While Biden tries to assuage voter concerns about his age, a couple miles away in the Senate, the gerontocracy remains alive and well.

“I feel great,” Senator Angus King said. “Maybe there was a mistake on my birth certificate.”

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And this is all happening at night because they had to accommodate the GOP morning field trip to the Trump courthouse...

NEW: 'The long arc of harassment, assault and murder of Palestinians by Jewish settlers is twinned with a shadow history, one of silence, avoidance and abetment by Israeli officials.' An investigation with Ronen Bergman and Natan Odenheimer נתן אודנהיימר ناتان اودنهايمر nytimes.com/2024/05/16/mag…

Hill staffers planning a demonstration today as the House votes on the Israel Security Assistance Support Act (which WH has said they’d veto)

Pour one out for her and her only

Very sad news: Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. has died at 65.

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As the House prepares to vote on the foreign aid package, two demonstrations, one for Ukraine aid and another against money to Israel, side by side outside:

🚨NOTICE OF ACTION🚨

House Rules Committee granted, by a recorded vote of 9-3, a rule providing for consideration of H.R. 8034, H.R. 8035, H.R. 8036, & H.R. 8038.

Thanks to House Appropriations & House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority for their testimony.

Now off to listen to TTPD.

WATCH: House impeachment managers deliver articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the U.S. Senate.

I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate that was introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸.

He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker.

“We never thought we’d be recognized. Just never thought — we were just doing the job for the country and earning money on the side.”

6M women flooded the WW2 workforce, filling a crucial labor gap. Today, the “Rosies” received a Congressional Gold Medal: nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

6M women went to work for the nation during WWII. Decades later, some of them, now white-haired and in their 90s, received the Congressional Gold Medal.

“It was a man’s world. They didn’t know how capable us women were, did they?” ⁦Kayla Guo⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/10/us/…

Eclipse watching at the Capitol

My younger self wouldn’t believe the news I have to share with you today.

I’m thrilled and so grateful to join the next The New York Times fellowship class as the Rosenbaum Fellow in Washington. I’ll cover Congress.

Thank you to everyone who helped me get here!

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