this is where my bill comes in. h.r. 152 works to eliminate inefficiencies and expedite the application process by ensuring only one information submission is needed. survivors are already facing difficult circumstances in the application process -- and the application process shouldn't add to their stress. h.r. 152 represents a crucial step forward toward achieving a more effective disaster recovery system that prioritizes the needs of american and ensures they receive the help in a himly manner. i urge my colleagues to support it. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from missouri reserves. mr. graves: i reserve and i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from oregon is recognize. ms. hoyle: as stewards of taxpayer dollars we need to ensure we're spending our money as efficiently as possible. government should work. as we've seen in fires in oregon, hurricanes in north carolina, and florida, and currently the horrific fir

i did mention the bill we passed several years ago, represented of mcclintock's bill. the work at south lake tahoe. it is almost like they said the project is done. a fire came through and it paid many times over for the work that was done. again, there's 44 million homes in the wildland urban interface. we lost 15,000 homes in this fire and we have seen the devastation of it. it is time to get this bill passed. not just pass the bill but get the work done. rep. houchin: i think it goes without saying that our goal here with fix our forests act's did not have problems like we've seen in california continue into the future through responsible management practices. rep. westerman: we need to do the best we can do with what we've got and this bill gives our federal land managers the opportunity to do that. rep. houchin: thank you. i yield back. chair foxx: thank you. i want to say i was going to bring up the fact that mr. westerman is the only forester in the house of representatives and how lucky we are to have him. you have given a master class to the rules committee to

this is an authorization bill. it's not an appropriations bill. and it is regrettable that we're having to bring this bill up again already. because we passed it last year with large bipartisan support. we had 55 of our friends across the aisle vote with every republican to pass this bill. but unfortunately, it went nowhere in the senate. so we're bringing back it -- bringing it back again. because this is bipartisan legislation. i hope this is an example of how this congress will go. because jon that i've worked on a more bipartisan piece of legislation my time in congress. again, i thank my colleague, representative peters, for all his time and effort in bringing this bill to the floor once again. and i just want to say that the time to fix our forest is now. actually, now is not the real time to fix our forest. the time to have fixed our forest was yesterday. it was last year. it was 10 years ago. it was 30 years ago. the condition our forests are in now is a result of bad management decisions other a long period of time. it's kind of like the

in this bill -- and this bill is going to undo all of that work. by using the vawa definition will make victims who added in self-defense, victims who were wrongly accused by their abusers, unable to defend themselves subject to deportation. and this bill will also apply to individuals with with legal status. people with with green cards, students, temporary workers, daca holders, and t.p.s. holders. mr. speaker, this bill will now give crime victims all the reasons in the world not to report a crime. this bill punishes victims pushes victims back into the shadows, telling the victims if you report a crime, you are subject to deportation. look, i ask my colleagues let's go back, let's redraft this bill to do what it's intended to do. to get sexual predators off our streets and to protect the victims of sex crimes this most heinous crimes. thank you very muc i ask my colleagues please vote no on this measure. i yield. mr. raskin: i want to thank the gentleman for his excellent remarks. we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland

huffman: i support this bill. it is a good idea to standardize information to improve the accessibility of that information, if we want to help users like recreational fishers, navigate and access federal waterways. this can include access, fishing restrictions, navigation information, all very important stuff. on the natural resources committee we strive to ensure that federal outdoor spaces are accessible to fishers, hunters, boaters and other recreational users. and it's important that they have up to date, easily accessible maps. this will allow to us improve outdoor recreation experiences while protecting existing natural cultural and recreational values and to that end, this bill would direct agencies to develop and adopt interagency standards, ensuring that their databases are compatible and interoperable. that way they can more effectively collect geospatial data to help inform folks about recreational opportunities. i see multiple applications, important applications, for collecting and publishing this da

i know who loves this bill, bigoted folks love this bill, assaulters love this bill, and c.e.o.'s love this bill because los angeles is on fire right now and this is the number one priority that the majority has. thank you. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. walberg: i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from georgia, representative carter. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i rise today in strong support of the protection of women and girls in sports act, which ensures fairness and safety in girls' athletics. the biden-harris administration have made it very clear they want men competing against our daughters and granddaughters and force schools to allow biological males to share private spacees with biological females and compete in women's sports. that is wrong. the vast majority of americans say that men do not belong in women's sports or locker rooms. should michael phelps is swam the 200 meter women freestyle. under president trump's leadership we are fulfilling that promise.

