GOP Goes WWE
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s bill to avoid a government shutdown. The measure passed with bipartisan support, and it now heads to the Senate for approval ahead of Saturday’s deadline to avert a shutdown.
Republicans also spent Tuesday fighting mostly among themselves: GOP Senator Markwayne Mullin challenged the president of the Teamsters Union to a fight during a committee hearing, Republican Rep. Tim Burchett said Rep. Kevin McCarthy elbowed him, and Republican Rep. James Comer told Democratic Rep. Jared Moscowitz that he looked like a smurf.
And in headlines: Israel said it raided Gaza’s central Al-Shifa hospital, a new report says every region in the U.S. is feeling the effects of climate change, and inflation rates cooled last month to the lowest increase since July.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, November 15th. |
| 0:06.2 | It's Wednesday, November 15th. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Priyanka Arbindi. |
| 0:09.1 | And I'm Juanita Toliver, and this is what a day |
| 0:11.2 | where we advise lawmakers to never challenge someone to a fight, |
| 0:14.8 | especially teamsters from Boston. |
| 0:17.5 | Seriously, we have seen how organized the unions can be and how disorganized Congress can. |
| 0:24.0 | I don't think it's a good situation. |
| 0:26.3 | Don't do it. |
| 0:27.1 | Nope. |
| 0:28.1 | On today's show, we'll recount how several Republicans almost came to blows yesterday. |
| 0:35.6 | Why'd you elbow me in the back, Kevin? |
| 0:38.0 | I know I felt so bad. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey Kevin, you got any guts? |
| 0:41.6 | Fair question. |
| 0:42.5 | I mean, really. |
| 0:44.0 | Plus, a new White House report says no place in America |
| 0:47.1 | is safe from the effects of climate change. |
| 0:49.5 | But first, yesterday evening, the House of Representatives passed Speaker Mike |
| 0:53.5 | Johnson's bill to avoid a government shutdown. The bill is passed and without |
| 0:58.0 | objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Just days before the country ran out of funding, Johnson was able to win bipartisan support |
| 1:07.1 | from over two-thirds of the House. |
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