Prelude To Detroit: Protecting Our Democracy Act - The Democratic Response To The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast - The Cloaking Of Parental Rights

The key to crafting and presenting legislation is all about the timing.

Here, we have the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, which is to honor my Boo Boo Barr for

Sir Boo Boo Barr
Champion of Corporate
Parental Rights
to take over the U.S.

contemporaneously championing the advice and advocacy Of Corporate Parental Rights, on behalf of those Public Private Partnerships, for he has taken the oath of fealty to the foreign nation called the Vatican.

God save the Queen!

https://catholicprayerbreakfast.com/

He who has sworn an oath of fealty to the tax exempt god of a foreign nation, wherefore, loyalty comes with the grant of lots of land and all the attached chattels of tiny humans.

A knight is a title of nobility, you know.

When you help get U.S. contracts, typically in child welfare, as a knight, as an U.S. for-profit or not-for-profit, while  we typically call that an emolument, unless you are granted authority to engage in commerce in the U.S. on behalf of a foreign entity, by registering under FARA.

Otherwise, that may be considered under FCPA.

I just thought I would remind everyone when the history of the Knights of Columbus is cloaked in the bastardization of this nation's history.

Praytell, why is Boo Boo Barr praying for mercy, with Aladdin's magic "this means I am a real Smarty Pants" lamp by his side, bearing the arms of the U.S.?

I want to say 911, but will stick with the more universal blanket of "stealin' the children, land & votes."

Nun criticizes Catholic group for giving Barr award for 'Christlike behavior'

"I am just doing the work of the lord."

A nun criticized the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast (NCPB) for its plans to award Attorney General Bill Barr for “Christlike behavior” on Wednesday morning.

Sister Helen Prejean slammed the Catholic organization for announcing the Christifideles Laici Award would be given to Barr, who is Catholic, at the annual breakfast. The award honors the recipient for “Exemplary Selfless and Steadfast Service in the Lord’s Vineyard,” according to the NCPB website.

Prejean, an advocate against the death penalty, argued in a tweet Tuesday night that the attorney general has not demonstrated “Christlike behavior” after the Department of Justice (DOJ) resumed federal executions this year. 

“A.G. Barr has ordered the executions of six men with at least one more on the calendar,” she wrote on the social media platform. “What is ‘Christlike’ about using discretionary power to kill?”

Another nun, Sister Simone Campbell, the executive director of the Catholic social justice group Network, told Newsweek she was “horrified” Barr was the recipient of the award. 

"I am horrified that they are giving an award to Attorney General Barr who had reinstituted executions of people on death row, which is shocking and counter to Catholic social teaching,” she said. “It is abundantly clear, 'thou shalt not kill', and he is doing that and he is being given an award.” 

The NCPB created the award last year “to help highlight these good works and those who serve the Church so well.” The virtual breakfast, which was postponed since March due to the pandemic, started at 11 a.m.

As of Wednesday morning, 22,213 people have signed a Faithful America petition calling on the NCPB

"Stop! You may not legally kidnap this
tiny human unless you have a CPS contract
under U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops."
said Boo Boo Barr.

to cancel giving Barr the award. Originally, the petition had a 20,000 signature goal, but the group has since raised it to 25,000.

“Attorney General William Barr's work — which includes teargassing peaceful protesters in front of the White House, defending the president's lawless corruption and attacks on American elections, and reinstating federal executions — has nothing to do with service to the Lord, and cannot be described as fidelity to the Church,” the petition reads.

“As fellow Catholics and other Christians, we call on the NCPB to cancel this award for Barr immediately, and avoid any further appearance of endorsing Donald Trump or his Cabinet members so close to an election,” it continues. 

The NCPB and the Justice Department did not immediately return requests for comment. 

Faithful America, a progressive Christian group, noted in a release that the award will be given the same week the DOJ will conduct two executions. 

Pope Francis has come out against the death penalty under all circumstances calling it “inadmissable” in 2018 when he changed the Catholic Church’s teaching. 

But the Trump administration resumed federal executions after a 17-year suspension, conducting six executions this year, including William Emmett LeCroy who was executed Tuesday after being convicted of raping and killing a woman in 2004. 

Progressive Christians have also denounced the NCPB for identifying as non-partisan but hosting mostly Republican leaders including President Trump this year.

But, alas, there are those who are not happy with Boo Boo Barr.

File up. https://t.co/rwNvskTtBd

— Beverly Tran (@beverlytran) September 23, 2020

The timing is not just symbolic, it is symbiotic, I tell you, because we are in Detroit.

Remarks by Attorney General William P. Barr on his Acceptance of the Christifideles Laici Award at the 2020 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast

Good morning.   It is a great honor to be recognized by this esteemed organization.  The truth is that no one is really worth of an award like this, so I am a little sheepish in accepting it.  But I am honored to do so, because I greatly admire the organizers of this breakfast and those who are associated with it.  This is a beautiful piece of artwork that I will cherish.  Thank you.

For more than 15 years now, inspired by Saint John Paul II’s call for a renewal of Catholic communal and civic spirit, the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast has served as a living testament to the vital role of the Church and its principles in American public life.  Thank you for praying with me, and for me, and for the future of our country.

This is a challenging time for many Americans.  But times of trial have a way of reminding us how much we have to be grateful for.  As people of faith, we take comfort in the knowledge that God has a purpose and a plan.  And as citizens, we gain strength from the knowledge that our forebears confronted and overcame even greater tests.

In joining together to pray for the strength and health of our country, we carry on a tradition that goes back to the beginning of the Republic.  During the summer of 1783, General George Washington gave his first major address following the Revolutionary War — a war the young nation very nearly lost.  He delivered a famous prayer that continues to be read aloud every day at Mount Vernon.  He asked God not only to protect the nation from external threats, but to maintain the character of its citizens:  as he put it, to “dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy,” and to comport ourselves “with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion,” and without which “we can never hope to be a happy Nation.”

