What to expect from a GOP-controlled House
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The GOP has taken back the House. But with a fractious caucus, and an ascendant far-right wing, how will Republicans run the House and what do they want to achieve in the new Congress? Sarah Longwell joins Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 1:04.4 | This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi. The last time it took the house more than one |
| 1:09.8 | round of voting to choose its new speaker, 1923, which means this week Americans are |
| 1:16.8 | witnessing something not seen in a century. The inability for a house majority to quickly |
| 1:22.6 | pick a new speaker and get on with the business of governing. By the way, for my fellow on-point |
| 1:28.6 | history nerds out there, there have only been 14 multiple ballot elections for the speakership |
| 1:34.8 | in US history. 13 of them happened before the Civil War. But it is a kind of internecine |
| 1:44.0 | battle currently playing out within the Republican Party. Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon has taken |
| 1:50.0 | to calling the radical intransigence in his party the Taliban 19. And on Wednesday, one |
| 1:56.6 | of those radicals, Colorado representative Lauren Boebert, had this reply from the House |
| 2:01.3 | floor. |
| 2:02.3 | Let's stop with the campaign smears and tactics to get people to turn against us. Even |
| 2:09.6 | having my favorite president call us and tell us we need to knock this off, I think it |
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