WEBVTT - Congress Needs Help - October 3rd, Hour 1 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.160 Breaking news. Now here's Sean Hannity. 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:08.719 All right, here we go as we start the show today. 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:10.399 Thank you for being with us. Let me give you 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.800 my to ur tol mind our toll free number. It's 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.239 eight hundred and ninety four one Seawn. All right. So 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:20.520 the battle over the motion to vacate pushed forward by 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:23.880 Matt Gates that now has had a number of preliminary 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:27.360 votes and the House now debating in the lead up 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.560 to a vote on whether to alice Speaker McCarthy. My 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:33.840 sources are telling me it's just too close to call 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.480 whether or not that's going to happen or not. What's 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.120 been interesting to watch in the lead up to this 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.640 is McCarthy did not have to hold this vote today. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.880 He could have talked to Democrats and cut a deal 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.000 with them. He said that's not an option for me, 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.760 and he's just letting it go. And right now there's 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.720 a lot of angst and anger among the majority of 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.400 Republicans against Matt Gates for doing this. Matt Gates just 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:01.520 got up to speak. 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:06.160 Let's play this, gentlemen from Oklahoma's time is reserved, gentlemen from. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:11.039 Florida, Mister speaker, my friend from Oklahoma says that my 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.840 colleagues and I who don't support Kevin McCarthy would plunge 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:21.280 the House and the country into chaos. Chaos is Speaker McCarthy. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:26.120 Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.360 The one thing that the White House, House Democrats and 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.039 many of us on the conservative side of the Republican 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.760 Caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.400 Kevin McCarthy said something to all of us at one 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.000 point or another that he didn't really mean and never 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.880 intended to live up to. I don't think voting against 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.840 Kevin McCarthy is chaos. I think thirty three trillion in 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.920 debt is chaos. I think that facing a two point 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.560 two trillion dollar annual deficit is chaos. I think that 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:00.280 not passing single subject spending bills is chaos. I think 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.560 the fact that we have been governed in this country 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:07.600 since the mid nineties by continuing Resolution and Omnibus is chaos. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.120 And the way to liberate ourselves from that is a 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.400 series of reforms to this body that I would hope 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.919 would outlast Speaker McCarthy's time here, would outlast my time here, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:21.160 and would outlast either of our majorities, reforms that I 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.040 have heard some of the most conservative members of this 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.000 body fight for, and some of the reforms that we've 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.440 been battling for that I've even heard those in the 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.680 Democrat Caucus say would be worthy and helpful to the House, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:38.280 like open amendments, like understanding what the budget is. We 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.960 have been out of compliance with budget laws for most. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.080 Of my life, most of many of your lives. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.720 And by the way, if we did those things, if 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.720 we had single subject bills, if we had an understanding 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.040 on the top line, if we had open amendments, if 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.640 we had trust and honesty and understanding, there would be 0:02:56.680 --> 0:03:00.040 times when my conservative colleagues and I would lose. It 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.320 might be a few times when we'd win. There'd be 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.440 times that we would form partnerships that might otherwise not 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.680 be really predictable in the American body politic, But the 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.880 American people would see us legislating these last few days. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.400 We've suspended the momentum that we had established the week earlier, 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.720 where we were bringing bills to the floor, voting on them, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.560 staying late at night, working hard. That's what the American 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.679 people expect. It's something Speaker McCarthy hasn't delivered, and that's 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:30.120 why I've moved to vacate the chair. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.160 I reserve Gentleman Seimer's reserve. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.640 Genlefro All right, let me let me know when we 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.640 have Jim Jordan queued up as a matter right, we 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.000 have it now. He just spoke a second ago. Let's 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:41.760 go right to that. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.880 Hio is recognized for three minutes. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.000 I thank the gentleman for yielding. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.080 On January third, we said the one hundred and eighteenth 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:51.240 Congress is about three things. Pass the bills that need pass, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.960 do the oversight work that needs to be done, and 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.920 stop the inevitable omnibus that comes from the United States 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.720 Senate right before the holidays. Kevin McCarthy has been rock 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.800 solid on all three. We have passed the bills we 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:07.120 told the American people we would pass. Eighty seven thousand 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.080 iras agents. That bill passed, parents Bill of Rights, that 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:16.120 bill passed, Energy legislation, passed, Border security, immigration enforcement legislation, 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.040 the strongest bill ever to pass the Congress passed earlier 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:20.560 this year. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:22.760 We have done what we told them we were going 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:22.960 to do. 