As Washington and his fellow Founders understood, religion is at the heart of the American experiment in self-government.  In his Farewell Address, Washington said:  “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”    

What he meant is that self-government begins with self-restraint.  And there is no greater teacher of restraint than religion.  That is why John Adams declared that our Constitution — which recently celebrated its 233rd birthday — “was made only for a moral and religious people.”  As Father John Courtney Murray later put it, the American idea is not that “free government is inevitable, only that it is possible, and that its possibility can be realized only when the people as a whole are inwardly governed by the recognized imperatives of the universal moral order.”

That crucial link between religion and liberty, so well understood at the Founding, is all too often forgotten today.  In American public discourse, perhaps no concept is more misunderstood than the notion of “separation of church and state.”  Militant secularists have long seized on that slogan as a facile justification for attempting to drive religion from the public square and to exclude religious people from bringing a religious perspective to bear on conversations about the common good.

Yet as events like this one remind us, separation of church and state does not mean, and never did mean, separation of religion and civics.  As late as 1952, Justice William O. Douglas could write for a majority of the Supreme Court that “we are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.”  Alexis de Tocqueville, the keenest observer of the early American republic, praised America’s separation of church and state while extolling America’s union of the “spirit of religion” and the “spirit of liberty” as the key to its success.  And Tocqueville identified religion as perhaps the greatest bulwark against a descent into tyranny.

How does religion preserve liberty?  In the first place, as our Founders recognized, religion assists in the formation of virtuous citizens who are prepared to exercise liberty responsibly.  Whereas in democratic times, individuals have a tendency to withdraw from public life and pursue private self-gratification, religion builds community, strengthens social cohesion, and turns our attention to the common good.  At the same time, religion safeguards individual rights by warding off what Tocqueville called the “impious maxim” that “everything is permitted in the interest of society.”  For all of these reasons, Tocqueville referred to Americans’ religion as “the first of their political institutions.”

Unfortunately, in the last half century, that foundation of our free society has increasingly been under siege.  Traditional morality has eroded, and secularists have often succeeded not only in eliminating religion from schools and the public square, but in replacing it with new orthodoxies that are actively hostile to religion.  The consequences of this hollowing out of religion have been predictably dire.  Over the past 50 years, we have seen striking increases in urban violence, drug abuse, and broken families.  Problems like these have fed the rise of an ever more powerful central government, one that increasingly saps individual initiative, coopts civil society, crowds out religious institutions, and ultimately reduces citizens to wards of the State.

As patriotic Americans and people of faith, we cannot be complacent about these trends.  Yet nor should we give in to despair.  More recently, thanks in part to organizations like this one, we have seen some small but significant steps toward the restoration of religion to its rightful place in American public life. 

Some notable advances — which admittedly are of particular interest to me — have come in the legal arena.  They are the result of decades of hard work advocating for sound jurisprudential philosophies and appointing principled judges to state and federal courts.  The most recent term of the Supreme Court, for example, saw three important victories for religious liberty.  In each of these cases, the Department of Justice filed briefs supporting the free exercise of religion. 

In one case, the Court reaffirmed the principle that the government cannot discriminate against religion in general funding programs, and struck down a provision of the Montana Constitution that had been interpreted to exclude religious schools from a scholarship program for underprivileged students.  In another case, the Court held that the First Amendment prohibits courts from intervening in employment disputes involving teachers at religious schools who are entrusted with the responsibility of instructing their students in the faith.  In the third case, the Court considered a regulatory mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees, and upheld the administration’s rules exempting the nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor and other employers with moral and religious objections.   

In a sense, it is dispiriting that the disputes in these cases ever arose.  In each case, the religious litigants were not asking for anything more than the basic freedom to exercise their faith and be treated the same as others.  Nevertheless, the recognition of those rights by courts is encouraging.  And all involved — from the litigants and lawyers to those who prayed for the wisdom of judges — can take solace in having achieved a just result.

Advocating for religious liberty is just one way that lay Catholics and others can answer the call to serve.  In his exhortation Christifideles Laici, for which the award I have the honor of accepting today is named, Saint John Paul II noted that “the lay faithful are never to relinquish their participation in ‘public life’.”  At the same time, he emphasized that faith is first and foremost about how we live our daily lives, for “the daily life itself of a truly Christian family makes up the first ‘experience of Church.’”

Wherever we are in life, it is never too late to work in the Lord’s vineyard.  Our spiritual renewal, and the renewal of our national character, depend on it.  Thank you, and God Bless America.

Protecting Our Democracy Act 2020 Fact Sheet by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Protecting Our Democracy Act 2020 by Beverly Tran on Scribd

         

Quintessentially, I do believe Nancy is targeting that Horowitz IG Report Trump is obstructing justice with by keeping it in his backpocket by threatening, via this package of legislation on whistleblower protections, actions against blasphemy in false claims against an elected official, by forcing Boo Boo Barr to unseal all the Mueller referrals to those two magical grand juries.

We do not need the testimony of Don McGahn to congress because he is already in those grand juries and it is all public information if you just look here.

This is not going to end well, but shall be pearl clutching, for we are in Detroit.

#maytheheavensfall 

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Prelude to Detroit: There Were Trollie Trolls In The Detroit, Michigan 13th Congressional District Campaign?

Oh, #FUCKIAN,

Did you launch your American University Trollie Trolls?

Now, why in the world would the DNC & MDP want to unseat Rashida Tlaib?

Let us just see if Brenda Jones is going to certify the election, again.

#sealsmatter

#maytheheavensfall

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Emperor Mike Pence, Jonestown & Trafficking Tiny Humans In The Name Of The Prolife Corporate Parental Rights Tax Exempt God

Jim Jones seems to have spearheaded, with help, of course, the very first model of stealin' the children, land & vote because he is from Indiana and so is Emperor Mike Pence.

I am quite sure there are those who are now mumbling outloud, in a failed attempt to turn away, and go to another link, in knowing that I am intentionally foreshadowing a complete implosion of your sacred cognitive dissonance, because you know you must continue reading.

Jim Jones was not just into the implementation of the first transposable model in the acquisition of human goods, but had launched the first chattel ranching model in human asset forfeiture.

Jim Jones was gerrymandering and it looks like he had Eli Lilly as a fan.