bill. in fact, power is an important analog to mr. trump. in a moment we'll hear from senator ted cruz and then house ways and means chair jason smith but first up, one big beautiful bill. that's the subject of the rif. so a big moment in history today. perhaps two big moments. first, certainly, congress certified president-elect donald trump's decisive election victory. he carried the popular vote and all of the swing states. mr. trump created a working class coalition, hispanic-americans, black-americans, asian-americans, muslim-americans, young people, union members, women, it's a coalition that may well change the face of the american politics for at least a generation as mr. trump has turned the gop into the party of working folks, and he will promote america-first policies, if they lower taxes, reciprocal fair trade tariffs, border closing, unleashing energy, minimizing red tape, business regulations, and he brought in the doge brothers, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy. but will weaken

straight to work. >> bill: bill hemmer, good morning at home.shing a tidal wave of executive orders. a lot at stake because of it. trump says it will take time, money and effort to fix many of the problems inherited from president biden. but he believes they can all be solved >> dana: in his first sit-down interview trump told hannity he got back to the white house just in the nick of time. >> it was the second time in history somebody didn't have consecutive terms. >> president trump: they say it's historically bigger. i don't know about that. but i can say it showed us a couple of things. it showed us

this bill closes that gap.hat is urgently needed. we have children who have not gone back to school since covid. this bill closes that gap. she can make it a point on academies, we can debate academies, but to vote against the bill is a disgrace on all of them. >> settle down. >> this is nonsense, mr. speaker, and the amendment he talks about is not address this issue. he raises academies. that's exactly what i'm talking about. like every other parent, i believe all our children should have the best teachers. apart from cutting their pay, listen to what the head of 11, mr. speaker, the most successful school in the country, came from the armed forces. the headmistress says that with labour's new rules, she never would have been able to hire him. this bill would have blocked that veteran from teaching. the bill implies that they are not sufficiently qualified to teach biology, that olympic medalists cannot teach p.e. why is the prime minister closing down routes into teaching when he should be opening up more? p

, i think logic behind two bills start with a simple bill that funds border security. and that addresses energy and unleashes american energy. both of those are desperate needs, they can be done on reconciliation, they are relatively simple and state -- straight forward and they would be quite easy to unify republicans and get out same page, which would mean, we would start the first couple of months with a big win delivering on major elements of the president's policy. >> senator, senator, you are just so disappointing on this. i can't believe i'm hears this. from my friend senator ted cruz, you have to have certainty on the economy, with respect to not only tax cuts for 15% for corporations, but also small businesses, 100% expensing which is running out. individual middle class families need help, you have to tell them they are getting extensions. you leave it toward the end of the year, let me take your political point, i disagree with you on almost every point. i love it in good fun. >> this never happened. larry: i know, this is first. this great day for firsts. y

therefore you must pass our bill. without even reading the bill. without even looking to see what's in the bill. does it make sense as a matter of public policy. is that were the standard they believe in they'd be voting for gun safety legislation that they've been rejecting. every time there's a mas consider, whether it's in connecticut or florida or texas or illinois or any of our communities we come in and we say, we want what the american people want in public opinion poll a universal, violent criminal background check. we want to ban -- we want a ban on military style assault weapons. there's no reason 18-year-olds should be bearing ar-15's and showing up in classrooms and churches and synagogues with weapons of mass destruction. if it were enough just to appeal to emotion they would be voting with us. they say no, that conflicts with their public policy understanding. well at the very least you think they would have the burden of telling us what they do support, but we never hear anything. you don't hear a peep out of them about gun violence

i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. clock is getting slim right now in order to get an appeal that might be effective. maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. 72 hours and ticking. legacy forged in tragedy. house set to revote today on the laken riley act named after the murdered georgia nursing student. republicans looking to push it through with their new republican trifecta in washington, d.c. >> mike collins brought the bill. this time around senator thune wants to move it this week. it is an important bill. so much violence against people committed by illegals. why should they still be here? laken riley is a clear and straight forward act. i think most of america supports it. we will pass it again out of the house tomorrow but you may see the senate pass it by the end of this week. >> bill: mike collins is a republican from georgia. he sponsored the bill and up in a moment here. first to the news and senior congressional correspondent chad pergram live on the hill. good morning as we start a new hour. hello. >> bill, goo

