moderate republicans voted in voted in a far right speaker of the house. with the intraparty war over house leadership resolved the idea was that those emergencies would finally be dealt with, at least that was the idea. today it became painfully obvious that the republicans new speaker, congressman mike johnson, is not really going to deal with any of it. this evening speaker johnson put every republican on the record voting for a bill that did not include any aid to ukraine, and which would provide aid to israel only on the condition congress defunded the irs to allow billionaires to cheat on their taxes. we have obligations, and we have commitments, and we want to protect and help our friend israel, but we have to keep our own house in order as well. you re saying you will not pass an israel aid bill unless it s offset? is that the correct interpretation? that s what we re going to do. i did not attach that for political purposes, okaych i attached it because, agai