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:24.800 We can't help, but the Senate won't take up those 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.279 good common sense bills. They'll have to answer to the 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:32.360 American people come election day. Oversight. We have done the 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.680 oversight that we're supposed to do. Because of our oversight, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.799 we know that parents were targeted by the Department of Justice. 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.200 Because of our oversight, we know that fifty one former 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.520 Intel officials misled the country weeks before the most important 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:45.160 election we have. 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.600 And because of our oversight, the. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:51.440 Disinformation Governance Board at the Department of Homeland Security is gone. 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.800 Because of our oversight, the memo attacking pro life Catholics 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:56.560 has been rescinded because. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:57.080 Of our oversight. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.200 Unannounced visits to Americans home by the Internal Revenue Service 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:06.960 has stopped. That happened under Speaker McCarthy. And on the 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.440 third one, on this side of that, we know there's 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.560 a big, old, ugly bill coming at the end of 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.320 the year, all kinds of spending, all kinds of garbage 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:14.600 in it. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:16.080 We're still in that fight. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.040 Frankly, to Matt's point, we don't know how that one's 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.400 going to shake out, but we do know this. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:22.800 We do know this. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.880 On Saturday, we didn't take the Senate's bill they tried 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.080 to send over and shove it down. Our throats on side. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.039 We didn't take that bill, and it was a tough 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.000 position he was in. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.839 There were five options on the table last week. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.719 Option one was send a long term cr over there 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.000 that would have leverage the one percent cut, something a 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.000 bunch of us voted for. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.479 Both parties couldn't get the votes for that. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.520 When second option was to focus on d one issue, 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.960 the country now is completely focused on the border issue. 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:54.120 We couldn't get the votes for that one either. But 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.880 when the Senate tried to send us that bill, he 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.800 said no to it. I think the Speaker has kept 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.560 his word. My colleagues and friends are saying different. I 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.679 think he has kept his word on those three things 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.720 that we talked about on January third, Franklin that entire week. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:08.960 He has kept his word. I think we should keep 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.480 him as speaker. I yeel back, all right. 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.680 So there's a lot of things that are going on here. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.040 So I'm literally texting with members right now that are 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.760 on the House floor as we speak. And Chip Roy 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.640 who'll be with us at the top of the next hour, 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.840 and Byron Donald's will be with us at the top 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.960 of the next hour. He just wrote, I said, how's 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.279 this end? He writes, it's going to be close. It 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.040 is going to be close, and you know, it's it's 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.080 hard to say. I just don't know. Now that a 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.480 lot of people say, well, what happens if that happens. 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.560 I guess it's something we need to look at at 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:49.479 this moment. But after these last ditch efforts anyway, Republicans 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.520 now went forward with the idea. It's probably fifty to 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.400 fifty maybe more of a likelihood McCarthy will be removed 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:02.159 according to some people with the dye ynamics, some people 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.520 speaking only on the condition of anonymity, So I'm not 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.600 sure I would vote those people. As in the push 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:13.640 McCarthy out category, a majority of Republicans avowed to renominate 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.560 McCarthy to the position, not allow the House to adjourn 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.560 until he retakes the speakership, many pointing out that there's 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.960 a united front within the GOP conference to prevent anyone 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:27.360 else from winning the speakership bub McCarthy, Though, they realize 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.640 that if the anti McCarthy Republicans never flipp they're going 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.880 to have to rely on Democrats to determine the speaker. Democrats. 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.280 You know what if I was then might sit back 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.600 and I enjoy the Adam Shift show, and I wouldn't 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.640 lift a finger to help anybody. And that's what I 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:45.320 would advise Republicans to do. At the time, McCarthy himself, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.400 this is under House rules, was required to turn over 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.080 to the House Clerk. What is a list of members 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.720 that could temporarily serve as Speaker of the House if 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.800 in fact he is ousted from power or if the 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.400 office becomes vacant. The list is secret. The power would 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.480 allow a lawmaker of McCarthy's choosing to temporarily exercise the 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.920 powers of the speakership. The rules do require that the 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:15.360 Speaker pro temp must be a current member of the House. