The GOP's ambitions in the House
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
House Republicans are getting down to business, drafting legislation to spend more money on border control, less on the IRS. Hardliners are calling for radical changes to social security and Medicare. How will the GOP advance its agenda in the House? Rep. Gary Palmer, Scott MacFarlane and Philip Wallach join Kimberly Atkins Stohr.
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| 0:58.2 | Conditions and exclusions apply. I'm Kimberly Atkins-Store in for Magna Chakrabardi. And this |
| 1:04.2 | is on point. This hour we're focusing on Republicans in the House of Representatives |
| 1:09.8 | and what they hope to achieve in this 118th Congress. They have a slim majority and house |
| 1:15.7 | speaker Kevin McCarthy will need to keep all his members on board to pass the bills they |
| 1:20.6 | want. But what are those bills? For that, let's turn to GOP Congressman Gary Palmer. He |
| 1:26.9 | represents Alabama's sixth congressional district. And he's chairman of the House Republican |
| 1:32.4 | Policy Committee. He joins me from the Capitol Congressman Palmer. Welcome to on point. |
| 1:38.2 | Thanks for having me on Kimberly. So are all of the committees up and running at this |
| 1:44.3 | point as the 118th Congress is underway? I'm big for an ask that question again. |
| 1:52.8 | Yes are all the committees in the House are they up and running? I'm not sure about the |
| 1:59.4 | other committees. I know energy and commerce will be holding hearings next week. I'm not |
| 2:06.4 | sure the Democrats have populated all of their committees yet. |
| 2:10.4 | Okay. Well, explain for our listeners what your responsibilities are as chairman of the |
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