You have a good night. I am laura coates, everyone. And listen, right now you are looking at capitol hill. Thats the home of the United States house of representatives, call the peoples house, the place where you would expect the people that you elected to legislate your actual priorities. You are number one is supposed to be their number one. Let me ask how many of you out there, at a party, as your top priority or even on your bingo card today, nancy pelosi getting kicked out of her office in the capital building. Anyone . Anyone . I did not think so. But tonight, sources tell cnn that the now former Speaker Mccarthy, who is behind the interim speaker Patrick Mchenrys move to kick former Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of office space. Its things like this that drive voters crazy. You are telling me that, within hours of throwing out the speaker, with no clear succession plan, 44 days away from yet another manufactured Government Shutdown with concerns over the economy looming, border, Nati
The latest. plus, it s freshman orientation on capitol hill for new members and challenges to nancy pelosi speakership. we will be asking chris stirewalt about all of that. there are already delays, we will tell you why on the daily briefing coming up. harris: live now back in dallas on sat with me, on the homefront guest, graduating this week from the bush institute veteran leadership program which is committed to improving the lives of 9/11 veterans and families of military all across the country. his brother travis was killed in iraq in 2007 while trying to save his wounded teammate. she is now the president of the
Point being made by democrats in the campaign of 2014? boehner doesn t even want to work. all he wants to do is play golf. he talks about the president playing golf. the numbers are the numbers. 239 days off. how often can you go back into your district i mean, come on. you ve got to feel for your district. so does everybody else. this is being manufactured by the conservatives to stop everything that president obama would like to see passed. no question. as much as our constituents back home want to see us in the district at the grocery store involved in local projects, they want us to be in washington, d.c. making things happen on behalf of the country. no matter what little project you may be able to do back in your district, if the weight of the federal government, if the developments, the budget, the kind of gravitas the federal government could bring to projects isn t there, it s hard to get things off the ground. and you re exactly right. like i said, when speaker pelosi was
Economy, education programs and what not. so but the reality is, this schedule looks nothing like the nancy pelosi speakership schedule that we used to have. i mean, we were working four or five days a week, week after week after week. passing legislation, getting things done. so the only thing that concerns me more than us not being here is the fact that when we are here, we re not getting anything done. like the end a bill and other things we should be passing here. we re not doing anything while we re here. speaker boehner says that they re there to prevent bad laws from getting passed. what s your response to that? well, i mean, look at the employee oh nondiscrimination act bill. we haven t even acted upon that. you know, that s a good piece of legislation that supports the founding principles of our country, but no time to act on that. we need a transportation bill. to get people back to work, reinvest back into the united states. we need a budget, for god sake,
You are seeing in the house is a new style of leadership and style of management, you know? gone are the days to have nancy pelosi speakership when she was saying, we ll pass the bill and then you get to know what is in it. john boehner is committed to transparency, and somebody who has restored authority to the key committees, they are not writing legislation now, and, in the leadership offices, and i think that is a very positive outcome and i think what they ve demonstrated is that the republican controlled house of representatives is in fact listening to and implementing the will of the people who elected them. chris: ron, there are down sides for that as well and we saw that this week, the house republican leadership brought two measures to the floor, one to extend provisions of the patriot act and another to demand a right fund from the united nations and they were so confident of these, they put it on the fast track where it could get approved with 2/3 vote. and they lost on b