Jonestown FBI Vault

Six Years With God

Jones Appointment to San Francisco Housing Authority
On October 18, 1976, almost a year after he was elected as Mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone appointed Jim Jones to the San Francisco Housing Authority, the agency with jurisdiction over public housing in the city. The appointment has been interpreted as an indication both of Jones’ power in the city and of his weakness in the political realm.

It was a victory for Jones in several respects. The position gave the Temple leader a chance to turn his political rhetoric delivered from the pulpit into action, and Jones spoke up for the poor and minorities whom the Authority was supposed to serve. The new platform also gave him new audiences and more access to press coverage. Eventually, after becoming chair of the commission, he was able to hire three Temple leaders to positions on Housing Authority staff.

There were aspects of the appointment which were disappointing, however. The Temple’s active support of Moscone the previous year may — or may not — have been pivotal in the mayor’s victory, but the interval of 11 months between the election and the appointment acted to undermine Jones’ presentation of himself as kingmaker. Just as telling is that, even though Temple spokesman Mike Prokes served on Moscone’s committee to submit and review names for appointments to commissions in the new administration, neither Jones nor any other Temple names were among the first 100 nominations. And when Jones finally was selected for a position in March 1976, it was to the city’s Human Rights Commission. As Tim Reiterman point out in his book Raven, the appointment might have been “an appropriate place for a liberal preacher. But to Jones, it was a lateral appointment – the same position he had held 15 years earlier in Indianapolis” (p. 268). Jones declined the initial offer, and seven months later, Moscone made the second appointment.

The Temple leader  served on the Housing Authority for less than a year. In August 1977, Jones embarked on his final trip to Guyana, and he did not leave Jonestown for the rest of his life.

Appointment of Jim Jones to San Francisco Housing Authority by Beverly Tran on Scribd

FUN FACT! SAN FRANCISCO HAS A LAND BANK AUTHORITY

Peoples Temple members included attorneys who assisted Rev. Jones and other members on legal questions ranging from obtaining guardianships of children to operating nonprofit corporations that were primarily engaged in acquiring property for the Peoples Temple. P2

Placement of Foster Care Children With Members of the Peoples Temple, General Accounting Office Preliminary... by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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to attract intellectual talent and promote economic development in

Indiana. An Endowment-funded study conducted for BioCrossroads by

the Battelle Technology Partnership Practice examined the research

interests and capacities of Indiana’s top life sciences companies and

research universities. This study revealed many mutual interests and

capacities and resulted in the formation of the Indiana Biosciences

Research Institute, launched through a public-private partnership led by

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and EliLilly and Company Chairman, President

and CEO John Lechleiter. The Institute raised $50 million in 2013 for the

first phase of its development, including $25 million from the state of

Indiana, $10 million from the Endowment and $15 million from Eli Lilly

and Company, Roche Diagnostics, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana University

Health and Indiana University

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In an effort to alleviate some of the economic challenges facing pastoral leaders, the Christian Church in Indiana in partnership with Lilly Endowment Inc. has created the FLOURISH! Program.

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership

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DOJ: U.S. Attorney’s Office Shuts Down Website Promoting Prostitution and Sex Trafficking, Indicts Owner

When this new site made the statement that it was going to "pick up where Backpage left off" would that include money laundering into political campaigns, also?

Just asking.

The website CityXGuide.com — a leading source of online advertisements for prostitution and sex trafficking that users described as “taking over from where Backpage left off” — has been seized and its owner charged in a 28-count federal indictment, announced United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.

Wilhan Martono, 46, was indicted on June 2 on one count of promotion of prostitution and reckless disregard of sex trafficking, one count of interstate racketeering conspiracy (facilitating prostitution), nine counts of interstate transportation in aid of racketeering (facilitating prostitution), and 17 counts of money laundering.  He was arrested on June 17 in Fremont, California by Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Secret Service.

Shortly after the defendant’s arrest, CityXGuide was replaced with a splash page notifying users that the website had been seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pursuant to a warrant.

According to the indictment, Mr. Martono allegedly netted more than $21 million off a suite of illicit websites promoting prostitution and sex trafficking.  He allegedly registered the domain names for several of the sites just one day after the FBI shut down Backpage.com, then the internet’s leading source of prostitution and sex trafficking advertisements.

Despite Terms of Use purportedly forbidding the advertisement of illegal sexual services, CityXGuide and its affiliated websites (Backpage.co, CAPleasures.com, and BodyRubShop.com, among others) allegedly allowed brothels, pimps, and prostitutes to post hundreds of thousands of advertisements for sexual services, which users could then filter by geography and preference. 

In correspondence with Mr. Martono, one of his CityXGuide advertisers noted that the website was “taking over from where Backpage left off.”

CityXGuide and its companion websites allegedly allowed advertisers to select from a pre-populated list of “intimate activities,” then add nude photographs, descriptions, work hours, methods of payment, and contact information for the women being advertised.  In order to secure premium placement, the websites offered paid “upgrades,” which could be purchased in Bitcoin or in exchange for gift cards from Walmart, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Amazon, and other retailers.  Mr. Martono allegedly used CardCash, a third party gift card reseller, to exchange these gift cards for U.S. currency.

Mr. Martono allegedly took steps to conceal his online activity by routing website traffic through an IP address in Europe, using a VPN to mask his IP address while conducting CardCash transactions, and funneling his proceeds through a network of business and personal bank accounts.  (At the time of Mr. Martono’s arrest, the Department of Homeland Security seized millions of dollars from accounts controlled by Mr. Martono.)

CityXGuide, which served clients across the globe, included a list of 14 “Favorite Cities,” including Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, and Boston. 

Law enforcement has identified numerous minor victims in CityXGuide advertisements, including a 13-year-old Jane Doe recovered in North Texas in November 2019.

“As soon as DOJ shut down one despicable site, another popped up to take its place,” said U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox. “Like the owners of Backpage, this defendant made millions facilitating the online exploitation of women and children. The Justice Department will not rest until these sites are eliminated and their owners held accountable for their crimes.”

“This case is a harsh reminder of the ruthlessness of human traffickers and lengths to which they go, including victimizing women and children, to make a profit,” said Ryan L. Spradlin, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations’ Dallas Field Office. “HSI maintains its unwavering commitment to investigate these heinous crimes, rescue victims, and prosecute the offenders to the fullest extent of the law.”

