Jamie Dupree

That independent number is awful

Ex-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene R-GA blasts Trump over attack on Iran

The House GOP calendar for legislative business continues to shrink. Next week will be another 2-day work week, with votes only on Wednesday and Thursday. Then the House is out until March 16.

Active duty Coast Guard members and families are writing on social media that they got a full paycheck this week - even with the DHS shutdown. That hints at some kind of Trump Administration funding work-around.

15 House members (12D, 3R) missed every House vote this week.
✅4 were from Texas (primary on 3/3)
✅5 are retiring - Dunn, Evans, Nadler, Schakowsky, Velazquez
✅Rep. Neal Dunn R-FL said he wouldn't resign early - but that evidently doesn't mean he will always vote.

Gone for a few weeks, the Trump banner is back at the Labor Department

Rep. Al Green D-TX says he shouldn't be punished for his 'silent protest' during State of the Union: "If anybody is going to be censured, it should be the people who became so rambunctious as to create a disturbance. I didn't do that. I silently stood, and I would do it again."

This just into the newsroom

Trump touts tax cuts and tariffs in tart State of the Union Democrats heckle Trump from the House floor

It was a wild night under the big top at the Capitol for President Trump's State of the Union Address. More in today's Regular Order jamiedupree.substack.com/p/trump-tout...

For a second straight year, Rep. Al Green D-TX gets the heave-ho from the House chamber. This time, he had a sign which said, "Black People Aren't Apes." Trump didn't miss a beat while Green was being walked out

Four Supreme Court Justices are here for the Trump speech. Chief Justice Roberts, Kagan, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Only Kavanaugh sided with Trump on his tariffs.

My first State of the Union was in 1987 with President Reagan. He spoke for 34 minutes. Some familiar faces interviewed by C-SPAN after the speech in Statuary Hall that night: Ford, Gore, Michel, Kemp.

There were 6 votes in the House on Tuesday. Rep. Tony Gonzales R-TX showed up for the first one - and then missed the next five. He told reporters, "I will not resign"

The funny thing about State of the Union is that there are always members in both parties who don't go to the President's speech each year, but they do that quietly - so they can watch it from their office or at home.

Rep. Nancy Mace R-SC calls for Rep. Tony Gonzales R-TX to resign after text messages show him pressing a female staffer to send him a 'sexy pic'

Sen. Mark Kelly D-AZ tells reporters that he will attend President Trump's State of the Union Address to send Trump a message. "He wants me to be sitting in prison right now."

Speaker Mike Johnson not jumping to any conclusions on Rep. Tony Gonzales R-TX: "You have to allow investigations to play out and all the facts to come out."

Rep. Lauren Boebert R-CO is calling for Rep. Tony Gonzales R-TX to resign, after the release of text messages which indicate the Texas Congressman pressed a staffer to send him explicit photos of herself.

President Trump un-endorses a freshman GOP lawmaker from Colorado who had the temerity to vote against the tariffs on imports from Canada.

Vice President JD dramatically ramps up the attack on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down many of President Trump's tariffs, calling it, 'lawlessness from the Court, plain and simple'

Where does the authority come from for this new 10 percent global tariff? Trump is tapping Section 122 authority from the Trade Act of 1974, which allows him to use tariffs 'for a period not exceeding 150 days.'

President Trump quickly authorizes a 10 percent worldwide tariff to replace the tariffs struck down today by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Today, I will sign in order to impose a 10% global tariff under Section 122, over and above our normal tariffs already being charged."

President Trump says the Supreme Court tariff decision was 'deeply disappointing.' "I'm ashamed of certain members of the Court - absolutely ashamed - for not having the courage to do what's right for our country."

Rep. Tom Suozzi D-NY on the Supreme Court tariff ruling against President Trump:
"It is a clear message that the President cannot act unilaterally and must negotiate and try and find common ground with the co-equal branch of government: the Congress."

New on the Department of Justice

Note bullet point 3 from Trump - he is still calling for an end to almost all voting by mail, with only limited absentee and military ballots. That is not a part of the SAVE America Act, but it is in the 'Make Elections Great Again' bill (MEGA)

Scandal hits Texas Republican at just the wrong time Jeffries again urges Democrats to behave at State of the Union

Right before a primary is not the time for stories about an affair with a staffer who died after setting herself on fire last year. But that's where things are for Rep. Tony Gonzales R-TX. Much more in today's 'Regular Order.' jamiedupree.substack.com/p/scandal-hi...

U.S. Capitol Police release a photo of the weapon carried by a suspect arrested out on the West Front of the Capitol. "The suspect, 18-year-old Carter Camacho of Smyrna, GA, was arrested" www.uscp.gov/media-center...

The top Democrat in the U.S. House takes aim at Rep. Randy Fine R-FL, calling him a 'disgrace' to the Congress.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump Administration wrongly removed exhibits about slavery from the President's House site in Philadelphia, where Washington and Adams lived. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...