Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal speaks at a press conference outside a Federal Detention Center holding migrant women on June 9, 2018, in SeaTac, Washington. Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images. By Alex Kotch After TYT reported that a new policy requires all adults in households looking to sponsor immigrant children to be fingerprinted, U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.) told TYT that the …
Clandestine U.S. Christian Org Linked to Anti-Semitic Leader
Rep. Robert Aderholt. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images. By Ken Klippenstein Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent arrested by the FBI last week, is said to have attended the National Prayer Breakfast in order to cultivate Republican officials. But Butina is far from the religious group’s only questionable association. The organization that runs the National Prayer Breakfast, the Fellowship …
U.S. Reps Speak About Their Private Prison Investments, and So Do Their Critics
Rep. Lois Frankel, Kris Connor/Getty Images; an inmate in California, Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images; Rep. Kenny Marchant, Via marchant.house.gov. By Alex Kotch After TYT reported on the private-prison investments of three members of Congress, two are publicly addressing the issue. Democratic Florida Rep. Lois Frankel owned up to $30,000 worth of stock in Tennessee-based CoreCivic, according to financial disclosure documents …
GOP Missions in Eastern Europe Were Paid for by Butina-Linked Christian Group and Ukraine Ally
Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), Tim Walberg, John Moolenaar, and Louie Gohmert (R-Texas). (Images: Win McNamee/Getty Images; walberg.house.gov; C-SPAN screengrab via moolenaar.house.gov; Alex Wong/Getty Images.) By Jonathan Larsen with additional reporting by Ken Klippenstein At least four Republican members of Congress have traveled to eastern Europe and bolstered proponents there of policies that may help achieve Russia’s goal that those …
Democrat Who Got $16,500 from Private Prisons Joins GOP in Vote Supporting ICE
Rep. Henry Cuellar (R-Texas) speaking in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the House floor Wednesday. (Image: Screengrab from video posted on Cuellar’s website.) By Alex Kotch On Wednesday afternoon, 18 House Democrats joined all but one Republican in voting for a GOP resolution in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a deportation force created in 2003 as …
Prayer Group in Russia Case Had Envoy to Eastern Europe in GOP Congressman
Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), “The Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett, and Pres. Trump at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. By Ken Klippenstein A secretive Christian political group alluded to in Monday’s criminal complaint against an alleged Russian agent sent a conservative Christian congressman on multiple trips to eastern European nations friendly with Russia, federal records show. …
Big Pharma Beneficiaries Delete Storehouse of Medical Guidelines
HHS Secretary Alex Azar, President Trump, and Vice President Pence in the White House Jan. 29, 2018. (Image: White House photo/Joyce Boghosian.) By Jonathan Larsen America’s federal database of medical treatment guidelines—a resource for doctors, hospitals, and patients for more than two decades—will be dead on Tuesday. The National Guideline Clearinghouse website at Guidelines.gov was shut down by the Agency …