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Morning Announcements

Tuesday, January 10th, 2023

Morning Announcements

Betches

Daily News, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: The House of Representatives voted to pass their new rules package last night, which will govern the next two years under Speaker Kevin McCarthy. a nonpartisan organization, the Campaign Legal Center, filed a complaint yesterday accusing George Santos of a smattering of campaign finance violations. Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned a US attorney in Chicago to review classified documents that were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington DC. Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Orlando with abdominal pain. Finally for today, more than 7 thousand nurses at two major New York City hospitals went on strike yesterday. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: House Narrowly Approves Rules Amid Concerns About McCarthy’s Concessions NBC: GOP Rep. Scott Perry, subject of Jan. 6 probes, declines to recuse himself from looking into those investigations Washington Post: George Santos broke campaign finance laws, nonpartisan watchdog says CBS: U.S. attorney reviewing documents marked classified from Joe Biden's vice presidency found at Biden think tank Bloomberg: Bolsonaro Hospitalized in US After Brasilia Riots, O Globo Says NY Times: Nurses Go on Strike at 2 New York City Hospitals  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 Tuesday, January 10th, and you're listening to the morning announcements presented

0:05.7

by Betches Media.

0:06.7

I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the morning announcement is your daily five-minute breakdown

0:11.1

of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality

0:15.9

show there is.

0:17.4

Our government.

0:22.4

Last night, the House of Representatives voted to pass their new rules package, which will

0:26.3

govern the next two years under Speaker Kevin McCarthy's Republican majority.

0:31.1

As was reported earlier, the new rules will allow just one member to call for a vote to

0:35.1

repeal McCarthy's speakership, allows Congress members 72 hours before voting on a bill,

0:40.8

constrains the options to raise the debt limit, can't wait for that conversation, and establishes

0:45.9

committees on the weaponization of the FBI, DOJ, and CIA.

0:50.0

That's in addition to giving the House the ability to strip specific members of the

0:54.0

Biden administration of their salaries, as well as add any riders they want to appropriations

0:59.3

bills.

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They also plan to appoint some of the most far-right members of the Freedom Caucus to

1:04.5

seats and chairperson roles on very desirable committees.

1:08.2

For example, Representative Scott Perry, who featured prominently in the January 6th report

1:12.8

for his role in shepherding the fake electors plan, says that he will be sitting on a committee

1:17.4

that will investigate the January 6th investigation, and has no intention of recusing himself.

1:23.6

Like an MC Escher sketch of regime change.

1:27.2

And while in reality, the Republican House majority won't be able to actually get any

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