House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is reworking his floor staff after the promotion of a new chief of staff.
Yvette Wissmann will be Scalise’s new floor director. Wissmann was deputy floor director to Eric Zulkosky, now the chief of staff. Wissmann was the policy director at the NRCC. She was also in charge of coalitions for the House Ways and Means Committee.
Brenna Elliott will be deputy floor director. Elliott was formerly a floor assistant for Scalise. Bryson Henriott will be a senior floor associate.
Scoop: A super PAC supporting Rep. Andy Barr’s (R-Ky.) Senate bid is going on air with a $500,000 ad buy. The 30-second spot from the group, Keep America Great PAC, features video of President Donald Trump praising Barr.
Barr is locked in a three-way primary to replace retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Also running: former Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and businessman Nate Morris.
Strike scrutiny: A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing for details from President Donald Trump on his administration’s ongoing military strikes targeting alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific.
The new letter from Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.), Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) calls on Trump to outline the legal rationale behind the strikes, lay out his plan for briefing Congress on aspects of the operations and say whether he will seek an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) from lawmakers, among other things.
The missive sets a Nov. 14 response deadline. It comes after the House Armed Services Committee received a classified Pentagon briefing on the operations last week.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is slated to brief Republican and Democratic members of the so-called “Gang of 12” on the strikes today, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. Senate Democrats were shut out of a classified GOP briefing last week on the topic.
