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David Hogg, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, appeared in a House Judiciary Committee hearing on a possible assault weapons ban.

Nikolas Cruz took a rifle into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018 and killed 17 students and staff members.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 will hold its next public hearing that will focus on the 187 minutes between former President Donald Trump's speech at the Ellipse and his video when he asked his supporters to leave the Capitol.

Select committee aides told the press that they'll focus on the inaction of the president's as the Capitol was under siege while police were being attacked and members of Congress were hiding from his armed supporters.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that he didn't support the marriage equality decision in 2015 when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.

The landmark Supreme Court decision came as a result of Ohio's refusal to recognize the marriage of Jim Obergefell on the death certificate of his husband after he died. Obergefell and his husband were married in another state where it was legal but Ohio refused to recognize the marriage due to its own 2004 Defense of Marriage Act, modeled off of the national law passed in 1996.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Legislation aimed at helping stem climate change stalled after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that he would refuse to support it until after this summer. But other Democratic senators say the bill’s fate has not been sealed yet.

"Right now, when Americans are getting mugged at the checkout counter all across this country it is important to, for example, deliver, in this work period, real relief to seniors and millions of Americans who are getting clobbered by these prices and do it now," said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) in a conversation with reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday. "I will never stop working for clean energy for America legislation. We know that these tax credits have expired. The reality if you want to make the kinds of transformative changes and deal with climate change there are two areas that I focus on: prices with Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RH) and the other is taxes."

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It has been just a few days since Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that the Supreme Court was "clearly wrong" when it legalized marriage equality in 2015.

"I think that decision was clearly wrong when it was decided," Cruz said on his podcast Verdict With Ted Cruz. "It was the court overreaching. Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history. Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states. We saw states before Obergefell, some states were moving to allow gay marriage, other states were moving to allow civil partnerships. There were different standards that the states were adopting."

The co-hosts of "The View" unleashed on Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) who spoke out on the floor of the House that the bill codifying marriage equality was unnecessary.

Jordan spoke out against the bill saying that Democrats were trying to distract from inflation with issues like gay marriage. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) shot back that the reason laws like that are necessary is that same-sex married couples need the same rights as straight couples. He specifically cited the problem that an LGBTQ spouse can't make decisions for their partner when they're in the hospital without being married.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) are crafting their own bill that aims to stop the attempt to overthrow an election by allowing any random official to hand over the certified electors.

Speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Tuesday, Collins explained that the goal is to ensure that a state can't change the delivery mechanism after the election.

During a discussion about Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) being subpoenaed by the Fulton County District Attorney, former Homeland Security Department chief of staff Miles Taylor suggested that allies of Donald Trump should consider getting lawyers if they haven't already.

Hice, a firm "states rights" advocate, is begging that the grand jury be moved from the state to the federal court system. The case, however, involves the violation of state election laws.

Former FBI agent Asha Rangappa, who now teaches at Yale University, suggested if the investigators at the Department of Homeland Security can't produce communications on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, then there are some other options.

Rangappa suggested that if the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 wants to know about the behaviors of former deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato and Special Agent in Charge Robert 'Bobby' Engel, who was the chief of Trump's security, they should subpoena the communications they engaged in during Hutchinson's public testimony.

The Stop the Steal rally at the White House on Jan. 6 was organized, in part, by Women for America First, a pro-Donald Trump group started by Amy Kremer. Her daughter, Kylie Jane Kremer, was the main organizer and signed off on the documents for the event.

In a piece by the New York Times Tuesday, it was revealed that the elder Kremer has a history of trying to stop a president she didn't like from being certified as the president.

Tourists at the Hoover Dam in Nevada observed an explosion on Tuesday.

The incident happened just after 10 a.m. PST in the dam’s turbine house, reported Fox5 Las Vegas. The Boulder City Police Department tweeted that they were responding to the scene.

Correction: This story previously misstated the letter was from Michael Cohen's lawyer.

Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), a member of the House Judiciary committee, is demanding answers from the inspector general of the Treasury Department after it was revealed that the IRS targeted two foes of the ex-president for rare and invasive audits.