and then you had bills like kids on-line safety act, and border bill, and bipartisan tax bill pass house, a lot of a.i. bills. that advances in committee. they did not en up becoming law in the 118th. if you look at the bills they are multisession efforts, you see often, new bills in one congress, then they percolate i and percolate, that effort is till valuable, still you know -- leading to something. i think a lot of those bills, the bipartisan effort that we saw to get passed in committee will be a good startingre place for bipartisan work in next congress. >> that is very helpful. let me ask you to talk about senate. gabe, start off. >> i think a lot of bills mostly originated in the house, i think senate, cspan did a count at end of the year, percent of floor time in senate. i don't remember the number but it was high. with filibuster requiring so much floor time too go through any bill in senate it is -- you come to a situation senate is almost a factory turning out judges and other nominees who then haved a bigger imprint on the law then the senate themselves they have kind of del

let's get moving. >> bill: one, big, beautiful bill or break it up?autiful bills. we have 12 appropriation bills that aren't done from last year, the 12 spending budget bills from this year. a debt ceiling vote. tax policy, energy policy, additional funding for the border. while we talk about one big beautiful bill americans will see multiple different bills that are actually going to come out for a season here. >> bill: last question here. what this incoming administration wanted to do is get the nominees out there and get them through. you just heard aishah hosni's report on chris murphy slowing things down on the democratic side and here is what john thune said about that for republicans. >> do we want to vote on these folks on tuesday or vote on them on friday, saturday and sunday? that's what we'll do. this can be easy or hard. >> bill: which one is it, easy or hard? >> well, either way it goes democrats will be in charge of that depending how far they slow us down. we're in charge of bringing it to the floor and the time allocated to it is set b

host: what is the big deal between one bill or two bills? does it make that big of a difference?uest: there are questions of cap republicans even get one bill over the finish line. the budget reconciliation process is significant in that it takes away the need to get democratic support in the senate. it breaks the threshold from passing the bill from 60 votes to a simple majority but the house is its own issue. even though the house only needs a simple majority, republicans are grappling with a thin majority. once elise stefanik leaves the house to serve in the administration, the brake that will be 217-2 hundred 15, which means republicans cannot even afford to lose one member on a party-line vote. when they plan to vote on reconciliation, the margin will be larger because some special elections would have happened by then, but even if it is a one or two person majority that is slimmed so the concern in the house as they are only going to get one bite at the sample. if they could reconciliation over the finish line, it will only happen once and the strategy here is that mike joh

. >> bill: robert wray in l.a. we'll be back with you throughout the day. thank you, robert. >> dana: the historic home of legend will rogers and buildings at topanga state park are among the things decimated. here is his great granddaughter. we're sorry to all of you, our prayers are with you. tell us what you have been through. did you have to evacuate? and what do you think is left of these wonderful state parks? >> well, for years i've wanted to get will rogers on your show. i am sorry it took this to happen. yes, unfortunately will rogers historic park burned to the ground, the historic stables, his beautiful ranch house. but what i would like to say is, you know, our ranch, topanga state park is equivalent to your new york's central park. it is a place for people to go to get away, 186 acres. the trails are still there. the park is still there. right now it is closed but when it is safe, we'll let people know. we want to welcome people back. we have people come from all over l.a. it is a hidden gem for people

therefore you must pass our bill. without even reading the bill. without even looking to see what's in the bill. does it make sense as a matter of public policy. is that were the standard they believe in they'd be voting for gun safety legislation that they've been rejecting. every time there's a mas consider, whether it's in connecticut or florida or texas or illinois or any of our communities we come in and we say, we want what the american people want in public opinion poll a universal, violent criminal background check. we want to ban -- we want a ban on military style assault weapons. there's no reason 18-year-olds should be bearing ar-15's and showing up in classrooms and churches and synagogues with weapons of mass destruction. if it were enough just to appeal to emotion they would be voting with us. they say no, that conflicts with their public policy understanding. well at the very least you think they would have the burden of telling us what they do support, but we never hear anything. you don't hear a peep out of them about gun violence

