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Interviews with: Rep. Jamie Raskin, Rep. Ken Buck, OMB Director Shalanda Young

State of the Union

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The Importance of Kevin McCarthy's Leadership in the House of Representatives

McCarthy had to ask the Democrats and received 52 votes from the Democrats to actually have the bill heard. Nancy Pelosi in her years and years of being speaker never once asked Republicans to vote for the rule, the procedural mechanism that puts the bill on the floor. That's really unheard of and shows weakness. And I think that's the sort of weakness that Republicans are looking at and trying to make a determination whether he will be fit to serve.

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