GOP House Turns Against Their Own GOP Senate Before Vote

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Speaker 8 The MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives were absolutely livid.

Speaker 8 Livid, I tell you, when they discovered that Republicans in the Senate snuck in a provision in the continuing resolution in this funding bill that would pay eight Republican senators $500,000 each, at least.

Speaker 8 potentially even more, but at least $500,000 each for their frivolous claims that they were harmed in connection with special counsel Jack Smith's criminal investigation into Donald Trump overthrowing the results of the 2020 election because there were subpoenas for phone numbers of people connected with the insurrection and at least eight of these Republican senators phone numbers.

Speaker 8 It's not like their phones were tapped. It's not like people were listening to their phone calls.
Their phone numbers were peering on a subpoena issued by special counsel Jack Smith.

Speaker 8 And as a result, they say that they've suffered grievous harm and injury. And they put into the bill a provision that will allow them to sue for at least $500,000.

Speaker 8 Let me show you what went down during this House hearing. You have MAGA Republican Congressmember Scott.
Here's what he has to say. Play this clip.

Speaker 10 And they talk about it being good governance.

Speaker 11 The thing thing that I can't get passed, though,

Speaker 12 and this is again, I mean, for the American citizens, if you go to page 227 of the bill,

Speaker 12 limited retroactive applicability.

Speaker 12 In general, the amendments made by this section shall apply to any acquisition subpoena search accessing disclosure of Senate data as defined in Section 10A of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act of 2005 and to any failure to disclose such an acquisition, subpoena, search, accessing, or disclosure occurring on or after January 1 of 2022.

Speaker 10 So it's given them the ability to retroactively go back.

Speaker 11 We know,

Speaker 11 you literally know who, at least, we may not know all of them, but we at least know the list of some of them.

Speaker 12 In this paragraph, the term violation, Section 10 is the meaning given to the violation section. It goes on from there.
But there's also language in there where it indicates that each account,

Speaker 12 each account is a separate payment.

Speaker 13 Now,

Speaker 10 this language did not go through any committee markup.

Speaker 12 This language was not shared with the House representatives prior to it being put in the bill.

Speaker 12 And I personally agree that it should be removed. The problem is, if we remove it, the Senate, it has to go back to the Senate.

Speaker 12 And then you're right back to where you were 40 days ago, where all of a sudden you're trying to get a piece of legislation out of the Senate.

Speaker 8 Okay, he goes, I'm so upset about this, but what are you going to do about it? Then you have MAGA Republican Congressmember Chip Roy. Here's what Congressman Roy has to say.
Here, play this clip.

Speaker 16 Separation of powers, concerns, all the the things. We can debate all that,

Speaker 16 but we think it was pretty egregious.

Speaker 11 So I have no problem with the

Speaker 16 prospect of going after and trying to empower, even through private right of action, a way to go, because we do it in other contexts, consent decrees and other things,

Speaker 16 but the retroactive

Speaker 16 potential to have dollars going to United States senators when we've got American citizens, whether it was Jay Sixers, whether it was people from the FACE Act, whether it was others that have also had the full force of the federal government through the Department of Justice targeting and coming down on them, and they're going to see, oh, but you can slide in a provision in here for United States senators.

Speaker 16 Like, I just,

Speaker 8 it is

Speaker 16 beside my comprehension that this got put in the bill. And it's why people have such a low opinion of this town.

Speaker 16 I am torn also, the gentleman from Georgia, because we need to fund the government and we need to get this passed.

Speaker 16 And I'm trying to figure out what we can do to force the Senate's hand to say, you're going to repeal this provision and fix it

Speaker 16 without amending it here to then delay the funding of government, which we want to proceed to go move forward with.

Speaker 16 But that provision needs to get fixed, and we need to find a way as a body to get it fixed

Speaker 16 as soon as possible. And I'm continuing my explore of the options tonight.

Speaker 11 I yield back to the gentleman from Georgia.

Speaker 13 Mr.

