“It could drag on, I don’t know, the rest of the Congress,” she added, laughing.Yesterday, I ran in my first post Walt Disney World Marathon race…the Surf City Half Marathon. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Thursday. “I don’t know how long it’s gonna last, to be honest with you,” Rep. It doesn’t mean that I need a copy of it to know what was in it.”Īs the talks continue and the legislative session drags on, some lawmakers are wondering how long the stalemate could stretch on.

Perry disagreed, saying he does not regret the absence of written evidence documenting McCarthy’s January concessions. “I don’t know the ins and outs or the details of what deals Freedom Caucus made the Speaker’s race … which is why, like with the debt ceiling, everything we agreed to should be in writing so we can hold our leaders accountable,” Rep. Republicans explicitly called for McCarthy to ensure any bill passed got support from a majority of Republicans - a bar he easily met - but they lashed out when the bill got support from more Democrats than Republicans. The difficulty with parsing out the details from January is that many of the agreements were not written down or made public. But as the chamber recessed on Thursday, some of the detractors were signaling the blockade will continue until McCarthy can satisfy their ill-defined demands.

The House is slated to vote again Monday. Given the Republicans’ razor-thin House majority, that number was more than enough to sink the rule, bring McCarthy’s legislative agenda to a screeching halt and force GOP leaders to cancel three days of scheduled votes. The conservatives are furious with McCarthy’s handling of last month’s debt ceiling negotiations, which led to a deal with President Biden loathed by GOP hard-liners who think the Speaker caved too easily on the Republicans’ deficit reduction demands.Īs payback, 11 conservative firebrands - most of them members of the far-right Freedom Caucus - bucked tradition and opposed a procedural motion on Tuesday, blocking four Republican messaging bills from reaching the floor this week. Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is racing to break the lower chamber deadlock triggered this week by disgruntled conservatives, but rank-and-file members aren’t holding their breath for a resolution.Ī number of House Republicans left Washington on Thursday warning the sides remain so far apart that it might require weeks - maybe longer - to get the House back to working order.

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