thanks. happy new year. happy new year. some conservatives are asking is it time for new leadership in the house of representatives? to put it bluntly, i think it s time for a new speaker. let me tell you why. during his tenure as speaker john boehner has proven in my view he s not up for this job for a number of reasons. he seems only interested in well taking show votes on the house floor. in other words, votes that have no meaning. in other words, he s had opportunities to defund obamacare, use the power of the purse that the constitution gives the house and he hasn t used it. and then with cromnibus he sided with stenny hoyer harry reid and president obama and never spoke to conservative republicans. look at the numbers when john boehner became the speaker of the house january 5, 2011. the national debt was more than $14 trillion. now the national debt sits at a whopping $18 trillion. now, that s more than a 29% increase. here with reaction to that is iowa congressman steve kin
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used it. and then with cromnibus he sided with stenny hoyer harry reid and president obama and never spoke to conservative republicans. look at the numbers when john boehner became the speaker of the house january 5, 2011. the national debt was more than $14 trillion. now the national debt sits at a whopping $18 trillion. now, that s more than a 29% increase. here with reaction to that is iowa congressman steve king. congressman, good to see you. good to be back sean, thanks. well, we now have congressman yoho and louis gohmert throwing their hat in the ring. the goal would be to get 29 republicans to vote against boehner to get to a second ballot and then new names can appear. do you think that number will be reached? you know at this point i don t know, sean. and we haven t known for some time. but it is something that had a snowball effect last night. we started yesterday morning with only two or three, and by the time last night came there were at least nine. that number s gr