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Frank Thorp V

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Frank Thorp V

@frankthorp

Coordinating Producer & Off-Air Reporter covering Congress at @NBCNews. Instagram: (frankthorpv) Order the "After the Riot" photobook NOW (Link below)

Washington, DC

Joined February 2008

Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Dec 8, 2020
ROMNEY on GOP Reps threatening to protest electoral college vote: “This is madness. We have a process, recounts are appropriate, going to the court is approp & pursuing every legal avenue is appropriate, but trying to get electors not to do what the people voted to do is madness”
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Apr 29, 2021
. @VP Harris crosses through the Capitol rotunda on her way to Pres Biden’s joint address:
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Jul 23, 2019
Awesome moment: Jon Stewart embraces a crying John Feal, the 9/11 first responder who led the organization pushing for the full extension of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, just after the bill passed in the Senate 97-2:
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Jan 7, 2021
SCHUMER on invoking the 25th amendment: "Speaker Pelosi & I tried to call the VP this morning to tell him to do this, they kept us on hold for 25 mins and then said the VP wouldn't come on the phone. So we are making this call public because he should do it and do it right away."
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
May 3, 2022
MURKOWKSI on if she felt that SCOTUS nominees misled her during the confirmation process: "My confidence in the court has been rocked. "
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Oct 22, 2019
TRUMP on Oct 3rd: "I spoke to (McConnell)...he said, 'That was the most innocent phone call that I've read.'" MCCONNELL today: "I don't recall any conversations with the President about that phone call."
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Jun 9, 2020
ROMNEY on Pres Trump's tweet this morning: "I saw the tweet, it was a shocking thing to say, and I won’t dignify it with any further comment."
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Feb 7, 2018
GOP @SenJohnKennedy: Q: Do you think a military parade is a good idea? KENNEDY: “No.” Q: Why not? KENNEDY: "I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud.”
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Apr 16, 2025
Sen VAN HOLLEN in El Salvador: "I want to emphasize that President Trump and our Attorney General, Pam Bondi, and the Vice President of the United States are lying. And they say that Abrego Garcia has been charged with a crime or as part of MS 13, that is a lie."
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Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Feb 5, 2020
Q: Why did you tear up the speech? PELOSI: “Because it was the courteous thing to do.” PELOSI: “It was the courteous thing to do considering the alternative.”
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Mar 24, 2022
NEW: McConnell, in a speech on the floor, says he "cannot and will not support Judge Jackson" for the Supreme Court.
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Jul 28, 2017
McCain leaving the Capitol asked why he voted NO: "I thought it was the right thing to do."
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Feb 5, 2019
House Democratic women dressed in white for the #SOTU walk up the spiral staircase in the HVC —>
Frank Thorp V
@frankthorp
Jun 19, 2018
LISTEN: As Pres Trump’s entourage entered Speaker Ryan’s office in the Capitol, someone on the other side of the Capitol rotunda yelled: “Mr. President, F—k you!!” (He entered about 15 seconds later):
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