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The visuals of new House should send a shiver through anyone who cares about future of Rep. Party. One side looks like America & our future, the other looks like Board meeting of 1950’s corporation. A basic law of politics: be for the future not past. There’s more of it.
- stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) January 4, 2019

Yeah, that pretty much

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We will empower voters. And how we do it is important:
#HR1 will ban voter roll purging, expand automatic voter registration and early voting, end partisan gerrymandering, give public matching funds for small donors and increase disclosure.

This will strengthen our democracy.
- Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) January 7, 2019

As for resurrecting the Intelligence Committee’s own Russia investigation, Schiff said the first step involves pushing to immediately release the transcripts from the panel’s interviews with key figures in the Mueller investigation; the committee has already voted to do so but never followed through. Schiff suggested that some of those who testified-he named the rogue Republican consultant and sometime Trump friend Roger Stone as one example-may have lied under oath in ways that would be relevant to Mueller and could subject them to possible perjury charges. “Our first order of business is to make sure that Mueller has the benefit of the work that we’ve done,” Schiff said, “so that he can view that evidence in the context of what he knows, which is far more than we do. But also so that he can determine whether people committed perjury before our committee.” Schiff said he wanted to recall Bannon because he simply refused to answer key questions when Republicans controlled the panel, not even bothering to cite a valid legal reason for his refusal beyond the White House’s request. And Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen could have valuable additional information, given that his first testimony to the Hill panel occurred before he broke with the President and agreed to coöperate with Mueller. “We’d be very interested in talking to him again,” Schiff said.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/after-the-midterms-robert-muellers-got-a-new-wingman-on-capitol-hill

I paid my respects to Senator McCain today at a ceremony in the Rotunda. He invited me to travel with him and it was a great honor. We didn’t always agree, but he wasn’t looking for that. He respected those who had a cause greater than themselves, and no one was a better example. pic.twitter.com/BV7W506dTT
- Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) August 31, 2018

Еще одна интересная статья про Адама Шиффа в New Yorker:

A few years ago, Schiff became a friend of the late John McCain, whom he accompanied to a couple of international conferences. Once, in Munich, McCain invited Schiff to tag along to a dinner with the singer Bono and Bill Gates-“Not my usual crowd,” Schiff said, with a laugh. “At the dinner, we’re telling jokes, and Bono tells a joke about being Irish. And then he gets very serious and he says, ‘You know, I love Ireland, I’m a proud Irishman. Ireland is a great country, but it’s not an idea. America is not just a country; it’s an idea.’ And I realized, when he said it, that what’s really at risk right now is the whole idea of America. People around the world are questioning what we stand for. Maybe we’re not the country that they thought we were. And, as long as they don’t recognize what they see in the Oval Office, there’s a big responsibility on the members of Congress to speak those values, the way John McCain did.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/adam-schiffs-plans-to-obliterate-trumps-red-line