Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, February 3rd. I'm Nailibutu.

Here's what you need to know today. The state of paid and unpaid leave for American workers.

Plus, winter bears down across the US. But first, partisan rancor in the house. That's

today's one big thing.

The only hand Omar is removed from her committee assignments. Congressional Black Caucus members

visit the White House and House Republicans kick off their investigation all part of this

first week in February in Washington. Here for our Friday politics state of play conversation

or Axios reporters Eugene Scott and Steph Kite. Hey, guys. Hey, how's it going? Hi, Naila.

Eugene, let's start with the president's meeting yesterday with members of the Congressional

Black Caucus to talk about police reform. The day after the funeral of Tyrenegles, we've

been hearing a lot about the George Floyd Policing Act as a resurface this week. Can

we expect any new legislation out of the Capitol? So there were some conversations earlier

this week about perhaps reintroducing the George Floyd Act after the president stated

the union speech. But as of Thursday evening, Black lawmakers were still in conversations

with the president about the best strategy moving forward. Senator Tim Scott, the only

Black Republican in the Senate has been very vocal this week about how the act at is is

a nonstarter. But he certainly believes that somehow the two sides can negotiate and figure

out some bipartisan legislation that will get all sides to where they want to be.

Staff, the House voted yesterday to remove Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar from the

Foreign Affairs Committee. Here she is on the floor.

This debate today, it's about who gets to be an American. What opinions do we get to

have? Do we have to have to be counted as Americans? This is what this debate is about

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