He is not only focused on one thing. I dont know anybody thats done more to highlight and talk about the border disaster that is underway right now as we speak. I had the privilege of serving here when jeh johnson was secretary of homeland security. I have a very high opinion of jeh johnson. I think he is one of the finest Public Servants i ever met. He was asked on one occasion to define what was a crisis on the southern border. He said any time you have more than 1,000 illegal entries a day, you have a crisis. We have 10 or 11 times that every single day. In that tide of humanity thats coming across, there is a boatload of fentanyl coming to kill Tens Of Thousands of all of our constituents. There are Human Traffickers who are taking advantage of young men and young women and, frankly, predators in our own country, and they are bringing them across, not by the tens or 20s or dozens, but by the hundreds and the thousands. There are amongst that flow of people, people that wish us ill,
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Hearing, you can watch it online at cspan. Org, as we take you live to the house gaveling back in. For what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise . Mr. Hill mr. Speaker, i do now move the house adjourn. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the motion to adjourn. So many as are in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly the house stands adjourned until noon tomorrow. With that, the house has gone out of session for the day. Back tomorrow at noon for potentially another speaker vote. Two votes have been held with jim jordan as the republican nominee. 20 dissenters in the first vote. 22 in the second vote. According to paul kaine of the washington post, jordan set a modern record, lowest vote tally for majoritys nominee to be speaker, just 199 republicans voted for him on the second ballot. No majority nominee has received less than 200 votes in a really long time. Mccarthys lowest tally was 200 a couple of times in january. So
The jordan forces wanted him to do. They wanted him to vote present but he voted for mccarthy. That is essentially a no vote on jordan. The next vote that were going to be dipping in for will be Congressman Ken Buck, another nay on jordan. His issue also different, kasie hunt, again, not a moderate against jordan, ken buck a very conservative republican from colorado, his issue is elections and whether or not joe biden actually won the election fair and square. Big picture, jake, i just think we are watching the formal installation of donald trump. There have been so many ways in which this has happened, but this is a moment crystallizing it for me, as the current Singular Entity republican the Republican Party, this is an institution whose glass doors were broken. There were gun shots fired outside this chamber. The members had to evacuate in gas masks on january 6th of 2021, when a protrump mob stormed the place and as we were discussing before, jim jordan was and jamie reported abou