If it's Wednesday, House Republicans gear up to vote on abortion as Republican legislatures and potential presidential candidates get ready to once again dive into the perilous politics of the issue.

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And what caused this morning's crippling system outage that brought air traffic nationwide to a complete standstill?

It's a question federal officials are still investigated, even as passengers are now

back in the air after yet another travel nightmare.

Happy Wednesday. Welcome to Meet the Press now.

Pretty meaty day in the world of politics.

I'm Chuck Todd here in Washington.

Where after a brutal knockdown, dragout fight over the Speaker's gavel,

House Republicans are turning to an issue that has haunted their party politically, nationally and locally,

at least in the last two years, or at least since the Dobbs decision, and that is abortion.

At the behest of the newly sworn in Republican majority, the House is gearing up to vote on two

messaging bills. We call them messaging bills because they have no chance in the Senate.

It concern abortion, zero chance of becoming law. So it's really about essentially putting out a press release to say you passed said bill.

Nonetheless, just the act of doing it matters to the Republican base.

And it's very important to certain conservative power brokers within said GOP base.

Let's just say, though, it has some members who do have to win over swing voters, worrying that those messages could come with a cost.

Here's South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace. She represents a battleground district in Charleston.

In fact, it's a district that's going to get redrawn and probably become more competitive.

She's warning her party against these

kinds of show votes. I believe that it's tone deaf at this point because it's never going to

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