Why House Republicans, and Maybe Some Democrats, Want to Remove Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Conservatives who make up the House Freedom Caucus last week forced a meeting of the House's entire Republican conference to discuss a motion "to vacate the chair," which is a push to force Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to step down.
The Freedom Caucus has worked on this effort to remove Pelosi since July. What was the deciding factor in going ahead now? How does the motion to vacate work, especially given the House's Democrat majority? Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., chairman of the Freedom Caucus, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss.
We also cover these stories:
- The New York Times publishes an article detailing President’s Trump's income tax returns.
- Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham says that confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will begin Oct. 12.
- Chris Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday,” will moderate tonight's first presidential debate tonight, but doesn't plan to fact-check either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, September 29th. I'm Virginia Allen. |
| 0:10.4 | And I'm Rachel Del Judas. |
| 0:12.0 | Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona, who is also the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, |
| 0:16.8 | will be joining me on the Daily Signal Podcast to talk about why he, along with the House |
| 0:21.3 | Republican Conference, is discussing the motion to |
| 0:23.7 | vacate the chair which is a push to get Nancy Pelosi to step down. |
| 0:27.6 | Don't forget. If you're enjoying this podcast please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating on Apple |
| 0:34.4 | podcast and encourage others to subscribe. Now, on to our top news. The New York Times released an article Sunday detailing the President's latest tax return information. |
| 0:52.1 | The Times says that they gained access to President |
| 0:55.4 | Trump's tax returns dating back two decades and reports to the president only |
| 1:00.1 | paid 750 dollars in federal income taxes in 2016 and again in 2017. |
| 1:08.1 | The Times added that Trump had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years, largely because he reported |
| 1:17.0 | losing much more money than he made. In response to the report Trump tweeted |
| 1:22.4 | Monday morning, |
| 1:23.5 | the fake news media, just like election time 2016, |
| 1:27.7 | is bringing up my taxes and all sorts of other nonsense |
| 1:32.0 | with illegally obtained information and only bad intent. |
| 1:37.0 | I paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation and tax credits. |
| 1:45.0 | The president also noted on Twitter that he is the only president on record to give up my yearly $400,000 plus presidential salary. |
| 1:55.0 | Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham told Fox News Sunday morning futures |
| 1:59.7 | that confirmation hearings |
| 2:03.0 | during an interview Sunday, Graham said, |
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