Page 808 - Threshold News Today

Panel to look into all of the biden administration probes that would centralize all the investigations that are going to go on. thats something conservatives had been clamoring for. perhaps most notably is mccarthy agreed to a lower threshold to trigger a vote on deposing the sitting speaker, known as the motion to vacate the speaker. thats something that has been a demand of critics. mccarthy had been reluctant to budge on that. he would be allowing his critics to fire him at any point during h...

Incoming congressman george santos campaign finances. records that his campaign filed with the s.e.c. show 37 expenses that were just one penny below the threshold to keep receipts. $199.99. the filing also has several unusual expenses, including exorbitant amounts spent on air travel. and more than $10,000 in what are listed as rent payment to the cleaner company 123. it is where his district is located on long island. santos is failing more trouble over his rampant lies. several of his campaig...

>> the first mission to develop nuclear bomb arsenal for those threatened us around the world. benjamin netanyahus predecessor had a strong message for the new israeli leader. >> we are handing our country in incident condition with a strong economy and we have improved defensibility and one of the best nationals standing ever. try not to destroy it. well be back soon. to reach the required 61 seats threshold in the israeli parliament, benjamin netanyahu joined forces with religious party to cre...

The certification was illegal. the threshold for the first charge, obstruction of an official proceeding is actually consciousness of wrong doing. thats actually a lower bar than maybe some of the other criminal statutes. so i think that the justice department can build upon what the committee found and the evidence that the committee obtained and turned that into some sort of prosecution memo. i think thats where the justice department heads next. >> the january 6th committee dissolves tomorrow...

Line items this those disclosure forms that are definitely worth looking into including one, a company called cleaner one, two, three listed. they received $11,000 for the campaign and that was listed as an apartment rental for staff, but "the new york times" reports thats actually an address in long island where neighbors tell "the times" they saw him, santos and his husband coming and going quite regularly. also reported, dozens of expenses for exactly $199.99. thats an important figure becaus...

Melanie zanona has the details. >> the big debate here is over the tool known as the motion to va vacate. currently the majority of them want to use that rule. they want to change it so any single member can force the floor vote. up until this point mccarthy has not been willing to budge on that issue. i am told in private conversations this week he has made an offer to critics he is willing to make a look at a lower threshold. potentially a really big concession for mccarthy here, there is a cr...

Essentially would give away much of his authority and allow critics to fire him at any moment however, he has been struggling to lock down the votes and so i am told that he has been having phone calls all week with some of his critics and made an offer to them to come down on that threshold. in fact, he has offered to go as low as a five-person threshold to trigger the motion to vacate the speakers chair. that would be a major concession for him. the trick for kevin mccarthy is that he cant aff...

>> do not know, do not recall. >> thanks so much for that information. this afternoon kifb mccarthy will convene a conference call as he worked to get enough votes to be house speaker. a key concession hes offering to lower the threshold requires to force a flow vote that would oust a sitting speaker. here with me now is commentator scott jennings. good morning. great to see you. this is very interesting. so currently just to give people context, the rule right now on what is called the motion...

A chief priority for conservatives like roy who has been for that. he also signaled on the call he would be willing to support a lower threshold for the motion to vacate the speaker chair. that lowers the floor vote on ousting the sitting speaker. he didnt want to budge, but he has come significantly down. we talked about that call that he was open to that idea. however, on the call, moderates expressed a lot of concern about the idea of lowering that threshold. theyre worried that it could be u...

That hes offered a number of key concessions agreeing to then investigative panel to central all of the probes into the biden administration and that is something that he agreed to for the first time today on a conference call, something that conservatives have been pushing for and most notably hes agreed to a lower threshold on deposing the speaker. it is something that conservatives have really been pushing for and it is something up until this point mccarthy has been reluctant to agree to bec...