ITT Sound Off: The Embrace

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Julio and guest co-host Renée Graham, opinion columnist and associate editor at The Boston Globe, discuss the latest with the House GOP, including the recent House committee assignments under new Speaker Kevin McCarthy. They also get into the arrest of Republican ex-candidate Solomon Peña in New Mexico and the response to the new sculpture of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in Boston.

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0:00.0	From Futuro Media, MPRX, it's in the thick, I'm Julio Rigalo-Arela.
0:13.4	And I'm Renee Graham, and this is ITT Sound Off.
0:17.8	Welcome back, Renee, filling in for Mariana Hosa, who is on a reporting trip.
0:23.9	So I'm glad you're back.
0:25.6	Just keeping the chair a little warm, but it's always great to be here.
0:29.0	Yeah, all right, so let's get to it with our first topic, which is the House GOP.
0:35.8	All right, here we go with Kevin McCarthy as the new House Speaker and Republicans back in
0:42.2	the majority. It's expected that representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar,
0:48.7	who were removed from previous committees because of extremist comments and social media posts,
0:55.4	will be once again given committee assignments. So Greene is going to be on the Homeland
1:01.2	Security Committee, okay? And Gosar is going to be on the House Natural Resources Committee.
1:09.0	And for all you Puerto Ricans out there, that's what manages Puerto Rico's territorial status.
1:14.6	So I'm very intrigued. And both will be seated on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee
1:22.3	along with Representative Scott Perry and Lauren Bobert, all of whom voted against
1:29.4	certifying the 2020 election results. And one of the Oversight's committees, top priorities,
1:35.4	will be to investigate the Biden administration. And even George, George Santos, representative
1:44.2	George Santos, I keep thinking of the John Lovitz character, the liar, you know, from Cyanite Live,
1:49.2	every time I mention his name, it's like, yeah, and then I did this, right? How do you get away
1:54.2	with lying about your entire life story is above and beyond me? But anyway, he was given two
2:00.9	committee assignments, small business and science. So PBS NewsHour co-anchor Amna Nawaz talked
2:08.6	about the significance of all this on MSNBC. So let's take a listen.
2:12.3	Comments that Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was censured for removed from those committees
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