Transcripts For CSPAN Washington 20240703

Legislation and its impact on consumers and the aviation industry. And then we discuss the youth vote and campus protests with courtney hope britt, and sohali vaddula. Cspans washington journal join in the conversation live at 7 00 eastern on cspan, cspan. Org, cspan now, our mobile video app. Host Natalie Andrews joins us, in congress for the wall street journal, thanks for joining us. Lets start with the house. What are they working on this week . Guest it is one of those weeks where you could have a normal week, but we are looking maybe on the level 10 bananas side of the house. I like to say that the house is going to house and this maybe be one of those weeks. Host why is that . Guest they are going to go after some Home Appliances, a partisan issue for republicans. They dont like the Biden Administration regulations on Home Appliances and feel it is a winning issue for them. We expect johnson to talk more about the protests on college campuses. Hanging over everyones head is whether or not Marjorie Taylor greene executes a motion to vacate and throws the schedule out. Host what brought us to this point when it comes to this attempt . Guest detractors will say three things, which are not a ton of people, there are three people signed on to the motion to vacate, they point to the appropriations process which frustrated them. They felt that johnson didnt hold true to what he said he was going to do when he became speaker. Then they point to the fisa reauthorization. They wanted an amendment on being warrants for all searches and johnson was that a five deciding vote against that. That upset them. Then they pointed to the 95 billion in aid that included healthy portions for ukraine, which Marjorie Taylor greene said all along, if ukraine aid comes to the floor for a vote, she will execute a motion to vacate. So, those three things are what a lot of detractors and critics there are two groups, people signing onto the motion to vacate and a group of two if asked to vote for johnson on the floor, what they do it . Maybe, maybe not. Host one of those critics, bob good, i want to play a bit of what he had to say. I doubt that, she has been hearing, as the rest of us have in our district, the time for a speaker battle visit in november after the election. Lets focus on reelecting president trump. If she moved forward there would be a motion to table, motion whether or not to move forward with a vote to vacate the speaker and i think that would likely fail and i dont think we would actually vote on whether to vacate the speaker. That sounds like a know from you. Ok. But congressman thomas massie, go ahead. I just want to clarify, just because you dont believe it is time to take the action with a two vote to three vote margin, more narrow than a year ago when she was criticizing those of us who challenge the speaker back in january were voted to remove the speaker in october when we had a nine vote majority and worked six months away from an election, its interesting that none of us who were a part of it called for the action, we realize its more dangerous, reckless, risky to do it now. Host so, if both sides approach. What did you get from that . Guest the folks that voted to oust key in ousting the earthy and have really faced blowback. Hes not wrong about that. Several are facing primary challenges, including bob good. There is an interesting place there in the conference and they arent fans of it. Now there is the question of whether johnson survives another day right now, but it seems that the real russians who do they elect to be speaker early in january . That is mostly what the detractors are saying. Host Marjorie Taylor greene was one of the leaders. Who else is leading this . Is it just a general dislike or are there . Guest it seems that there are some process issues. Matthews is big on process. He likes things to go the way he things that he has to we he thinks they should and his objections were tied to obsess over fisa, thats when he joined on and go sare joined on shortly after. Host you can call into join the conversation. The numbers are 202 7488000 for democrats, 202 7488001 for republicans, and independents, 202 7488002. You can text questions to our guest at 202 7488003. How is it that the Democratic Party in the house is supporting johnson in the position . Guest they want to not deal with another three weeks of chaos. They said that the man you know did what they asked and thats what they did all along and its different from when mccarthy was ousted. Democrats are willing to vote on the motion to table thats likely to pass and the motion to vacate vote will likely not happen because democrats have said that they will support the motion to table because they said if you put ukraine aid on and do the things we are asking were, it puts your job at risk and we will help you out. That has never happened before. Some democrats wanted to do it for speaker mccarthy. But its different in that mccarthy had burned a lot of bridges. He had, democrats felt that they had tried to extend trust to him that had been burned several times. With johnson, they didnt know him as well. Hes unknown. What hes done so far has been very transactional, done what they asked, they would vote for the motion to table. If it came up again, i would expect their patients to wane. Host as far as the senate is concerned, what are they concerned with this week . Guest deadline to reauthorize the faa. The key debate, it is one of those trains leaving the stations. A lot of lawmakers try to get some things that are not related to jump on. When one of the key debates here in washington is over allowing more flight to come into reagan airport. The local lawmakers from virginia and maryland are very opposed to this, but members of congress that fly back and forth each week want their direct flights. They are pushing for five round trip flights, 10 new flights to the airport. It will be interesting to see who wins on that. Host theresa, tennessee, you are on with our guest, Natalie Andrews. Good morning. Caller good morning. I support the motion to vacate for speaker johnson. I think he has been the worst speaker of the Republican Party has ever had. He gave in to every whim that the Democratic Party wanted. We cant trust him to go forward on these bills that we are facing now. I mean, i know its not going to pass, we arent going to get rid of him. We will get rid of him in november. We will not vote for any republican to hold the house. We wont do it. The republicans have not earned our vote in november because of the house. All i want is a recorded vote. I want to see the vote. I want to see the democrats vote who they call a White Nationalist over their africanamerican speaker that they want. I want the proof that they have sold out completely. I want to see which republicans vote against it. They are not going to keep the house. I hope mike johnson doesnt keep his job in november. Guest to clarify, you are ok if the house loses this fall . Caller how could it be worse than what mike johnson does . If there is a debit that in the seat, i think maybe the republicans might fight against it, maybe, but they have all sold out, they have all sold out. Host gotcha. Guest part of the problem for johnson is he has these detractors standing so staunchly against the elements that as speaker you often feel you need to bring to the floor. We want to keep the lights on. He has had a hard time unifying his party around the actions to democrats. We seen this problem with republican speakers for years. John boehner worked with nancy pelosi. Nancy pelosi became masterful at this. She knew the republicans couldnt pass key bills through the house, even with bigger majorities than what Mike Johnson Mike johnson had a very small minority. I mean, i dont know if we have ever had as small a minority as mike johnson has right now. So, pelosi became masterful at this. He can offer the state must pass none. If johnson could muscle it through with republicans, he would be able to argue for more conservative wins, but because he cant he has to bring the bills to where he can get democrats through. If he doesnt want to keep the lights on, he could go and face the republicans. Host that idea of republicans being ok with losing the house, is that ok in the republicans you talk to . Guest not the ones i talk to, they feel majority is very important, however you do get a lot of them worrying that this chaos could cause them to lose the majority, which is why i think some of them want to get the motion to table out of the way and they want to be done with it to show that they can govern. Host lets hear from louise. Democratic line, thanks for calling. Caller i think that speaker johnson did the right thing. Votes like Marjorie Taylor greene and all, they dont want to see anything happen in this country that is good for this country. Im glad that the democrats did help, went on and voted together. Thats what they are supposed to do. Compromise. The republicans in the democrats. So, they need to learn that. To compromise. Thank you. Host thats louise in north carolina. Goodwill for johnson, how long does it questions previously postponed. Votes will be taken in