McCarthy’s impeachment surprise could gobble up limited floor time
"I think there will be more and more evidence that shows up about the Hunter Biden problem," Senate Judiciary ranking member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Wednesday.
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"I think there will be more and more evidence that shows up about the Hunter Biden problem," Senate Judiciary ranking member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Wednesday.
members and their far-right allies last week shut down the chamber floor after opposing a rule for several bills they supported over frustrations about the debt and spending deal Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif
Ralph Norman, R-S.C., said conservative holdouts agreed to lift their blockade on unrelated floor action for now, though they were still working out how to handle spending bills.
Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., might have even felt ample pressure to drop his blockade of some military nominations.
John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the tax-writing Finance Committee, described the clawback plans as a "good down payment" toward rescinding the full $80 billion.
"This bill doesn’t get us to fiscal 2022 levels, and that in itself should be enough to vote against the rule," Freedom Caucus member Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said.
Garret Graves, R-La., said leaving Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office just before 7:30 p.m.
McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters that the readout he’d gotten was "positive," though he wasn’t ready to say a deal was close.
Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., said negotiators were able to better explain to one another the policies they were fighting for or against, and they all agreed on the need to quickly secure a deal.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., called the bill the "strongest border security package that Congress has ever taken up."
Garret Graves, R-La., whom McCarthy tapped to broker talks last month on the GOP bill, told reporters Wednesday that a single year of spending caps could be acceptable under the right conditions.
We’re going to take a look at that," House Financial Services Chairman Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., said at House Republicans’ policy retreat in Orlando, Fla., last week.
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, says that was the message he heard from Ukrainian and NATO officials at the recent Munich Security Conference.
After Biden ordered a second, then a third object to be shot down late last week, House Intelligence Chairman Michael R.
Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., referring to McCarthy, who has held an initial round of debt ceiling talks with the president.
After all, he recently promised Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., they would treat one another with “respect.” He also needs GOP members to help him avert a first-ever national debt default.
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, and Financial Services Chairman Patrick T.