OVERHEARD OF THE WEEK

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Politico

This one happened a few days ago, but we couldn’t resist including. Republican Reps. Ann Wagner (Mo.) and Michael McCaul (Texas) were at an event at Sonoma Restaurant and Wine Bar on Capitol Hill last Thursday. Standing by the bar, a person in their group asked about redistricting in Missouri and said he hoped Wagner gets a more conservative district to help her win reelection.

Wagner, a center-right Republican, responded skeptically: “Then you get those wacko birds,” she said.

To which McCaul, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said: “That’s why we had to vote the way we did today!” That day, House Democrats and nine Republicans voted to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for ignoring a Jan. 6 committee subpoena. Wagner and McCaul voted against the contempt effort.

Wagner’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment. Foreign Affairs’ spokeswoman, Leslie Shedd, denied the account and vowed that McCaul would “never speak to another POLITICO reporter” if Playbook published this item.

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1. Cowardly Republican wanknuts afraid to support facts and truth and America