Kyle Griffin

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Pamela Smith has been named chief of U.S. Park Police. She will be the first African American woman to lead the agency in its 230-year history. Smith says she will immediately implement body cameras, which the Park Police currently don't use. https://t.co/M9ObhZjuyv — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Reps. Jerry Nadler and Judy Chu have reintroduced the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act. The legislation is designed to "restore the separation of powers by limiting overly broad executive authority to issue future travel bans." — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

President Biden: "Now the bill moves to the U.S. Senate where I hope it will receive quick action. We have no time to waste. If we act decisively, quickly and boldly, we can finally get ahead of this virus, we can finally get our economy moving again." — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Prosecutors oppose dismissing Bannon's indictment: Steve Bannon wants a judge to dismiss the fraud charges against him in a New York criminal indictment, but prosecutors say Trump's pardon doesn't mean he's been exonerated. https://t.co/SJrLkUvAy4 — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says Democrats should immediately use budget reconciliation to create a pathway to U.S. citizenship for millions of undocumented workers in essential jobs such as health care and farming. — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Rep. Colin Allred has introduced the Know Your Polling Place Act, which would require states to notify voters of changes in their polling place and ensure accommodations are made for voters that show up at the wrong polling place. — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Rep. Al Green on the House floor, responding to a Republican who cited God in opposing transgender rights: "You used God to enslave my foreparents. You used God to segregate me in schools. You used God to put me in the back of he bus. Have you no shame?" https://t.co/h6ZNAT67Uy — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

California Sen. Alex Padilla has unveiled his first piece of legislation since arriving in the Senate: The Citizenship for Essential Workers Act, which would offer millions of immigrant essential workers and their families a path to citizenship. — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

BREAKING: The House just passed Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, 219-212. All Republicans voted against the legislation. All but two Democrats voted for the legislation. — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

The most ambitious effort to reform policing may be in Ithaca: Mayor Svante Myrick's proposal would replace the existing police department with a Dept. of Community Solutions & Public Safety intended to reduce the involvement of armed officers in disputes. https://t.co/KEIxMdkvxa — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

@Jim_Jordan This is all a gross, disgusting lie. Jim Jordan is lying. — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

The House has passed an historic public lands preservation bill that pledges to protect nearly 3 million acres of federal lands in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona. https://t.co/yQ84MiZfP0 — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Heads up: An Iowa bill aimed at limiting voting and making it harder for voters to return absentee ballots is headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk after passing both Republican-controlled chambers of the state legislature. https://t.co/LXBJiqhxBa — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn: "A lot of us Black officers fought a different battle than everybody else fought. I said to my buddy, 'I got called [slur] a couple dozen times today.' ... That’s when I said, 'Is this America?' and I started crying." https://t.co/mdU9xcA73f — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Reuters: U.S. HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE APPROVES BIDEN'S $1.9 TRILLION COVID-19 RELIEF PLAN; BILL ADVANCES TO HOUSE FLOOR — PolitiTweet.org

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Republicans on Georgia's Senate Ethics Committee have passed major voting restrictions that would end automatic voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting in Georgia. https://t.co/FFvaXveTk3 — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Breaking NYT: The FBI has pinpointed an assailant in its investigation into the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. https://t.co/NnYgLrHtMn — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Heads up: Republican legislators around the U.S. are moving aggressively to strip governors and other officials of their power to change election rules after states made it easier to vote during the pandemic. https://t.co/Hc8E54L10J — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Biden's homeland security adviser, says the federal government had awarded $9 million in individual assistance grants to Texans as of Thursday and is continuing to look for other ways to help with its recovery from recent winter storms. — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Daily Beast: South Dakota's Republican attorney general may have been reading right-wing Biden conspiracies while killing a man with his car. https://t.co/30DXIX6lil — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Speaker Pelosi on the Senate parliamentarian ruling: "As a matter of practice, I don't get involved with the United States Senate. But as a matter of values, I can just say, we will not rest until we pass the $15 minimum wage." — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

President Biden in Texas: "When a crisis hits our states, like the one that hit Texas, it's not a Republican or a Democrat who is hurting, it's our fellow Americans who are hurting. And it's our job to help everyone in need, look out for one another, leave nobody behind." — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Several of Trump's closest House Republican allies have skipped Friday votes, signing letters saying they can't attend "due to the ongoing public health emergency." But those members are actually listed as speakers at CPAC in Orlando. https://t.co/yRfaecGIKa — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

New on @MSNBC: NBC's Peter Alexander: "What message were you sending to Iran with your first military action?” President Biden: "You can't act with impunity. Be careful." — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

WASHINGTON (AP) -- US expert panel endorses Johnson & Johnson's one-dose COVID-19 vaccine; FDA will make final decision soon. — PolitiTweet.org

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Leader Schumer is considering adding to the Senate bill a new provision to penalize large corporations that don't pay their workers at least a $15 minimum wage. https://t.co/ABc4sHnUFD — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Despite disavowing her militia group, a federal judge has ordered Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins to remain in custody pending her trial. "She was not just willing participant in [the Capitol insurrection]; she was an organizer and a leader in those efforts." https://t.co/wwxkk6nxIe — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

President Biden at an emergency operations center in Texas: "It's a hell of an operation." "Thank you for what you're doing." "You're saving people's lives. As my mother would say, you're doing God's work here." — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Donald Trump lives at a country club. — PolitiTweet.org

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

@SenTedCruz Donald Trump lives at a country club. — PolitiTweet.org