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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. it s a fair question. it s a fair question. [ applause ] nowhere nowhere in that candidate questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keepi ....
voting for speaker. this time louisiana congressman mike johnson is the fourth nominee for republicans. hello, and welcome. i m 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, what s 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 f ....
house democrats has been answered. by our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our house democratic caucus, the honorable hakeem jeffries! [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majority s nominee is disconnected. disconnected from the american people and their values. maga extremism is designed to divide. and it has broken the republican party. their nominee s vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the american people. and he s got the record to prove it. the republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9/11 survivors. he has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. he wants to cut social security and medicare. don t take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle, just this week, as a selling point to make him speaker. over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. what does that mean? what does that ....
he is not only focused on one thing. i don t know anybody that s done more to highlight and talk about the border disaster that is underway right now as we speak. i had the privilege of serving here when jeh johnson was secretary of homeland security. i have a very high opinion of jeh johnson. i think he is one of the finest public servants i ever met. he was asked on one occasion to define what was a crisis on the southern border. he said any time you have more than 1,000 illegal entries a day, you have a crisis. we have 10 or 11 times that every single day. in that tide of humanity that s coming across, there is a boatload of fentanyl coming to kill tens of thousands of all of our constituents. there are human traffickers who are taking advantage of young men and young women and, frankly, predators in our own country, and they are bringing them across, not by the tens or 20s or dozens, but by the hundreds and the thousands. there are amongst that flow of people, peopl ....