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The Hartmann Report

Republicans in Chaos

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Progressive Congressman Mark Pocan has a ringside seat to the circus being put on by Republicans in the House. What does he think is likely to happen? Mr Pocan answers listener calls from across the nation.

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On the line with us Congressman, welcome back to the program.

0:51.2

Hey Tom, thanks for having me.

0:52.8

I should do my obligatory, you represent the second district of Wisconsin, you're the current member

0:58.6

in chair emeritus, the congressional progressive caucus, co-founder and co-chair of the labor caucus,

1:03.6

and chair of the congressional equality caucus. So what's going on on the floor of the house here?

1:09.6

I don't really know. I don't know why Jim Jordan keeps bringing us to the floor only to lose votes

1:16.0

every time we have another election for speaker. I think this time it was 25 people voted against him.

1:22.0

So, you know, I'm guessing they said right now we're in recess, normally we'd be wrapping up now

1:28.5

and this would be the end of the week, even though they threaten that we'd be here over the weekend,

1:32.8

they threaten that every weekend lately, that he needs members to go home so that people can put

1:38.5

pressure on those 25 people in district to try to get their votes.

1:44.0

So their constituents can threaten them rather than gun owners of America.

1:49.6

He's losing ground here, right? If you lose, you know, one percent each time, you're not

1:54.7

exactly going to get to the victory he wants. So I'm guessing that may happen, but who knows?

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