Bidens aid request for israel and ukraine. We will preview tonights state dinner honoring australian Prime Minister anthony albanese. Washington journal starts now. Host it is the washington journal for october 25. House republicans gather at noon today. Representative mike johnson gained the votes needed to secure the position. Watch that on cspan. He has been over 20 days since the house has had a speaker. To start today, we ask you if you have seen over the past three weeks and if it has affected how you View Congress and how it operates. Tell us on our phone line. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002 is how you do that. If you want to text us and tell us your view of congress has been affected by the lack of a speaker and the election process, 202 7488003 is how you do that. You can post on facebook and on x and follow the show on instagram. A recent poll by the economist is highlighted in a recent story, looking at the view of congress in
Election. The economist asks folks if the lack of a speaker was a problem. An amount saying overall it was helping government. 25 saying it had no effect and about 50 saying that the lack of a speaker was hurting government. Among democrats, that view about hurting government is shared and independents as well, as well as republicans. That is how the parties break down when it looks at the operational view of congress. Maybe this election process has impacted you and how you View Congress you can let us know how you View Congress. You can let us know on the phone lines. 202 7488001 for republicans. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. Louisiana representative mike johnson was chosen last night to become the speaker designee. That vote will take place at noon on the house floor where he will try to gain the 217 votes needed to become the House Speaker. Punch bowl takes a look at some of the things working in mr. Johnsons favor when it comes
Back to square one. After the failure of maga extremists, jim jordan, multiple candidates have emerged to see if they can be the ones to get to 217 if any of them at all can get that done. The American People and our allies abroad cannot afford any delays. Any day of maga madness is another day of not sending aid to israel and ukraine or funding our government and not making sure that we are looking out for working families in this country. Another day of being away from our districts and talking to folks in our communities who elected us to work on their business, the peoples business, not to be here and baby sit House Republicans as their infighting further crimes this institution. They can continue down the path of destruction or work with House Democrats in a bipartisan path forward to get back to doing the peoples business. The clock is ticking and end the chaos and dysfunction and get back to work. Mr. Lieu thank you chairman aguilar and representative raze. This entire year has