Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy relied on shut buddies and advisers assembled over greater than a decade in Congress to advance laws throughout his nine-month tenure. Now, Speaker Mike Johnson must assemble his personal kitchen cupboard.
The Louisiana lawmaker simply flew from No. 5 to the highest of the Home Republican convention final week, leaving Democrats to query his management bona fides. Johnson’s first month on the job will pressure him to wrangle an unruly convention and maintain the federal government funded to keep away from a shutdown.
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) shall be seeking to fellow Home members to assist him in operating the Home.
Johnson, who has solely been in Congress for seven years, is prone to lean on the experience and connections of different lawmakers as he takes over. They embody:
- Steve Scalise (La.): Johnson’s place atop the GOP means the 2 highest-ranking Home Republicans are each from the identical state. Scalise thus far has proven no obvious laborious emotions towards the person who leapfrogged him for the highest job.
- Elise Stefanik (N.Y.): Till final week, Stefanik was one management rung above Johnson, that means the 2 labored carefully on messaging inside the convention. Stefanik nominated Johnson for speaker, calling him a “buddy to all and enemy to none.”
- Jim Jordan (Ohio): Jordan was the laborious proper’s first alternative for speaker and the Ohioan’s conservative populism carefully matches Johnson’s views on every thing from LGBTQ+ rights to abortion entry to fealty to Donald Trump.
Learn the total story from Maeve Sheehy for extra lawmakers to look at.
BIDEN’S AGENDA
- The president will hosts leaders from the Western Hemisphere on the White Home throughout the inaugural Americas Partnership for Financial Prosperity Leaders’ Summit round 10 a.m.
- Biden will depart the White Home for Lewiston, Maine, the place he’s anticipated to reach round 3 p.m. He’ll give remarks round 4 p.m. in regards to the Oct. 25 capturing after assembly with first responders, nurses, and different front-line employees. He’ll meet with the households and victims round 5 p.m.
- Biden will depart Maine round 7:20 p.m. for Delaware and can arrive at Rehoboth Seashore, Del. round 9:40 p.m.
CONGRESS’ SCHEDULE
- The Home is again at 9 a.m. to vote on an Inside-Setting spending invoice.
- Senators are out till Monday at 3 p.m.
- For the total detailed agenda, learn BGOV’s Congress Tracker
Additionally Taking place on the Hill
HOUSE REPUBLICANS handed a $14.3 billion Israel support package deal tied to cuts in IRS funding, triggering a conflict with Democrats. Lawmakers from each events are largely united in supporting help for Israel, however approval of the help is now wrapped up in fights over different emergencies akin to Ukraine support and conservative calls for to chop spending.
- The Home handed the help package deal 226 to 196, with most Democrats opposing the measure due to the cuts to the IRS. The White Home has already threatened to veto the invoice over the availability. Learn extra.
TRANSPORTATION GROUPS are warning of job cuts within the tens of hundreds, diminished passenger rail service, delayed main transit initiatives, and thwarted implementation of the infrastructure legislation if the Home passes a spending invoice in its present type. Learn extra.
BIDEN’S PICK to be the IRS’ chief counsel inched towards Senate affirmation after Finance Committee voted 16-11—with two Republicans in help—to advance Marjorie Rollinson’s nomination to the total chamber. Learn extra.
HOUSE DEMOCRATS need NOAA to warn extra folks about excessive wildfire smoke by posting messages on the nationwide Wi-fi Emergency Alerts. The lawmakers additionally need the federal authorities to raised monitor well being knowledge associated to smoke deaths and sicknesses. Learn extra.
THE REPUBLICAN HEADS of the Home Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic are subpoenaing an administration well being official alleging she spent months evading questioning from lawmakers associated to their probe into Covid’s origins. Learn extra.
Throughout the Administration
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The Port of Boston’s Conley Terminal
THE WHITE HOUSE is doling out greater than $653 million to broaden port infrastructure and strengthen post-pandemic provide chains — and warning that the funding can be slashed if Home GOP’s proposed spending invoice turns into legislation.
- “After a long time of beneath funding, we must be doing extra and never much less to power the provision chain,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated on a name with reporters. “I’m simply mystified that Home Republicans would need to slash funding to enhance ports after every thing we’ve been by on our provide chain.” Learn extra.
- A few quarter of the initiatives are on the East Coast, whereas the same share are inland and within the Midwest of the nation, together with work in Arkansas and Wisconsin. Seven of the initiatives awarded are in Alaska. Learn extra.
BIDEN’S end-of-the-decade objective for constructing out offshore wind power confronted a setback this week with the cancellation of two main wind initiatives off the coast of New Jersey, however specialists say the administration can nonetheless meet its objective of attaining a zero-carbon electrical energy grid by 2035. Learn extra.
Individuals, Energy, and Politics
Nikki Haley at a marketing campaign occasion in South Carolina final month. Peter Zay/Anadolu Company through Getty Photos
Nikki Haley at a marketing campaign occasion
NIKKI HALEY will make a fundraising swing by Washington this month, together with an occasion with lobbyists. The fundraiser for the Republican presidential contender comes as Haley is drawing consideration and rising in some polls. Learn extra.
TOMMY TUBERVILLE ought to punish and even fireplace his prime spokesperson, the chair of Senate GOP’s marketing campaign arm stated, saying the aide tried to intimidate the Alabama Republican’s colleagues with threats of main challenges. Learn extra.
RUDY GIULIANI’S legal professionals argued earlier than an ethics panel in Washington yesterday in opposition to a suggestion that he lose his legislation license for supporting Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes. Learn extra.
SECRETARY OF STATE ANTHONY BLINKEN will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv at 10 a.m. native time, in keeping with the State Division. Learn extra.
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To contact the reporter on this story: Kayla Sharpe at ksharpe@bloombergindustry.com
