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The House of Representatives voted to kill a resolution to censure progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib, R-Mich., on Wednesday night. Nearly two dozen Republicans voted along with all House Democrats to table the resolution in a final vote of 222 to 186 in favor of killing the motion without debate. Democrats briefly broke out into applause when the resolution failed.

SCOTT ANNOUNCED FRIDAY, WITH HIS DEEP TIES TO BLACKROCK AND THE UNI-PARTY, IS ENTERING THE RACE FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. FEDERAL RECORDS REVEAL SCOTT IS BACKED BY BLACKROCK.AMERICANS SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT SCOTT: • FOUGHT AGAINST 2020 ELECTION INTEGRITY EFFORTS. • Deep State politics wants him placed in the Speaker’s Chair to maximize Ukraine kickbacks, Chinese takeover activities, and sway congressional committees to pass laws that fill their pockets via stock market investments and other corruption.

Jim Jordan has been officially nominated as the Republican’s choice for Speaker, beating out Steve Scalise ally Austin Scott of Georgia.

@JakeSherman 🚨NEWS -- REP. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia has filed to run for the GOP nomination for speaker. It will be SCOTT vs. JORDAN.

Representative Austin Scott (R-GA) informed Just The News that House Republicans were considering removing prosecutorial immunity if they engaged in misconduct like bringing politicized charges. The Georgian lawmaker remarked that “I think you’re going to have to look at prosecutorial misconduct and whether or not prosecutors in this country should be exempt from liability.” The Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), hinted that his colleagues were looking for ways to hold the Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accountable for his political prosecution of Donald Trump. Representative Scott suggested that Republicans should build on the move to end...

As Republicans circle the wagons around Donald Trump, a key member of the House Intelligence Committee says the multiple Democrat-led probes of the 45th president from New York to Georgia resemble more of a hunt than the fair administration of justice. Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., urged liberal champions of civil rights to speak out against the weaponization of law enforcement after Trump’s unprecedented indictment this week in Manhattan or risk having the tables one day turned. “They have hunted Donald Trump and his family for years and years and years,” Scott said Friday on the Just the News, Not Noise...

Freshman Republican: Obama’s timing on Libya ‘intentional’By Russell Berman - 03/25/11 04:22 PM ET The head of the House Republican freshman class is accusing President Obama of intentionally waiting until Congress adjourned to deploy U.S. military forces to Libya without its consent. “Why did he wait until the day after we adjourned Congress [to launch military strikes]?” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), the president of the 87-member GOP freshman class, said in a phone interview on Friday. “I believe that timing was intentional by the president.” Congress adjourned for a scheduled recess on March 17, hours before the United Nations Security...