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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) reportedly asked a group of Jewish individuals who were visiting the Capitol if they were there to do "reconnaissance," the visitors told BuzzFeed News.Boebert is said to have seen the group of visitors on Thursday, looked at them "head to toe" and asked if they were visiting the Capitol to do "reconnaissance," one person who saw the interaction told the outlet."You know, I'm not sure to be offended or not," one of...

"I'm too short to see anyone's yarmulkes," said Boebert. Her office said that she was actually trying to make a joking reference to January 6.

The Colorado Republican left the visitors “confused” after a short encounter.View Entire Post ›

Lauren Boebert, Lindsey Graham, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kevin McCarthy, Kayleigh McEnany and Josh Hawley were all slammed for hypocrisy.

"She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home," her office said in a statement on Sunday.

"She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home," her office said in a statement on Sunday.

Twitter users mockingly suggested the far-right Colorado Republican had offered her resignation with the post.

Critics pointed out the flaws with the conspiracy theorist Colorado Republican’s defense of her fellow far-right extremist.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday shot back at criticisms from right-wing figures after a photo of her on vacation with her boyfriend in Florida was shared online, suggesting that her critics stop "projecting their sexual frustrations" on her.Steve Cortes, a former Trump campaign adviser, shared a photo on Twitter on Friday of Ocasio-Cortez in public with her boyfriend Riley Roberts vacationing in Florida.Cortes attacked Ocasio-...

The Republican representative is one of several lawmakers who've offered the 18-year-old an internship on Capitol Hill after his acquittal.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Monday called on Democrats to "crack down on the Senate," which she likened to "an old boys club."The progressive lawmaker in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" slammed the chamber's inability to pass voting rights legislation because of GOP-led filibusters.Ocasio-Cortez has previously called on the Senate to abolish the filibuster, a move that moderate Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is working to tamp down internal feuds and shift members to talking about inflation and other issues that he believes will help his party return to the majority.

In his endorsement, Trump called Boebert a "defender of the America first agenda, and a fighter against the Loser RINOs and Radical Democrats."

The House has delivered its first formal response to Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's anti-Muslim remarks by passing a bill to tackle Islamophobia worldwide.

While the measure was introduced months ago, Tuesday’s vote comes amid growing calls for House Republicans to take action against Islamophobia within their ranks.

Sketch depicted Lauren Boebert holding semi-automatic rifle while claiming Covid-19 was ‘fake disease’

On "The Takeout" podcast this week, Byron Donalds discussed a third run for Trump and the feud between Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar.

The Colorado representative is using her family Christmas portrait to evoke liberal hysteria.

Progressive Democrats are ratcheting up pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to punish firebrand conservative Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado for her recent comments likening a Muslim member of Congress to a bomb-carrying terrorist.

“Tell me again where Christ said ‘use the commemoration of my birth to flex violent weapons for personal political gain’?” the representative asked.

The Colorado Republican was seen in a video describing anti-Muslim comments she made about Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat.

Boebert posted her photo in support of Rep. Thomas Massie, who sparked a backlash with his own gun-toting photo days after a high-school shooting.

9News anchor Kyle Clark is admitting an uncomfortable truth — and challenging local news outlets to find a solution.The intrigue: In commentary for his prime time "Next" show, Clark acknowledged that his NBC-affiliated TV station covers U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Rifle) differently than any other elected official in Colorado.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free"We hold Congresswoman Boebert to a far lower standard," Clark said. "If

The conspiracy theory-endorsing Colorado Republican followed Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie's lead with a not-so-festive family picture.

Why is a South Carolina Republican policing her party’s far-right flank? Here are three possibilities.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to have settled on a strategy as a handful of Republican lawmakers stir outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments: If you can’t police them, promote them.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appears to have settled on a strategy to deal with a handful of Republican lawmakers who have stirred outrage with violent, racist and sometimes Islamophobic comments. The path to power for Republicans in Congress is now rooted in the capacity to generate outrage. The alarming language, and the fundraising haul it increasingly produces, is another example of how Donald Trump, the former president, has left his mark on politics, changing the way Republicans rise to influence and authority.

