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What senator warren said. she said every rock you overturn in the deal, there's something else sliming under it. i imagine that's your view. what is the biggest slime? what do you think the senate in particular could try to do through the amendment process to get rid of? >> first, i think we should not be hurting people from getting $6 a day food stamps when we have an affordability crisis. look out for the 40 million student loan borrowers who will have to start repaying in september if the bill is not amended. then this mountain valley pie -- pipeline, we shouldn't give a green light. >> con...

Authorizations. it's been in place for decades. garrett, i understand this just passed the senate in the last 90 minutes or so. what about the house? >> the repeals of two war authorizations of the first iraq war both passed in the senate. a fairly comfortable margin after a long debate and an amendment process, and that process may be key to their future in the house. i say that because when the bills have been on the floor in the house, we have seen enough republicans to join democrats to vote in favor of those repeals that this could be done. speaker mccarthy has made it clear, he wants to ...

But i guess what i'm saying is what i'm hearing from house republicans and allies of kevin mccarthy is that they feel like all these rule changes are making it so that it's gone beyond democratizing and liberalizing the voting process and the legislative process and the amendment process. and it has gone into a place where there will be the tyranny of the minority, where these rebels will be able to force votes quickly on whether or not to get rid of a speaker or to prevent legislation that can pass the house of representatives from even coming up for a vote. that's how much. that's the fears ...

On the influential rules committee. that committee sets the agenda for which bills come to the floor, how those bills are structured on the floor, how many votes they take, what the amendment process looks like. it's a very important functioning committee. it's usually just an extension of the speaker's office, most of the time his key allies sitting on that committee. another important concession. i'll tell you this morning, one moderate i spoke to had a lot of concerns about how far mccarthy is going here and the influence it would have on their ability to govern going forward. jim and erica...

Summer. increase in pell grants. so we've concluded this congress, one of the most productive in decades with one of the best omnibus packages in decades. here's one of the things that amazes me. the amendment process made it better. usually when you have a big omnibus the amendment process makes it worse because the minority is trying to undo a lot 69 things in the bill, but here we stood firm and got it done. again, as i said, it was a great two years. one of the most productive congress we've had in a very long time. i am so proud of my colleagues. every single one of them. to do this in a ...