Eli crane, matt gates, bob good, ncy mays and matt rosendale. You can follow the u. S. House when lawmakers return here on cspan. Host weve been covering capitol hill. What do you know, billy, what happens next . Guest theyre heading to a unified house conference going in closed sessions shortly here at 6 30 and different scenarios, Kevin Mccarthy will announce his candidacy for the speakership, maybe. Our republicans saying they dont think thats a good idea and dont think he can win and he knows it. Perhaps discussion of other candidates ranging from the current number two who is battling health concerns, Steve Scalise, tom emmer, the noes counter, and others, including people you wouldnt think of but who may throw their hats in the ring. A lot of disorientation there within the group but they know they have 44 days to another potential shutdown and dont want the country to perceive them as unable to address the governing they need to do, so theres a sense theyll push for a speaker vo
Billy house and colin wilhelm. Billy is first. A lot of news the last two days. The revelations, allegations p democrat. To should he resign or at least step down from that top role on that Key Committee . The shattering of some norms nationwide. Particularly in the congress. The exploitation, the maltreatment of women in ploy hes i leadership in the office. Members of congress. I think it deserves the area and it is getting. I think on this issue, the Ranking Member needs to step down. Theur leader asked for ethics investigation. At the minimum, that is a necessary step. Dealing with employee issues is difficult to read settlements occur all the time. When it approaches the issue of Sexual Harassment and used as a means to try to keep that issue yeah, that is a serious issue that inevitably could lead to more punitive issues. We have got through that. To have to dispatch employees, separate yourself from them. Many times, it is a matter of not accommodating each other. Settlements are
The passage of the bill. House republicans are now in a meeting working on a way forward on the continuing resolution with shortterm federal spending set to run out on midnight on friday. They are meeting here in the capital and gaveling back in shortly for votes on a couple of measures debated earlier today. They are discussing their plans on the continuing resolution. Funding the government past friday night. Billy house of bloomberg tweets that the plan now is for the c. R. To run through january 19, but House Republicans are still talking about it with their leaders in a meeting. He says that fisa, the temporary externed for that is to be attached to this continuing resolution. Rank anne file members have been told. Well have live coverage of the house here momentarily. Going to gavel back in. Stay here live at the capitol on cspan. On cspan were live on capitol hill. Republican members of the house are meeting on the continuing resolution. The shortterm funding measure, the curren
Cspan. Org. We are going to take you live to the white house for a briefing on the possible Government Shutdown. We want to get you folks up to speed on where things stand in the possible lapse in funding. Omb is preparing for what we are calling the schumer shutdown. It still surprises me and i have been through some of these before that the democrats in the senate are opposing a bill they dont oppose. They are for clean crs and the extension to the chip program and many support the delay in some of the taxes, medical device and cadillac tax. They dont oppose anything in the bill but they are opposing the bill. I just want to let everybody know we dont want this. We do not want a shutdown. If m if mr. Schumer insists on this, he is in a position to force this on the american people. From an omb perspective, we are involved in managing a lapse or a shutdown. We want folks to know it will look very different than it did under the previous administration. One of the things i have learned
Including dreamers, make was a threat to the rest of the country. Duty in thismp my chamber is to defend americans. To protect their safety, their andlies, their communities, their right to an American Dream because americans are dreamers too. David we welcome back larry from the university of virginia, larry, will come back to the program, and take us into the might of the president and what he is trying to do here. The president said he wants to reach across the aisle on immigration but he up the ante it is not the dreamers we have to worry about the rest of the country. I think the whole presentation prior to the statement telling the media the speech was about National Unity faintpartisanship was a there probably isnt any hope for unity or bipartisanship. Other than a few words tossed in here and there without substance that meant nothing out of dont think there was anything unifying about the speech on immigration or anything else. It was particularly divisive. David you have terr