The bill is likely to run into trouble in the Senate, where centrist Democrats are eyeing changes, but taken in tandem with the landmark infrastructure package the House passed earlier this month - and which Biden signed into law on Monday - it’s been a pretty productive few weeks for the chamber’s Democrats, despite what Kevin McCarthy has to say. McCarthy thinks he is a wit but so far he has proved he is only half right.ĭespite McCarthy’s best efforts, Democrats are expected to vote on the historic social spending and climate change package Friday morning. Strategized and implemented the development and execution of project deliverables, such as leadership. It is a feat of epic proportions to speak for four hours straight and not produce a single memorable phrase, original insight or even a joke. Operating as the versatile and engaged founder of a non-profit organization focused on empowering young Africans to be agents of change within their communities. “It is a feat of epic proportions to speak for four hours straight and not produce a single memorable phrase, original insight or even a joke,” he tweeted just after 1 a.m. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.) called him out again around the four-hour mark. Once it became clear that McCarthy wasn’t stopping anytime soon, Democrats were sent home to get some rest before reconvening in the morning to vote. “This is his audition for Donald Trump to try to be speaker, on the assumption that they’re going to win the House - which they’re not.” Ocasio-Cortez this is is an elaborate, extended, and painfully protracted political audition by Kevin McCarthy for Donald Trump, to show that he can be as imbecilic and authoritarian and idiotic as the rest of them, because he’s afraid he’s going to get outflanked by Jim Jordan or Scalise or someone else,” Raskin added. Here he is as as he approached the two-hour mark:Ī post shared by Rep. Jamie Raskin joins Joy on the suspicion held by many that the Fox News host will use this footage to feed his audience January 6th disinformation. Now, Kevin McCarthy has given Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of January 6th security footage. McCarthy didn’t need very long to drift into incoherence. Fox News own lawyers argued that viewers should not believe what Tucker Carlson says. McCarthy’s overnight speech bested Pelosi’s then-record by 25 minutes. In 2018, Nancy Pelosi spoke for eight hours and seven minutes in an effort to convince Republicans to allow a vote on an immigration bill that would provide protection for undocumented migrants brought to the United States as children. He was able to speak for so long because of the “Magic Minute” rule, which allows the speeches of each party’s leader to count as only a single minute of the allotted debate time, regardless of how long the leader actually speaks. The minority leader’s address was designed specifically to delay the chamber’s vote on President Biden’s $1.85 trillion Build Back Better social spending bill.
Friday morning, setting the record for the longest continuous speech in modern House history. Kevin McCarthy started speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives not long after 8 p.m.
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