and bill's still living nearby.o come and shut me up. he told people that? he told three or four people that. i moved out of my house and moved into a hotel that had security. kate snow (voiceover): keith wasn't the only one who was nervous. i just got to the point where i became convinced that this guy, cortez, had killed these people in order to steal their property. that's when i said, i'm going to the authorities. kate snow (voiceover): he urged keith to do the same. he said, you need to come to panama city, get to the prosecutor, get to the dij, and really turn up the heat. kate snow (voiceover): keith went to panama city and laid out the case against wild bill to the dij, the panamanian fbi. from that point on, kudos to the panamanian police in there. they just stepped it up. kate snow (voiceover): but for all the suspicion, there was still no hard evidence of a crime. that's when don winner got an idea. he'd heard a lot of stories about wild bill and his ak-47, how he'd even fire it off sometimes to impress h

bill? bill: and, robert, you're spot on. it feels like at this point everybody knows somebody who's been impacted. i have two friends myself who have lost everything they own in these fires. certainly an apocalyptic scene looking behind you. very eerie out here, ash falling all over the place. it essentially looks like a bomb went off. robert ray, thank you for that live report. we'll check in again shortly. you may have seen this video the other day, a pacific palisades resident confronted a governor gavin newsom as he was touring the area, and he said he was on a phone call with biden, president biden, excuse me, and that he couldn't speak to her. here's part of that exchange. take a listen. >> governor, you got a second? >> [inaudible] >> governor, governor! i live here, governor. that was my daughter ooh's school, governor. please tell me what you're going to do. i want to be here when you call the president. >> i appreciate it. i'm doing that right now, and it's to immediately get reimbursements and assistance to help -

this bill would change it. it makes necessary changes to our tax code to provide certainty to businesses and workers between our two countries. as a member of the ways and select committee on china, i know how important our relationship with taiwan is both in terms of trade and national security. this bill will open the door for us to continue to develop strong economic partnership especially in technology and semiconductor sectors and help the united states reduce our reliance on china. again, i thank the chairman, speaker johnson and all the members of the ways and means committee putting this legislation on the floor today. yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms.chu: i would like to reek nieces congressman panetta. -- recognize congressman panetta. mr. panetta: i rise today to support the united states-taiwan expedited relief act. this would address the issue of double taxation between taiwan and the united states. it has impaired our mutual in

bigger bill they got talked into a bigger bill and it passed.ughter] and i think that folks on capitol hill could have a bigger investment in the legislative process. why are we allowing awaiting of commitment on capitol hill if they could claim credit for these things get tucked into the big bills or if they remain individually. they are original. philip: the incentives are so important. ok. let's change tech for a minute and go to gabe and say balance the picture out, gabe. give us the defense of the 118th. what did they accomplish and what should we remember positively about them? gabe: it's not an easy task but it is important to look at. one of the things of my newsletter is looking at both the function and dysfunction in congress. there's a lot of dysfunction but still, we saw in that graph there were still 4,000 odd pages of legislation. so what was in that legislation and it was a lot. within, you know, within less relative to other conferences but still, on the impactful pieces of legislation. the biggest ticket is obviously the bill th

bills originate in the house and that's the reading and one big beautiful bill. mr. sullivan. >> at the top of the program, it was cassioppi separate there was a good debate and discussion with the president and he came out and said we're unified and focused on the same issue with border security and unleashing american energy and peace through strength and rebuilding our military and extending the tax cuts. we're completely unified on that and with regard to the reconciliation bills, it's an ongoing discussion that was a good one last night and, look, the key is we want speed, and we want success, and those are the two issues that are a bit intention and we'll get there ultimately it's the president that decides which way and which way we go and the president mentioned we're working on a backup plan and there's a lot of unity? the senate on the two bill approach and the president will make the ultimate call and it was a goodies cushion last night and we're unified to get the mandate that president trump got in his overwhelming election and that's the big goal. l

