Jan. 9, 2023: Speaker McCarthy's first governing test

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

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The rules package that will govern how the House operates this session is scheduled for a vote this evening. It’s shaping up as Speaker Kevin McCarthy's first big test in governing what is shaping up to be an ungovernable Republican majority. The package is the closest thing to a contract drawn up between McCarthy and his internal critics. Alongside various side deals dealing with committee assignments, budget policy and other matters, the rules changes define the devolution of power away from leadership and towards the House Freedom Caucus. If tonight’s vote goes down, the entire project unravels. And President Joe Biden will meet with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico City – the pair are expected to talk through trade issues, drug trafficking, and migration. Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and deputy editor Zack Stanton break down the day ahead in DC. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the host and senior editor of POLITICO's Playbook Daily Briefing.Jenny Ament is the executive producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Ruguinovalin.
0:02.9	Two big things to watch for on Monday, January 9th.
0:06.1	President Joe Biden meets with Mexican president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, at the North American Leader Summit in Mexico City.
0:13.7	The pair are expected to talk through trade issues, drug trafficking, and migration.
0:18.6	And the House meets at 5 p.m. today when it will consider the rules package for the 118th Congress.
0:25.3	For more on that, here's Deputy Editor Zach Staten and Playbook editor Mike DeBonis.
0:30.0	Mike, I'm wondering if as a recovering hill reporter, maybe you can walk us through some of this.
0:36.4	Unfortunately, that I am well equipped to do this.
0:40.2	I'm sad to say.
0:41.9	It used to be that this was a pretty low-octane thing.
0:45.0	Like, there would be these little changes, and the most sort of obvious one is that they
0:48.6	would always have to rename the Education and Labor Committee to the Education and Workforce
0:53.5	Committee or vice versa,
0:54.7	depending on whether Republicans or Democrats are in charge.
0:58.0	And to be clear, they will be renaming the Education and Labor Committee back to the Education
1:02.8	and Workforce Committee.
1:04.2	But there's all these other issues that became the subject of these extremely highly pitched
1:09.7	negotiations.
1:11.6	And some of these promises that were made to win Kevin McCart through the gavel are embedded in this piece of legislation, this resolution that's going to be supposed to be voted on later today.
1:22.5	The one that is probably gotten the most attention and really was the subject of the most commentary
1:28.4	by House observers was the so-called motion to vacate. Now, to be clear, this, nobody knew about
1:35.1	this or cared about this until seven and a half years ago. In 2015, the newly established
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