Voted to award the gold medals, the highest honor they can give to the departments that saved their lives in many cases on january 6th. the delay in the process is logistical as it takes a while. now we are near the end of the democratic control in the house in particular, it felt like the time was now to get this done. on the senate side, the gold medal was approved unanimously, but there were 21 republicans that voted against the gold medals for various reasons, and it was a democratic move towards the medals, and there were two republicans speaking on behalf of all republicans in gratitude to the officers. as the ceremony is going on,
Andy biggs challenged him in the closed door vote. he lost that vote. mccarthy won it 188-31. biggs said he will challenge him on the floor. it s clear that mccarthy does not have the votes. biggs doesn t either. he is a far-right conservative and a member of the freedom caucus. i think it s reasonable to view his putting himself forward as a way for the rogue republicans who don t support mccarthy to have a candidate in this race, to kind of prove that mccarthy won t have the votes. biggs was able to get 31 in the closed door vote. he could get some of those on the floor. the mccarthy foes have struggled to provide an alternative. they have struggled to provide any answer to the question of, if not mccarthy, who? with biggs out there, they can at least offer him as a possible
Refused to step in and that s why we re in the mess we are in. and they due to nancy pelosi and the democrats on this committee and the two rogue republicans what they have done to everybody else. they look at text messages and go after e-mails going to the phone companies in the software companies is a not turn the information over under republican control they are held in contempt by congress and their names are sent to the district court in s washington dc that have beneficial criminal decision against them. why do we need their text messages andfu e-mails? because this committee was set up a sensibly to look into what happened on january 6.