. >> bill: thank you.. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: a big wild card weekend for football. here we go. the buffalo bills with a commanding win over the denver broncos 31-seven. bills quarterback allen overpowering denver's defense. houston texans knocked out the los angeles chargers and dominating fashion. 32-12. houston's defense with four interceptions on chargers' quarterback. that's not a good one, right, bill? the baltimore ravens ran over the steelers running back henry in the 28 to 14 win. the eagles knocked out the green bay packers 22-ten. j.j. and jacob quinn by hardest hit. four green bay turnovers. the washington commanders with a game-winning field goal against tampa bay buccaneers. we went there. it with as a 23-20 win. >> bill: our covid super bowl. >> dana: never forget. >> bill: you had such a great time. >> dana: yeah. >> bill: the game winner, okay, bam. >> dana: oh. >> bill: and you advance. it was a great day of football yesterday. >> dana: j.j. and quinn by were watching the game. th

up and that bill likely will be the very first bill that president donald trump gets to sign when heomes the 47th president of the united states. so just like with some of the other bills, we're going to continue to stand up for what's right. this week you're seeing a few of those. one of the most commonsense bills that we've had is the bill that says men cannot play in women sports. i traveled all across the country during the election cycle and this came up everywhere you went. people don't understand why it's even an issue that congress won't resolve. and when you tell them, well, we passed a bill out of the house but the senate wouldn't even take it up, believe me, it was a factor in a lot of those races. when you talk to most people in america, common sense tells you men shouldn't be playing in women sports just because some on the far left want to continue to jam their ideology and whatever other kind of achieve -- things they want to achieve and upset what title ix is all about, upset women sports and take away opportunities for so many young women across america, it's just no

and the gotten to a bigger bill got to the rigor bill in the past. i think folks on capitol hill could have a bigger investment in the legislative process which why are we allowing a legislative process on capitol hill if they could claim credit for these things to get tucked in the daybell or individually. >> let's change for a minute and go to gabe and say bounds the picture out gabe. give us the defense and what did they accomplish and what should we remember positively about them but i think it's important to look at the function and dysfunction in congressys and clearly it's absolute true. there's a lot of dysfunction but we saw mcgraff there were 4000 non-pieces of legislation and it was kind of theot lot. the lesser relative to other congresses but we did tackle some legislation and the biggest ticket piece of little station is the bill litigated and for the supreme court this week for the sale of tik-tok and we saw ukraine aid aid for for ukraine in israel passed not without considerable pain for two consecutive speakers of the house. still a

or the reconciliation bill/bills that will be going through. so i don't know that he is in the clear. it is hard to gauge how effective or how good this was for the party. yes, they cleared it, but it is also the most fundamental and basic thing that parties have been doing for the last 150 years. they cleared it. good. that does not mean anything moving forward. we don't know. kevin: and there was a risk they were going to have more trouble covering it if they were down the two votes they will be down soon with administration jobs. what do you think? kevin: my point that when you are in control of things that you view the use of time a little differently. when we had that long fight over whether mr. mccarthy could keep his job or whether he could hold it in the first place, they did not have the presidency. they did not have unified control of government. so to some degree it was a calculation that they could make that they could have that fight. folks who were in the previous fight for the most part hold all the cards on this one. they could

>> bill: as it has. >> 85. >> bill: wonderful to watch, dana. and very soon we'll see the two men emerge and we'll hear the speech and get the message from the incoming president. after that there will be a flurry of news and things will turn very serious. executive orders right, left and center denying birthright citizenship, deploying military to the border, files on jfk and martin luther king assassination to go public at some point very soon. perhaps wants to change the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america. so many other things. so the news is going to run hot throughout the afternoon. i think we can reflect on bill melugin's shot a moment ago. that arena is -- that arena will be hot, let's say. and he will do something that no one else has done. where he gets the ideas, no one really knows. he is a television producer and comes up with so many of them. it was his idea to sign some of these executive orders in front of the people who put him back in power in washington, d.c. >> dana: they're watching fox news there at the arena. karl rove,

from there off to the capitol for the main event, bill. >> bill: we'll watch every movement of this day. last night trump hosting a big victory rally capitol one arena late in the afternoon until 6:00 in the evening giving supporters a preview of what will come in his first 100 days beginning today. vowing to hit the ground running with a flurry of executive orders. team fox coverage will begin our hour. alexandria hoff? outside st. john's church. north lawn, a lot of news already today with rich edson. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. certainly has been. you have two presidents and both will be very busy signing things today. all the action now is happening within a couple of blocks here of the white house. president-elect stayed across the street at blair house. just left there a short while ago. went around the corner to where alexandria hoff is to st. john's church. come back to the white house before heading to you and the capitol. the president of the united states for now, joe biden, he was busy this morning signing a number of pardons. he issued preemptive pardons to

