To more members, but it might make it tougher to pass the bill on the floor because if you, you know, make those amendments in order and then those amendments on are adopted order the floor it changes the bill. and then you have congressman a who says i was for it before but you changed the bill i m against it now but then you brought on board congressman b who liked the amendment there and says i m for it now. so it s hard in this majority when you only have five votes to keep track of who s for it and who s against it and make sure you have enough votes to pass it. that s where if you lock down the bill at least administratively it s easier to pass the bill but that s not what they re going for here. laura: well, chad, you just gave us a good education in the legislative process. which, again, most people don t follow, it can be very neuare, a, lgic. thank you chad. and i m looking for something on the floor, patrick mchenry. laura: they re nominating
Back of the chamber right now. this is high drama tonight laura. laura: well, chad, at some point i think the question will become, you ve got all these concessions, you ve run out of things to ask for as gaetz said, you begin to look unserious. that s the problem. after all of these concessions have been agreed to by kevin mccarthy. so you wonder why where this all ends up if it keeps going round and round on this. keep in mind also, you re going to have one present vote here, so that s lauren boebert. you might still have some absences, we don t know if s any absences on the democratic side. we don t know if there s going to be any absences on the republican side. can win with viewer than 218 votes that number can come down. we ve had speakers, newt gingrich nancy pelosi john gainer all win with fewer than 218 votes. laura: all right, chad, thank you again for joining us tonight. back with me is the panel,
Budget, the changes that would give us time to look at bills instead of getting them the day of, and as chad was talking about, the rules committee which will be controlled by conservatives that will allow the bills not to be in secret in committee meeting but on the open floor and have an open process where you can put amendments on it. it s interesting, all the ones that said during this week particularly the commentators that, you know, we were withholding government, we were some people said we were basically terrorists and now they re praising what s going on, which is balancing this budget and getting this country back on track. everybody agrees that the process is broken. this goes about fixing the problems that we have. laura: congressman, how important or how del tearius to people s trust in government has this omnibus bill process
Wins. hunt and buck would be the two as opposed to the last ballot he was at 214. now, that s all depending about the total number being that number. and it shifts. that s why you don t know until the very end of the vote. so we re listening. there are still some members who have not voted. they ll come back at the end after the list and they ll go through the people who they did not they did not hear an answer and that will be the suspense likely because you can only win one or two more before this is a 15th ballot that we go to. laura: bret we just panned in on gaetz on the floor. i understand, did paul gosar also not vote? a lot of people are not voting. yeah, and i don t know if there s a strategy here that they want to be after all of this to be the center of attention at the end to say present and that s the number that puts mccarthy over. i don t know. but they have that option. until the vote closes, to either change a vote or to not vote at
Remember, we didn t even get to debate nor did the public get to see the spending that took place. now, the appropriations bills will be put on time for us to vote on, we ll see it in open session. both the spending and the cuts. and we re on a 10-year budget plan to balance the budget, and that s what s great about it. the entire defense budget, which i think is around 51-55 billion dollars, interest alone will exceed that in the next few years. we can t let that happen. and we ve got to fully fund our military and this administration, with their discretionary expenses that they spend money on that should not be, and they neglected the military which has got to stop. so i m excited about what happens as a first step. laura: well, congressman, we appreciate your joining us and this has been a wild week but i think an education to a lot of people who don t really follow the nitty-gritty of all of this stuff. thank you so much joining us now is bret baier