Mr. Speaker mr. Speaker, you may agree with this, but we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all of the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber, or has this been about Something Else . Has this been about a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. Its a fair question. Its a fair question. [ applause ] nowhere nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping the cost of Health Car
Voting for speaker. This time louisiana congressman mike johnson is the fourth nominee for republicans. Hello, and welcome. Im sandra smith in new york, a big welcome back to you, john. John good to be back, john roberts in washington, and this is america reports. Remains unclear whether mike johnson will have the support to win the job. Chad pergram, of course, has been watching this for what feels like weeks now, because it has been weeks. Chad, whats the latest . They are getting very close to taking yet another ballot here for Speaker Of The House. What they have been doing the past couple of minutes here is putting into nomination the candidate for this particular round, of course mike johnson, the new one here and pete aguilar, the chair of the Democratic Caucus is again nominating Hakeem Jeffries, the democratic leader. This feels different than some of the other chapters we have been through over the past couple of weeks. I talked to a couple members a few minutes ago, members
Create a debt commission, a Bipartisan Debt Commission and get at the roots of our spending problem. That takes courage. And republicans ought to support somebody with that kind of courage. Now hes not only focused on one thing. I dont know anybody thats done more to highlight and talk about the border disaster thats underway right now as we speak. I had the privilege of serving here when jay johnson was secretary of homeland security. I have a very high opinion of jay johnson. I think hes wasnt of the finest Public Servants i have ever met. He was asked define what was a crisis on the southern border. Any time you have more than a thousand illegal entries a day, you have a crisis. We have 10 or 11 times that every single day. And in that tide of humanity thats coming across, theres a boat load of fentanyl coming to kill Tens Of Thousands of all of our constituents. There are Human Traffickers who are take ing advantage of young men and young women and frankly predators in our own coun
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