it was mentioned again about the bipartisan bill. the bipartisan bill was a bad bill. it didn't stop catch and release. it didn't expedite immediately to the country of origin. it didn't rebuild the wall. it didn't have a stay in mexico policy is. it was words. it wasn't actions. it wasn't good. that's why people didn't vote for it. that's why it wasn't successful. speaking about words, though, when i came here today i thought about a lot of words. i hear a lot of words, a lot of debate, a lot of discussion. but i got to tell you to the family of laken riley and to so many others across the united states of america, words don't matter. condolences don't count. speeches don't do it. words will never replace her life. in life sometimes we have all gone through tragedies and so often we say, my god, why did this happen? why did this car accident happen. why did this person get cancer? whatever it is. this is different. we know why it happened. it happened because of the administration allowing illegals, some of whom, not all of whom, but some of whom were criminals, into

that is tomorrow, bill. >> bill: thank you. devil is in the details somewhere in there i do believe. talk to you soon. >> dana: former house speaker kevin mccarthy is sitting with us. mike johnson and what he thinks. >> the senate has a different thought of it than the house. we have consensus around this idea. we'll get this mission accomplished. >> dana: reconciliation is one of those washington words that basically if you can get into the weeds quickly. for mom and dad at home what do they need to know. >> if you want to pass anything in the senate you normally need 60 votes. when you have one party control of the house and senate you can do reconciliation with 50 votes. it's how democrats did obamacare and tax bill. it only lasts for 10 years. why it is important in the senate they have the byrd rule. you can't write the bill as you want. you have to pass the parliamentarian. why the senate has a different belief for the house. for the first time in history the majority in the senate is larger than the house. the house lost

thanks for coming on. >> thanks, bill. >> bill: happy new year. golden globes launched the starts of the awards season. dana was up late watching this. the playoffs for celebrities. hemmer celebrity news. 2025 here we go. comedian nicki glaser getting praise honoring movies and television. the loudest applause went to demi moore when she said this. >> i've been doing this a long time. over 45 years. and this is the first time i have ever won anything as an actor. >> bill: she received the first major acting award of her career, four decades in the industry. other big winners include movies amelia perez, and the brutalist and show gun cleaning up the drama categories. >> dana: show gun is great and i need to get on top of that. what is the secret? i got to hear it. >> bill: i know what the secret is. is secret of sun valley, idaho where she lives. >> dana: a great place. new york city rolling out its controversial congestion pricing plan. how commuters are responding. could other cities follow this ridiculous idea as well? president biden getting p

as well, bill and dana. >> bill: you be good out there, stay safe. keep the crews and colleagues out there as well. we'll rely on you for hours to come. thank you jonathan hunt in pacific palisades. >> dana: fox weather senior meteorologists djanuary is dean. >> wind gusts in excess of 100 miles-per-hour. an additional fire and the winds 60 to 65 miles per hour. it is not 100 mile per hour winds. it is hard to get helicopters and airplanes out there. this hasn't been updated since 9:00 about many. the damage and scope will be enormous. we have no clue right now. the origin of the fire. the outline tells you how far it spreads. so 3 thousand miles is probably double and triple from the damage that we're seeing on the ground. 100 mile-per-hour winds just clocked around the eaton area. that started 10 p.m. last night. that's why they are calling this in some cases you can't survive that if you are in that area in those wildfires. peak wind gusts continue today into tomorrow. the worst of it will be this morning into the afternoon. but again even if you

to the latter bill. republicans are saying they'll pass whatever come up with. >> all the committees are doing their work. it unlocks the process and our job is to make sure every one of our members has ownership of this process. >> bill, i will talk with chip roy in a little bit to figure out why he is not here, why he didn't choose to be here and what he thinks about all of this as they are trying to unify this conference again. can't lose really any republicans. >> bill: his answers will be interesting. aishah hosni thanks on that live in doral, enjoy the weather. >> martha: let's bring in jason chaffetz and joe concha. sounds like about half showed up for this conference and they have a very slim margin. how is this looking? >> 48 members who didn't show up. what i learned in congress is it's very much a team sport. it is sort of like being on the cincinnati bengals, bill. it is rah, rah in the locker room. they get on the field and somebody starts their own plays. the best coach in donald trump. whe