“The Secret Service remains committed to investigating and pursuing those responsible for cyber-enabled financial crimes.  Although the explosive expansion of the cyber domain has forced us to develop innovative ways of conducting these types of investigations, our proven model remains the same,” said Secret Service Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Field Office William Smarr, adding, “This investigation is an excellent example of a partnership between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies working together to successfully prosecute numerous violations of federal statutes.  There are real innocent victims due to these crimes.  The Secret Service also thanks the Northern District of Texas United States Attorney’s Office for their aggressive support.”  

“I’m proud of our team who, with our federal partners, relentlessly pursued this investigation for more than a year. Today, we have made a significant impact on one of the world’s largest digital marketplaces for prostitution and sex trafficking. We know many lives will be saved through this joint effort,” said Michael C. Miller, Chief of Police for the Colleyville Police Department.

An indictment is merely an allegation of criminal conduct, not evidence.  Like all defendants, Mr. Martono is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.

If convicted, he faces up to 25 years in federal prison. 

Mr. Martono was charged in part under FOSTA, a law passed in the wake of the Backpage scandal in April 2018 that allows the federal government to prosecute websites that facilitate sex trafficking.

The North Texas Trafficking Task Force conducted the investigation, led by Homeland Security Investigations’ Dallas Field Office, the United States Secret Service, and the Colleyville Police Department, with assistance from HSI’s El Paso and San Jose Field Offices as well as the Texas Department of Public Safety.  Assistant United States Attorneys Sid Mody, Rebekah Ricketts, and John de la Garza are prosecuting the case.

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Prelude To Detroit: Another Chief Of Staff & Another Congressional #MeToo Ethics Investigation Transposable Model

Oh, those Chiefs of Staff!

John Paul Manuel, Chief of Staff for Michael F.Q. San Nicolas, Guam, was the one who accepted the unreported cash, which he then, turned around and used to book the hotel for the Member and his lover, who more than likely is a consensual woman over the age of 21 years.

More than likely, just because I am pretty sure who was the "Other" Chief of Staff, who probably reached out to John Paul, in some form and fashion, to install the fear of god in his heart and soul, that, if he did not follow through, he, too, would soon become a Former Chief of Staff, and be implicated as a co-conspirator, because #MeToo was an epic fail.

Considering the fact that we are dealing with campaign funds, I am just going to go out there on a limb and say that the Guam Delegate to Congress, more than likely had no idea that the hotel room was booked with undocumented cash as a campaign contribution, because he probably assumed it was his personal credit card or, in the purpose of business, his congressional office credit card, because he did end up hiring as a new staffer.

I will even go so far as to allege, just because I know how these people think, that the hotel room was set up with cameras, and there is probably a secret romantic tape, ready to be dropped, in hopes of distracting the masses with the thought of more congressional porn, so as not to be indicted for blackmail and other nefarious charges, when it comes to money laundering through the Member's congressional campaign, gifts of lucrative fake ass contracts, and, more than likely, the Congressional Credit Union.

Sometimes, these scandals are used as warning shots, to other individuals, to keep their mouths shut, or face a wrath of criminal charges, in full public specter, where the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) will sacrifice one of their own, to send that message to invoke fear and trepidation, to remain silent.

The only problem in this absolutely ingenious, transposable model is that there exists a significant distinction between a congressional tryst and an epic romance, whereby that difference is that the latter involves a Quantum Renaissance.

Can I get a #MeToo?

Grace Meng needs to recuse herself from this investigation, but, then again, upon a secondary reflection, she did come out University of Michigan.

GO BLUE!

Complaint filed on alleged illegal use of campaign funds, San Nicolas says it's baseless

#maytheheavensfall

Statement of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Delegate Michael F. Q. San Nicolas

Jun 12, 2020 Press Release

Pursuant to Committee Rule 7, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics (Committee) determined to release the following statement:

In accordance with House Rule XI, clause 3, and Committee Rules 10(a)(2) and 18, the Committee unanimously voted on March 11, 2020, to establish an Investigative Subcommittee.  Pursuant to the Committee’s action, the Investigative Subcommittee shall have jurisdiction to determine whether Delegate Michael F.Q. San Nicolas may have: engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on his congressional staff; converted campaign funds to personal use; accepted improper and/or excessive campaign contributions; reported campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes; omitted required information from or disclosed false information in reports filed with the Federal Election Commission; made false statements to government investigators or agencies; and/or improperly interfered or attempted to interfere in a government investigation of related allegations in violation of House Rules, law, regulations, or other standards of conduct.

The Honorable Grace Meng will serve as Chairwoman of the Investigative Subcommittee, and the Honorable Jackie Walorski will serve as the Ranking Member.  The other two members of the Investigative Subcommittee are the Honorable Darren Soto and the Honorable Vicky Hartzler.

The Committee has determined to take this action following receipt of a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics regarding this matter.  The Committee notes that the mere fact of establishing an Investigative Subcommittee does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.

No other public comment will be made on this matter except in accordance with Committee rules.  Pursuant to House Rule XI, clause 3(b)(8)(B)(iii), and Committee Rule 17A(f)(1), no documents will be released at this time.

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House ethics panel to probe Guam congressional delegate over sex with staffer, improper contributions allegations

WASHINGTON – The House Committee on Ethics announced Friday it was moving forward with an investigation into Guam's lone member of Congress over allegations he had sexual relations with a staff member and accepted improper political contributions.

The member, Del. Michael F.Q. San Nicolas, said he was ready to "disprove the allegations."

The bipartisan panel had been looking at the allegations against San Nicolas since last fall and decided in March to launch a full investigation. News of that unanimous vote to move forward was announced Friday by the committee in a news release.

The release said the panel would probe the freshman Democrat for engaging in a sexual relationship with a member of his congressional staff; converting campaign funds to personal use; accepting improper and/or excessive campaign contributions; and reporting campaign disbursements that may not be legitimate and verifiable campaign expenditures.

U.S. Capitol Building
The panel will also probe whether San Nicolas omitted required information from – or disclosed false information in – reports filed with the Federal Election Commission; made false statements to government investigators or agencies; and/or improperly interfered or attempted to interfere in a government investigation of related allegations, according to the release.

