead of the Saturday vote to acquit that ended the trial.
Several dozen non-binding budget amendments were suggested in the Senate to make political statements. Meanwhile, there was a House vote on Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The week featured some social media sniping, a MLK Day rebuke and a video plea from Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray.
Here are the moves the city’s four representatives in Washington, D.C. have made in the historic gap between certifying the Electoral College vote and Wednesday’s inauguration, with a Capitol insurrection in between and plenty of political volatility still around. Related story: Cohen draws fire for National Guard questions and Boebert sighting
Plus, Zach Randolph’s honor, a case for Scooby Doo, and restaurants that are gone but not forgotten.
“I never thought that the trappings of congressional power or Trump’s dominating and vindictive personality would turn the principled guy I’ve known and liked for years into a political lapdog.”
It was not a question of whether Blackburn or Hagerty or Kustoff would stand with Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden or Mitt Romney. Would they even be willing to stand with Mitch McConnell? None of them wanted what happened on Wednesday afternoon, but they all helped prepare the stage.
The House and Senate kept late hours, resuming the Electoral College certification after a violent protest shut down the process into Wednesday evening. The session continued until just before dawn Thursday.
Here is the latest from the city’s representatives in the U.S. House and Senate.
At the heart of claims by Trump and his horde of conspiracy theorists is that it was statistically and historically impossible for Trump to lose the election, other than through fraud. How could they believe such grand-scale treachery occurred? The answer, sadly, is rooted in race.
The two Republicans are part of a group of 11 Republican Senators and Senators-elect who are calling for a Congressional investigation and audit of presidential election results in battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden.
The two Republican U.S. senators representing Tennessee have not commented on the override of the Defense Authorization Act veto by Trump or the move to boost stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 per person.
The city’s representatives in the U.S. Senate split on the bipartisan $900 billion package while the city’s two Congressmen both voted for the bill.
Dolly versus Marsha; Christmas lights at Shelby Farms, Memphis Zoo and the Botanic Garden; and Don Bryant’s Grammy nomination.
The response reflects Memphis’ Democratic majority that supported Biden, as well as statewide totals that gave Trump Tennessee.
The opening of hearings on the U.S. Supreme Court nominee included Democrats criticizing the timing of the nomination. Blackburn responded by calling the attacks on the process and Barrett as “paternalistic” and “disrespectful.”
The potential appointment of Rhodes College graduate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court just before the Nov. 3 presidential election is creating division within the college community, according to a letter from the school’s president.
Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday he believes the president and Senate have the responsibility to fill the vacancy left by the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just six weeks before the presidential election.
President Donald Trump’s plan to nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is putting Senate candidates Bill Hagerty and Marquita Bradshaw at odds six weeks before the Nov. 3 election.
Legislators could question Gov. Bill Lee’s administration this week over reports it is recruiting Chinese investment to Tennessee amid a trade war and questions about whether China misled the world over COVID-19.