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elected. well see what happens today. >> bill: im bill hemmer. good morning. the house will resume its session two hours from now. last night 20 republicans voted against kevin mccarthy in the third round of voting. >> dana: without a speaker is house is unable to swear in members or vote on any legislation. congressman elect mike lawlor slammed those opposing mccarthy last hour. >> its shameful and embarrassing and proofing themselves incapable of governing. jim jordans committee on j...

And get a day on the floor, i think thats a reasonable part of this sort of negotiation. >> bill: mccarthy will likely to have conceded. karls point is saying they said want to head up this committee, this subcommittee and want to appoint the members to be on my committee. thats always been the job of the speaker. >> if they are making unreasonable demands he has to negotiate more in public. i have seen him to this point talking a lot about process and not so much about the substance of restrain...

I think both parties deserve to be horse whipped over their constant refrained theyre going to balance it -- >> the president is in your policy, you guys controlled congress, you passed it. >> im not going to push back too aggressively on this. we have to do a lot better job of restraining spending. $22 trillion in debt and those chickens are going to come home to roost. its a mistake to say after 8 years of obama stagnation that it wasnt the right thing to do to have steep tax cuts -- >> it was...

You guys went along with it. >> id love to respond to that. i think both parties deserve to be horsewhipped over their constant refrains that theyre going to balance the budget. >> the president is in your policy, you guys controlled congress, you passed it. >> im not going to push back too aggressively on this. i think we have to do a lot better job of restraining spending. $22 trillion in debt and those chickens are going to come home to roost. its a mistake to say after eight years of obama s...

Week? >> the news cycle is never ending like 2016, 2017, 2018. a great time to be a reporter. conservatives yesterday were a little ambushed. leadership dropped on them the shutdown plan saying you have to vote for it or the government shuts down. no time for them to pull together and say are we the party of restraining spending and repealing of obamacare and the party of no amnesty? so far it looks like theyll strike out in all three of those. president trump has a lot going for him. the tax re...