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✪ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is getting to know how the late funnyman Rodney Dangerfield felt around his critics. “No respect,” he’d mutter. That’s how it looks from McCarthy’s loudest jeering section headed by Reps. Adam

Schiff (D-CA), Eric Swalwell (D-CA), and Ilhan Omar (DMN). He booted Schiff and Swalwell off the

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and orchestrated the removal of Omar from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. But our friend Eric Ostermeier

at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs saw that the three are continuing to brag on their websites that they continue as members. “Each of these Democrats have been slow to refresh their political resumes,” said Ostermeier, the author of the nonpartisan Smart Politics blog. … ✪ Here’s something to consider when you’re stuck on hold with the Internal Revenue Service or wondering if everything in Washington takes forever to do. Back in 2016, the Obama administration rolled out plans to add abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s portrait on the $20 bill. Now, seven years later, we are learning from the Congressional Research Service that her bill will be printed for the first time in 2030. … ✪ Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley will likely never shake off MAGA criticism for her scolding of former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Pollster Rick Shaftan, who has been doing deep dives in early primary and caucus states, agrees. In his latest from Haley’s home state of South Carolina, he wrote, “Haley is the ‘Never Trump’ candidate at this stage in the race. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is the candidate for those who once liked Trump but have moved on.” … ★