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So since 1954, there have been five separate occasions where the House of Representatives

has changed in terms of the election and changed power.

You will see this in January when Nancy Pelosi gives up the gavel and Republicans now will

be in charge of the House.

That's important for all the reasons we've discussed, the power of the purse, the power

to subpoena committee assignments.

I mean, it's a big win for Republicans, a necessary win, and it's a great check in balance

on Democrats.

Now in all five of these occasions or leading up to this one in January, there's never

been a moment where the opposition in the Senate would go along with the party in power

and pass an omnibus spending bill for the entire next year.

That's never happened before.

And right now we have Republicans obviously led by Mitch McConnell, but other people like

Richard Shelby who's retiring at the end of the year and some other people pushing this

omnibus spending bill, which is the entire year spending bill, before the new Republican

Congress takes power in the House of Representatives in January.

And it makes no sense at all whatsoever.

Historically, what these lame duck sessions would do, they would pass a continuing resolution

to fund the government in the interim.

And then the incoming, in this case, incoming Republican majority would then have a say

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