drove cross-country during christmas break and continued surveillance for two days before making the arrest. they are looking for a thick knife they believe is used to kill those students. fox news just spoke to the idaho police chief on why he thinks the suspect acted alone. we have live fox team coverage, matt finn with what we are learning about the suspect will be begin with senior correspondent laura ingall in monroe county, pennsylvania where the suspect is being held without bail. reporter: we are right in front of the monroe county correctional facility where bryan christopher kohberger is being held in a suicide prevention vest, not on suicide watch but wearing a vest. in the last hour, we have heard multiple reports that he plans to waive his extradition hearing. that is new information we are working to independently confirm. that would mean he would get off to idaho, his public defender in printed reports, that he plans to prove his innocence, he says he didn t
the honoring kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [applause] the honoring jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. [applause] no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by sur name of speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy for the position of speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. [applause] the gentleman is recognized. thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done. to get big things done. to solve the problems. i hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the aisle will join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle class families, to get control over spending that is driving unflagrants will the gentleman yield? will the house be in order? and we all know what those problems are. we ve been talking about them for
want and he says yes to that. we ll see. i want to remind you, one of the big hangups over this speakership votes is over committee assignments. we ve been talking about that all day long. all of this delays the gop agenda. while we haven t picked a speaker and we knew that they weren t going to be able to do that at least in the first round, this were a number of bills, a number of gop priorities that they were prepared to introduce at least in the first two weeks of congress. we ll talk about that now. in fact, incoming house majority leader steve scalise sent a letter outlining what he calls meaningful ready to go collegelation. they want to get to work. you heard him talk about that again when he nominated kevin mccarthy. some of those priorities, neil, include rescinding the billions