The issue was referred to the committee by the Office of Congressional Ethics, a separate, non-partisan body of the House.

The release does not list the specific circumstances of the allegations.

'Baseless' claim:Complaint filed on alleged illegal use of campaign funds, San Nicolas says it's baseless

But in September, San Nicolas' former manager of his 2018 congressional campaign, John Paul L. Manuel, filed a compliant with the Guam Election Commission alleging the delegate received a $10,000 contribution from a Guam businessman – an amount above the legal campaign limit, according to the Pacific Daily News in Guam.

Manuel also alleged San Nicolas reimbursed himself from federal campaign funds after using money to carry on an extra-marital affair with a woman he later hired as a member of his congressional staff. He also alleged San Nicolas forged his own father's signature on campaign checks, the newspaper reported.

"This is just a part of the process that we are required to go through in order to disprove the allegations made against us," San Nicolas said in a statement released Friday to USA TODAY through his office. "We will continue to cooperate and thank the people for their patience and support during this time."

The House banned members from having sexual relations with their staff members in 2018 as part of sweeping ethics rules adopted after several lawmakers resigned over accusation of sexual harassment.

The probe will be led by two Democrats – Grace Meng of New York and Darren Soto of Florida – and two Republicans - Jackie Walorski of Indiana and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri.

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U.S. House Judiciary's Epic Psyoptic Kente Costume Failure

You know this idiocy came out the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

Did you work on this project, Rindi or was this all Slimy Slime Slime Epstein's idea?

Idiots.

Remember this picture for they are all co-conspirators.

#maytheheavensfall

I had to say something about the American politicians shameless and ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.

*I’m usually more mild mannered than this so please forgive me, I’m upset. pic.twitter.com/aZMjgsHujS

— Obianuju Ekeocha (@obianuju) June 8, 2020

‘Africans Are Not Children’: Democrats Face Backlash From Black Voices Over Political Stunt

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08:
Democrats faced intense backlash on Monday over a political stunt that they pulled in an attempt to show solidarity with the black community over death of George Floyd.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), and other top Democrats took at knee at Capitol Hill while wearing Kente cloth, which, as noted by The Washington Post, “comes from Ghana, where people wear it to show patriotism or celebrate a special occasion.”

The photo-op moment for Democrats quickly went viral online — but not in a good way, as numerous people from the black community mocked and criticized Democrats for their political stunt.

Army combat veteran Jeffrey A Dove Jr., a Republican running in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, responded: “Does wearing kente cloth and taking a knee mean you are all of a sudden ‘down with the struggle’? This is why people hate disingenuous politicians. Speaker Pelosi was there for the 94 crime bill. She is part of the problem.”

Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah responded: “I look at this and think, who is the audience for this performance? Why was this necessary?”

Pro-life advocate Obianuju Ekeocha released a video on Twitter condemning the Democrats for “ignorantly using the Kente fabric as a prop in their virtue signaling.”

“I was just looking online today like most of you and what did I see? A bunch of Democrat politicians kneeling down, of which I have nothing to say about that because I am not an American, however, they were all having around their necks this colorful fabric which I’m sure they put around their necks as some kind of mark or show of unity or solidarity with black people,” Ekeocha said. “So, in other words, they put in for the Kente material or this colorful fabric they had around their necks as some kind of placating sign or symbol to show that they are not racist and they are together with black people.”

“Excuse me, dear Democrats, in your tokenism, you didn’t wait to find out that this thing that you’re hanging around your neck is not just some African uniform, it’s actually the Kente material,” Ekeocha continued. “The Kente belongs to the Ghanaian people, mainly the Ashanti Tribe. Excuse me, Democrats. Don’t treat Africans like we’re children. These fabrics and these colorful things that we have within our culture and tradition, they all mean something to us. I know you look at us and you say, ‘oh Africans are so cute in all your colorful dresses.’”

“Well, some of those dresses and patterns and colors and fabrics actually do mean something to us,” Ekeocha added. “Some of them belong to ancient tribes and mean something to them. So why are you using it your own show of non-racism or your own show of virtue? Why are you using the Kente material to signal your virtue? Stop it. We are not children. Africans are not children. And leave our tradition and our culture to us and if you don’t know much about it, ask somebody. I’m sure there would have been something else you could have done to show your solidarity with black people instead of taking the Kente material and making a little show of it.”

“I know we are in unexpected times and anything is possible but listen man I did not have ‘Pelosi in Kente cloth’ on the bingo card,” GEN editor Hanif Abdurraqib wrote. “I was so certain that picture wasn’t real at first that I didn’t even bother to look for proof in either direction. I just mumbled ‘damn people on here are getting real good at photoshop’ and kept moving along.”

Left-wing writer Roxane Gay wrote: “I am not sure what’s funnier, those ridiculous politicians wearing kente cloth or Cory Booker smartly opting out of that absurd performance.”

Another commentator wrote: “I’m Black and I don’t even own that thing on their necks that supposedly represents Blackness. Also, I hate how Democrats always pretend that they have never had a chance to fix USA when they’ve been in government too.”

Tales Of The New Crown: Maxine Waters' Sister Has Been Extracted From Humanity

Auntie Maxie is looking stressed the fuck out!

Wow.

I bet that sucks when someone you love dearly dies.

I wonder if she had a Ghetto Ass Funeral for her, too.

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Maxine Waters says her sister died from coronavirus

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) recently confirmed that her sister died after contracting the coronavirus.

In an interview with the website theGrio on Thursday, Waters said that the experience of losing her sister during a pandemic was one of the hardest experiences of her life.

Waters had previously told colleagues in an emotional House floor speech in late April that one of her family members was dying in a hospital in St. Louis.

“It is one of the most painful things that I’ve ever had to experience in my life,” Waters told theGrio. “She had suffered. And so we are going through a very difficult time. It was not easy, but in many ways, I’m so glad she’s out of pain.”

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Waters did not say which sibling had died. The congresswoman was born in St. Louis as the fifth of 13 children, according to her congressional bio.

Waters said in the interview that her sister had been living in an assisted living home for elderly St. Louis residents, and warned that such facilities can cause the virus to spread rapidly.