McCarthy signaled he won't take any action on Boebert, even as dozens of House progressives have called for her to lose her committee assignments.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for what she described as a failure to hold the members of his Republican caucus accountable after Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday shared a racist voicemail containing a death threat following an anti-Muslim attack from Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)."People truly don't understand the scale, intensity, & volume of threats targeting...

Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has been the subject of repeated attacks by conservative pundits and some Republicans in Congress.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), a member of the progressive "squad" of Democratic lawmakers, urged GOP leadership on Wednesday to strip Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) of her committee assignments due to her Islamophobic comments about Rep. Ilham Omar (D-Minn.). "The fact is that Congresswoman Omar is a Black, immigrant and visibly Muslim woman with power-and this is too much to handle for people who refuse to live in a society that celebrates...

The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host also debuted a damning new nickname for extremist Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert.

The Denver Post editorial board slammed the conspiracy theory-endorsing Colorado Republican as "clearly incapable of remorse or reflection."

"Don't worry, there's plenty that will love the opportunity to take you off the face of this... earth," the unnamed caller said.

The former president's xenophobic and anti-refugee missive comes after Lauren Boebert called Omar to "apologize" for her Islamophobic comments.

Mace used three emojis to call Taylor Greene "batshit crazy" and Rep. Adam Kinzinger nicknamed her an "unserious circus barker McSpacelaser."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) blasted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) after Mace criticized Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) for an anti-Muslim remark Boebert made about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Mace "is the trash in the GOP Conference. Never attacked by Democrats or RINO's (same thing) because she is not conservative, she's pro-abort," Greene said in a tweet posted on Tuesday morning, using an acronym for "Republican in name only." Greene told...

“We have degraded" in Congress to a "level of hate I’ve never felt before," said the New York lawmaker.

Conservative congresswoman Lauren Boebert has spoken by phone with congresswoman Ilhan Omar just days after likening the Minnesota Democrat to a bomb-carrying terrorist.

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is imploring House Republican leaders to do more to tamp down “anti-Muslim hatred” in their ranks.

The contentious phone call between Reps. Lauren Boebert and Ilhan Omar likely means the controversy will continue.

Buttigieg and his husband in September announced that they had adopted twins. Buttigieg took parental leave, drawing backlash from right-wing figures.

America is really in a dark place. And I think we all know it to be true. Congress used to […] The post When White Women Attack: Boebert assailing Omar reminds us racism is alive even in Congress appeared first on TheGrio.

Minnesota's Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is calling on House leaders to take “appropriate action" against Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert for using anti-Muslim language in describing a recent encounter with Omar.

Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized Friday for using anti-Muslim language in describing a recent encounter she had with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. In her apology, Boebert didn't address Omar's criticism that Boebert made up her story about the encounter at the U.S. Capitol. According to a video clip posted by a Twitter account called PatriotTakes, Boebert made the remarks this holiday break.

"Help me take out the trash," Marina Zimmerman, a Republican primary challenger to Boebert, wrote on Twitter. Kinzinger retweeted her message.

"This whole story is made up. Sad she thinks bigotry gets her clout," Omar said, also calling Boebert a "buffoon."

The conspiracy theory-loving Colorado Republican tweeted a weird brag about PCR tests, going maskless and soy replacement meat.

The Colorado Republican claimed she had made a joke about her Muslim colleague being a terrorist while sharing an elevator.

Under the proposal, the IRS would hire nearly 87,000 new workers in an effort to collect unpaid taxes owed by large corporations and wealthy individuals.

Top House Republican Kevin McCarthy is "scared of their influence," said the MSNBC anchor of the extremists.

KUSA's Kyle Clark tore into the Colorado conspiracy theorist and GOP lawmaker in a blistering TV commentary.

In an unhinged speech from the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday, Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert called the […] The post Rep. Omar slams colleague Boebert as ‘insurrectionist who sleeps with a pervert’ appeared first on TheGrio.

The House has voted to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona for posting an animated video that depicted him killing Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

The Colorado Republican spewed anti-Muslim bigotry while defending GOP Rep. Paul Gosar for an anime depicting him killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

A new Amazon documentary asks where the U.S. transportation secretary’s unflappable demeanor comes from—and what it might accomplish.

Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona is facing censure in the House over a violent video he posted online.

The first big meme battle of the Biden presidency is here, and it is very embarrassing.

It was 2015 when Congress last approved a major renewal of federal highway and other transportation programs.

Ten House Democrats say they will introduce a House resolution to censure Republican Rep. Paul Gosar for tweeting a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar is facing criticism after he tweeted a video that included altered animation showing him striking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword.

The House panel investigating the Jan_ 6 Capitol insurrection has focused some of its early work on the planning behind a massive rally at which President Donald Trump falsely claimed to have won reelection and told his supporters to “fight like hell.”.

Details are still emerging about how Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is asking social media and telecommunications companies to preserve phone or computer records for hundreds of people.

Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert has disclosed that her husband worked as consultant for a energy firm during her run for Congress last year.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

A federal judge has ruled that Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert does not have to unblock a former Democratic Colorado state lawmaker from her personal Twitter account.

House Republicans are rebelling against the requirement that they wear a mask on the House floor.

Thousands of social media posts have misleadingly painted President Joe Biden and his administration as catalysts of chaos who not only mishandled the temporary shutdown of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline last Friday, but engineered it.

Republicans are increasingly using food — especially beef — as a cudgel in the culture war.

As the impact of climate change becomes more apparent, misinformation about it is shifting to focus more and more on extreme weather.

On Wednesday, Reinfeld was reeling from the latest mass shooting even closer to home, after authorities say a 21-year-old gunned down shoppers at a local grocery store. “I could see at some point leaving because of all this,” said Reinfeld, a gun control activist. But it's also been haunted by shootings that have helped define the nation's decades-long struggle with mass violence. The Aurora shooting brought that terror from schools to a movie theater. After each of Colorado's biggest massacres, the local gun control movement has gained heartbroken new recruits.

The bill passed mostly along party lines, with eight Republicans joining all but one Democratic lawmaker in voting for the bill. It is one of the largest land protection packages Congress has ever considered and covers almost 3 million acres of public lands, overwhelmingly in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona. The ideological split over the bill was evident as the congressional delegation from Colorado debated the measure on the House floor. The legislation encompassed bills from Rep. Joe Neguse and DeGette that would affect more than 1 million acres of public lands in the state. “I prefer public lands with many uses," he said.

With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame. “We should never build another wind turbine in Texas,” read a Tuesday Facebook post from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. “The experiment failed big time.”“This is a perfect example of the need for reliable energy sources like natural gas & coal,” tweeted U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, on Tuesday. Still a variety of misleading claims spread on social media around renewable energy, with wind turbines and the Green New Deal getting much of the attention. AdA viral photo of a helicopter de-icing a wind turbine was shared with claims it showed a “chemical” solution being applied to one of the massive wind generators in Texas.

(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame. “We should never build another wind turbine in Texas,” read a Tuesday Facebook post from Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. Still a variety of misleading claims spread on social media around renewable energy, with wind turbines and the Green New Deal getting much of the attention. AdA viral photo of a helicopter de-icing a wind turbine was shared with claims it showed a “chemical” solution being applied to one of the massive wind generators in Texas. On top of that, while Texas has ramped up wind energy in recent years, the state still relies on wind power for only about 25% of its total electricity, according to ERCOT data.

But unlike Greene, Boebert doesn't hail from an overwhelmingly GOP, safe district. But unlike Greene, Boebert doesn't hail from an overwhelmingly GOP, safe district. The question strategists in Colorado and elsewhere in this divided country are asking is whether Boebert is a fluke — or the future. AdIn an interview, Boebert said the district's voters are eager for disruption. Boebert insists she and the rest of the first-term class of lawmakers are the future, even in districts like hers.

The agency's officials did not answer directly when Democrats on the House Committee on Administration asked in 2018 how many lawmakers carry firearms in the Capitol. Aides can carry lawmakers’ weapons for them on the Capitol complex, he wrote. He said members and their staffs carry firearms around the Capitol “all the time,” though he mentioned no names. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., chairman of the House Second Amendment Caucus, justified letting lawmakers carry weapons. Its officers routinely arrest people caught trying to carry weapons at the Capitol.