Speaker 11 Scott, would you yield?

Speaker 14 I just want to point out it's $500,000.

Speaker 12 And the way it's written, it is a minimum of $500,000.

Speaker 14 It is per line.

Speaker 8 Now I'll show you what MAGA Republican Congressmember Griffith has to say. He goes, I'm so angry, but there's nothing I'm going to do about it.
Here play this clip. Mr.

Speaker 18 Griffith, you're recognized.

Speaker 19 Thank you, Madam Chair.

Speaker 12 I, too, am very concerned about those sections.

Speaker 19 I will tell you, I've already made the decision that I will vote for this bill and not vote for any amendments

Speaker 19 because shutdown needs to end.

Speaker 11 It's been going on too long.

Speaker 19 Too many of my people are hurting and

Speaker 19 we got to get it done. There's some other issues in here, not as egregious, but at least it was done in the light of day with a vote.

Speaker 19 But the hemp issues that was a fight between gentlemen in the Senate from Kentucky, both of them, fighting each other,

Speaker 19 I don't agree with the solution they came up with,

Speaker 19 but I'm voting for it because I've got too many people that need the government to open.

Speaker 19 And therefore, notwithstanding, we're going to hear some great amendments, I'm sure, but I'm not voting for any of them because we need to get this thing done and then we can start negotiating on other things.

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Speaker 8 Democratic Congressmember Joe Nagus put a fine point on what the MAGA Republicans were doing and how absolutely ridiculous and offensive it is that while Americans are starving right now, as the MAGA Republicans are ripping away health care, as they're ripping away SNAP benefits, this is what you're doing here.

Speaker 8 Let's play this clip right here.

Speaker 20 Far from haranguing the chairman, I'm giving the opportunity for the chairman to explain the meaningful work that he's been engaged in, and I suspect that he welcomes and relishes that.

Speaker 20 So, I want to talk to you about the provision that my colleague from Pennsylvania noted earlier.

Speaker 20 And this is the provision that essentially allows specifically eight Republican United States senators to reap upwards of a half a million dollar payday with respect to the phone record notice provision that they've added into the bill.

Speaker 20 You support that provision?

Speaker 17 I didn't have anything to do with it. Didn't have any knowledge of it.

Speaker 20 Not asking me if you have knowledge of it. Do you support it?

Speaker 17 Do I support the bill? Yes. Do I support every single provision in the bill?

Speaker 11 No.

Speaker 20 You don't find this provision repugnant? I think most American people are going to find this repugnant.

Speaker 17 I was surprised to see it in the bill. I was unaware of it.
It was not.

Speaker 20 Why not work with us to remove it?

Speaker 17 Let's see what you do.

Speaker 13 Well, we've got an amendment. I'll tell you this.

Speaker 17 I am very concerned. And actually, Democratic senators said this.

Speaker 17 I think particularly of Senator Coons,

Speaker 17 I am very concerned that anybody, whether they're in the House or the Senate, is singled out and not notified. that their records are being subpoenaed.
That concerns me a great deal.

Speaker 17 And does that just now, did I know about about this provision, the bill? No. Do I think it needs to be in a funding bill? Not particularly, but do I think getting the governments open is important?

Speaker 17 Yes, I do. But I was unaware of the provision.

Speaker 13 So well, there's an amendment that will be introduced.

Speaker 20 I'm not asking a question. Mr.
Chairman, not asking you a question. Let me finish my statement, and then you'll have an opportunity.

Speaker 20 There will be an amendment proposed to remove what I think is a deeply insidious provision. Jesus I think it is outrageous, outrageous for these Republican senators to effectively guarantee themselves

Speaker 20 million dollar paydays,

Speaker 8 retroactive,

Speaker 20 retroactive provision in this bill that very clearly applies to them. The removal of all relevant immunity defenses on the part of the United States government.

Speaker 20 This is insanity to allow this provision to go forward. And I would hope that my Republican colleagues would join us in supporting the removal of this provision.

