MOBILE LENGTH EPISODE 2

The Hill

• Juan Williams: Republicans’ troubles start with failing to catch a ‘red wave’ January 30, 2023
  McCarthy embodies today’s GOP as a captive of kooks, grifters and aspiring authoritarians.
• Manchin sees himself as shuttle diplomat from Democrats to McCarthy January 30, 2023
  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is seeking to carve out a new role for himself now that he's no longer the power broker that he was in last year's 50-50 Senate. Manchin now envisions himself as a shuttle diplomat working to bridge the partisan divide between Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Kevin...
• Biden gets to know new partner in House in Hakeem Jeffries January 30, 2023
  President Biden last week marked the beginning of his working relationship with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, whom he’ll have to rely on when it comes to Republican threats of spending cuts and a showdown over the country’s debt ceiling. The new Democratic leader’s role is also a generational shift after 20 years of former...
• What three hard-line conservatives plan to do with their seats on the Rules Committee January 30, 2023
  The addition of Republican Reps. Chip Roy (Texas), Ralph Norman (S.C.), and Thomas Massie (Ky.) to the House Rules Committee — one of the concessions from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that helped him secure the gavel — means that the frequent antagonists of leadership have the opportunity to create significant barriers to getting legislation to...
• McConnell, Senate GOP happy to sit out debt limit talks — for now January 29, 2023
  Senate Republicans say they’re happy to sit out the fight over raising the debt ceiling and cede the negotiations to their colleagues in the House — at least for now. After a bruising year-end battle to pass the omnibus government spending package; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) using up a large chunk of political […]