bill: thank you, trey. there's a statement put out from the israeli government for the hostages and missing families, headquarters they have there. after 471 agonizing days in captivity, emily, doron and romi are finally returning home. it represents a beacon of light in darkness, a moment of hope and triumph of the human spirit. they've got more to go. dana: a lot. and that was very beautifully said by trey yingst. and let's bring it back here because there's another huge story happening in thest of all of this. the inauguration of donald trump just one day away. how he is expected to hit the ground running in his paris week. be right back -- in his first week. week. we'll be right start to break away from uc with tremfya... back. with rapid relief at 4 weeks. tremfya blocks a key source of inflammation. at one year, many people experienced remission... and some saw 100% visible healing of their intestinal lining. serious allergic reactions and increased risk of infections may occur. before treatment, your

bill, hello. >> bill, good morning to you. it has been over a week since this palisades fire first broke out. they're still looking for and finding bodies here in the rubble of these destroyed buildings. we're now up to 24 confirmed deaths between this fire and the eaton fire in altadena. they are still hoping they can find any potential survivors or pets still out there. in the meantime fire officials are saying that while the active flames are out here at this palisades fire, they are still mopping up containment lines and still mopping up different hot spots and dealing with all sorts of hazardous issues out there, downed power lines as well. the cause of this fire still under investigation but the atf said yesterday they are running down 150 different leads. in the meantime, los angeles mayor karen bass is in all sorts of hot water politically. she was at a cocktail party in africa when this fire first broke out. also been criticism of her handling of the lafd budget. she spoke at a disaster center yesterday where she says

it provides for consideration of 12 bills including a bill to require the secretary of homeland security to take into custody illegal imgrans who have been charged in the united states with theft. a bill to make the assault of a law enforcement officer a deportable offense. and a bill to prohibit a moratorium on the use of fracking. mr. speaker, energy and immigration are two of the reasons that the republicans control the house, the senate and the white house. these issues are top of mind for almost all americans as are inflation, the tax code, our defense, and foreign policy. this package, mr. speaker, sets the tone ander i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this so we can get to work. with that, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves they have gentleman from massachusetts is recognized with 13 1/4 minutes remaining. mr. mcgovern: i would say in response to the gentleman who just spoke, the tone being set by the new republican majority is chaos. the rules package we're debating today had to be changed already twice today because you couldn't get enough votes within yo

bill. i'm going to into the i'm good i'm i'm going to let him speak for himself. i think that all the repubs and in the congress now understand that donald had zero interest in bipartisan bill. he didn't have much of an in 2017. i talked to some of my colleagues when i was writing it in in 2017 he brought all the democrats on the finance committee and was the point person for him to the white house that we're talking about mccaskill and sherrod brown and then bill nelson and debbie stabenow and the like. and it was basic lee just, you know, an attempt to bully them. you know, you better vote with trump or i'll come in and, you know, campaign against you. so he has not had an interest in bipartisan approach in texas ever. and in 2017, not a single democrat in the house or the senate voted for the trump tax bill. yeah no, you got to work at it to get a single democrat to not vote for a tax bill. you don't like cutting taxes like you know, you haven't fudge sundae. somebody is going to want on

speaker, this is a bad bill. not only is it a bad bill, but nobody had any opportunity at all to amend it. this is being brought to the floor under a completely closed process. so all the faults i have just outlined we can't address them. we can't address them because of the way this majority is bringing this bill to the floor. zero amendments are allowed because republicans brought it up under a closed rule. another wasted opportunity. we can do better, mr. speaker. and in my opinion behind the scenes diplomacy with the international criminal court alongside our partners is far more likely to yield the result than the approach put forward by this bill. i oppose this legislation and i urge my colleagues to do the same. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. mast: thank you, mr. speaker. the gentleman from the other side's statement is untrue now as it was when he gave the same speech a few months ago on this very floor.