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:16.760 By the way, you don't have to even be an 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.080 elected member of Congress to be speaker. The speaker's ship 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.320 is more than just one of the most powerful posts 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.400 in Congress. The House Speaker is also the second in 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.920 line to the presidency after the vice presidency. Congressional rules 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.800 expert did point out that this temporary speaker could theoretically 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.920 remain in power. The Speaker pro tem could stay in 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.480 the chair. It's just one of the many possibilities that 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.040 could unfold here. The name that I've heard most often 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.280 although he just got up and spoke in favor of 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:54.960 Speaker McCarthy was what's his name, congressman now ms, what's 0:08:54.960 --> 0:09:02.280 his name? He's from Minnesota, Emmers from Minnesota. Anyway, So 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.599 right now this is going to be close according to 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.559 the people. Here's what the votes that we're looking at, 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:14.719 you know, Crane, Rosenberg, Biggs, Gates, Good and Burshett Hard No, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.800 unclear about Buck Mills and a few others. So it's 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.079 going to be a close vote today. Bad the guests, 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.920 maybe they get they out oust them by one at 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:28.320 this moment. One of the things that's frustrating to me, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.760 and and I know Speaker of Gingrich is furious about this. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.439 He actually on Tuesday call for House Republicans to expel 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.079 Matt Gates. Look, I don't think tip for tat is 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.319 the answer to this either, and the idea that Republicans 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.640 would turn on another Republican and try and use an 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.480 ethics violation that probably had its own political motivations behind 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:53.640 it is the answer either. What's frustrating is, on the 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.040 one hand, Gates starts out with the proposition that is 0:09:57.080 --> 0:10:00.720 dead on accurate. There was promised to do a appropriations 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.200 bills they didn't get them all done on time, and 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.679 they shouldn't have taken the August recess as far as 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.640 I'm concerned. But you know, frankly, the more time these 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.520 people are out of Washington, I think the better of 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.880 most of us are. But the twelve Appropriations Bill, you know, 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.280 the beauty if there's any good to take out of 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:23.080 the forty five day Extension CR, which was the worst 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.960 CR of the three that were brought up, the beauty 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.760 is they can get all twelve appropriations done and complete 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.319 and therein satisfy what people that have been anti McCarthy 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.640 have been saying that they want. You know, I've been 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:41.600 listening to some of these guys and they've been even 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.480 critical of Jordan and James Comer, and I'm like, well, 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.480 that's really not warranted considering all that they've been able 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:55.559 to discover and expose under very difficult circumstances, because nobody 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.199 in the Biden White House has been cooperative in any way, shape, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.960 mannor form u. But ging Rich is even saying that 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.720 the Republicans could expel Gates. That's not an option either. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.120 They don't have the margins to do it. One of 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.200 the reasons we're in this position is because the margin 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.440 of the Republican majority is that small. But I will 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.320 tell you at the end of the day, if they 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.160 are seen as a party you know that can't get 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.360 their act together, that's not going to end well for 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.000 them or for anybody. Uh and certainly not heading into 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.440 an election year where all of them are up for reelection. 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.120 So anyway, the what what's what's going to be interesting 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:37.880 to watch here is if whether in fact the Republicans, 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.400 you know, what what they do here first and foremost. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.679 But what's frustrating to me is there were two opportunities, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:48.040 two for the Republicans to really get their act together 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:52.720 and and get it and have a continuing resolution that 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.800 meant something. And this is what Chip Roy and Byron 0:11:56.840 --> 0:11:58.520 Donald's and they'll join us again at the top of 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.520 the next hour, were very successful and putting together and 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.000 threading a needle and doing a great job. The first 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.280 one was an eight percent cut in spending across the 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:12.080 board with three exceptions, Defense, Homeland Security, and veterans. Eight 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.120 percent cut for thirty days to give time to finish 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.920 the appropriations process. To me was a good deal. It 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.760 was you know, the Gates flank that decided they didn't 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.280 want to go along with that. I thought that was 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.400 a good deal. And by the way that they were 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:30.160 all Freedom Caucus guys, Scott Perry, Byron Donald's, Chip Roy, 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:36.040 these are solid, solid conservatives. The second one, they actually 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.520 were going to cut a whopping, you know, thirty percent 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:44.280 in spending, I mean, which is a massive amount of money. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.280 I have the exact specifications here on what it is 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.600 that they put forward, and I thought it worked. One, 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.120 it would increase spending for the Department of Defense plus 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.160 twenty eight billion dollars in line with the debt deal. