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First in MM: Schiff, Min pitch updates to financial disclosures — California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Dave Min introduced a bill that would require government officials to provide more detail about large financial holdings and income. Under the Financial Disclosure Modernization Act, officials would have to report income sources and holdings that exceed $1 billion.
Recent immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota — including the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis mother by federal officers — should be a warning to other communities, including Southern California, said Rep. Dave Min.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on Donald Trump to allow the US government to help open up internet access in Iran, which the country’s Islamic regime has blocked in an effort to suppress an eruption of unrest.
Jeffrey Epstein's estate has turned over roughly 95,000 photographs to the House Oversight Committee. So far, the public has seen only a tiny fraction of that trove of files.
Democrats in the House and Senate have written to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying they are worried the Department of Justice (DOJ) is favoring the clients of a particular attorney: her brother.
Nearly a dozen Democratic lawmakers pressed major tech companies Wednesday on their donations to President Trump’s ballroom, raising concerns about “any potential quid-pro-quo arrangement” related to antitrust cases and investigations.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: EYE ON ESSAYLI — Democratic Rep. Dave Min is calling for an investigation into Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli’s conduct while leading the Central District of California. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Min cites multiple instances in which Essayli may have violated the Department’s standards of conduct, as well as rules governing professional conduct for the California State Bar.
During a contentious House Oversight and Government Reform Committee markup on Wednesday, freshman California Rep. Dave Min was the lone Democrat who sided with Republicans on several proposals that would exert greater federal control over Washington.
Nine law firms struck deals with President Trump to collectively provide $940 million in pro-bono work.
Some Congressional Democrats suggested that the deals were illegal, and asked the firms to disavow them.
In letters, most of the firms told Congress that their commitments were legal and ethical.
White-shoe law firms that made deals with President Trump are doubling down on their commitments, insisting in letters to Congress that the agreements were legal and ethical.
Some House Democrats are trying to pressure blue-state Republicans on the state-and-local-tax deduction ahead of a planned vote on the GOP’s megabill by asking them to fully eliminate a cap on it.