zach wamp is a former congressman rep. zach wamp from tennessee.e is also the cochair of the issue one reformers caucus and the national council on election integrity. let's begin with those two organizations. what is the aim? guest: they are both bipartisan. we have former members of congress in the reformers congress. nothing like this has been organized. for about six years we've been an organization that rallies around a couple of dozen things to increase transparency and accountability in government to restore congress to article one strength where it does its job in the national council on election integrity is only about two years old because we were organized during the 2020 election because we were worried before the election that there may be claims that the election fraud issue because the election outcome and we began to be worried about what that might do to the republicans. we gathered 40 predominant americans evenly divided between republicans and democrats that we have been working to make sure that american exceptionalism is define

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zach wamp, thank you. the house is about to gavel in here in a minute. they will be considering the 1.7 trillion spending bill that was passed by the senate yesterday. on a vote of 68-29. it funds the government through september of next year. live coverage here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the chair: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. december 23, 2022. i hereby appoint the honorable james a. himes to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer this morning will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben: would you pray with me. what great love you have lavished on us. we look around and see how transformed the world can be by city lights and neighborhood decorations. in this special time may we come to realize that the spirit of hope and the joy of this holiday and how ourselves change and the season is because of your generous love and kindness. surrou