“The nursing home is the only place we have for many of our seniors, many of whom have outlived their families,” she said. “That’s where they go. And now these nursing homes are like a petri dish for the continued development of this virus that is killing us.”

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Happy Watergate 2.0 Saturday Night Massacre Birthday Celebration- Steve Linick, Mike Pompeo, Jamie Raskin, Nancy Pelosi & ICC Have Trafficking Tiny Human TARP Issues

For those of you who have yet to grasp what is going on, we have what I am calling a Happy Watergate 2.0 Saturday Night Massacre Birthday Celebration (even though it took place, hopefully, sometime after midnight) because the original model was transposed and manipulated from the Watergate Saturday Night Massacre, where Nixon was getting everyone to fire the special prosecutor.

Happy Birthday, Sweetie!

In this modern day situation, we have a president who is not firing U.S. attorneys, but Inspector Generals.

According to Wikipedia, Steve leaked stuff through a private attorney who was never appointed to represent the U.S., with advice and consent of the Senate, to U.S. House Judiciary Committee Member Jamie Raskin, who has never, once, spoken about those trafficking tiny human issues, Like TARP, Detroit, or those gloriously autocephalious, cherished children's trust funds.

Early in his career, Linick served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and as an associate at the Newman & Holtzinger law firm in Washington, D.C.
Linick served as an Assistant United States Attorney in California from 1994 to 1999 and Virginia from 1999 to 2006. He also served as Executive Director of the Department of Justice’s National Procurement Fraud Task Force and Deputy Chief of its Fraud Section in the Criminal Division from 2006 to 2010. During his tenure at the Department of Justice, he supervised and participated in white-collar criminal fraud cases involving corruption and contract fraud against the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.[10]
He served as the first Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency from 2010 until 2013.
Linick began his tenure as the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of State on September 30, 2013. As Inspector General, Linick was the senior official responsible for identifying operational risks within the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for Global Media, assessing the sufficiency of internal controls, and conducting administrative and criminal investigations of waste, fraud, mismanagement, and misconduct. He was responsible for providing oversight to more than 70,000 Department of State and U.S. Agency for Global Media employees, 270 overseas missions and other facilities worldwide, and more than $70 billion in Department of State, U.S. Agency for Global Media, and foreign assistance resources. He also served as the Associate Inspector General for designated overseas contingency operations.
Trump–Ukraine scandal
In the midst of the Trump–Ukraine scandal, Linick transferred a packet of documents from Rudy Giuliani by way of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin.

As a matter of fact, Pompeo has never once murmured a whisper on the trafficking tiny humans, but I believe that has something more to do with the ICC ongoing legal proceedings of the U.S. and what they did to the tiny ones over in Afghanistan. 

Steve Linick: Trump fires state department inspector general

Steve Linick

Steve Linick was appointed by Barack Obama, to oversee spending and detect mismanagement at the state department

The US state department's inspector general, Steve Linick, has become the latest senior official to be fired by US President Donald Trump.

Mr Trump said Mr Linick no longer had his full confidence and that he would be removed in 30 days.

Mr Linick had begun investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for suspected abuse of office, reports say.

Democrats say Mr Trump is retaliating against public servants who want to hold his administration to account.

"It is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general. That is no longer the case with regard to this inspector general," Mr Trump is quoted as saying in a letter sent late on Friday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, US media report.

Not long after Mr Linick's dismissal was announced, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Mr Linick had opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

"This firing is the outrageous act of a president trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the secretary of state, from accountability," Eliot Engel, a Democrat, said in a statement.

"I have learned that the Office of the Inspector General had opened an investigation into Secretary Pompeo. Mr Linick's firing amid such a probe strongly suggests that this is an unlawful act of retaliation."

Mr Engel did not provide any further details about the content of this investigation into Mr Pompeo.

Congressional aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, have been quoted in different media as saying that Mr Linick was examining complaints that Mr Pompeo may have improperly used staff and asked them to perform personal tasks.

Mr Linick, a former prosecutor, was appointed by Mr Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, to oversee spending and detect mismanagement at the state department.

'Retaliation'
Democrats have been reacting to the move. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Mr Linick was "punished for honourably performing his duty to protect the constitution and our national security".

The late-night, weekend firing of State Department IG Steve Linick is an acceleration of the President’s dangerous pattern of retaliation against the patriotic public servants charged with conducting oversight on behalf of the American people. https://t.co/VavmuJpX25

— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 16, 2020

"The president must cease his pattern of reprisal and retaliation against the public servants who are working to keep Americans safe, particularly during this time of global emergency," she added in a statement.

Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said the Senate Foreign Relations Committee needed to learn more about the dismissal.

If Inspector General Linick was fired because he was conducting an investigation of conduct by Secretary Pompeo, the Senate cannot let this stand.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee must get to bottom of what happened here.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 16, 2020

This is the latest in a series of dismissals of independent government watchdogs.

Last month, Mr Trump dismissed Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the intelligence community.

Mr Atkinson first alerted Congress to a whistleblower complaint that led to Mr Trump's impeachment trial.

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The Great Resurrection: U.S. House Judiciary May Get A May Double Birthday Suprise In The Detroit Grand Jury Unsealed Material

"Oups! J'ai dit une bêtise"

via GIPHY
#maytheheavensfall 

Appeals court won't halt order for DOJ to hand over sealed Mueller documents

A federal appeals court said it wouldn't put a hold on its order for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide redacted grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation to Congress, but extended the deadline to allow the administration to appeal.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals gave the Trump administration until May 11 to seek a stay from the Supreme Court, denying the DOJ's request for a longer stay. The order was set to go into effect on Friday.

The move essentially leaves it up to the Supreme Court to decide whether to halt the order to hand over the materials.

The Justice Department had told the court that it intends to petition the Supreme Court to hear the case after a D.C. Circuit panel ruled that the House Judiciary Committee was entitled to the sealed materials as part of its impeachment inquiry.

"Whether and under what circumstances Congress may resort to the courts to seek grand jury materials generated in a criminal investigation in aid of an impeachment inquiry is plainly a question of great significance to all three branches of government, as well as to the functioning of the grand jury system in high-profile, politically-charged matters," the Justice Department wrote in a filing last month.

