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Tim Burchett

 
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Representative
Tennessee's 2nd District
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Republican
2023
2024
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Representative Offices
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800 Market St
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Suite 110
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Knoxville TN, 37902-2327
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865-523-3772
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331 Court Street
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Maryville TN, 37804
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865-984-5464
News
09/28/2024 --chicagotribune
Taken together, the lack of big-ticket accomplishments is underscoring a volatile November election season, with control of Congress a toss-up.
09/23/2024 --foxnews
A group of Republicans are introducing a new bill that would cease all aid dollars to Afghanistan over concerns of interception by the Taliban.
09/20/2024 --theepochtimes
Some lawmakers back more funding to hire more agents, but others say manpower allocation is the key.
09/11/2024 --axios
House Speaker Mike Johnson is fighting for his job this week. Today's setback gives him a sense for how difficult — and lonely — it will be if he wins.Read the room: Johnson's rank-and-file aren't taking his Plan A seriously ... his top members are pointing fingers over who's to blame ... worst of all, the former president reserves the right to blindside him.Why it matters: Those dynamics will only increase if Donald Trump wins back the presidency and Republicans maintain their House majority.Johnson knows he can't pass a funding bill with partisan policy positions.But he also knows he has to get caught trying.Zoom in: The speaker is back in the same caretaker's hot seat he occupied before Democrats saved his job over aid for Ukraine.Johnson couldn't even muscle through his Plan A — a six-month spending stopgap to avoid a government shutdown that would be paired with legislation to require proof of citizenship to register to vote — this week before Trump blindsided him.Johnson told us he and Trump are on the same page. It's hard to read the former president's post and agree.Tensions are mounting among Johnson's top deputies, with some fingers pointing at House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), we have learned.GOP lawmakers privately say there's a pattern here: "This seems like a long line of tough bills that Emmer hasn't whipped," a top House GOP lawmaker told us."Emmer is failing as whip with multiple bills collapsing on the House floor. The whip operation is non-existent at this point," a senior GOP lawmaker told us.The other side: "It's bullshit to blame Tom," a top House Republican told us.Johnson never had the votes to pass the stopgap bill — and even if Emmer manages to twist the arms of public "no" votes, it's dead-on-arrival in the Senate."Emmer and Guy [Reschenthaler] are the only folks who have whipped me ... They make a pretty compelling argument for it," Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told us.Reality check: Johnson's Plan A has been a farce from the start.Now Johnson's own members are waiting on it to fail so he can turn to a Plan B he insists doesn't exist.🔮 House Republicans expect to see Plan B as a six-month stopgap, without the SAVE Act.When that fails, they expect to inevitably cave to the Senate on a deal that pushes negotiations into the lame duck.
09/11/2024 --abc13
Johnson can only afford to lose the support of four Republicans on a party-line vote if there are no absences.
09/11/2024 --dailycaller
'I believe we'll get there'
09/11/2024 --nbcnews
House Republicans will vote on a Donald Trump-backed plan to avoid a shutdown, tied to a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote.
09/04/2024 --dailycaller
'I hope it doesn’t hold up the funding'
09/03/2024 --dailycaller
'Outrageous partisan poison pills is a nonstarter'
08/19/2024 --kron4
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) faces a primary challenge on Tuesday as former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his allies seek revenge against the Republicans who ousted him nearly a year ago. That revenge tour will reach its apex with the multi-million dollar effort to defeat Gaetz, a conservative rabble-rouser who spearheaded the effort to take [...]