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.960 It would include funding for veterans and increase that two 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.880 point five billion, and the Department of Homeland Security. But 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:08.120 it also would have combined with HR two. HR two 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:11.760 is the Republican Bill, which would be the giant step 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.600 that would end Biden's open borders policies. And the two 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.240 main goals that Republicans should be having as a result 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:23.920 of this opportunity, where they would otherwise have leverage if 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:28.320 they stuck together, is to fight for demand and not 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:33.320 back down on the issue of fiscal responsibility, drastic cuts, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:39.440 getting rid of this previous financial deal that was made. 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:43.080 This omnibus deal that was made with Schumer and McConnell 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.360 back in December and change that upfront. That would be 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.280 the number one goal. The second goal's got to be 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.559 to close our borders, and if they would pull that off, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.040 they'd be doing the country a great service and fulfilling 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.600 their own campaign promises. Well, we'll see anyway, the debate 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.319 is under not sure how long that will last. We'll 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.440 follow it all throughout the afternoon, full complete coverage of 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.040 all of this. We've got updates on what's going on. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:11.560 What do you hear with this judge in this Trump 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.200 case actually had to say in a speech at Queensboro 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.120 College just a few years ago. Let me tell you 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.960 the frustrating part from my point of view as I 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:25.800 watch all of this is and Donald Trump summed it 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.760 up well in a truth Social posting this morning. Why 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.240 is the Republicans are always fighting among themselves? Why aren't 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.280 they fighting the radical love Democrats that are destroying the country, 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.000 he writes on truth Social. And it came during a 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:41.920 break during his fraud trial, which, by the way, we 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.880 have new news to break on that front today, which 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:48.400 we will do. And the reality is, when you have 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:53.400 a four vote margin that is so tiny. And I've 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.880 been saying this over and over again that and I've 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.000 said this privately to many of these people that have disagreements, 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:04.200 get behind closed doors, throw your phones, you know, in 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:10.160 the garbage somewhere outside, and get together and hammer out agreements. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.360 Because at the end of the day, it's not Republican 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.240 policies that are hurting the country. What's hurting the country 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:21.800 is what the democratic radical climate alarmist religious cult is 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.560 doing to the country. And with a four vote majority, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:30.080 sometimes three, based on circumstances, you don't have any margins 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:38.479 to play with here, Hannity, Last Big Government. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:43.160 This is the Sean Hannity Show, all. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:44.800 Right, twenty five down to the top of the hour, 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.000 toll free. Our number is eight hundred nine point one. Sean. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.119 If you want to be a part of the program, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.480 you know, I understand the frustration of some people because 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.800 they want to get back to what Congress ought to 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:01.640 be doing. There is a very valid argument to this 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.960 that we need to have an appropriations process as a 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.560 matter of course, and that is funding twelve separate bills. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.800 So far, they have dealt with four of the twelve. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.800 They haven't gotten the twelve complete. Now, the beauty of 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.600 what Chip Roy and Scott Perry and Byron Donald's have 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.440 done is they provided leading up to today which would 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:30.320 have rendered today irrelevant. And frankly, I just think it's 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:34.200 just a bad look for the Republicans overall. I understand it, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.680 considering the margin is tiny and small, and you know, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.200 everybody's got their own little agenda, you know, agenda's going on, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.960 and I understand the principle of wanting to have appropriations bills. Okay, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.440 in a way, the people that have been fighting for 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.840 that actually won that battle. Had they only just taken 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:55.920 the bridge that was offered by conservatives of the Freedom Caucus, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.600 and that was Chip Roy, Byron Donald, Scott Perry, and 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.360 that would have been an eight percent cut immediately, while 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.080 they temporarily would up funding for the Department of Defense, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:12.200 Homeland Security, for the borders, and veterans. Then they came 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.639 up with a thirty Then they came up with thirty 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:19.920 percent across the board cut again with funding of those 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.280 three priorities, and that that would have, you know, not 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.280 required what we ended up with, which was a forty 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.040 five day continuing resolution occurrent spending levels. But if the 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.560 goal here is and the goal is noble, and the 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.680 goal is right, and this is certainly worth fighting for 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.840 if you want the appropriations bills that will deal with 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.920 all of these issues. The beauty is if the Republicans 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.840 can break this log jam within the House of Representatives. Remember, 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.840 they have one half of one body of Congress here, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.399 one branch of Congress. And the beauty of it is 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.480 that had they taken that bridge, passed and finished the 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:04.119 appropriates build process, all of the issues surrounding securing the 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:09.240 border HR two, all of the issues involving funding for defense, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:14.679 homeland security, border security, veterans benefits, and all of the 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.639 necessary spending cuts so we can avoid two trillion dollars 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.960 in new debt next year like we've had this year. 