Interview – SUSAN FERRECHIO – chief congressional correspondent for the Washington Examiner – discussed the latest Congressional news:
Rosenstein impeachment push by GOP, Congress goes on recess, Jordan runs for speaker and the latest on the Kavanaugh nomination.
- HOUSE RECESS: Lawmakers packed up to leave Capitol Hill for a month-long recess.
- Ryan, McCarthy and Pelosi have a full slate of fundraisers planned for the summer recess, which begins Thursday (politico) — With control of the House up for grabs this fall — and their own political futures on the line — GOP and Democratic leaders will be frantically crisscrossing the country in August to raise money and rally the faithful. Speaker Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who have already raised tens of millions of dollars for their candidates and incumbents, have scheduled dozens of events during the five-week House recess, according to their offices. The trio will be raking in millions more while trying to cement their own positions, or in Ryan’s case, his legacy.
- ROSENSTEIN IMPEACHMENT: Speaker Paul Ryan says he doesn’t back conservative GOP effort to impeach Rosenstein (NBC News) — WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that he doesn’t support the effort by some of his conservative House colleagues to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. “Do I support impeachment of Rosenstein? No, I do not,” Ryan, R-Wis., said at his weekly press conference as lawmakers packed up to leave Capitol Hill for a month-long recess. “I don’t think we should be cavalier with this process or term,” he said of impeachment, adding, “I don’t think this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.”
- Meadows backs off impeaching Rosenstein after leadership talks (The Hill) — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) says he is tabling his efforts to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein after having several meetings with Republican leadership, stating that he would instead pursue contempt if the Justice Department (DOJ) does not turn over documents Congress is seeking. While the impeachment option remains on the table, Meadows told reporters Thursday he now hopes it will be a contempt process rather than impeachment.
- LATEST ON KAVANAUGH: Manchin to sit down with Kavanaugh next week. (Politico) — Brett Kavanaugh will meet with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) next week, signaling the Supreme Court nominee is beginning to woo Democrats in his confirmation bid. Kavanaugh will meet with Manchin next Monday, according to a Manchin aide. Manchin is considered one of the Democrats most likely to back Kavanaugh, along with Sens. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana. Those three red-state Democrats voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.
- JIM JORDAN FOR SPEAKER: Rep. Jim Jordan announces his plan to run for Speaker of the House: “Should the American people entrust us with the majority again in the 116th Congress, I plan to run for Speaker of the House to bring real change to the House of Representatives”
