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Kevin McCarthy Plays Pretend Over Humiliating Republican Meltdown
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January 9, 2023
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4:07Now PlayingKevin McCarthy gives his first speech as Speaker of the House and decides to ignore the disastrous multi-day House Speaker vote. Francesca Fiorentini and Wosny Lambre break it down on The Damage Report.
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Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy
"WASHINGTON — Smarting after a dozen years under iron-fisted Republican rule, House Democrats promised to do things differently and open up the institution when they regained majority control in 2007.
One of their changes was to allow any lawmaker to offer amendments to the voluminous spending bills once they hit the floor. Republicans seized the opportunity and put forth scores of politically charged proposals to alter a routine agriculture spending bill, bringing the debate to a virtual standstill. Democrats quickly reversed course and put limits on amendments.
Now the new House Republican majority is proposing to make institutional changes of its own as part of a rules package Speaker Kevin McCarthy negotiated with hard-right rebels in exchange for their support for his job. The handful of Republicans who are forcing the changes, which are scheduled to be considered on Monday, pointed to the rushed approval in December of a roughly $1.7 trillion spending bill to fund the entire government as an example of back-room legislating at its worst."
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