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.480 That that would have been a job well done and 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.359 everyone could pat each other on the back with the 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.680 massive win because at that point, as soon as they 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.720 pass that bill with their small majority, and we still 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.680 may get there, and I'm hopeful that we may get there. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.000 If we get there, then that means okay, now the 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:46.040 Senate's got to deal with this. I want the pressure 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:49.920 on Mitch McConnell, not on the House of Representative House 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.280 is nowhere near the problem that the senators. The Senate 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:56.320 is where the real problem is. But then you'd get 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.359 conservatives in the Senate like Mike Lee and Ted Cruse 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:06.119 and Ran Paul and Mark Rubio and others saying, uh huh, 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.880 we're going along with a House bill. Then they've got 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.840 themselves a problem in the Senate. When they finally try 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.320 to pass a bill, they will pass a bill with 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.159 a lot more spending and a lot less border security, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.960 and then they go to a conference with the House, 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.680 and at that point the House can just hold firm 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:27.720 and then if anybody at that point is going to 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:31.800 be responsible for a quote the dreaded government shutdown that 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:36.080 never really is dreaded. You know, it is all hype, 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:41.200 It is all misinformation, and it's unfortunately, as they fight 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.160 amongst themselves here, this is the wrong place, the wrong time, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.520 the wrong fight, especially considering we had multiple off ramps 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.240 put together by some of the most solid conservative members 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:56.520 in the House, as supported by even Donald Trump, who 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.239 has weighed in on this, and it is right in 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.160 his comments that you know why he actually took time 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:06.360 from his own New York trial involving his business empire 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.240 to actually put on truth social Why are these Republicans 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.240 fighting among themselves? Why are they not fighting the radical 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:16.600 left Democrats that are the ones destroying the country. That's that, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.919 That is where the focus and the fight needs to be. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.359 We might get there. You know, I'm not wringing my 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.879 hands as all of this unfolds. You know, it's you know, 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.840 sometimes you got to break a few eggs to get 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.359 a good scrambled egg lunch. There. Let me go to 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:36.440 a Steve Scalize, who just spoke the majority leader. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.760 Mister Scalise is recognized, Speaker, thank my friend from Oklahoma 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:43.360 for yielding. And when we go back to January, as 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.040 many people have, we knew that it was going to 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.240 be a narrow majority. We also knew that it wasn't 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:50.640 going to be easy. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:52.480 How many of us. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.440 Came here because we thought this job was going to 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:57.720 be easy. How many of us thought the task ahead 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.639 of us to address the problems to this country was 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:01.399 going to be easy. 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:04.760 One thing we did know is that if we were. 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.320 Going to finally start confronting problems that had been ignored 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.280 for years and years and years, we had to change 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:15.159 the way that this place worked. And one thing, Speaker 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:19.320 McCarthy embraced from day one is to start making those 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.639 kind of changes to this institution, opening up the process, 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.480 allowing members to be more engaged, having amendments come to 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:32.720 the floor, single subject bills, doing appropriations bills. Yes, making 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:37.639 that happen overnight is not something that happens automatically, but 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.359 it started to happen and we are now seeing the 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:43.119 fruits of it. Just last week, we had four different 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:46.840 appropriations bills on this House floor, four different ones. Now, 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:50.040 those bills took weeks and weeks to finally get to 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.480 the floor, going through an open committee process, hundreds of 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:58.000 amendments each one of them, where Republicans Democrats could bring 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:02.440 their ideas abated those bills on the floor, some until 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:07.560 after midnight, where members can actually participate in the process. 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.440 This has been a broken process for a long time, 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.280 but it's a process where we if we're going to 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:17.640 confront the problems that families are facing, because right now 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.800 we need to resolve our differences inside this House chamber 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:23.719 before we can then go and fight for those families 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.680 who are struggling. But every single day across America, families 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:30.879 are struggling with real problems that we're going to have 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.600 to get back to solving and those problems are real 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:38.160 for them. It's inflation, it's the economy, it's high energy costs. 0:22:38.560 --> 0:22:41.520 It's an open southern border that doesn't just affect the 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:46.359 border states. It's affecting every state. Republican districts, Democrat districts. 0:22:46.520 --> 0:22:49.639 Everybody knows it. And it can be ignored by the 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:53.200