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Aaron Fritschner
@fritschner.bsky.social
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Hey there Mr. Blue
We're so pleased to be with you

House guy. DCoS @beyer.house.gov
Priors: Kamala Harris, Jennifer Wexton, et al.
Hendersonville, NC native
SciFi, Rock n Roll, he/him

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MOOD
November 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Go get it Virginia iwillvote.com
Stylized “I voted” sticker
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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The House recess continues into Week 7
Whip Notice: House votes cancelled Monday 11/3
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Just noting that this @jeffreyyoung.bsky.social bit is about to turn 12 and shows no signs of becoming irrelevant
Republicans to unveil secret health care plan "just in time"
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Sixth week of House Republican recess coming up. Will be confirmed in the 2:00 p.m. pro forma today, but it's not in doubt.
Democratic Whip notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule: Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Monday, October 27, 2025. Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House next week. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available. This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A 53-year-old woman participating in a No Kings protest in Canton, Ohio was injured when a man drove his truck onto the sidewalk, struck her, and sped away. One eye witnesses said "It was definitely on purpose."

Local news:
www.cantonrep.com/story/news/a...
www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-n...
The Canton Repository: No Kings Day protester in Jackson Township injured by hit-and-run driver
October 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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That was a previously scheduled recess that they started early to avoid the Epstein votes, you can see the full year with this updated calendar I made-
October 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Monday officially cancelled, we'll get confirmation on the rest of the week in the pro forma session at 2:00 pm
Democratic Whip notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule: Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Monday, October 20, 2025. Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House next week. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available. This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.
October 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Statement from @beyer.house.gov on President Trump's illegal mass firings of federal workers:
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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia congressional district with one of the largest concentrations of federal workers in the U.S. House, issued the following statement today on illegal, unnecessary mass firings of federal workers announced by the Trump Administration and Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought: “The mass firings Russ Vought and the Trump Administration announced today are cruel, illegal, and yet another attack on our economy. This is a disaster for Virginia, intentionally inflicted by President Trump and his Republican allies. These firings are also already being fought in court. “This President is killing jobs at a disastrous rate, while forcing the continuation of a government shutdown that would end if he simply agreed to prevent skyrocketing health care price increases. Instead of doing that, however, Trump and Vought are illegally firing more workers, hurting essential services for the American people, and damaging our economy in Virginia and across the country. Vought is also further abusing power by corruptly freezing hundreds of energy infrastructure projects, which will kill even more jobs and raise electricity prices across the nation. “Everyone should understand that a government shutdown does not require or enable mass firings of federal workers, in fact it forbids it. President Trump and Russ Vought have been firing federal workers by the thousands continuously since the beginning of the DOGE disaster, and as numerous Republicans have admitted, they plainly hoped to use the pretext of a shutdown to fire even more American workers. But directing these firings during a shutdown violates the law, and the laws they are violating are criminal statutes. “This Administration’s corruption is only matched by its willingness to sabotage our economy and raise prices for the American people. Trump and Vought’s lawless contempt for Congress’ powers under the Constitution will also mak…
October 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week
House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period. Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Confirmed: it's the whole week
House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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UNREAL
Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule: Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025. Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available. This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.
October 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”
Politico: Republicans in disarray MSNBC: Republicans are cucks NYT: health care is awesome Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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“Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...
NYT: Health Care Politics Bolster Democrats In Shutdown Fight
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Politico says Republicans have "lost the plot" !
October 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Disarray!
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Politico: Republicans are in disarray 1 week into the shutdown
October 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Remembering that crazy Tuesday two years ago on this date when the House removed the Speaker for the first and only time in American history.

A hell of a day, I'll never forget it
My real-time commentary on the 2023 vote to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his position
October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Republican congressional leaders and JD Vance managed to both keep Trump from speaking much during yesterday’s White House meeting and from appearing in public afterwards, so he took to Twitter to post a racist AI-generated video.

Solid response from the Democratic Leader here:
Trump posts a racist, AI-generated video depicting Jeffries and Schumer outside the White House Jeffries: “this one’s real” with a picture of Trump and his friend Jeffrey Epstein
September 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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was w/r/t a question about gun violence
September 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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you have been invoked
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Hat tip to @aoc.bsky.social, this is pretty excellent
AOC to Tom Homan: “who’s the illegal now?”
September 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Yeah I’m not endorsing the piece, just trying to answer the question “why” about a position I didn’t take or agree with because people asked me to. The response to that here though had me thinking about this part a lot
September 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A good and fair question, I think most who voted yes were more focused on the half of the text on political violence etc than on the half about Charlie Kirk. Not a benefit to voting yes, a problem with voting no. To be clear it’s not how my boss voted or what I’d advocate, just trying to explain it
September 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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That’s not what this is
September 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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I’ll choose him because it’s the readiest to hand and it’s representative but here’s the co founder of punchbowl and one of the most widely read Hill reporters. Plenty of others like it
September 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM