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Monday on MSNBC, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) compared President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic to President Herbert Hoover handling of the beginning of the Great Depression.

Facial recognition firm Clearview AI, which has come under fire for scraping social media sites such as Facebook to create a facial recognition library, now reportedly plans to work with the government on Chinese virus contact tracing.

Aside from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, here is a list of the other politicians opposing the emergency relief bill for extraneous reasons.

Amid the global outbreak of coronavirus, the open borders lobby has endorsed an effort to hugely increase the number of refugees arriving in the United States every year.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) believes her fellow Green New Deal author, 73-year-old Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), is the “generational change we’ve been waiting for.”

Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA) is set to challenge Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) for his Senate seat in 2020, kicking off a high profile primary battle likely to reverberate across the country.

Rep. Garret Graves chided climate change activists and Democrats at a House hearing on Wednesday for blaming the U.S. for global pollution.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is trailing a potential challenger inside the Democrat Party by 17 percent a year away from the election.

Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) announced Monday that he is considering a U.S. Senate bid in Massachusetts, increasing the likelihood that he would face off in the Democratic primary against incumbent Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA).

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) picked up a flurry of endorsements from fellow lawmakers – including several from her own state – ahead of the second debate Tuesday night.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is seeking more regulations on toy guns, imitation guns, and BB rifles and pistols. 

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), a leading proponent of the Green New Deal, broke the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge by accepting thousands of dollars from the very oil and gas lobbyists he claimed to be “at war” against.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), one of the primary authors of the Green New Deal, took thousands of dollars from oil and gas lobbyists after publicly pledging to spurn “their dirty money.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said at a rally on Monday in Washington, DC, that regular people and not big money are powerful today.

Appearing Sunday on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” Bill Nye launched into an profanity-laden and hyperbolic rant about climate change, exclaiming “the planet’s on fucking fire!”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that he will introduce legislation banning common game-industry practices that “prey on user addiction.”

Democrats, facing conservative resistance to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” are now pivoting toward other environmental legislation.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes for Fox Business that the sponsors of the Green New Deal proposed legislation and Democrats copped out by voting, to a person, “present” rather than “yes.”

The Senate rejected the Green New Deal Resolution, 0-57, with all Republicans, three Democrats and one Independent voting against it.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) have proposed a bill which would ban targeted advertising by Big Tech to young children. The goal is an “eraser button” to remove data about children from social media platforms and other Big Tech sites.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) delivered a fiery speech on the Senate floor Wednesday as she derided the Green New Deal’s staggering $93 trillion cost.

Appearing on Pod Save America with Dan Pfeiffer this week, former Fort Bend mayor and 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg critiqued the messaging behind the Green New Deal, suggesting advocates avoid discussing “farting cows.”

Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) adjourned a climate change hearing on Tuesday with the help of Republicans because not enough Democrats attended the hearing.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Green New Deal’s astronomical cost could pay for over 3,700 border walls, costs more than the global economy, and eclipses the national debt by four times.

Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) radical Green New Deal would cost over four times the national debt, according to a study released on Monday.

Capitol Hill police arrested dozens of demonstrators advocating for the Green New Deal outside of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) Washington, D.C., office Monday afternoon. 

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday, former Virginia Gov. and potential 2020 candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) concurred with a Washington Post opinion-editorial referring to the Green New Deal as “unrealistic.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) lectured school children and their teachers in a meeting Friday when asked to support the Green New Deal, telling the group she won’t respond to pressure as a longtime member of Congress. 

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) on Tuesday claimed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is attempting to “sabotage” the Green New Deal by bringing the far-left proposal to a Senate floor vote. “Don’t let Mitch McConnell fool you: this is nothing

Since Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi reclaimed the gavel for the first time in nearly a decade, the Democrat Party has been riding high.

UPDATE — 2:19 p.m. EST: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) confirmed Tuesday afternoon that he will bring a vote on the Green New Deal, telling to reporters on Capitol Hill: “I’ve noted with great interest the Green New Deal. And we’re

The Green New Deal (GND) quickly became the subject of such mockery that its godmother, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, attempted to scrub the talking points from her website and pretend they never existed at all. The effort to erase this political disaster is one of the biggest political gaslighting operations in recent memory. It happened so fast that half of the online Left is still touting the GND as the irresistible wave of the future, while the other half thinks it’s a trick concocted by right-wing pranksters.

Will Colorado’s Democrat Senator, Michael Bennet, choose the faddish Green New Deal over his state’s economic future?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is boasting that dozens of Democrats back her Green New Deal, including Democrat presidential candidates.

House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said during a press conference on Friday that he is “disappointed” by the Democrats’ Green New Deal and “what it would do to our middle class.”

How will they pay for the Green New Deal? By creating an entirely new banking system out of thin air.