Thursday, January 5th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

Daily News, News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: Kevin McCarthy has failed in another 3 rounds of voting in order to become Speaker of the House. Congressional republicans are planning to attempt to eliminate House staff labor unions, while also making it harder to raise the debt ceiling. California declared a state of emergency yesterday after the third rainstorm in the past week hit northern and central California. The email addresses used to register 235 million twitter accounts have been posted to an online hacking forum. Finally for today, Rick Singer, aka the man behind the college admissions bribery scheme, has been sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: Washington Post: House adjourns without electing a speaker after negotiations among GOP American Prospect: House GOP Tries to Cancel Congressional Staff Unions Forbes: Here’s What Republicans Plan To Do As They Retake The House — Including Investigating The DOJ And Gutting The Ethics Office Washington Post: California declares state of emergency as another massive deluge hits Washington Post: Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts AP News: College scam mastermind Rick Singer gets 3.5 years in prison Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, January 5th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:05.6	by Betches Media.
0:06.6	I'm your host Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five-minute breakdown of the
0:11.1	headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:15.5	show there is.
0:16.8	Our government.
0:22.1	It turns out our tagline has never been more true than yesterday.
0:25.9	America spent the day glued to the hot new Clown Town procedural drama known as the House
0:30.2	of Representatives, as Kevin McCarthy failed it yet another three rounds of votes to become
0:35.2	Speaker of the House, now totaling six consecutive failures to secure the office that he has already
0:40.8	moved into.
0:42.4	The sixth vote concluded in mid-afternoon, and the House re-adjourned at 8 p.m.
0:47.1	But at 8 p.m., McCarthy immediately called for a vote to adjourn again before the seventh
0:51.7	vote could be held.
0:53.4	So now would be a good time to mention that until there is a Speaker of the House, and
0:57.1	there is no constitutional limit to how many votes they can have, nor a deadline, until
1:01.9	then the country technically has no members of Congress, because no one has been sworn in
1:06.4	or ceded yet.
1:08.0	Also a issue is the fact that the House of Representatives votes on its own set of rules
1:11.7	at the start of each new Congress, but because there technically is no House of Representatives,
1:17.3	there are also no agreed upon rules.
1:20.0	So right now everything is happening according to General Parliamentary Rule, which means
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