Speaker 20 At a minimum, we ought to be able to find common ground on that. So with that, Madam Chair, I yield back.

Speaker 8 Here's how some of the Democratic senators were talking about this. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy wrote, this is outrageous.
Another reason the CR should not pass.

Speaker 8 It creates a new offense tailored perfectly to allow Trump to write a government check of millions of dollars to eight Republican senators.

Speaker 8 GOP leader Thun just made eight of his colleagues rich off the taxpayer money. And by the way, did the eight Democrats in the Senate who voted for this, were they aware of this?

Speaker 8 Were they familiar with what was going down? Did they give a crap about any of this?

Speaker 8 Democratic Senator Captain Mark Kelly after Senator Chris Murphy, Senator Kelly goes, Republican senator slipped this nugget into the CR last night, rigging the legal system to give $500,000 or more to each of them because someone followed the facts and looked at their phone records.

Speaker 8 That's your money, folks. And again, nobody wiretapped them.
Nobody listened to their phone calls. Nobody went through their emails.

Speaker 8 Quite literally, it was their phone number and the duration of the call in connection with a finite period of time relating to the January 6th insurrection. And that was it.

Speaker 8 Here's how it was described by the Times.

Speaker 8 Because the provision is retroactive to 2022, it would appear to make eligible eight Republican lawmakers whose phone records were subpoenaed by investigators for Mr.

Speaker 8 Smith as he examined efforts by Donald Trump to obstruct the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Speaker 8 Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim according to the bill language.

Speaker 8 The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue.

Speaker 8 It would remove all of the defenses against that would normally be asserted by the government, providing a clear path just to claim $500,000 each.

Speaker 8 The Republican senators who want this money, Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Haggerty, Josh Howley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tubberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Loomis, and Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, also at his phone record subpoena, would be not eligible because this provision is just for senators.

Speaker 8 Here's what Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries had to say about it.

Speaker 8 By the way, what I liked about leader Jeffries last night is that he took the witness stand as well, and he was, I think, asserting strongly and powerfully the position of the Democrats here.

Speaker 8 But here's what he said about this provision. Let's play this clip.

Speaker 21 House Democrats are going to offer an amendment before the Rules Committee to get that self-dealing sick provision out of the spending agreement.

Speaker 21 The notion that eight Republican senators signed off by John Thune, and the Republicans, apparently in the Senate and in the House, would give themselves the ability, essentially, to rip millions of taxpayer dollars away from the American people so they could line their pockets because these people were insurrectionist sympathizers is insanity.

Speaker 21 And we're going to tattoo that provision, just like we're going to tattoo the Republican health care crisis on the foreheads of every single House Republican who dares vote for this bill.

Speaker 8 Well, there you have it, folks.

Speaker 8 Can you realize just how offensive it is that the Republicans are doing that? By the way,

Speaker 8 here's one of the things that went down as well.

Speaker 8 This shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.

Speaker 8 And as this one account says, it basically effectively bans all hemp THC products in the United States.

Speaker 8 And look, I have, let me be clear, I have a lot of concern about the way these products are marketed. It also seems like they're targeting children.
That's where my problem is.

Speaker 8 I know a lot of people, though, who use CBD, hemp-related products, THC, CBD, hemp stuff to help their chronic illnesses. And I don't want that banned.

Speaker 8 If you wanted to address this issue, in my opinion, address the marketing. that seems to sometimes target children and kids.
And that's not what it's intended for.

Speaker 8 But I think that um you know this is something that's slipped in it's gonna destroy an entire industry and by the way if you're going to destroy the industry like this and potentially impact a lot of americans who use this for their chronic pain why why hide it though like why not do it in public transparently talk about it hold hearings about it let people know and then there could be a deliberative process but what the hell is this crap anyway let me know what you think hit subscribe let's get to six million thanks for watching love this video support independent media and unlock exclusive content ad-free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our youtube channel today you can also gift memberships to others let's keep growing together

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