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10:40 AM ET, January 3, 2017

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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Hobble Independent Ethics Office  —  House Republicans, defying their top leaders, voted Monday to significantly curtail the power of an independent ethics office set up in 2008 in the aftermath of corruption scandals that sent three members of Congress to jail.
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Republicans gut their own oversight  —  In one of their first moves of the new Congress, House Republicans have voted to gut their own independent ethics watchdog — a huge blow to cheerleaders of congressional oversight and one that dismantles major reforms adopted after the Jack Abramoff scandal.
Bloomberg:
House GOP Votes to Strip Ethics Office of Independent Status  —  Surprise move by Republicans comes day before new Congress  —  Pelosi says vote contradicts Trump's ‘drain the swamp’ pledge  —  House Republicans abruptly voted Monday night to effectively weaken the independent Office …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
House Republicans Vote to Rein In Serious Investigation of Republicans  —  When Republicans control Congress and a Democrat is president, it's all investigation all the time.  It doesn't matter if any of the stuff they're investigating is genuinely scandalous or not.  They just keep at it, month after endless month.
CNN:
House GOP guts ethics panel
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Republicans vote to rein in independent ethics office
TODAY.com:
Kellyanne Conway on Congressional ethics panel and agenda, Trump's info on Russia  —  Kellyanne Conway, one of President-elect Donald Trump's top advisors, weighs in on the new ethics panel, Russia's hacking of the election and repealing Obamacare.  She says that though there are some aspects …
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:   Dems, GOP get ready for showdown on Obamacare
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
New Republican-led U.S. Congress lays groundwork for Trump era
Discussion: The Geller Report
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Congress Prepares to Battle Over Obamacare
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Pelosi: Ball in GOP court on ObamaCare replacement
Discussion: TheBlaze and LifeNews.com
Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:
WikiLeaks founder: Obama admin trying to ‘delegitimize’ Trump  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there's an “obvious” reason the Obama administration has focused on Russia's alleged role in Democratic hacks leading up to Donald Trump  —  's electoral win.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Inside Trump's strategy to remodel the Supreme Court  —  Donald Trump has narrowed his short list for his first Supreme Court pick down to roughly a half-dozen finalists but the president-elect and his top advisers are already thinking about a second selection, as they seek to quickly remodel …
New York Times:
To Stop Trump, Democrats Can Learn From the Tea Party  —  Today is the first day of the 115th United States Congress.  In less than three weeks, this Congress will join with President-elect Donald J. Trump to claim a mandate they do not have for policies that most Americans do not support.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Snapchat Presidency of Donald Trump  —  Normal leaders come up with policy proposals in a certain conventional way.  They gather their advisers around them and they debate alternatives — with briefing papers, intelligence briefings and implementation strategies.  —  Donald Trump doesn't do that.
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New York Times:
Donald Trump, Bureaucracy Apprentice
Discussion: ON LABOR
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Schumer regime promises a sharp break from Reid  —  It's been hard to tell lately that Harry Reid and Joe Manchin even belong to the same party.  When Reid attacked Donald Trump after the election, Manchin called his own party leader an “absolute embarrassment”; Reid fired back that Manchin was just …
Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal:
The Champions of the 401(k) Lament the Revolution They Started  —  The dominant vehicle for retirement savings has fallen short of its early backers' rosy expectations; longer life spans, high fees and stock-market declines  —  Herbert Whitehouse was one of the first in the U.S. to suggest workers use a 401(k).
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Deborah Cole / Yahoo:
Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’ becomes German bestseller  —  Berlin (AFP) - The first reprint of Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” in Germany since World War II has proved a surprise bestseller, heading for its sixth print run, its publisher said Tuesday.  —  The Institute of Contemporary History of Munich …
Discussion: Althouse
Melanie Zanona / The Hill:
Remittances to Mexico spike after November election  —  Remittances to Mexico saw the biggest spike in more than a decade during the month that President-elect Donald Trump  —  was elected, Reuters reported Monday.  —  Mexican citizens in the U.S. sent home nearly $2.4 billion in transfers in November …
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Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Remittances to Mexico jump by most in 10 years after Trump win
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
Adviser contradicts Trump: Russians hacked the US  —  Washington (CNN)A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he thinks the Russians were involved in election-related hacking of the US — a very different view than that held by the incoming administration.
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Mike Wehner / BGR:
CNN uses screenshot from ‘Fallout 4’ to show how Russians hack things
Discussion: Infowars and Raw Story
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
The media's hypocrisy and hyperventilating in the age of Trump  —  Facts are stubborn things.  Unfortunately in the age of Twitter journalism, too many reporters find such details to be both onerous and optional.  —  This past week, I met twice with President-elect Donald Trump attempting to secure an interview for inauguration week.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The 2018 midterms are nearly two years away.  Start paying attention now.  —  When 2009 began, the Republican Party looked like a smoking pile of rubble.  The GOP had lost the presidency, and much of their outgoing president's legacy seemed set to be reversed.  They had fallen into the minority in both houses of Congress.
Steve Antony / The Hill:
Why Tillerson and Perry may fuel the uranium, nuclear sectors  —  In a world anxious about notable political shakeups, but hopeful about new paths for public policies both here at home and abroad, the U.S. nuclear sector may be reenergized under President-Elect Trump through his nomination of Rex Tillerson …
Discussion: Instapundit
 
 
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Debra Borchardt / Forbes:
Marijuana Sales Totaled $6.7 Billion In 2016
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cuomo to Propose Free Tuition at New York State Colleges for Eligible Students
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
New date for Trump's press conference: January 11
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
About seven-in-ten Americans oppose overturning Roe v. Wade
Discussion: Hit & Run
Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times:
SpaceX eyes Jan. 8 return to satellite launches after finishing explosion investigation
Discussion: CBS San Francisco
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Journalists Exposed By WikiLeaks Will Now Cover Trump White House
Discussion: The Geller Report
Julia Edwards Ainsley / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump team seeks agency records on border barriers, surveillance
Discussion: The Week
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Oren Liebermann / CNN:
Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu questioned in corruption probe
Discussion: The Week
Wall Street Journal:
Robert Lighthizer Is Expected to Be Named U.S. Trade Representative
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump: North Korea will be stopped
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