of questions. however, the house is paralyzed until it picks a speaker. the house can t swear in members. can t pass bills, can t launch investigations. all promised by kevin mccarthy. we got important investigative work, so we hope he gets the votes and he will be elected speaker on the first ballot. that s what we re looking for. the house just told g.o.p. investigators it must resubmit requests on information on a host of probes once republicans take control. that, coupled with murkiness about who may be speaker, could delay g.o.p. investigations until february or later. arizona s andy biggs vows to challenge mccarthy for speaker. biggs says he would never vote for mccarthy. he has got a body of work. you go back to 17 and 18 the floor leader mccarthy cut deal with democrats. woo a group of five g.o.p. opponents to for weeks. promised more control of the floor schedule. time to read bills. but mccarthy won t budge on a demand to allow them to vote him
that, well, sometimes there are votes on things that can t pass. is this unusual? is this something that maybe could be a first step to getting some bipartisan agreement on this? well, we do have bipartisan agreement in the house. the bills did pass the house that are pending in the senate. and i agree with senator murphy. i d love to see some republicans give a damn about what happens in schools and movie theaters and synagogues across this country, and embrace reasonable measures that don t infringe on the second amendment. to be honest, those bills are pending right now in the senate. from a perspective of someone who leads a gun violence prevention organization named after jim and sarah brady, we want a background system that works. so, i hope we can bring some republicans along. i also really hope that we
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