 speak of the House of Representatives in the United States, the election for it, it wrapped up, it actually wrapped up after midnight on Saturday night. Finally, you know, Kevin McCarthy had given, I guess, enough, there was enough conflict, there was enough haranguing as to convince those who were still holding out against Kevin McCarthy to either vote for him or to abstain by abstaining. All he really needed is a majority, so enough abstain to give him a majority. And Kevin McCarthy, the Republican, is now Speaker of the House of Representatives. I think a lot of people just wanted to go home for the weekend and had enough and realized that this was inevitable in the end. It is interesting though to read the list of so-called concessions that McCarthy made in order to get some of these votes, these are concessions I think made. If you remember 20 people voted against him in the earlier rounds and at some point that are dwindled down to the five, six, kind of what I would consider some of the wackier Republican legislatures, but it is interesting to get those and some of those voted present and never actually voted for McCarthy. They weren't there, the last four or five were not there for any concessions. They didn't care. I mean, they were there to disrupt, they were there to stop him from becoming Speaker. They didn't care about the details, but the other 15 it turns out did and actually got some concessions from McCarthy and some of these, I have to say, are pretty good. Some of these commitments by McCarthy actually will make the House of Representatives, I think, better. Part of the reason they will make it better is they will force legislation to go slower. They will force legislation to be considered. They will maybe force more stalemate, which is good, and create more barriers to actually passing laws, which is good. So I think what turned out, what turned out is that the people voting against McCarthy was split into two. Those who actually really care about what they call conservative ideas or limiting of its spending or shrinking government at least while they're in their opposition, they care about these things, and those who just did it for the sake of disrupting and for more nihilistic reasons. So here are some of the concessions that he got. Now, the first one is kind of ridiculous and more for, I'd say, for the nihilistic wing of them, and that is that at any point, any member of the Republican caucus can object to McCarthy being Speaker and force another vote on the speakership. So I think it used to be that a majority of the caucus had to vote against the Speaker to force a new vote. McCarthy then compromised and said, okay, five people want to call a motion to vacate the speakership, he'll accept that. Now it's one. So at any point, anybody in the House can demand and and Kevin McCarthy has agreed that he will put himself up to a vote again. That is just absurd and ridiculous. But anyway, that's one of the elements. But some of these other ones are actually pretty good. Here's one, includes a rule that says, and again, some of this is speculation because the rules haven't been formalized. We'll see what they are finally. But here's one. It includes a rule that says that any move to raise the debt ceiling must also be accompanied by spending cuts. Anytime spending cuts on the table, I'm for it. Of course, these are exactly this is exactly what I was hoping for. I was hoping for a Congress that would actually put a stalemate to Democratic Senate and a Democratic president who would actually force Biden to negotiate that if he wanted certain programs, he would have to cut. They would have to actually be spending cuts. Now we'll see if they live up to this. We'll see if Republicans live up to this. We'll see if they're willing to hold out like they did in 2011. I think it was the new Tea Party group hauled up. We will see if they can hold out. We will see if they can hold out. Let's see. There's a whole, you know, there's a whole, let's see some of the other good rules. Appropriation bills, 12 appropriation bills will now be voted on individually rather than one omnibus spending bill. Good thing. The more you break down the federal budget, the more the corruption inherent in it becomes real and becomes evident to people and the better it is. Let's break it down. Let's not make it 12 appropriations bills. Let's divvy it up into 100 different bills. I don't care. The more we break it down, the more we get into the nitty gritty, the more we're forced to confront the nitty gritty, the better it is. Having 12 appropriation bills instead of one omnibus bill. Good thing. Again, let's see if they live up to it, but this is good. Let's see. It also gives lawmakers, this is a revolutionary one. This gives lawmakers 72 whole hours to review bills before they come to the House floor. 72 whole hours to actually read the bill. I mean, that's pretty cool. Maybe we won't get a situation where Nancy Pelosi, a member said about Obamacare. They'll read it after it's passed. We'll figure out what's in it after it's passed. Just vote though he is supposed to vote. That's good. Interesting that none of these, by the way, none of these were passed. None of these issues were passed. None of these were done in the House when Republicans had a majority in the House when Trump was president. So no spending cuts in order to raise the debt ceiling. Didn't happen when Trump was president and Republicans held the House. None of this, as far as I remember, 12 appropriation bills, the 72 hours, all of this didn't exist. So this is the Republican Party being its better self. And the Republican Party is always its better self when they are in the opposition, never when they are in power. Now it also gives lawmakers all kinds of extra ability to pass stuff regarding abortion and regarding border security and other, what I consider, bad areas. So we'll see how it all shakes out. But to the extent that this will actually have an impact on reducing the effectiveness of the House to pass grand legislation, in particular omnibus bills and in particular appropriation bills, a good thing, good thing, government spending when Trump was in power went up no less than it did in the, actually more faster, significantly faster than it did in the final six years of the Obama administration. Trump and Bush spent more money than Obama did in the last six years. The first two years, he both had a Democratic House and Senate and Obama also was coming out of the financial crisis. So there was a lot of stimulus packages involved, including the Bush stimulus. But in terms of normal times, non-stimulus times, Trump was just as, as spendy and Republicans spent just as much as Obama did and as Biden is, again, if you take out the stimulus package. Well, if you include Trump's stimulus package, I'm not sure. So, okay, I, you know, rather have a Republican Party that's decent as an opposition party than not having anything in having the Democrats just steamroll. If only, if only Republicans had held the Senate two years ago, a lot of, you know, and I blame Donald Trump for that, for not holding the Senate. If only they'd held the Senate two years ago, then much of the Biden agenda would have never gone through. 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