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Sarah Ferris
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Sarah Ferris
@sarahnferris
@CNN Capitol Hill reporter. Twin mom. Fifth-generation farm girl.
The District
Born April 20
Joined September 2010
NEW: After Rep. Katie Porter gave emotional speech to fellow Dems about skyrocketing grocery bills, she said it felt like the first time it sank in with some colleagues One told her it's not coming up in polls. Her response: “You don’t know what to ask”- News: House Dems so livid at Schumer that multiple members have directly urged AOC to primary him, according to a member with direct knowledge One member said they would write a check tonight at the caucus’s Leesburg retreat
- NEWS: Rep Adam Schiff has decided NOT to seek a leadership post in House Dem caucus and is instead looking more seriously at a Senate run, per multiple sources
- Inside Capitol just now, Rep. AOC asked to speak with "female and LGBT" reporters to warn us that the man who harassed her is affiliated with credentialed news outlet She said her staff called Capitol police 5x to get them to do something
- Wow. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of Progressive Caucus, says post-briefing: “There was NO raw evidence presented that this was an imminent threat.”
- Tonight, I asked Scott Perry (R-Pa.) about effect of fed employees being furloughed. He argued it had no real impact since employees eventually get paid back. "Who’s living that they’re not going to make it to the next paycheck?"
- "He was shaken up by it," Pelosi says on the House's overwhelming vote to condemn WH withdrawal from Syria. "And that’s why we couldn't continue in the meeting, because he was just not relating to the reality of it."
- Fun nugget: Gov Tim Walz is planning to stump with Dem candidates Friday Night Lights-style ... The former high school football coach will attend high school football games in battleground seats to boost Dems, per 2 sources. The more competitive, the better, he's told folksNEW: The polling is in and the "Kamala effect" on House + Senate races is real. Schumer is talking seriously about keeping the majority, House Dems eying pickups in Sun Belt, even Wisconsin. w/ @allymutnick @AnthonyAdragna +@UrsulaPerano @nicholaswu12 politico.com/news/2024/08/1…
- SCOOP: Dems are giving the GOP an ultimatum on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Either Rs move to strip her off committees within 72 hours, or Dems will do it themselves on the floor w/ @heatherscope @MZanona
- NEW: Inside the feud between Mike Johnson & Anna Paulina Luna over proxy voting for new moms When Johnson refused her proposal, APL turned to Dems. Now, she’s planning a discharge petition that she says WILL pass Sign of SUPER thin margins in House
- INSIDE the caucus: At the end of his remarks, BIDEN offered to take questions from members but his staff jumped in. He didn't take any questions.
- I've seen a few Dem members wearing these Nancy Pelosi "Godmother" pins today 👀
- Here are the most senior Democrats in government kneeling in the Capitol, minutes before introducing sweeping police reform bill
