House Oversight Chair James Comer has dropped his hearing invitation to President Joe Biden after the White House declined it and is instead in a new letter sent today pressing for a slew of documents and a request that the president answer written questions.

After just a few hours, the Senate’s impeachment trial into Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is over and both articles of impeachment have been dismissed. No conviction as expected.

Senate kills second article of impeachment against Mayorkas, it goes down on a 51-49 party-line vote. Murkowski sides with Rs after voting “present” on the first article

Senate just voted to kill the 1st article of impeachment against Mayorkas after a lot of GOP procedural moves to delay. Centrist Lisa Murkowski voted 'present,” but stopped short of voting with Dems.

Article I was: WILLFUL AND SYSTEMIC REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW

TUNE IN: Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson joins @JakeTapper on The Lead CNN today at 4pET to discuss aid for Ukraine, the House GOP conference, and more in the midst of a busy week on Capitol Hill.

Anger from right flank on Johnson: 

Gaetz: “There is no other way to describe it, it is surrender, it is disappointing. I won’t support it.”

Crane: “It's disappointing. It's completely detached from what our base wants what our what our voters want.”

MTG on Johnson: “He’s definitely not going to be speaker next Congress if we’re lucky enough to have a majority. I think that is a widely held belief throughout the Congress.”

How Rs are bracing for another leadership shakeup — either this Congress or next.

Melanie Zanona…

“They’re testing the waters,” a GOP leadership aide told CNN of the Emmer allies

On the quiet discussions about a potential Johnson successor, a GOP lawmaker said: “It keeps bubbling around”

NEW: As Johnson’s position weakens, internal discussions are underway about who could replace him this Congress or next if he can’t hang on to the job

Proxies close to Emmer gauging interest, Emmer repairing Trump relationship

W/Melanie Zanona Manu Raju

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House Republicans send impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate, setting the stage for a trial
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News: Speaker Mike Johnson will try to pass four separate bills this week to provide aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, per sources.
 
But GOP leaders could still take steps to send all those pieces as one package to the Senate.

Some of the provisions that will get a vote:…

House Republican leaders will try to pass four separate bills this week to provide aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, per members and GOP sources. A fourth bill will also include a TikTok ban.
 
But GOP leaders could still take procedural steps to send all those pieces as one…

How House GOP leaders voted on the Biggs-Jayapal FISA amendment 👀

Speaker Johnson: NO
Leader Scalise: NO
Whip Emmer: YES
Conference Chair Stefanik: NO

Locked in an extensive conversation on the House floor: Mike Johnson and MTG

FISA FLIPS VIBE CHECK

These are the 19 they need to flip

✅=flipped, now voting for it
☀️= warming to it
🤐= won’t say

Good ☀️
Luna ☀️
Norman
Burchett
Boebert
Gosar
Gaetz
Bishop 🤐
Cloud
Crane
Higgins
Roy ☀️
Rosedale
Mills
Mace
Steube
Biggs ✅
Ogles
Perry ☀️

Trump claimed FISA was 'illegally used against me' to spy on his 2016 campaign. Former AG Bill Barr told Annie Grayer that the FISA provisions up for reauthorization — which Trump just tanked in the House — “had nothing to do with what happened to him.'

Speaker Mike Johnson elaborates on his FISA flip flop from when he was a rank and file member of the House, explaining that after receiving classified briefings he has a “different perspective.”

Bill Barr came out swinging against Donald Trump & House GOP for tanking FISA in a phone interview with CNN:

“I think it’s a travesty and reckless”

On Trump urging GOP to vote against FISA: “I think that he’s a flawed leader and this shows one of the reasons he is flawed”