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Number of 217 votes to win the gavel. Reporter do you think you have the votes on the floor today . We feel really good. We need to get a speaker today. We feel really good about where we are at. Steve kornacki will be with me to break down the vote from the big board. The latest nbc reporting on the breaking news that President Biden will leave tonight for israel and jordan to get humanitarian aid moving into gaza, Work On Releaing the hostages, and how gaza will look if hamas is removed. Hamas released a video of a hostage. The question, is it a signal that the terror group might be willing ...

Morning. what you'll see transpire today, sheryl johnson, the clerk of the house, she's going to gavel out the 117th congress, gavel in the 118th. and since there is no rules passed yet, she has the authority to only do two things, call a quorum vote, we all show up and vote present on the floor and then second call the speaker vote. she only has the authority to call the speaker vote if nobody gets ss ss to 218, call it a se time, a third time, until someone makes a privileged motion to adjourn, which requires 218 votes. a lot of it is uncertain as to how it is going to play out today. it is ...

There was another occasion in congress where earl landgrebe voted no on a quorum vote. it was literally a vote where you had to say you were physical physically there in the room. he voted -- he was in the room and he voted no as in no, i'm not really here. i mean, that's like somebody calling role, buehler, buehler, not here. asked afterwards why he voted no on the quorum vote, he said he could not recall exactly, but i'm sure at the time it seemed quite imperative to him. earl landgrebe has gone down in history as a kind of ripley's believe it or not character from the watergate era because ...

It was literally a vote where you just had to say you were physically there in the room so they knew there were enough people in the room to do congress stuff, tike votes. he was in the room and he voted no. as in, no, i'm not really here. i mean, that's like somebody calling roll. bueller, bueller? not here. when asked afterwards why he voted no on the quorum vote, he said he could not recall exactly. but i'm sure at the time it seemed quite imperative to him. earl landgrebe has gone down in history as a kind of ripply's believe it or not character in the watergate era because of stuff like t...

From indiana named earl landgrebe, one of the great names in american politics ever. earl landgrebe was a guy in general i think enjoyed being contrary, being kind of the poison ivy patch at the picnic. for example, earl landgrebe once voted against cancer research. he was the only vote in the entire congress against this cancer research appropriation. because he argued against the cancer research -- he argued what's the point? he literally argued that there was no point in spending any money to try to cure cancer because there was no point in curing cancer. because even if we cured cancer, th...