From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Speaker Mike Johnson manages to pass the House version of the GOP's reconciliation bill, titled the One Big Beautiful Act, in a squeaker of a vote 215 to 214. What is all in this legislation, the beautiful

parts and the ugly ones? How was it amended during the last late negotiations? And how is the

Republican Senate now likely to respond? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues,

editorial board member Kate Batchelder O'Dell and columnist Alicia Finley. The final House Resolution package weighing in at about 1,100 pages, which passed shortly before 7 a.m.

This morning, according to the House clerk, two Republicans

voting no. One, voting president. That was Andy Harris of Maryland, the House Freedom Caucus

chair, and a couple of others missing in action. A spokesman for Congressman Andrew Garberino

of New York said this. After sitting through proceedings all night,

the congressman briefly stepped out and inadvertently missed the vote.

Went on to say this is one of many reasons why governing should happen in the light of day,

not in the dead of night. Speaker Mike Johnson with a slightly different recollection,

telling reporters, he fell asleep in the back, no kidding, and adding,

I'm just going to strangle him, but he's a dear friend. Maybe the House Speaker needs to be

passing out some more energy drinks this morning. But that aside, a big moment for Speaker

Mike Johnson managing to thread this needle between all of these Republican factions, wanting

different things out of this bill. Let's listen to a segment of Speaker Johnson this morning

right after this bill was passed. We have 220 Republicans in the House Republican Conference

and lots of different opinions that represent very different districts around the country with very different interests.

But the principle and the philosophy is always the same.

Everybody's conservative.

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