we ll see you tomorrow. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. i hold in my hands the democrats secret plan to seize power from kevin mccarthy in the house of representatives. it has been hiding in the house of representatives since it was filed on january 30th, and today we discovered how this secret plan is supposed to work, and the secret agent, the secret legislative agent who introduced this plan, is gonna be my first guest tonight. america is going to find out who it was who planted this in the house of representatives, this being the device that can save the country from default for the first time in history. and alex, here s the great thing. i barely understand how this works. and you know from capitol hill yeah, here is the level that s at. when i read it, i understand it while the words are passing through my mind. i couldn t possibly then transfer that knowledge to another human being. but we re gonna do a version of
we ll see you tomorrow. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. i ve got, for me, a very exciting segment coming up. i pulled my hands, the democrats secret plan to cease power from kevin mccarthy in the house of representatives. it says hr 626, so it doesn t look like a sacred document. it has been hiding in the house of representatives since it was filed on january 30th. yeah. and today, we discovered how this secret plan is supposed to work. and the secret agent, the secret legislative agent who introduced this plan is gonna be my first guest tonight. oh, that s great. we re gonna find out who it was, who planted this in the house of representatives, this being the device that can save the country from the fault for the first time in history. and, alex, here s the great thing. i barely understand how this works [laughter] and you know from capitol hill. yeah, here is the level that s at. when i r
bill that will know what the debt ceiling increase needs to be if you have to write it months in advance, and now we know it s the shell, and it turns out there s a new version of the interiors possibly over that shell that s been introduced every day by rich e. neal, as you go along, so that there will always be something. yeah, but we know what the contours of that would be. we ve been through this before, as you ve reported. that republicans consistently threatened this. so, it s not as if, unfortunately, where the process and the content that needs to go in. it s so fascinating, to me, to see this actually in action. and there came a point today is the day when it it had to become publicly revealed because today is the day that jim mcgovern was gonna go in there and file that rule, which
and means ranking member richard e. neal, democratic of massachusetts, introduces into the congressional record at least one day in advance to be automatically adopted as the new base text. the mcgovern rule, which is what democrats are trying to discharge, would have to be adopted before any bill neil offers could get a vote. but the rule would waive all points of order against the measure and set it up for a quick floor vote after an hour of debate. mcgovern just felt the rule on tuesday, so he or another democrat couldn t move to just discharge it for seven legislative days, which based on the current calendar, would be may 16th. at that time, democrats can start collecting signatures on the discharge petition, which requires 218 signatures to force a floor vote. if all 213 democrats signed the discharge petition, they would
today on how this might work. rules ranking member jim mcgovern filed the rule during tuesday s, meaning today house proforma session, which allows them to begin the cumbersome process of trying to discharge it to the floor against republican leaders wishes. the rule would allow for a immediate consideration of a shell bill congressman mark desaulnier introduced at the beginning of the congress that jeffrey said could be used as a vehicle to avert that republican manufacture default crisis. democrats do not yet have a specific debt limit replacement measure for desaulnier s shell bill. the role would allow a substitute amendment that ways and means ranking member richard e. neal, democratic of massachusetts, introduces into the congressional record at least one day in advance to be automatically adopted as the