Republicans elect Mike Johnson as Speaker.
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Mike Johnson (R-LA). Yesterday, Republicans in the House of Representatives elected Johnson their new Speaker. His election ended three weeks without a Speaker, and came after Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Tom Emmer (R-MN) all failed to win a full floor vote after being nominated by the party. Johnson unified the party, winning the votes of all 220 Republicans in attendance, while all 209 Democrats present voted for Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
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| 0:40.8 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:59.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and today we are going to be talking about Mike Johnson, the newly elected Speaker of the House. |
| 1:12.8 | Before you jump in, though, I want to give a couple quick heads up. First of all, we have our first of the House. Before we jump in, though, I want to give a couple quick heads up. |
| 1:19.3 | First of all, we have our first footage from the Tangle Live event this summer that just went up on our YouTube channel. |
| 1:21.0 | I want to encourage you guys to go check it out. |
| 1:23.7 | Our podcast and YouTube editor, John Law, put together an awesome video, a little sizzle reel, |
| 1:29.9 | that shows some highlights of the event, and I hope will be nice material for us to |
| 1:34.4 | encourage you to come out next time. Second, I also want to make note of a correction. |
| 1:40.5 | Earlier this week, while talking about the deficit, we noted that a pair of corporate, quote, |
| 1:45.9 | tax cuts Biden signed into law in 2022 did not offset unexpected losses and revenue from more |
| 1:53.0 | volatile capital gains taxes. This should have said a pair of corporate tax increases Biden signed |
| 1:59.4 | into law in 2022 did not offset those losses. It was a |
| 2:03.4 | reference to a new minimum tax and a tax on stock repurchases that Biden passed. This was our |
| 2:10.0 | 93rd correction entangles 219 week history and our first corrections since September 27th. Also, |
| 2:19.4 | you might notice if you're a very eagle-eyed or close listener that 219 weeks is fewer weeks than we had noted in our last |
| 2:27.0 | correction. That's because we actually recalculated that number this morning and realized |
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