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| Greetings, OnPolitics readers! |
| We're heading into another news-filled week, starting with a weekend recap. |
| On Saturday, prominent Democrats President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama and several others mourned late senator and former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a "giant American, plain-spoken, honorable, decent, brave, an unyielding man," according to Biden, who spoke at Reid's Las Vegas funeral. |
| Reid died last month at 82 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The former boxer rose from humble beginnings to serve for 30 years in Congress — the longest-serving senator in Nevada's history. |
| More on Harry Reid: The late senator was 'tough-as-nails strong'. A formal ceremony in Reid's honor will be held in the Capitol rotunda on Wednesday, Jan. 12. |
| It's Amy and Chelsey with today's top stories out of Washington. |
Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan says he won't testify before Jan. 6 committee |
| The House select committee responsible for investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed Rep. Jim Jordan last month to testify. But the Ohio Republican has refused to comply. |
| Jordan, who is among the lawmakers who texted former chief of staff to then-President Donald Trump Mark Meadows about preventing the certification of Electoral College votes from the 2020 presidential election, said he has "no relevant information" for the committee and accused legislators of bias in the investigation. |
| "Even if I had information to share with the Select Committee, the actions and statements of Democrats in the House of Representatives show that you are not conducting a fair-minded and objective inquiry," Jordan wrote in a letter posted to Twitter. |
| Will Jordan be punished? While committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., originally indicated that anyone who refused to comply with a subpoena would be held accountable, he has since conceded it is more difficult for the committee to hold sitting members of Congress in contempt of the body in which they serve. |
Real quick: stories you'll want to read |
| • | Johnson running for reelection: U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Sunday he's running for re-election, breaking a campaign pledge to serve only two terms, determined to keep the seat in Republican hands and sway the balance of political power in Washington. | | • | Voters reject Cawthorn's candidacy: A group of North Carolina voters told state officials they want U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified as a congressional candidate, citing his involvement in last January's rally in Washington questioning the presidential election outcome before a Capitol riot later that day. | | • | A family reunited: A baby who was handed over to US soldiers over an Afghanistan airport wall amid the Taliban takeover of the country was finally reunited with his family over four months later. | | • | 164 killed in Kazakhstan protests: Kazakhstan's health ministry said Sunday that 164 people have been killed in protests over a spike in fuel prices that have rocked the country over the past week. | |
Are Biden and Democrats ready for the 2022 midterms? |
| Led by President Joe Biden's searing speech on Thursday, Democrats head into the new year with a reinvigorated message, warning that the fate of democracy is at stake as Trump and his Republican allies continue to push allegations of election fraud. |
| But Democrats face a risk if they make saving democracy their campaign mantra in the 2022 midterms. Polling suggests their warnings haven't resonated with voters in their uphill bid to keep control of Congress. And with rising inflation and soaring COVID-19 cases, Democrats could appear tone-deaf to pocketbook issues if they pin their political hopes on the more abstract issue of preserving democracy. |
| "There's not much evidence that making democracy itself the issue is effective for winning votes when other issues are more important to voters," said Matt Grossman, who heads the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University. |
| What are voters concerned about? Economic woes are still top of mind concerns among voters, according to Gallup's latest tracking poll in November, with 26% of voters saying economic issues such as rising inflation and jobs are the most important problem facing the nation. |
| Did you know? On this day in 2017, President Barack Obama gave his farewell address after serving two terms as president. — Amy and Chelsey |
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