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Reps. August Pfluger, Buddy Carter say family members were saved from lethal Texas flooding

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Two Republican members of Congress said family members were rescued from the flooding that has hammered Central Texas since Friday, killing dozens.

Texas Rep. August Pfluger wrote on X Saturday that his daughters were saved from Camp Mystic, a famous girls-only Christian camp that sits near the Guadalupe River in Texas’s Kerr County, and had been reunited with the family.

“The last day has brought unimaginable grief to many families and we mourn with them as well as holding out hope for survivors,” he wrote. “We want to thank the first responders who have come from far and wide to save lives.”

The floods have killed at least 69 people throughout the region (some sources indicate 70 were known dead), including at least 21 children. Eleven campers and one counselor from Camp Mystic were still missing, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said in a news conference Sunday.

While not identifying the camp by name, Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter announced Sunday that his granddaughters had also been saved from the flooding. But their cousin was killed, he said.

“As you may have heard, my granddaughters were at the summer camp in Texas that flooded,” Carter wrote on X. “They are safe, and I thank you for your well-wishes and prayers during this time. Unfortunately, not everyone was as lucky. My granddaughters lost their cousin, Janie, and many other families are grieving loved ones.”

Camp Mystic has long been favored ground for the state’s political elite. According to Texas Monthly, future first lady Laura Bush was a counselor at Camp Mystic when she was in college, and the daughters, granddaughters and great-grandfathers of President Lyndon B. Johnson attended camp there.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott visited the camp’s wreckage on Sunday. The rescue and recovery mission is ongoing, he said in a post on X.

“We won’t stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins,” Abbott wrote.

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Senate votes to halt Iran war despite Trump’s push for peace deal

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The Senate on Tuesday voted to cut off the U.S. military campaign against Iran, handing a fresh loss to President Donald Trump despite his attempts to convince lawmakers and the public that a deal to end the war is at hand.

Four Republicans broke ranks to help approve a resolution to block further military action unless it is green-lighted by Congress.

The war powers measure is largely symbolic — the resolution cleared Tuesday doesn’t go to the president to sign or veto. But the bipartisan 50-48 vote is a damaging milestone for the Trump administration: Both the Senate and House have now weighed in against the Middle East conflict that’s stretched on for more than 100 days. The same measure passed the House in early June after months of close calls.

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Housing bill threatened in GOP elections-bill spat

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The long-anticipated bipartisan housing bill is under threat from a Florida Republican who threatened to “shut the floor down” if House GOP leaders move forward with passing it Tuesday.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Republicans instead need to prioritize passage of the SAVE America Act, the GOP elections bill that has been stuck in the Senate for months. Speaker Mike Johnson has scheduled a Tuesday evening vote on the housing bill in hopes of sending it to President Donald Trump for a planned Wednesday signing at the White House.

Luna posted her threat on social media Tuesday afternoon and later specified in an interview that she would oppose procedural measures teeing up GOP-backed legislation going forward if party leaders didn’t abandon their plans to hold the housing bill vote via special fast-track procedures that would effectively sideline Republican hard-liners.

Luna cannot single-handedly block those procedural votes, but she said there is “a group” of lawmakers who would join her. She separately called on Trump to veto the housing bill in a bid to force the SAVE America Act to be added to it.

Johnson plans for now to proceed with the Tuesday evening vote on the housing bill, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss internal conversations. If Luna and her unnamed allies follow through with their threats, they could derail a pair of appropriations bills set for House consideration this week and potentially freeze the floor indefinitely given the GOP’s razor-thin majority.

“I have been telling them,” Luna said of her complaints to GOP leaders.

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Top tech executives expected to testify at July 28 Senate hearing

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The Senate Judiciary Committee is tentatively planning to have top tech executives testify at a July 28 hearing, according to five people with knowledge of the committee’s plans granted anonymity to discuss private negotiations.

Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) had previously summoned the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and Google to a hearing, originally scheduled for Tuesday, to discuss their online child safety practices, AI safety and other topics.

“Chairman Grassley looks forward to a productive hearing as he continues his bipartisan efforts to get lifesaving child safety legislation signed into law,” a spokesperson for Grassley told Blue Light News.

The hearing, which remains provisional, comes at a pivotal moment for the tech sector. Congress is actively debating legislation aimed at protecting children online, while courts and state attorneys general are intensifying pressure on social media companies over allegations that their platforms harm young users.

The list of tech executives the committee is eyeing to testify remains in flux but currently includes head of Instagram Adam Mosseri and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, according to the five people. Three of the people said Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel and CEO of TikTok’s U.S.-based joint venture company Adam Presser may also be called to attend.

The four companies did not immediately comment on the proposed hearing.

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