A three-judge panel on the circuit court had ruled 2-1 earlier this year that the House investigation justified the lawmakers obtaining the special counsel materials they were seeking.

"The Department has objected to disclosure of the redacted grand jury materials, but the Department has no interest in objecting to the release of these materials outside of the general purposes and policies of grand jury secrecy, which as discussed, do not outweigh the Committee's compelling need for disclosure," Judge Judith Rogers, a Clinton appointee, wrote in an opinion for the majority.



"Special Counsel Mueller prepared his Report with the expectation that Congress would review it," Rogers added.

The document request is part of a handful that have led to a surge in court fights between the Democratic-led House and the Trump administration.

This week, the D.C. Circuit scrutinized the Justice Department's position that congressional subpoenas are essentially legally unenforceable, in a case challenging a House subpoena for former White House counsel Don McGahn.

Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a set of cases revolving around subpoenas for President Trump's tax returns.

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How Come Media Will Not Talk About The Origins Of #MeToo Or Even #sayhisname?

How come no one will #sayhisname?

Why does everyone want to bury #MeToo?

It all started in Detroit, you know.

Trump says Biden may face more accusers, calls Reade convincing

Whitmer voices doubts about sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden

LANSING — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer expressed doubts about sexual assault allegations a former U.S. Senate aide made against presumed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, in an interview aired on national TV early Friday.

"The Joe Biden I know, these stories are inconsistent with what I know and what I've seen, in terms of work that he's done to support women," Whitmer said on ABC "Nightline," asked about allegations made against Biden by Tara Reade.

"Women should be able to tell their stories," Whitmer said. That is important to women everywhere and to her personally, "as a survivor myself," she said.

"I'll add that in doing an investigation it has appeared as though there has not been, you know, much beyond that, the story."

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a news conference on April 29, 2020.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a news conference on April 29, 2020. (Photo: Michigan State Police)

Whitmer's name has been prominently and repeatedly mentioned as a potential running mate for Biden, as her national profile has skyrocketed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Biden, the former vice president, has said that Whitmer, a national co-chair of his presidential campaign, is on his short list of potential running mates.

Her comments on "Nightline" were the most extensive public comments Whitmer has made to date on the allegations against Biden, which he denies. The interview aired hours before Biden was expected to discuss the allegations on "Morning Joe" on MSNBC Friday morning.


It was not clear what investigation into Reade's allegations Whitmer was referencing in the interview.

In 2019, Reade accused Biden of touching her shoulder and neck in a way that made her uncomfortable, when she worked for him in 1993. In March, Reade said that when she was delivering a gym bag to the former senator, Biden pinned her against a wall and digitally penetrated her without her consent in the basement of a Capitol Hill office.


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More: Capitol protesters urge an end to Michigan's state of emergency

On Monday, Business Insider reported that Lynda LaCasse, who was Reade's neighbor in the 1990s, said that when they were neighbors in 1995 or 1996, Reade told her about the senator who "put his hand up her skirt.”

In 2013, during a Michigan Senate debate on a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from including coverage for abortions in health care plans and force women to buy additional insurance to cover them, Whitmer disclosed publicly for the first time that she had been raped while a student at Michigan State University. She never sought to press charges and said she had spent the years since the assault trying not to talk about the experience.

Asked about Reade's allegations in an April 14 interview on National Public Radio, Whitmer said: "Well, I think women should be able to tell their stories. I think that it is important that these allegations are vetted, from the media to beyond."

Such allegations are "something that no one takes lightly," she said. "But it is also something that is, you know, personal. And so it's hard to give you greater insight than that, not knowing more about the situation."

In Friday's ABC interview, Whitmer deflected when asked about joining Biden on the ticket, as she has done in previous interviews.

"All I'm focused on is trying to get through this global pandemic that has ravaged my state, and I'm appreciative of the fact that (Biden) has called to check in, he's asked thoughtful questions, he's given me some counsels that navigated this, and that's been the extent of our conversations," she said.

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The Tale Of Tara Reade: When Nancy Pelosi's #MeToo Moment Blows Up In Her Face

Nancy, daaarling, why is it you believe Biden but not my Sweetie?

How come you believe Motor City Booty Clapper, Cousin Grubby & Her Fat Ass, and the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) but not Tara Reade?

Oh, Nancy!

I am so forlorned.....

#perkinscoiesucks

#maytheheavensfall

#sayhisname

Tara Reade: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Video👇🏻@ReadeAlexandra — is this your Mom’s voice? https://t.co/ospBhlKSvb pic.twitter.com/r5WsXJ2vQb

— Rich McHugh (@RichMcHugh) April 24, 2020

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Tales Of The New Crown: Sunlight Kills The Cooties - Then MSNBC Lied

I know what the light is.

The light cleanses. Listen to him.

The reporters are losing their minds. Sunshine and hot weather kills the cooties. It is recommended by DHS top doctors to spend lots of time outside, barbequing, with your family and friends, in the community.

Oooooooo.... these people already spent the money.

These black souls do not want sunlight.

These allegories are going to be important.

We may not need testing when it gets hot and sunny

"And there shall be feast and merriment throughout the land."

Sunlight kills the cooties.

We will be addressing certain democratic states. 

Illinois will be talked about for a while. 

Michigan cometh.

#perkinscoiesucks

and so does JonesDay.

Then, MSNBC lied, again.

#maytheheavensfall

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Tales Of The New Crown: TARP 3.0 Prepares For TARP 4.0 & 5.0 - The Masked Reparations In Gerrymandering Theirfdom Votes - The Case Of The Missing Quorum

A thief will never remove their masks.

As the masked congress, will soon be 

Select Committee on Cornovirus Oversight has been proposed.

The timing is spectacular considering that Elizabeth Warren made headlines, but not for her seat on the Select Committee on TARP Oversight.

Her Flatulent Boviness, Sheila Jackson Lee has that crown, now.

More money for stealin' the children, land & votes because these re-election campaigns do not pay themselves.

What you are hearing is the transposable model, federally funded, for TARP 4.0 & 5.0, reparations, but, before the finale, the masked marauders will pitch the "save the children" - Child Welfare needs more money, for those Targeted Populations that can catch meningitis, you know.

