Thanks to you at home for joining me this hour.

I want to start tonight with what I think is an incredibly good point made yesterday

by a Republican congressman, a member of the Freedom Caucus, no less.

Here is what Texas Conservative Chip Roy had to say to his colleagues.

One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing, one, that I can go campaign on and say we did. One. Anybody sitting in the complex, if you want to come down to the floor and come explain to me,

one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done besides, well, I guess it's not as bad as the Democrats.

Congressman Roy is correct on two fronts here.

First off, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has done next to

nothing of substance this year. Second, the Republican controlled House is

not as bad as the Democrats. It's much, much worse. This is on track to being the least productive

Congress since the Great Depression. That is how few actual laws have been passed.

They can't even pass the basic spending bills

to keep the government running.

It is just an endless cycle of crisis

and can kicking down the road.

So when the history books are written about this Congress, what will it be remembered for?

Will it be remembered for the 15 votes it took for Republicans to elect Kevin McCarthy, Speaker

of the House? Or how just 10 months later he became

the first House Speaker in American history to be ousted from that role only to be replaced

by someone that most people, including Congress people, had to Google Congressman

Mike Johnson.

Or will it be remembered for the fact that disgruntled former Speaker Kevin McCarthy is

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