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How has it been for you sitting across from MTG on the DOGE subcommittee?

Key Stansbury:

“Uneventful. Well, I say that…” Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “She's actually fairly collegial to me. When I first decided to take this on, I went and met with her in her office with the committee staff, and it was southern hospitality. She was very nice, very warm and we agreed that we’d tried to do bipartisan stuff, and then it devolved into madness very quickly.”

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Visit Ask a Pol ~ asking your lawmakers your questions at your US Capitol ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know!In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks US Senator — and former Newark mayor — Cory Booker:

What do you make of these charges President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice dropped on Congresswoman LaMonica McIver (D-NJ)?

Key Booker:

“I'm utterly outraged by them. The facts are insane, in my opinion,” Sen. Cory Booker exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “It is a deep abuse of power…

“Now, the irony of all of that is, if she had assaulted an officer, why was she then invited back in and given a whole tour of the proceedings? None of this points to a fair application of justice. In fact, it points to political prosecution, and that's unacceptable.”

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Visit Ask a Pol ~ asking your lawmakers your questions at your US Capitol ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know!In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks:

Do you think it'd be bad for the Republican Party for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to run against incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for the Georgia Senate seat?

Key Cramer:

“It's hard for me to imagine she’d be the best candidate we could put up. That's for sure,” Sen. Kevin Cramer tells Ask a Pol. ”We've been hurt by bad candidates.”*

*after a week of blistering coverage, on Friday night MTG announced she’s not running for Senate.

Caught our ear:

“Being a conservative icon in a gerrymandered congressional district in Georgia is not the same thing as appealing to the diversity of the entire state,” Cramer tells us.

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Visit  Ask a Pol ~ asking your lawmakers your questions at your US Capitol ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know!In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks:

What do you make of accusations that we've seen a pattern of people close to Trump — including you — having their charges dropped at the DOJ so they would drive Trump’s agenda?

Key Ogles:

“It’s bullsh*t,” Rep. Andy Ogles exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “Well, you have a Justice Department that was weaponized against people, so the bogus charges are disappearing because they’re bogus.”

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Visit  Ask a Pol ~ asking your lawmakers your questions at your US Capitol ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know!In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks:

Curious your thoughts on President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress trying to impeach federal judges?

Key Johnson:

“It's House MAGA Republicans trying to curry favor from Donald Trump,” Rep. Hank Johnson exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “They'll do anything to display to him their loyalty and their willingness to do whatever he commands them to do.”

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Ask a Pol asks:

We’re seeing so many Democrats getting primaried — former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Rep. Jan Schakowski (D-IL), etc. — it just seems like we’ve got a little bit of a Democratic civil war going on?

Key Booker:

“I don't know about that,” Sen. Cory Booker exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “I don't know many Democrats in New Jersey that run without somebody primarying them. I don’t think that’s unusual.”*

*19-term Congressman Frank Pallone is being primaried by investment analyst Katie Bansil. Since first winning in 1988, Pallone’s faced primary challengers in 1992, 2018, 2020 and 2024, according to the New Jersey Globe.

ICYMI — this Booker interview was first used in a feature for Raw Story, one of Laslo’s wire service clients

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Who?

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

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Ask a Pol asks:

What do you make of your Republican colleagues laughing Musk off, saying ‘he has nothing to do with our party’?

Key Baldwin:

“I think Elon Musk wearing a cheesehead in Green Bay on Sunday kind of flips that on its head,” Sen. Baldwin exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

ICYMI — Rep. Bera blasts Musk

Caught our ear:

“$27 million, I think, is how much he spent trying to influence the outcome of this race,” Baldwin tells us. “The voters gave a direct repudiation of that.”

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Tammy Baldwin

SCENE: As Sen. Tammy Baldwin makes her way through a sea of reporters the day after the Wisconsin election Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo is the first to greet her as she exits the underground Senate tram and makes her way to a bank of elevators underneath the US Senate.

Tammy Baldwin: “$27 million, I think, is how much he spent a throughline to influence the outcome of this race…”

Custodians come through with a heavy and loud cart.

TB: “…that’s quite something, and I think the voters gave a direct repudiation of that.”

Matt Laslo: “What do you make of your Republican colleagues laughing Musk off, saying ‘he has nothing to do with our party’?”

TB: “I think Elon Musk wearing a cheesehead in Green Bay on Sunday kind of flips that on its head.”

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ML: “Right? Yes ma’am.”

Baldwin entes an elevator.

ML: “Go Bears!”

TB: “What?!!!”

Everyone laughs as elevator doors close.

ML: “So sorry ma’am.”

Reporter: “Had to slip that in.”

Laslo laughs.

ML: “Just got in her doghouse.”

Everyone laughs.

Nicolae Viorel Butler contributed to this report.

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Who?

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) — Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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Ask a Pol asks:

Do you think Elon Musk was a weight on your party’s stunning defeat in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race?

Key Johnson:

“This is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ and they’re fired up, the other side is fired up, and of course our folks didn’t realize what they needed to do,” Sen. Ron Johnson exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

ICYMI — Warren irritate about “co-presidents…Musk and Trump”

Caught our ear:

“He was helpful,” Johnson tells us.

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ron Johnson

SCENE: Sen. Ron Johnson’s walking through a crowded Capitol hallway when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo briefly catches him before he hops an elevator.

Matt Laslo: “Do you think Musk is hanging your party down — is a weight on your party at all?”

Ron Johnson: “No. No, he was helpful.”

ML: “You think he was helpful?”

RJ: “Yeah. This is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ and they’re fired up, the other side is fired up, and of course our folks didn’t realize what they needed to do.”

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ML: “Yeah?”

Johnson hops elevator.

ML: “Thank you sir.”

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Who?

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC)

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Ask a Pol asks:

What are you making all these town halls we're seeing nationwide?

Key Norman:

“I’m not worried about it,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) tells Ask a Pol politics. “It helps cause Democrats are showing their colors. In that they showed their colors when they wouldn't stand for children with childhood cancer, they showed their colors when they wouldn't stand for mothers who've had children killed by illegals…

Caught our ear:

“If I’m breathing it’s good,” Norman tells us.

Below find a partial transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), slightly edited for clarity.TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Ralph Norman

SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo runs into Rep. Ralph Norman as he’s leaving the US Capitol and heading to his office across the street…

Matt Laslo: “How you livin?”

Ralph Norman: “Man, if I’m breathing it’s good.”

ML: “Preach. I’ll buy that.”

ML: “What are you making all these town halls we're seeing nationwide?”

RN: “Yeah. Yeah?”

ML: “Are you worried about them or no this is just…?”

RN: “I’m not worried about it, and it helps cause Democrats are showing their colors. In that they showed their colors when they wouldn't stand for children with childhood cancer, they showed their colors when they wouldn't stand for mothers who've had children killed by illegals…”

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Ask a Pol asks:

Are we in the midst of a Democratic civil war?

Key Warren:

“We are in the midst of a Constitutional crisis, provoked by co-presidents of the United States — Musk and Trump,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

Transcript: 

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