08/18/2024 --axios
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's revenge tour is sputtering to an end this week, with just one primary win to show for it.Why it matters: McCarthy's former colleagues complain he's effectively lit millions of dollars on fire and made it harder for new leaders to do their jobs.Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is expected to win easily on Tuesday despite a McCarthy-linked PAC spending more than $3 million against him."McCarthy thinks about me a lot more than I think about him," Gaetz told us.Between the lines: Multiple House Republicans and senior staff took issue with McCarthy's public criticisms of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and said they saw his fingerprints on the attempted ouster of Johnson in May, sources tell us."[W]hen you leave, you should go off to do the next thing you're going to do. You shouldn't be trying to spend all your time going after people that you didn't like," a top House Republican told Axios.McCarthy declined to comment.Zoom in: Since his historic removal last fall, McCarthy and his allies have targeted the eight House Republicans who voted against him."They gave him that money to beat Democrats ... and now we come to find out that that money ... was, in fact, gone after Republicans," said Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), who voted to oust McCarthy.Of McCarthy's targets, House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good (R-Va.) was the only one to lose his primary, and his opponent was endorsed by former President Trump. "Every dollar, every dollar that we have, should be going, we're raising this cycle, should be going to defending a greater majority of the House, not work on, not work on a revenge tour," a GOP lawmaker told Axios.The other side: McCarthy allies have defended his work against those who moved to oust him, arguing they deserve repercussions. "Matt Gaetz has done more damage to the Republican Party than any Democrat in the history of Congress. Gaetz needs to self-actualize and just be on a reality television show, he has no business being in Congress," Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.) told Axios.
08/02/2024 --abc7
In a social media post Thursday morning, former President Donald Trump shared a family portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris and wrote, "Your warmth, friendship, and love of your Indian Heritage are very much appreciated."
07/30/2024 --npr
Former President Donald Trump has more than 9 million followers on TikTok. Despite his popularity there, Trump remains one of the only major Republicans using the app as a campaign tool.
07/29/2024 --seattletimes
In the anti-DEI worldview, all white men are in their positions purely due to merit. Everyone else has received an unfair advantage to get where they are.
07/26/2024 --kfor
Haley joined CNN’s Jake Tapper for an interview Thursday to discuss recent political events, including President Biden suspending his reelection campaign and endorsing Harris.
07/26/2024 --theepochtimes
Congress will return to session on Sept. 9 and have 13 days to pass several spending bills that fund the whole federal government.
07/26/2024 --huffpost
"The American people are smarter than that," said the former South Carolina governor of talk surrounding the vice president.
07/25/2024 --abc7
DEI - which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion - refers to the initiatives and programs intended to address discrimination against historically marginalized groups within schools, businesses or government agencies, according to industry experts.
07/25/2024 --dailycaller
'Good arguments for different approaches'
07/24/2024 --newsadvance
The otherizing of Black, Latino, Muslim and LGBTQ people has been a defining feature of Trumpism.
07/23/2024 --nypost
Woke DEI policies are DIE-ing in corporations and even colleges — but not in Washington DC, as the Secret Service's failures prove.
07/23/2024 --huffpost
As racist and sexist remarks proliferate on social media, congressional Republicans are walking back certain attacks on Harris.
07/23/2024 --abc7
U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who came under scrutiny for the agency's failure to prevent the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, has resigned, according to two sources familiar with the decision.
07/23/2024 --stltoday
The DEI attack has been brewing since the Trump assassination attempt, where several female agents were among those protecting the former president and several conservatives questioned their fitness to serve.
