i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. i rise for election into the speaker of the house of representatives, the esteemed and leader of house democrats, mr. hakeem jeffries. the honorable kevin mccarthy from the state of california votes cast is duly elected speaker of the house of representatives. [cheers and applause] . neil: it s over. our long national nightmare is over. all right, which wasn t a national nightmare, i mean, it wasn t that long in the scheme of things, a few days, it just seemed like a few centuries, but it is over. kevin mccarthy at 1:39 a.m. formally getting the gavel to become speaker of the house, but it s what s left after all of that that has a lot of people wondering. alexandria hoff followed this from the beginning with how it ended. what a great compilation it was. it showed how much back and forth has happened in four days. there were moments last night where i felt like i was watching the u.k. house of commons rather
that s responsible for what is going for kevin mccarthy from not going. among the things they got cap spending for the next fiscal year at last year s levels. now, some have said that would be akin to cutting the budget and that some of your moderate members aren t keen on that and they think it would be dead on arrival with democrats, certainly. so they re set up or afraid that this agreement has set up a real disaster. what do you say? i wouldn t call it a disaster, again, i m a bit more of a budget hawk on that. neil: right. so this does not give me heartburn. neil: so you re okay at freezing levels at this year s levels for next year. yeah, yeah, let me tell you what some people have concerns about. a lot of people want to cut broad spending and we ve seen under joe biden how much drastic increases there s been in all levels of government, whether it s the epa really