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Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., questions Colonel Christopher L. Paris, Commissioner, Pennsylvania State Police, during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing examining the assassination attempt of July 13, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.) **FILE**

Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to censure top Democrat for anti-Trump rhetoric

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks to an audience of Jackson, Miss., residents regarding the failing water system in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city, Monday night, Oct. 24, 2022, at a town hall meeting at New Hope Baptist Church, hosted by the NAACP. Amid an investigation into the water crisis in Jackson, two congressional Democrats, Thompson and Carolyn Maloney, of New York, are requesting a review of the federal government's efforts to maintain local water utilities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

House Jan. 6 committee files shielded from GOP due to ‘national security,’ top Democrat says

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

A video of President Donald Trump recording a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House on Jan. 6 is played as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, July 21, 2022. Trump's lawyers have suggested their strategy in his election interference case in Washington involves distancing their client from the horde of U.S. Capitol rioters, whom the former president has embraced on the campaign trail. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Democrats’ Jan. 6 committee accused of deleting over 100 files before GOP took control of House

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks to an audience of Jackson residents regarding the failing water system in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022 at a town hall meeting at New Hope Baptist Church, hosted by the NAACP. The Environmental Protection Agency announced last Thursday that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies have discriminated against Jackson by refusing to fund water system improvements in the city of 150,000, where about a quarter of the population lives in poverty. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Jan. 6 committee chairman denies panel selectively edited Capitol footage

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., with fellow House select committee members investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Jan. 6 committee chairman insists probe isn’t partisan: Evidence is ‘entirely from Republicans’

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Attorney General William P. Barr speaks during a news conference in Washington on Dec. 21, 2020. Barr has a memoir out in March, titled “One Damn Thing After Another” and is billed by his publisher as a “vivid and forthright book” of his time serving two “drastically different” presidents, Donald Trump and George H.W. Bush. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Jan. 6 committee chair says panel spoke to Trump AG William Barr

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., arrives for meeting of the Republican Conference, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McCarthy refuses to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee, calls probe an abuse of power

By Farnoush Amiri and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, testify before the House Rules Committee seeking contempt of Congress charges against former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for not complying with a subpoena, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. A House vote to hold him in contempt would refer the charges to the Justice Department, which will decide whether to prosecute the former Republican congressman. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Bennie Thompson won’t rule out Jan. 6 criminal referral against Trump

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., takes a question from a reporter at a news conference held by the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Aug. 23, 2021. The committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested an interview with Perry. The Republican lawmaker is the first sitting member of Congress the panel has requested to speak with. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Rep. Scott Perry denies Jan. 6 panel’s request for interview

By Farnoush Amiri and Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters in New York. A lawyer for Bannon says Bannon won’t comply with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol because President Donald Trump is asserting executive privilege to block demands for testimony and documents.(AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Bannon won’t comply with subpoena from House Jan. 6 panel

By Eric Tucker and Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2020 file photo, Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on 'worldwide threats to the homeland', on Capitol Hill Washington. Thompson has sued former President Donald Trump, alleging Trump incited the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit in Washington's federal court alleges the Republican former president conspired with members of far-right extremist groups to prevent the Senate from certifying the results of the presidential election he lost to Joe Biden. The suit also names as defendants Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and groups including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, both of which had members alleged to have taken part in the siege.(John McDonnell/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

‘Exhaustive list of people’: Jan. 6 committee to seek phone records of lawmakers, others in probe

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 17, 2020, file photo, committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on "worldwide threats to the homeland," on Capitol Hill Washington. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

Bennie Thompson breaks with Nancy Pelosi on election overhaul: ‘In the interest of my constituents’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 7, 2020, file photo, a protester carries a Proud Boys banner, a right-wing group, while other members start to unfurl a large U.S. flag in front of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore. The Proud Boys are the target of a new lawsuit filed by the NAACP, which alleges the group to have violated the Ku Klux Klan Act in its actions in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, File) **FILE**

NAACP files lawsuit against Trump, Giuliani, Proud Boys for launching Capitol riot

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson, of Miss., gives thumbs up before Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf testifies before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on the coronavirus and the FY2021 budget, Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Homeland Security chairman Thompson endorses Biden

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, photo, handcuffed workers are escorted into a bus for transportation to a processing center following a raid by U.S. immigration officials at a Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss. Three months after immigration agents arrested 680 Latino workers in a massive workplace sting at seven Mississippi chicken processing plants, a congressional committee plans a hearing into the raids and their effects, Thursday, Nov. 7, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

House Democrat criticizes Mississippi chicken plant raids

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Mississippi rep opposes ‘One Lake’ project

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In this Oct. 8, 2012, file photo, a salesperson stands at counters selling mobile phones produced by ZTE Corp. at an appliance store in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix Via AP, File)

Homeland Security members vote against asking DHS about ZTE, Chinese telecom

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Analysis: Top Mississippians back private flood insurance

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, who labeled Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "an Uncle Tom," has doubled down on his attacks. (Photo: Associated Press)

Media coverage of racial remarks varies

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times