#House Minority Leader #HakeemJeffries is using the so-called "magic minute" to speak for as long as he wants during debate.

Also called the "leadership minute", it is a long-standing custom in the House that permits party leaders extended debate time on the floor.

The record for the "magic minute" is >8 hours set by then #Republican Min Ldr #KevinMcCarthy in 2021 when he gave a circuitous speech against Biden's $1.75T bill.

McCarthy broke Democratic congresswoman #NancyPelosi’s 2018 record.

85) Good piece featuring #KevinMcCarthy from the folks at #CBSSundayMorning.

Make sure you watch to the end where the former speaker is called out for kissing #DonaldTrump’s ring at Mar-A-Lago only weeks after condemning Trump for fomenting the attempted #Jan6 coup

Reporter Robert Costa does not pull any punches when he accuses McCarthy of ignoring #Trump’s incipient #Fascism and thirst for retribution. There is no core to McCarthy, just an empty suit

#USPolitics

https://youtu.be/ClzkKXh9lxs?si=13PLgmdiMhLvKjhs

This is the only appropriate reaction to the above news re the latest #HouseRepublicans #Speaker plan of a #KevinMcCarthy #JimJordan #speakership.

@joyannreid

#JoyReid #TheReidOut
@MSNBC
#Congress #Republicans #dysfunction #PublicDisservice #GymJordan #ChaosCaucus #TrollCaucus #MAGA #anarchists #WeaponizationOfGovernment

60) Tomorrow, the Sunday politics talk shows will be filled with spinning about who blinked first on the threat of a government #Shutdown

Let’s start here, #KevinMcCarthy blinked. #McCarthy understands that shutdowns are bad #politics and have yet to yield a positive result for the #GOP at the ballot box

Assuming the #Senate passes the bill, the next item in the immediate future is whether the #Speaker will face a vote to remove him by the #FreedomCaucus

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/30/congress/stopgap-passes-00119280

50) To the absolute non surprise of anyone following #USPolitics, #KevinMcCarthy gave the green light to an #impeachment inquiry directed against #JoeBiden

In times past, presidential impeachment was reserved for overt misdeeds, think Nixon and the #Watergate break in. Now #GOP politics has degenerated to the point where political payback and #Trump fealty outweighs facts and evidence gathering

#Politics #Biden #HunterBiden #HardRight #FreedomCaucus #RightWing

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198922531/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-inquiry

“Speaker” #KevinMcCarthy on Tues opened an #impeachment inquiry into President #Biden, working to #appease #FarRight #lawmakers who have #threatened to #oust him if he fails to #accede to their #demands for deep #spending #cuts that would force a government #shutdown at the end of the month.