The Daily Signal - TOP NEWS | New Special Investigative Panels in Congress, Possible Ban on Gas Stoves, Unrest in Brazil | Jan. 9

Episode Date: January 9, 2023

On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down: Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., defeats Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, to win the role as head of the Homeland Security Committee.  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to create new investigative panels in Congress. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission considerers passing restrictions, and even a ban, on natural gas stoves. President Joe Biden denounces the unrest in Brazil’s capital that took place over the weekend.  A former Virginia Tech women’s soccer player sued her coach for violating her First Amendment rights. Now, she has come to a $100K settlement in the case. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Virginia Allen. I'm John Pop. And this is the Daily Signal Top News for Monday, January 9th. Here are today's headline. There is a new chair for the House Committee on Homeland Security. Tennessee Republican Representative Mark Green defeated Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw to win the role as head of the Homeland Security Committee. Green is a combat veteran. He also serves on the House Freedom Caucus.

After his victory earlier today, Green wrote on Twitter that his top priority as chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security is ending the border crisis President Biden created. Green also wrote that he is grateful for his friendship with Crenshaw and looks forward to working with him to address national security challenges. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to create two new investigative panels to earn the support of Republicans who were refused. to back him. The panels are slated to investigate both the origins of COVID-19 and the weaponization of Biden's federal law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and Justice Department, according to a report from Just the News. The committees will look at instances like the FBI investigating parents after an organization compared them to domestic terrorists. The COVID panel will also investigate government funding of gain of function research.

Florida Republican Representative Greg Stuby told just the news, the panels will do the type of things that a good Republican Congress and Judiciary Committee do. Your stove might become illegal. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering passing regulations and even a ban on natural gas stoves. The restrictions and possible ban are because of concerns over harmful air pollutants that research has linked to gas stoves. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. says the stoves have been linked to respiratory issues like asthma. The agency is still gathering information, but Trumka said that a ban is possible because, as he told Bloomberg, products that can't be made safe can be banned.

The Washington Examiner reports that gas stoves are used in about 40 percent of homes across America. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has not yet passed any new restrictions on gas stoves, but we'll be sure to keep following this story and let you all know if that changes. President Joe Biden has denounced the unrest at Brazil's capital that took place over the weekend. Biden, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Obrador, made a joint statement condemning the violence as they were altogether for a summit in Mexico today. The leader said, we stand with Brazil as it safeguards its democratic institutions. Our government support the free will of the people of Brazil.

We look forward to working with President Lula on delivering for our countries, the Western Hemisphere, and beyond. A crowdstorm government buildings in Brazil's capital over the weekend. They were protesting the electoral defeat of Brazil's former president, Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro lost the recent presidential election to President Lula de Silva. Texas Republican Representative Michael McCall tweeted following the event that the scenes over the weekend in Brazil were troubling to see. And he added that he wanted to thank Brazilian authorities for once again securing Brazil's top government institutions. And I urge calm and restraint in the country. A former Virginia Tech women's soccer player sued her coach for violating her First Amendment rights.

Now she has come to a settlement for $100,000. $1. Kirsten Henning was allegedly benched by her coach after she refused to take a knee during a social justice demonstration before a game in September of 2020. The soccer player declined to take a knee with her teammates during a reading of a unity statement. She claimed that her coach, Charles Adair, verbally attacked her during halftime. Henning had played on the team from 2018 to 2020, but left when things became very unpleasant. between her and her coach after she refused to take a knee. Henning sued the coach in 2021 and now is receiving $100,000 for agreeing to dismiss the lawsuit. Henning said in the lawsuit that she supports social justice and believes that Black Lives Matter, but she does not support BLM, the organization.

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