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by candy will law -- candy woodall. it looks like a full schedule ahead. . with the house -- let's start with the house. what will they focus on as they come into session on tuesday? caller: house republicans are -- guest: house republicans are considering their first two limit the biden administration's ability to govern. they wanted to limit his ability to tap into the strategic petroleum reserve and that is a move that democrats say it will -- say will raise gas prices and that is not expected to advance in the senate but that is something that house republicans will try to move this week. they also want to set up an faa task force.

this will look at the numerous problems we have seen in be airline -- the airline history -- industry and most recently, last week and christmas, a lot of americans remember waiting in airports and the numbers problems -- numerous problems in the last two years and in the last six months so house republicans want to have this task force established. that would include people of all sides. the labor issue in the industry as well as experts and trying to figure out what needs to happen, why problems have occurred and why people have had to wait long periods of time in a airport. that is what they want to look at. we are watching for more news as house republicans leaders want

to examine the biden administration's policies. that includes the week of february 6, they are moving forward with hearings that will examine the southern border. they also want to examine the biden family's business dealings and they are looking to have border patrol agents as witnesses. they want to have twitter executives as witnesses related to those hearings. we are keeping a close eye on those as well. host: it took a couple of days for the house to get underway legislatively with the multiple rounds and votes for speaker of the house. have republicans assigned their committee positions, project lead the chairs for those house committees -- particularly the chairs for the house committees? caller: we are waiting -- guest:

we are waiting for news on committee assignments. we are watching on who from the house freedom caucus to be named. we are waiting to see if speaker mccarthy will follow through on what he says will be a move to prevent three democrats for sitting on cities, something seen as retaliatory on other -- from other representatives who were taken off committees after the january 6 insurrection. house democratic leader akeem jeffries is forcing mccarthy's hand and sending out a letter saying he intends to see other representatives on committees so he is forcing mccarthy to either follow through on what he would set would do -- he would do in

removing those three from the committees or let it go. host: in terms of committees and his feature in the republican conference -- future in the republican conference, what is the set -- sent on george santos? guest: democrats are raising that already this morning and saying, why would you remove some of our members in good standing when there is a and battled freshman representative chasing legal and critical scrutiny, why is he being seated on committees? one of the republican leaders, james comer, who is leading a oversight committee, he said that santos will continue to be a member and serve on committees unless there is criminal proof

of campaign-finance violation. that is a lot of -- what people are watching closely. host: sandy woodall -- candy woodall covers --(202) 748-8000 is the line for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. for independents and others, (202) 748-8002. we have talked a bit about the house and what is and for the u.s. senate -- the house. what is ahead for the u.s. senate? caller: -- guest: they are swearing in a new member in a brassica -- in nebraska and they will vote for nominations for six of the mentors -- other members to go through. there is a hearing on a committee that people find industry especially if they tried to order taylor swift

tickets and couldn't get them. there is a hearing on consumer prices and competitive ticketing so that is something that is happening and they will be having hearings on upcoming nominations and there are several closed senate intelligence committee meetings. i am hearing that some of that is due to possibly discuss what they can find out about these probes into classified documents that were found at president biden's residents. host: the u.s. raised its statutory debt limit at that treasury department and taking what is being called extraordinary measures to keep the government afloat. tell us about the landscape of the debt ceiling debate to come. guest: this is going to be a

fight against -- between republicans and democrats and there are republicans who said they will be willing to default on our debt, which would create many democrats and economists say it would throw the global economy into a tailspin. these sorts of standoffs have happened in the past. these two parties are going to have to come together in order to get this done. they will have to negotiate and it does not benefit either party and kevin mccarthy has said that he acknowledges that it is something they need to work on, that it is not their goal to default on the government debt. last week, you saw treasury secretary ellen had sent a letter and said, this is -- we

are taking measures now to keep afloat until june but you will see these negotiations are already underway and happening. speaker mccarthy said during his first press conference, while he was trying to win that bid for speaker, he said that he and biden have spoken and his first conversation when he was speaker, they started talking about the debt ceiling debate. the parties are talking and we will be reporting on the developments coming out of that but this is going to be a fight between the parties. host: you can call in with questions. (202) 748-8000 or democrats. (202) 748-8001 public in line.

-- republican line. for all others, (202) 748-8002. caller: what a great day to be an american. of quick question about the debt ceiling -- a quick question about the debt ceiling. how dangerous it -- is it going to be for the false promises and student loans and all be aims that are facing these -- the country. what do you think the republican's position is with all these issues? host: candy woodall? guest: that is a good question and republicans in the 2022 midterms ran on fiscal issues. many of the independents and

democrats i talked to said they were voting republican are leaning republicans because of fiscal issues and because they were going to the store and seeing higher prices on food which continued to climb, the price of aches have been in -- eggs have been in the news. so far, one republicans got into office, their first week priorities were antiabortion bills and setting up committees to investigate president biden. there are many concerns about fiscal issues. it is a big question as to, if there is -- who does that help? leaders in both parties don't see that as beneficial to either of them but they are talking about continuing resolution on government spending, which is a

-- separate from debt ceiling but keeping the government functioning, that will be a physical fight in congress and -- fiscal fight in congress and how this plays with voters, we will see. there are people electing republicans in the midterms because of fiscal issues. you can say they are expecting republicans to deliver solutions and i am not sure that a drawn out fight would benefit republicans but it would not fit democrats -- benefit democrats but this year, it is a long way off from november 2024 so they have some time to figure this out but not a lot of time and they are negotiating now behind the scenes. host: the budgeting season will begin anew as the right -- white

house issues its budget for the fiscal 2024 year in early february and the debate gets underway in the house with the house working on appropriations. the debt ceiling debate will slow the process down? guest: what you will see is these concerns -- concurrent things happening and you mentioned president biden's budget and the beginning of february will be a big time in congress because we have representative comber --comer who has announced two hearings that will begin. one will look at the border and one will look at the biden family business deals. this goes into the hunter biden laptop issue and what they

believe our efforts to keep -- from big tech to keep information off sweater and sensor news stories --twitter and censor new stores. this will converge and we are awaiting an announcement from president biden on whether he will run again for reelection. that has not been announced yet but it is believed he will. you saw the exit of this former chief of staff. a lot of things are going on and a lot will happen in early february. we are watching to see how all of these things converge. it is an interesting backdrop that the president will be delivering his state of the union as these probes into his administration began.

host: question for you via text. guest: that is a good point. this is an issue, bet in the last congress, they look at efforts on asian american hate and that has not really been seen as a priority in business congress -- this new congress. there are members concerned about that in both parties. given what we saw in the weekend, this will be of -- a greater topic of discussion this week and we will look for any resolutions or bills that may come out of -- to try to address

it or a task force. there is an and test, to some bipartisan task force -- and types -- anti-semitism bipartisan task force looking to mitigate our micro -- what might grow out of it because there were stories before the pandemic but you saw it ramp up during the pandemic and given what happened this weekend, it makes it to the fourth month again and there are --

most of the conversation around energy right now coming out of the house has been trying to limit biden's ability to tap into a strategic petroleum reserve. that is what they'll be discussing this week. according to democrats, that will further limit our ability to access needed energy --

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