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Howard Mortman

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Howard Mortman

@HowardMortman

C-SPAN Comms Director...Book: "When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill"...book info: @CongressRabbi . blue check.

Washington, DC

whenrabbisblesscongress.com

Joined February 2008

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Mar 5, 2019
"The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost." -- James Ronda via Stephen Ambrose books.google.com/books?id=-fbFH…
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Oct 26, 2024
"I F---ed it up. I F---ed it up. Can I go back. Can go back, please." "You can't. We're live" -- National Anthem
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Sep 24, 2022
Biden Surprises Elton John With National Humanities Medal .. tearing up, Elton John said he was “flabbergasted and humbled.”
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Dec 6, 2022
During Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Jan. 6 police, representatives of those receiving awards shake hands with Schumer then walk past McConnell and McCarthy.
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Feb 25, 2025
"And for what? Because Elon Musk needs another billion dollars? I have no idea what I would do with a billion dollars. Never mind 2 billion or 3 billion, or 4 billion. The scope of his greed is something that we have never ever seen before in this country." -- Sen. Chris Murphy
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Mar 26, 2025
"Should the Defense Secretary.." Marjorie Taylor Greene: "Wait what country are you from?" "From the UK" "OK we don't give a crap about your opinion and your reporting. Why don't you go back to your country. We have a major migrant problem. You should care about your own borders"
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Sep 11, 2023
Pres. Biden visits John McCain memorial in Hanoi Vietnam
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Readers added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added context
Trúc Bạch war monument is not a memorial to John Sidney McCain III. It is a commemoration to the people of Vietnam who shot down ten planes, and captured McCain in 1967. It was erected and dedicated when McCain was still alive in 1985, hence was not a memorial. travelshelper.com/vietnam/places… reddit.com/r/AskHistorian… twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/…
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Howard Mortman
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Oct 26, 2024
President Biden brings pizza to phone bank at the Allegheny County Labor City Council in Pittsburgh ( Beechview ) .... Sen. Fetterman joins.
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Jun 3, 2024
MTG: "As a dog lover, I want to tell you this is disgusting and evil. What you signed off on. And these experiments that happened to beagles ..." FAUCI: "What does dogs have to do with anything that we're talking about today?"
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Nov 9, 2022
The last time a President held a press conference the day after mid-term elections, this happened:
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Jan 15, 2025
Tammy Duckworth to Rubio: "When I first got to Senate I was pregnant with my daughter and trying to change Senate rules so I could bring her onto the floor so I could do my job and vote...not accessible to wheelchairs...You came running down to me 'I'm with you! I support you!"
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May 14, 2025
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen among protesters removed from RFK Jr. hearing on HHS budget
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Jul 28, 2022
"A recession is two quarters in a row of negative growth." -- President Clinton, Dec. 19, 2000
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Mar 26, 2020
Today is @SpeakerPelosi 80th birthday. Bush began his 1/23/2007 SOTU: "In his day Congressman Thomas D'Alesandro Jr from Baltimore saw Presidents Roosevelt & Truman at this rostrum. But nothing could compare with the sight of his only daughter Nancy presiding tonight as Speaker"
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