House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer stated he "wouldn’t have pardoned those people," referring to Reps. George Santos, Henry Cuellar and Hernández, despite President Donald Trump's pardons, according to a Notus report shared in an X post by @reesejgorman during the 29-minute reporting window ending at 2:45 PM UTC on December 11. Comer, a Republican, made the comment as GOP lawmakers reckon with the president's clemency decisions, as detailed in the Notus article linked in the X post timestamped within the period from 2:16 PM to 2:45 PM UTC. In a separate development in the same window, Rep. Valerie Foushee faces a Democratic primary challenge from her 2022 rival Nida Allam, who is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Justice Democrats, Leaders We Deserve, Sunrise Movement and the Working Families Party, according to an X post by @AndrewSolender. Political analyst Molly Reynolds noted on X during the reporting window that the number of filed discharge petitions in the House is up this year, providing a chart in her post to illustrate the increase.
