Him. republican from north carolina we re going to the 14 vote here, we thought there might be an effort to adjourn at this point, that s not the case. so he is going to place a nomination, the name of kevin mccarthy and here in the next 10-15 minutes we should go to that 14th vote. laura: 14, lucky 14. chad, great to see you. thanks so much. we ll did ininto the coverage on capitol hill just to give you a flavor of what s happening as we begin this 14th vote. [cheers and applause]. and on this day and a source of charity we d even thank the capitol press corps for sitting on floors. that too is funny on paper than how it delivered. i don t know why you asked me to do this kevin. the president has called this process an embarrassment. talking heads have labeled this chaos and a mess and some would
Sent to the house to debate it in january and february because we re in control yet we re saddled with it until september 30th which is when a new budget season is upon us. so it s very damaging. and, again, this country s broke and we ve got to fix that. economic security is national security. and that s the great thing about what we re doing today and the process. it took a while but it was democracy in open view for the american people to see. laura: well, congressman, one of the big sticking points is the defense budget. you know, i ve been someone who, over the last many years, have said that, look, you know, we re funding a woke pentagon, spending across the board has to be cut. and if you want to add to some budget you have to cut from somewhere else. are your goals there reachable or are they aspirational. well, it s a step in the right direction. before, for as long as i can
What some of these holdouts were doing, these people who were not voting for kevin mccarthy initially, they wanted certain people put onto the rules committee. not individual people by name, but people who are affiliated with different caucuses like the freedom caucus and so on, and also a commitment to have what we call an open rule. so those rules aren t locked down. you request say okay, today it is 85 feet to first base, it s 70 feet to first base and then you vote on that proposal on the floor. otherwise, it just comes from the speaker s office and they lock it down. that dictates how the legislation is on the floor. laura: and, chad, just so again people understand this, and this is the same with a lot of republicans, too, if the speaker didn t want a bill to get to the floor, nancy pelosi, that bill was not going to get to the floor, correct? and that s what these people don t want to happen with the republican speaker. so the speaker s power would be somewhat diminished, corr
davidson. mccarthy. davis of illinois. hakeem jeffries. davis of north carolina? jeffries. dean of pennsylvania? jeffries. degat. jeffries. delacruz. kevin mccarthy. deloro. laura: again just for some context here that was a bit of a disappointment for kevin mccarthy he wanted that flip from congressman crane. congressman crane did not give him the affirmation of voting for him. we have three other holdouts, gates, good and rosen dale so
Very opaque so they aren t held accountable for votes on immigration or votes on covid or votes on, you know, pick your poison. they d rather say oh, i just voted to keep the government open. right, laura. in fact what ace a real tragedy is media all over the country that described what s going on here as being chaos and dysfunction. no. what you ve seen the last 15 or more years the way this place operates, that s dysfunction. doing the same thing the same way will not produce any results. what s happening here is exactly what should happen, men and women of courage standing up to make changes so this institution functions properly and we meet our responsibilities of the american people. it s going to be tough because we ve got to control spending, we ve got a provision that i m most excited about to have a genuine frank church style committee. i personally have been fighting over every detail of that to make sure that committee can get access to everything that it