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Good morning, everyone. It's Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels. It is Thursday, December 19th. Here is what's driving the day.

Former Representative Matt Gates' lucky streak, if you can call it that, may have come to an end. The Florida Republican resigned from

Congress just last month after being nominated for AG, but withdrew his name for consideration

for that position after it became clear there wasn't a path for him to get confirmed by the

Senate. Now, the reason for that, in no small part, was the House Ethics Committee's

investigation into his alleged sexual misconduct with a teenager, which he has repeatedly

denied. And though his resignation effectively iced the report's impending release,

yesterday we found out that the House Ethics Committee held a secret vote and decided to go through with releasing the report anyway.

Its release is expected after lawmakers wrap up their votes this week.

But somehow, that's not the biggest news out of Washington today.

It's not even the biggest news out of Capitol Hill.

That honor goes to the ever-contentious continuing resolution to keep the government funded

through March and the ongoing question of, well, they, won't they get it passed before the

holiday recess?

Joining me now to talk more about that is congressional reporter Daniela Diaz.

Daniela, good morning.

Good morning, Eugene.

Girl, what the hell?

Yesterday, our podcast was, we got the text.

I talked to DeBonis.

We got into all of the, you know, the Mike Johnson of it all.

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