What else one would expect from a former newsreader.

Yesterday afternoon:

Mark Alford @markalfordkc
We’re ready to get to work day one!!!
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4:45 PM · Dec 30, 2022

Abortion:

No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act
This bill makes permanent the long-standing Hyde Amendment as well as similar provisions to prohibit federal funding for abortion and funding for any insurance plan that includes abortion on demand

Expressing the sense of Congress condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches
This resolution expresses the sense of Congress condemning the recent attacks on pro-life facilities, groups, and churches

Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
This bill ensures that infants born alive after an abortion receive the same protection of law and degree of care as any newborn

Kansas.

China:

Establishing the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
This resolution establishes a bipartisan Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act
This bill prohibits the Secretary of Energy from sending petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China

Does the Secretary of Energy use envelopes or boxes to send stuff? Just asking.

Apparently Russia hasn’t been doing anything of note lately.

Evidently they failed to ask Donald Trump(r) about this one:

Prosecutors Need to Prosecute Act
This bill creates transparency in our criminal justice system by letting the public know how many cases prosecutors are declining to prosecute, the number of offenses committed by career criminals, and the number of criminals released

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.