the border bill passed the senate. the tax bill passed the house. there were a lot of a.i. bills that advanced in committee. those are all things that did not end up becoming law in the 118th but you will be looking at a lot of the bills that we're talking about. these are multi-session efforts you'll see often bills that were introduced in one congress and then they will percolate and percolate but that effort is still valuable and still, you know, it's leading to something often. so a lot of those bills, those kinds of efforts that we saw get introduced to get passed in committee and this congress are going to be goodphilip: let me o talk a little bit about the senate. each of us is a little bit more interested in the house may be but it would be remiss not to discuss what went on in the senate. gabe, do you want to start off? gabe: a lot of the bills i went through, mostly originated in the house. i think the senate -- c-span did a count at the end of the year and the floor time consumed. i don't remember the exact number but it was very high. in divided government and t

it was mentioned again about the bipartisan bill. the bipartisan bill was a bad bill. it didn't stop catch and release. it didn't expedite immediately to the country of origin. it didn't rebuild the wall. it didn't have a stay in mexico policy is. it was words. it wasn't actions. it wasn't good. that's why people didn't vote for it. that's why it wasn't successful. speaking about words, though, when i came here today i thought about a lot of words. i hear a lot of words, a lot of debate, a lot of discussion. but i got to tell you to the family of laken riley and to so many others across the united states of america, words don't matter. condolences don't count. speeches don't do it. words will never replace her life. in life sometimes we have all gone through tragedies and so often we say, my god, why did this happen? why did this car accident happen. why did this person get cancer? whatever it is. this is different. we know why it happened. it happened because of the administration allowing illegals, some of whom, not all of whom, but some of whom were criminals, into

there is nothing in the bill talking about parental consent or nothing in the bill that talks about at what level the inspection is necessary. that is concerning. that will be allowed. and that is overwhelming the position of house democrats and have strong reservations about the legislation. [indiscernible] mr. aguilar: being a kid, being a teenage irin this world is pretty tough. i can't speak to a transathlete or someone who has lived that experience, but i can imagine it is incredibly tough for them and subject them to a higher level of intimidation and scrutiny is something that is flat out bullying. that's nothing that we can support. those of us who oppose the bill are speaking up against that. many of this is regulated by the ncaa or by state organizations who guide these efforts. by our count 10 athletes in the ncaa. thech found a way to work through this. that's the scope of what we are dealing with. so house republican conference would choose to have this conversation rather than something that is more expansive that helps lower costs. that's what they have chosen and that s

isn't that just a messaging bill? no, it's smart policy, the right policy and were going to stand up for what's right. whether the senate will do the right thing or not. ultimately, if you look at what happened with the laken riley act. mike collinsville that only passed again this time with more democrats supports a very bipartisan out of the house as it was last congress but now we had to willing senate with senator thune is a majority leader willing to bring the bill up and that will likely be the very first built that president donald trump gets to sign when he becomes the 47th president. so just like with some of the other bills we are going to continue to stand up for what's right. this week you're seeing a few of those. one of them was common sense bills that we had acid built said men cannot play in women's sports. i travel all across the country during the election cycle in this came up everywhere you would. people don't understand why it's even an issue that congress won't resolve. when you tell them we pass

bill. >> bill: nate, thanks. we're ready for all of it.president biden sitting down for an exit interview with usa today. the reporter asked him whether he could have won the election. he said this, i think yes, the article goes on to say he expressed no such confident when asked whether he had the vigor to serve another four years in office. he said i don't know. martha maccallum joins us now. the gallup poll asking how do you think president biden will go down in history? outstanding 6%, above average 13%, average and below average and poor making up the rest of those numbers. >> below average and below come to 54%. the exit interview and we're watching the jimmy carter funeral procession and discussing his presidency. one term presidents tend to not fare all that well as history looks back on them. you know, there is a reason that he is a one-term president. the numbers that we see here and pointing fingers in all kinds of places for the blame to go around and talking about how well he knows foreign leaders, which really did not end up

it was mentioned again about the bipartisan bill. the bipartisan bill was a bad bill. it didn't stop catch and release. it didn't expedite the country of origin and didn't rebuild the wall. it didn't have ahe stay in mexio policy. it was one of the actions and wasn't good and people didn't vote for it and that's why it's successful. i came here today and laken rye and she so many others across the united states of america, words don't matter and condolences't don't count. words will never replace her life. in life sometimes we've all gone through tragedies and so often we say my god, why did this happen. why did this car accident happen and why did this person get cancer? whatever it is. this is different. we know why it happened. it happened because of the administration allowing illegal some of whom, not all of whom, but some of whom were criminals into the country and feeding them,nt closing them, trial timg them, housing them. paying for it. men and womenm breaking their back in the country to make a living but we're paying for it. e with know how it happened. we k