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Maeve Sheehey retweeted
New from me on the campaign trail!
Visited Lansing, Mich., last week to shadow @tombarrettmi7 as he door-knocked & @WeWill2026 as he held town halls.
It's the costliest House race in the country & both men are leaning into populist health policy ideas.
news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomb…
Maeve Sheehey retweeted
Must-read midterms story from @Ximena_Bustillo, who traveled to Colorado last week to report on the battleground 8th District, where both parties are scrambling to court unaffiliated Latino voters
news.bgov.com/us-law-week/co…
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The House Ethics Committee is hiring additional staff after its bipartisan leaders secured a budget increase after handling a number of high-profile investigations, including several into lawmakers who ultimately resigned from Congress. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
A surprising new study finds that people who sleep near their dogs don’t experience disrupted sleep. If anything, the University of Toronto researchers discovered, we humans are the ones disturbing our dogs’ sleep. nbcnews.com/health/health-ne…
Maeve Sheehey retweeted
Another name that kept popping up in my conversations w/ House GOP about a leadership fight in the minority?
RSC Chair August Pfluger
"I think that he's positioned himself very well to be able to be in some sort of leadership position. I think it just depends on what that looks like," one R said
Another R told me, “When I was a candidate, I had no idea who he was, but he called me and gave money to my campaign…He’s very ambitious, but I don’t know what he’s aiming those ambitions towards."
A third person said Pfluger was being “tactically quiet”
NRCC chair, minority whip were the positions floated
But that could largely depend on how the midterms go — if losses are bad enough for the GOP, another R expects the entire leadership slate to be “wiped out”
foxnews.com/politics/jordan-…
When the House returns from campaign season, Speaker Mike Johnson may have a fresh headache: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told me she's weighing another floor blockade until the Senate bans congressional stock trading. For @bgov: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
Maeve Sheehey retweeted
.@NBCNews took a road trip along I-80, hitting some of the most competitive congressional districts to find out what’s driving people’s votes in the midterms.
A great piece by @jonallendc @frankthorp @MarshallCrook
nbcnews.com/specials/midterm…
Maeve Sheehey retweeted
US Capitol Police rules restricting public protests on the building’s eastern steps are unconstitutional, a federal appeals court held, ruling in favor of a Presbyterian minister who has sought to hold prayer vigils there, @SuzanneMonyak reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law…
Maeve Sheehey retweeted
⚡️NEW GIG ALERT: Thrilled to be joining @BLaw as Senior DHS Reporter continuing to cover the Trump administration’s immigration policies, the political ramifications and Washington happenings for this federal agency.
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Maeve Sheehey retweeted
I reported last week that Reps. Shontel Brown and Jim Costa were eyeing to lead the Democrats on the Agriculture Committee.
Multiple House Democrats are eyeing their party’s top spot on the Agriculture Committee as Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.), the current ranking member, prepares to leave Congress. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
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NEWS: Trump has tapped GOP Rep. Wesley Hunt to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald is considering a run to be the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, a person familiar tells @bgov. Rep. Laurel Lee announced her own bid last night after Chairman Jim Jordan told @reporter_mia he won't seek a waiver.
Maeve Sheehey retweeted
On the morning of Feb. 4, Wash Post had almost 800 in newsroom -- NOTUS had 45.
Now, as NOTUS become Washington Sun, there's 110 and growing in the newsroom.
My old shop is half its previous size.
Give us a chance, we are growing and covering the DMV.
nytimes.com/2026/09/08/busin…
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🚨Big news: @capitalweather is coming to The Washington Sun, the artist formerly known as NOTUS nytimes.com/2026/09/08/busin…
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Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho), a senior appropriator, says “there will be another CR probably beyond December 11th. That’s the reality.”
“I suspect what you'll see is a package of maybe two or three or four mini-buses with several bills in each one … But we can get some of them done, I think,” Simpson told me and @MaeveSheehey.
Simpson said he does not think there will be a shutdown.
This isn't MGP's first time being in hot water with her party. In fact, it's kind of her whole thing.
From forcing a vote to reprimand a well-liked Dem to voting for the GOP rule this week, I wrote about the Trump-district Democrat's independent streak: news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…
Maeve Sheehey retweeted
BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, feminist trailblazer and award-winning journalist, dies at 92. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/glo…
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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez says she’s not worried about the Democrats pushing to discipline her for the rule vote.
“ I slept like a baby last night,” she told me and @MaeveSheehey.
“If that’s what they feel they need to do, it’s not going to change how I represent” the district.
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Rep. Cole told @MaeveSheehey & I he hasn’t seen this letter as of a few minutes ago. He said he understands HFC concerns but thinks they shouldn’t use the rule as leverage.
NEW — I got a copy of a letter Chip Roy sent to Budget Chair Jodey Arrington and Approps Chair Tom Cole and shared with Speaker Mike Johnson.
In the letter, Roy argues the CR extends taxpayer money for abortion services and urges opposition to the bill.
“Members voting for this CR should understand that they are voting to continue federal funding for the current mifepristone regime and to allow taxpayer dollars to continue flowing to Planned Parenthood - and should be prepared to account for those votes accordingly,” he wrote.