07/23/2024 --fastcompany
As Congressional members on both sides of the aisle grilled U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Monday on how a gunman was able to fire shots at former President Donald Trump in an assassination attempt, several Republican lawmakers seized on gender and the agency’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as among the reasons for the security failure.“Ma’am, you are a DEI horror story,” Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee told Cheatle during the hours-long hearing in front of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman asked the director if she was “not hiring men because of your desire to hit certain targets.”And Texas Rep. Michael Cloud questioned Cheatle’s strategic plan for the Secret Service, in which she has championed diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, including her support for the 30×30 Initiative, which seeks to increase the representation of women recruits to 30% by 2030.“Does every Secret Service agent meet the same qualifications, or do you have different standards for different people?” Cloud asked.“Yes, sir. Everyone who moves through the application process has to meet the same standards to become a special agent,” Cheatle answered.Conservative backlash against DEI has been on the rise since last June, when the Supreme Court ruled to end affirmative action in college admissions. Several companies have come under attack because of their DEI policies, among them John Deere, Tractor Supply, Target and Bud Light.The latest DEI attack materialized in full view Monday against the Secret Service and Cheatle, but the issue had been brewing ever since the July 13 assassination attempt at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, where several female agents were among those protecting the former president and several conservatives questioned their fitness to serve.“There should not be any women in the Secret Service. These are supposed to be the very best, and none of the very best at this job are women,” conservative political commentator Matt Walsh posted on X the morning after the assassination attempt. “If there’s a woman doing a job like this, it 100 percent means that a more qualified male was passed over.”Meghan McCain, daughter of the late senator and U.S. presidential candidate John McCain, reposted Walsh’s statement, adding: “The notion that men and women are the same is just absurd. You need to be taller than the candidate to protect them with your body. Why do they have these short women (one who can’t holster a gun apparently) guarding Trump? This is embarrassing and dangerous.”Photos of the immediate aftermath of the shooting show a female agent shielding Trump with her body.David Glasgow, executive director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at New York University School of Law, said the fresh DEI criticism is no surprise.“It’s now a pretty consistent pattern whenever anything goes wrong that it gets blamed on DEI,” he said. “After the Baltimore Bridge collapse, there were people blaming DEI,” and the same happened after Boeing was dealing with aircraft safety issues.Massachusetts Democrat Ayanna Pressley said it is “disgraceful” that Republicans are “trotting out sexist tropes” blaming women for the security failures at Trump’s rally. She said she believed her Republican counterparts were exploiting the shooting to “continue to attack progress towards racial justice and gender equity in America.” She also reserved criticism for Cheatle for not adequately addressing questions during Monday’s hearing.“Every day, Director Cheatle, that you fail to give us answers, they are given more oxygen to make their baseless claims that women and people of color are responsible for tragic events. And that is dangerous too,” Pressley said.For her part, Cheatle said “the incident on the 13th has nothing to do with DEI. The incident on the 13th has to do with a gap in either planning or communication.”Under Cheatle, the Secret Service has continued its pledge to the 30×30 Initiative, which aims to improve the representation and experiences of women in law enforcement. Currently, women make up only 12% of sworn officers and 3% of police leadership in the U.S., according to organization’s website. Cheatle herself is only the second woman to head up the Secret Service.Dozens more police departments and law enforcement agencies have also taken up the 30×30 Initiative, including in red states like Iowa, North Dakota, Arkansas, Kansas, and Florida. And so far, none of those departments has pulled back on the efforts.Catrina Bonus, president of Women in Federal Law Enforcement, called the attacks on DEI “disheartening.”“Today’s rhetoric questioning our presence in law enforcement is not just outdated; it is rooted in ignorance,” she said in a statement. “It dishonors the trailblazers who faced unimaginable challenges to make this profession more inclusive and equitable — as well as to the next generation, to show them that law enforcement is filled with open doors and opportunities and through hard work and determination, they can achieve anything they put their minds to.”Maureen McGough, co-founder of the 30×30 Initiative, pushed back hard on the gender critique.“We think about the women who are putting their lives on the line every day to do this job in law enforcement, who were called into service, who make incredible sacrifices. And to have people who have never set foot in the arena just indict them just because of their gender, it’s sad, you know, it’s heartbreaking,” she said.“But it also is an opportunity for us to double down on our efforts,” McGough added.—Clair Savage, Associated Press
07/22/2024 --pilotonline
By CLAIRE SAVAGE As Congressional members on both sides of the aisle grilled U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle Monday on how a gunman was able to fire shots at former President Donald Trump in an assassination attempt, several Republican lawmakers seized on gender and the agency’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts as among the [...]
07/22/2024 --kron4
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faced growing, bipartisan calls for her resignation during a brutal hearing Monday on the attempted assassination of former President Trump. Lawmakers from both parties on the House Oversight Committee — which is known for its fiery hearings and partisan rhetoric — expressed exasperation, frustration and at times disbelief at Cheatle’s [...]
07/19/2024 --kron4
Republican efforts to win over Black voters during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee may have fallen short as GOP members failed to showcase party diversity and fell back on controversial talking points. Though former President Trump is hoping to siphon Black voter support from Democrats this year, only eight of the speakers at the convention [...]
 
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