I'm Brian Gotstein and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Wednesday, December 6th.

Here are today's headlines. former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announced on Wednesday that he'll resign from Congress

at the end of December.

The California Republican, who was ousted from the Speaker ship in October, wrote in a Wall Street

Journal op-ed that he was resigning to serve his country in other ways.

Quote, it often seems the more that Washington does the worst America gets, McCarthy wrote. I started my career as a small business owner and I look

forward to helping entrepreneurs and risk takers reach their full potential the challenges

we face are more likely to be solved by innovation than legislation.

McCarthy was elected to Congress in 2007 and voted in as Speaker of the House in 2023

after a long contentious 15 rounds of voting.

And in October he became the first speaker to be ousted during his term.

With McCarthy's departure and the recent expulsion of Representative George

Santos of New York, Republicans will have a narrower two-seat majority in the House

of Representatives. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Committee Chairman,

Jim Jordan, are threatening to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress, according to a report from Fox News.

This comes after Biden's lawyer said that his client wouldn't testify unless it was in a public setting.

Comer, a Kentucky Republican, subpoenaed the president's son to appear before a closed

door committee meeting on December 13th.

Biden's lawyer said in a letter to Comer that Hunter Biden was quote making this choice because the

committee has demonstrated time and again it uses closed-door sessions to

manipulate even distort the facts and misinformed the American public.

A hearing would ensure transparency and truth in these proceedings.

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