Matt Fuller

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Mike Kelly is, perhaps, the whitest member of Congress. And I say that as maybe the definitive expert on white guys in Congress. I would rank Mike Kelly above — off the top of my head — Glenn Grothman, Steve Womack, and Mo Brooks, and THAT is saying something. — PolitiTweet.org

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Democrats adopt a resolution condemning the president's remarks as racist, 240-187. Four Republicans — and Justin Amash — voted with Democrats — PolitiTweet.org

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Basically Eric Swalwell is just denouncing a number of things Trump has done as racist, while not mentioning the president. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Swalwell just reviewed a bunch of things Trump had done — “saying immigrants are rapists is racist,” “calling African countries shithole countries is racist” — and now we’re stuck in another parliamentary flat circle as Republicans try to get his words taken down. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericgeller I actually pressed him on this and got some mishmash. — PolitiTweet.org

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Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is waving around Jefferson’s Manual as he makes this floor speech calling out Democrats. Here to report that, actually, he’s using the manual as a prop and someone could make a point of order against that. — PolitiTweet.org

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We asked a bunch of Members of Congress whether they’d been told to ‘go back’ to your country and — shocker! — almost all of the minorities had. I’ll say this, though: Republican Mario Diaz-Balart bent over backwards to not call Trump’s statement racist. https://t.co/3iPVMh7oPB https://t.co/fdAq6oR7FE — PolitiTweet.org

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Amash votes with Republicans this time to bar Pelosi from speaking for the rest of the day. He’s really living up to the independent thing at the moment. — PolitiTweet.org

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Justin Amash, who voted with Democrats on not striking Pelosi’s words, is asking the parliamentarian staff some questions before he votes. — PolitiTweet.org

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The House is now voting on whether Nancy Pelosi is allowed to speak the rest of the day. Because her words were ruled out of order, the normal punishment is the member can’t speak again. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JakeSherman: Not to be technical, but if the rule waived all points of order, isnt everything in order? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dbernstein: If I was a member of Congress: Point of order: may I refer to the President's statement as 'bigoted bilge'? Point of order… — PolitiTweet.org

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This whole episode is actually a very instructive lesson in how Democratic leaders respond to Donald Trump. He debases the Presidency and makes a racist attack on Members of Congress, Democrats draft a non-binding resolution and tear themselves apart over parliamentary rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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@burgessev 0.5 and I’ll take the over. — PolitiTweet.org

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Boy, if you’d asked me how today was gonna go in the House, I would have told you it was going to be a very stupid day. But no one anticipated it being *this* stupid. — PolitiTweet.org

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As we debate whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s words calling Trump’s statement racist should be taken down, take a look at Rep. Sean Duffy’s speech from the House floor today: https://t.co/Df31npWTYv — PolitiTweet.org

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Majority Leader Steny Hoyer takes the chair to rule that Pelosi's order are not in order. Republican Doug Collins makes a motion to strike Pelosi's words from the record. We're now voting on whether to strike down her words. — PolitiTweet.org

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The House has been in a standstill for more than an hour as Democrats and the parliamentarian work out whether the Speaker can call a racist statement racist on the House floor. — PolitiTweet.org

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From what I could hear, Cleaver said Republicans constantly wanted to escalate the partisanship. Apparently he finished his short speech by saying, "I abandon the chair." — PolitiTweet.org

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Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver — a former Congressional Black Caucus Chairman who was the presiding officer — said something, banged the gavel, then stormed off the floor. I'm not sure he made an actual ruling. Members on the floor look extremely confused. It was hard to hear him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's something: If it's against the House rules to call the president's remarks racist, are they allowed to read the title of the resolution they're debating? https://t.co/C8uyfixtty — PolitiTweet.org

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@EONealIII No, it actually seems very much worth remembering. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GingerGibson: I can think of no better way to make that case that racism still enjoys institutional protections than to point out with… — PolitiTweet.org

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Today's a good day to remember that the vast majority of the rules of decorum Congress still uses were written by slave owners. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brfreed A new precedent, that’s all. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pelosi can either withdraw her statement, or the House can vote on the issue. If Democrats choose not to take her words down, they’ll literally be changing the House rules. (This is all very stupid, but welcome to the U.S. House of Representatives.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Regardless of the content of Trump’s racist statement, Democrats are going to have a hard time not taking down Pelosi’s words. Jefferson’s Manual literally says you can’t refer to a statement by the President as racist on the House floor. https://t.co/CeIJA24TS9 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cspan: .@SpeakerPelosi: "Every single member of this institution...should join us in condemning the president's racist tweets. To do an… — PolitiTweet.org

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By the way, there's no strategy to this. Republicans are just once again uniting a Democratic caucus with a lot of underlying division in the name of defending Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not only are House Republicans defending Trump's attack on four Congresswomen, they're actually trying to have words taken down on the House floor. Doug Collins has asked that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's words be taken down because she called Trump's comments "racist." — PolitiTweet.org