House lawmakers moments ago passed foreign aid bills to support ukraine and taiwan. Right now voting is underway on aid to israel. But at any moment the house and may vote on a Measure Calling for the House Speakers job over that aid to ukraine. What hello Everyone Welcome to foxs life i arthel neville. Bill im bill melugin peru got a lot going on today eric shawn is on assignment lets get right to it with chad pergram. Hes joining us live on capitol hill. What is going on . Works what is going on over the past couple of minutes very busy. Right now they are passing the bill to aid israel. This is a final vote in the series a few minutes ago. They approved 61 billion to ukraine. You had a lot of Democrat Supporters waving ukrainian flags on the house floor. That is against a quorum. They were admonished by mark who is a republican from new york who was presiding. 366 devoted to getting close to this not that many days of the board 58 but there are a lot more republican for this bill th
cloture which is how you cut off the filibuster you file cloture today bite rule that must ripen for a day. so send it be the intervening day and the earliest you could consider it would be monday. by what they consider it monday? well, monday is passover chuck schumer the majority leader is jewish they usually take off for passover. so tuesday it seems to be the rape day here when the senate would consider and align out. keep in mind when the senate passed the original bill back in february they got more than 70 votes for this for this is a predawn boat on a tuesday morning it was about 5:14 a.m. in the morning when they passed that bill. they have more than 60 votes to overcome their filibusters but hapyou have to the house and see in line at one stage because the senate passed its version the houses on something completely different here and now they are bringing something completely different back but again wedding all four of these bills together is the easier way to do it. the ho
win on the floor. it s very, very tricky to do so. arthel: exactly. and i was thinking we are looking at this the breaking news the house has passed the 95 billion-dollar foreign aid package. can i interrupt for one second this is very important been told mike johnson, the speaker of the house is going to speak in less than one minute that assume that will watch or statute which is just off the floor but we should be hearing from house speaker mike johnson momentarily sorry to interrupt. watch for that. arthel: that s important news we will talk until that happens because of course we want to take the speaker s remarks live. i was just going to say it now the foreign aid package will go to the senates. it was a rocky road getting here right now it right now. it seems to be smooth sailing this morning and by all accounts it seems like it will be smooth sailing once his bill was over to the senate. there s a couple of things working there. chuck schumer, the majority leader said they
may be. i mean it seems like he might have a little bit of opportunity now. but again if they re going to put something into law it has to be negotiated by the senate. otherwise it is just a messaging build the house. bill: alright chad pergram our resident expert on capitol great reporting, thank you. chris chad knows it all up or pd spring ilvania republican congressman brian fitzpatrick he is a member of the house intelligence committee cochair of the problem solvers caucus congressman good to see you. first i went to get your reaction to the passing of the house foreign aid package concessions and deals it made and all the rest. no piece of legislation is perfect but i ll take half a loaf over note love any day of the week. much like 702 passage last week with significant reforms attached to that which will make our intelligence community much better, much more accountable this bill today amongst many things sees russian assets,