Gerrymandering is real.

Thieves wear masks, and hide behind propaganda.

Happy Child Abuse Propaganda Month!

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Is this even a quorum?

A quorum in the House of Representatives is when a majority of the Members are present. When there are no vacancies in the membership, a quorum is 218. When one or more seats are vacant, because of deaths or resignations, the quorum is reduced accordingly. Because of Members' other duties, a quorum often is not present on the House floor. But any Member may insist that a quorum must participate in any vote that takes place in the House. If a Member makes a point of order that a quorum is not present, and the Speaker agrees, a series of bells ring on the House side of the Capitol and in the House office buildings to alert Members to come to the Chamber and record their presence.

If a quorum of 218 Members of the House is necessary to vote which is  ≩ 122 Members of the House who did vote; and,
307 Members did not check in with the Clerk of the House to vote which is ≩ 122 Members of the House who did check in with the Clerk of the House to vote; then,
when is the lawsuit going to be filed on Voting Rights violations?

116th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. RES. 935

Establishing a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis as a select investigative subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 22, 2020

Mr. McGovern submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules

RESOLUTION

Establishing a Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis as a select investigative subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Resolved, That there is hereby established a select investigative subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Reform called the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (hereinafter referred to as the “select subcommittee”).

Sec. 2. (a) The select subcommittee shall be composed of not more than 12 Members, Delegates, or the Resident Commissioner appointed by the Speaker, of whom not more than 5 shall be appointed on the recommendation of the minority leader. The Speaker shall designate one member of the select subcommittee as its chair. Any vacancy in the select subcommittee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.

(b) Each member appointed to the select subcommittee shall be treated as though a member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform for purposes of the select subcommittee.

Sec. 3. (a) The select subcommittee is authorized and directed to conduct a full and complete investigation and study and issue a final report to the House of its findings (and such interim reports as it may deem necessary) regarding—

(1) the efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and transparency of the use of taxpayer funds and relief programs to address the coronavirus crisis, including through Federal agencies, State and local government entities, financial institutions and other private businesses, contracts, grants, loans, loan guarantees, investments, cooperative agreements, or any other means;

(2) reports of waste, fraud, abuse, price gouging, profiteering, or other abusive practices related to the coronavirus crisis;

(3) the implementation or effectiveness of any Federal law applied, enacted, or under consideration to address the coronavirus crisis and prepare for future pandemics;

(4) preparedness for and response to the coronavirus crisis, including the planning for and implementation of testing, containment, mitigation, and surveillance activities; the acquisition, distribution, or stockpiling of protective equipment and medical supplies; and the development of vaccines and treatments;

(5) the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis on individuals, communities, small businesses, health care providers, States, and local government entities;

(6) any disparate impacts of the coronavirus crisis on different communities and populations, including with respect to race, ethnicity, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and geographic region, and any measures taken to address such disparate impacts;

(7) executive branch policies, deliberations, decisions, activities, and internal and external communications related to the coronavirus crisis;

(8) the protection of whistleblowers who provide information about waste, fraud, abuse, or other improper activities related to the coronavirus crisis;

(9) cooperation by the executive branch and others with Congress, the Inspectors General, the Government Accountability Office, and others in connection with oversight of the preparedness for and response to the coronavirus crisis; and

(10) any other issues related to the coronavirus crisis.

(b) The select subcommittee may report to the House or any committee of the House from time to time the results of its investigations and studies, together with such detailed findings and legislative recommendations as it may deem advisable.

(c) The select subcommittee may not hold a markup of legislation.

Sec. 4. (a) Rule XI and the rules of the Committee on Oversight and Reform shall apply to the select subcommittee in the same manner as a subcommittee except as follows:

(1) The chair of the select subcommittee may authorize and issue subpoenas pursuant to clause 2(m) of rule XI and rule 12(g) of the rules of the Committee on Oversight and Reform in the investigation and study conducted pursuant to section 3, including for the purpose of taking depositions.

(2) The chair of the select subcommittee is authorized to compel by subpoena the furnishing of information by interrogatory.

(3) Subpoenas so authorized may be signed by the chair of the select subcommittee or a designee.

(4) The chair of the select subcommittee may order the taking of depositions, under oath and pursuant to notice or subpoena, by a member of the select subcommittee or a counsel of the select subcommittee. Such depositions shall be governed by rule 15 of the rules of the Committee on Oversight and Reform. For purposes of such rule, references to “the Committee” shall be construed as references to the select subcommittee.

(5) The chair of the select subcommittee may, after consultation with the ranking minority member, recognize—

(A) members of the select subcommittee to question a witness for periods longer than five minutes as though pursuant to clause 2(j)(2)(B) of such rule XI; and

(B) staff of the select subcommittee to question a witness as though pursuant to clause 2(j)(2)(C) of such rule XI.

(6) Agenda and reports required by rule 2(f) and rule 4(c) of the rules of the Committee on Oversight and Reform shall be required on the third calendar day before a meeting, hearing, or consideration of a report, as applicable.

(b) The provisions of this resolution shall govern the proceedings of the select subcommittee in the event of any conflict with the rules of the House or of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Sec. 5. Any committee of the House having custody of records in any form relating to the matters described in section 3 shall transfer copies of such records to the select subcommittee within 7 days of the adoption of this resolution or receipt of such records. Such records shall become the records of the select subcommittee.

Sec. 6. Service on the select subcommittee shall not count against the limitations in clause 5(b)(2)(A) of rule X.

Sec. 7. The Committee on Oversight and Reform is the “successor in interest” to the select subcommittee for purposes of clause 8(c) of rule II.

Sec. 8. The select subcommittee shall cease to exist 30 days after filing the final report required under section 3.

Sec. 9. (a) For further expenses of the Committee on Oversight and Reform for the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, there shall be paid out of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives an additional amount of $2,000,000.

(b) Payments under this resolution shall be made on vouchers authorized by the Committee on Oversight and Reform, signed by the chair of that committee, and approved in the manner directed by the Committee on House Administration.

Sec. 10. Amounts made available under this resolution shall be expended in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Committee on House Administration.

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