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No. 2 GOP Sen. Thune Weighs Retirement, 'Closing In on Decision'
Tuesday, 21 December 2021
Despite potentially rising to Senate majority leader after the 2022 midterms if he wins reelection and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., decides against running for leader, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is seriously considering retirement.
"I'm closing in on a decision that I've said I'll announce it by the end of the year; we're coming up on it," Thune told Newsmax's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" last week.
Former President Donald Trump has derided Thune as "Mitch's boy," The New York Times reported Monday, suggesting that would put him squarely in the crosshairs of the former president in a potential South Dakota GOP Senate primary.
"I'm not ready to make any news," Thune, 60, told host Rob Schmitt. "We have a leader. He's not going anywhere. I have a job that consumes a lot of time, trying to make sure that we keep all of our folks on the team when the time comes when we have these tough votes.
"I'm glad to serve where I am. There's a lot of reasons to run for reelection, and some maybe not so good ones, so we're sorting through that."
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/johnthune-senate-gop-retirement/2021/12/21/id/1049559/
GOP Rep. Perry Says He Won’t Aid ‘Illegitimate’ Jan. 6 Committee
December 21, 2021
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) has announced he will not cooperate with the “illegitimate” House January 6 committee after he was asked to answer questions about the “Stop the Steal” rally that took place at the Capitol.
Perry is the first member of Congress to be pursued by the Jan. 6 committee, but the committee has sent out dozens of subpoenas to President Donald Trump’s former White House staff.
Over the course of its months-long investigation, the committee has yet to turn up any significant evidence to back up allegations that the Jan. 6 rally was the result of a premeditated plan to overturn the U.S. government, forcing the mostly-Democrat panel to expand their search.
Perry has now announced that he does not intend to accept the committee’s requests.
“I stand with immense respect for our Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the Americans I represent who know that this entity is illegitimate, and not duly constituted under the rules of the US House of Representatives,” Perry said in a Twitter thread.
“I decline this entity’s request and will continue to fight the failures of the radical Left who desperately seek distraction from their abject failures of crushing inflation, a humiliating surrender in Afghanistan, and the horrendous crisis they created at our border,” he continued.
Moar: https://www.theepochtimes.com/gop-rep-perry-says-he-wont-aid-illegitimate-jan-6-committee_4170263.html