DAY 722: House GOP makes abortion bills priority in week one

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After campaigning on kitchen table issues, House Republicans started off their first days in power focused on passing abortion-related bills. Meantime, the GOP-led Oversight committee is now looking into the Biden family’s financial records and a second batch of classified documents found. Plus, A corrupted file is to blame for the delays and cancellations of thousands of flights across the U.S. on Wednesday. Peter Baker, Joyce Vance, Shelby Talcott, Captain C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger, Michael Steele, Robert Gibbs, and Amb. William Taylor join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the Republican House shows its cards.
0:07.4	Three days into the new Congress, they pass anti-abortion bills with no chance in the Senate.
0:13.8	Signalling again, it is all a big show.
0:16.6	Then, the flight cancellation's coast to coast after an outage grounded all commercial
0:21.3	planes.
0:22.3	Captain Sully Selenberger is here on what exactly happened.
0:25.9	Then, more calls for George Santos to resign from members of his own party while Republicans
0:31.6	from his state are calling him a stain, as the 11th hour gets underway on this Wednesday
0:36.6	night.
0:38.4	Good evening once again.
0:42.8	I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:44.0	Tonight, we are getting a much clearer picture of how Republicans are planning to lead the
0:48.3	House in the 118th Congress.
0:51.5	The GOP may have one control by campaigning on kitchen table issues like inflation and
0:56.1	crime, but tonight, they use the power of their majority to pass two abortion-related
1:02.3	bills.
1:03.3	One condemns attacks on anti-abortion facilities.
1:06.5	The other, a so-called, born-alive bill, punishes doctors for denying care to babies
1:12.4	who survive an abortion attempt.
1:14.8	No House Republicans voted against either of these bills.
1:18.8	This week House majority leader, Steve Scalise, made this absolutely false case for that
1:25.1	second bill with deeply misleading remarks like these.
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