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Stuff out. what you re having here are house conservatives that want to have these votes to show their base voters, they re fighting for the issues they care about. you have house moderates, the same folks we were talking about in places like new york state who would rather not be on the record by issues, not be asked about them by reporters especially on something that will never become law. here you have the house republicans not really protecting their most vulnerable members from difficult votes. they re all going to take these votes. they re going to see them used against them in campaign ads in the future for stuff that s never going to become law. the campaign ads will come up from the democratic party or allies in those races. garrett, i wonder, does a ruling like this weigh on kevin mccarthy s mind at all? does it urge him to change his calculus here? it s a good question. i think for mccarthy, all of this is a moving target. i mean, mccarthy has been in kind of survive an ....
You re either going to hold him accountable under the constitution or you re not. it s going to be interesting to see how theo-called moderates in terms of new york house republicans vote. they have all said that they want him out. and he doesn t belong in the house of representatives. tomorrow, they will have an opportunity to vote their word. so that is going to come to the floor. and as you said, you re going to find out, we will all find out whether house moderates to the extent there are house moderates left in the republican party, will vote him out. but on the debt limit, there is in theory a way that you could bring a privileged resolution to see how serious those same house moderates are about averting an economic catastrophe. that s what janet yellen said, it would be a disaster for every person in this country economically. it would cause a recession, et cetera. do you believe that there are enough republicans who would vote if you did a privileged ....
Maybe they pass, maybe they don t. house moderates have a lot of sway if they decide to use it. the rules committee stuff is difficult, i would say for republicans, but moderates are there are many more moderates in the 222-seat house, they have more power that people think. they have to be willing to pick it up to use it. the conference has been there s only been one armed faction for a decade. the moderates every time they try to make a move, the leaders say don t, don t, the moderates sit back. the leadership gets weakened. you can t do that anymore. the speaker is now weaker than ever before. did it hurt you? yes, but at the end of the day, you have to become a ....
(Reuters) — Moderate members of the U.S. House of Representatives are leaving office at twice the rate of their more partisan peers this year, a Reuters analysis found, likely deepening ....
Democrats. it includes a number of key priorities, including extending obamacare subsidies. it includes allowing medicare to negotiate drug prices and a historic investment in the climate. and it also imposes that 15% corporate minimum tax. so now this bill heads to the house, where we are expecting a vote on friday and we are expecting it to pass. and so this bill could very well be on joe biden s desk by the end of next week. jim? yeah, some of those house moderates that they are concerned about because of these last-minute changes, they started to signal they re going to support this legislation. it is headed to the president s desk after making its way to the house. melanie, thank you very much. i m joined now by congresswoman zoe lofgren. before we get to the january 6th developments we want to discuss, let s talk about this land mark vote in the u.s. senate. it now goes to the house. it sounds like it s going to ....