making sure that our families are taken care of. making sure that the families in our communities are taken care of. and what we ve seen in this chamber is tough. it s tough to watch. it s tough to imagine what would happen in this chamber today if we were debating social security and medicare. what would happen? what would the votes be? where would people stand? that s why it s important that hakeem jeffries leads this body. on behalf of the democratic caucus, i am nominating the leader of the governing party in this chamber, hakeem jeffries from new york. [ cheers and applause ] for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? madam speaker, i would like to rise to nominate byron donalds for speaker of the house. the gentlewoman is recognized. i ve known byron for roughly about four years now. and being that he s from the state of florida i can tell you that i ve come to know him on both the campaign trail and personally. but i want to clarify something real
gets resolved. i actually wonder, when you talk about republicans calling up the offices, legislation and policy aside, that one thing is a motivating issue. is we can t get started on biden. you saw mike waltz on earlier, right? talking about how we don t have the china task force. he s hitting on all those red meat republican issues. right? we re supposed to be doing all these things that are really important and we can t get to it. so republicans who are holdouts let s get to it so we can get to the people s business. david, one final point j. because sessions was talking about it s all about numbers and whether you get a vote tonight and whether you try to adjourn till tuesday, the votes for that, because people are leaving. who s running the math on this right now for kevin mccarthy on finding out exactly who s gone and when? it s emmers, it s the whip s office, it s kevin and a good deal of folks who can count heads. and they re look at it and dfrn did dsh. just a lock