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He is the Ranking Member of the energy committee. Here in the studio is bob cusack, editor in chief of the hill newspaper. I want to begin with fridays vote and the procedural moves forced in part by congressman massey. A number of your colleagues became very upset they had to make a trip back to washington to force the vote. What were you hearing . Rep. Walden well, it was unfortunate, unfair and unnecessary. We all get a voting card. We have a right to privileges on the house floor. He exercised his. It was just not necessary at all. We have the votes. We had the quorum in the house, as was ...

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Being with us. Thank you for having me. There is a lot of attention on congressman tom massey. Were overwhelmingly frustrated from those i talked to and what i could observe from being in the chamber during the vote. Leaders in both parties believed and hoped that they could pass this legislation through unanimous consent or by voice vote and Thomas Matthew was the only thing standing in their way of doing that. It forced lawmakers from across the country to really scramble to get to washington. They took flights, drove overnight to be there in order to vote for this. People were frustrated. T...

We are focused on the continuing developments that we are seeing with the coronavirus. We are learning more every day. Here in congress and particularly among the House Republicans we are very focused on doing everything necessary, working with federal, state, local officials. I had the opportunity yesterday to speak with the wyoming health department. I know weve all done that making sure they have what they need and we want to really double extend our real gratitude to the people working across the country at the state and local level for all the tremendous work theyre doing to help to make ...

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