From Washington: A Tumultuous Congressional Year Comes To An End

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🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A historic year for Congress comes to a close. For the first time in history, the Speaker of the House was voted out, and former Congressman George Santos was expelled for numerous ethics violations. FOX News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram joins to discuss former Speaker McCarthy’s ousting, the expulsion vote of former Congressman Santos, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ rise to power, and electing a new Speaker. Also this year, the Supreme Court delivered final decisions on various high-profile cases, many of which were used as political tools to ignite voters. In July, the high court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions, as well as President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, leading Democrats to take aim at the institution's legitimacy to fire up their base. FOX News Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram joined co-director of the Fox News Poll and professor at the University of Texas at Austin Daron Shaw after the court reached its decision to discuss how Democrats' strategy ahead of the upcoming election year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Saturday, December 30th, 2023.
0:07.5	I'm Jared Halper.
0:08.8	A year of first for the U.S. Congress in 2023.
0:13.0	Whether it was McCarthy or they're going to elect Johnson,
0:15.0	oh today it's Steve Scalise, you had no idea what was going on.
0:18.0	Oh my gosh, the government might shut down to, oh my gosh, they might hit the debt ceiling,
0:22.0	and then you have this George
0:23.8	Santo stuff going on. I'm Jessica Rosenthal. Just like the overturning of Roe fired up
0:28.7	Democrats ahead of last year's midterm elections the party may be hoping some of 2023's Supreme Court rulings
0:35.0	on race and student loans will fire up the base in 2024.
0:39.0	Those are really assaults designed as you suggested to get voters riled up and to
0:44.8	erode public confidence in the court that is not unprecedented but it
0:50.2	certainly hasn't been seen in this kind of with this kind of of intensity in a long time.
0:53.4	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington. When this year back on January 3rd we knew it would be an unusual year for Congress.
1:16.3	A speaker has not been elected.
1:19.0	It would take 14 rounds of balloting over four more days before then Republican leader Kevin McCarthy
1:24.7	won enough GOP support to become speaker in an early morning vote the longest
1:30.4	speaker election since before the Civil War.
1:33.0	Because it took this long, now we learned how to govern.
1:37.0	So now we'll be able to get the job done.
1:39.0	By October, McCarthy was ousted.
1:41.0	The first ever speaker of the House removed mid-Congress by a vote to vacate the chair.
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