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The Daily Punch

The battle for gavels if Dems win the House

The Daily Punch

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Jake breaks down the dynamics of which Democrats will get committee gavels should the party win control of the House. Plus: Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo is in Ukraine to meet with officials, and Rep. Tony Gonzales narrowly wins his runoff primary election. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is Wednesday, May 29th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day.

0:51.4

Number one. Inside the fight for committee gavels if Dems win the

0:55.6

House. Number two, Wally Adiemo's in Ukraine and number three, Tony Gonzalez wins his runoff.

1:01.9

Let's get into it. If Dems win the majority in November, which we're not predicting, I'm not

1:06.7

predicting. I am not making a prediction. We're going to do this item for Republicans as well.

1:12.3

They will have some interesting decisions to make when it comes to committee chairs in the

1:18.8

118th Congress. Now, the sensitivity of these decisions can't be overstated. Democrats in the House

1:24.6

have a much different decision matrix than Republicans do,

1:29.5

because Republicans have term limits on their committee chairmanship.

1:33.2

Dems don't.

1:34.1

So you could have somebody who's been a committee chair or the top lawmaker on a committee

1:39.8

for decades.

1:41.2

And by the way, that's happened.

1:43.5

Nidia Velasquez has been the top Democrat on the

1:46.5

Small Business Committee for since 2000, since 1998. That's a long time. I'm not saying whether that's

1:56.0

good, bad, or indifferent, but she has been the top of the, of that committee for a very long time.

2:01.1

So in 2000, last time, the last time Dems had the majority, their leadership were all, was all

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