TOP NEWS | GOP Senators Opposes Feinstein Replacement, Disney’s “Pride Nite,” COVID-19 Origins Hearing, DeSantis-Disney Feud | April 18
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- Republicans are standing in the way of Democrat efforts to temporarily replace Democrat Sen. Diane Feinstein of California on the Judiciary Committee.
- The House Oversight and Accountability Chairman laid much of the responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic on Dr. Anthony Fauci during a hearing today.
- Fred Lucas' reporting: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/04/18/after-china-firmly-opposes-this-hearing-on-covid-19-origins-here-are-4-takeaways/
- The United Nations said in a March report that “sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law.”
- Disney has announced its first-ever pride night in June.
- Former President Donald Trump is speaking out against DeSantis’ feud with Disney.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Samantha Sharis, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for |
| 0:06.3 | Tuesday, April 18th. |
| 0:08.1 | Here are today's headlines. |
| 0:22.0 | Republicans are standing in the way of Democrat efforts to temporarily replace Democrat Senator |
| 0:27.7 | Diane Feinstein of California on the Judiciary Committee. |
| 0:32.3 | Feinstein, who is 89 and recovering from shingles, recently asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck |
| 0:37.8 | Schumer to find a replacement for her on the committee. |
| 0:41.4 | Republican Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina tweeted, |
| 0:44.4 | �I will vote against any attempt by Senate Democrats to temporarily replace Senator |
| 0:49.4 | Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee. |
| 0:51.7 | I deeply respect Senator Feinstein, but this is an unprecedented request solely intended |
| 0:57.1 | to appease those pushing radical activist genders.� |
| 1:01.7 | Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas also weighed in saying, �I, for one, am not going |
| 1:07.2 | to help President Biden's most unqualified nominees to get confirmed. |
| 1:12.1 | I don't think you'll see us help in that effort.� |
| 1:15.5 | As you'll recall, Democrat Representative Rocana of California called on the Senator to resign |
| 1:20.6 | last week, tweeting, �We need to put the country ahead of personal loyalty.� While |
| 1:25.4 | she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties. |
| 1:31.4 | The Hill Reports of that Feinstein has been absent since late February due to a case |
| 1:36.1 | of shingles, leaving the Judiciary Panel deadlocked 10-10 and unable to pass partisan nominees |
| 1:42.6 | along four floor votes. |
| 1:45.6 | The House Oversight and Accountability Chairman laid much of the responsibility for the |
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