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For all their posturing about defending children from abuse, their record tells another story

WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee fundraising emails to voters may have helped set the stage for the Capitol riot, the House Jan. 6 select committee said.

Both Congress members were censured by the Republican National Committee earlier this month.

It’s worth reflecting on this irony that emerged from the Republican National Committee’s meeting this month: At the same time the GOP absurdly deemed the Jan. 6 insurrectionists “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” it took a step toward shutting down actual legitimate political discourse by advancing a rule…

It took her three days, but Sen. Susan Collins finally criticized the Republican National Committee for its shameful resolution last week calling the insurrectionists of Jan. 6, 2021, "ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse."

Properly translating the Republican National Committee’s Orwellian statement that the Jan. 6 Capitol marauders and rioters were “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped the Newspeak and said in plain English: “We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection…

WASHINGTON — Republican members in Georgia's congressional delegation took no issue with the Republican National Committee's censure of two GOP members serving on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But they also were unwilling to align themselves with the controversial language used, which described the insurrection as "legitimate…

Increasing numbers of Republicans are joining Democrats in Congress condemning last week’s Republican National Committee statement defending the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection as “legitimate political discourse.” Exasperation and frustration are growing on both sides of the aisle over the lack of accountability for lawmakers who cheered on the insurrection. At…

A rift over the Republican National Committee's symbolic vote to censure former President Donald Trump’s House GOP critics has exposed the competing forces fighting to control the party