this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger and my leadership will be celebrated around the world as it has been. [ applause ] so take your vote or not. i am here to stay. and i am here to be a voice against harms around the world and advocate for a better world. i yield back. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. good day. i m andra mitchell in washington. this breaking news, you wafrp e it on the house floor. a heated debate is under way to remove congresswoman omar from the foreign affairs committee over her frequent criticism of israel. she later apologized for some of her comments but stood by others. omar is a refugee and one of the first muslim americans to serve in congress. speaker mccarthy claims he has the votes to oust her after two republicans who were opposed flipped their positions in the last 24 hours. this comes after democrats voted to remove republicans marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar last year for promoting violence
cut. the speaker nor the white house want it to be social security or medicare. the speaker has members who want it to be those issues. charlie, while speaker mccarthy is projecting optimism, he has to deal with the extreme members of his caucus that delayed the speaker vote for several days and all of those rounds, 15 rounds of vote. they could refuse to vote for the debt ceiling in any case with or without amendments. that s right. we re in the kabuki dance phase. everybody is wants to smile to the camera. wants to make it look like they are willing to negotiate, that they are not the ones who are the hostage takers. look, susan is right. there are reasonable compromises that can find a way to thread the needle. but the problem is, how many reasonable members of the republican caucus are there? can kevin mccarthy actually