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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to the Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

It's Tuesday, November 16th, 2021. Let's get into the mix.

Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we've got the two biggest issues

facing the House Republican Conference today. What to do about the Infrastructure 13 and Arizona

Representative Paul Gozart. Number two, a first look at Republican polling on the

Build Back Better Act. And number three, Equality Pack is revving up its fundraising operations.

All right, let's get to it. It is a very busy week here in Washington. And as much as we are going

to be focusing on the Billback Better

Act later this week, it is going to be the topic de jour. Right now, there are two other

big issues facing the House Republican Conference today. And that really is in the first sense,

what will happen to the GOP 13? For those who have not been following this

closely, there were 13 House Republicans who voted for the $1 trillion plus bipartisan

infrastructure bill. That has caused major fallout within the House Republican Conference.

The conference is scheduled to meet for the first time since the House voted two weeks ago

to approve that bipartisan infrastructure bill,

giving President Joe Biden and Democrats a big, big political win that they really needed.

13 Republicans, as I said, voted for this measure.

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