Mike Johnson One Day Scam Power Grab EXPLAINED
Thom Hartmann Program
[{'start': '0.080', 'end': '4.800', 'text': "So I figured it out—Mike Johnson's one-day scam."}, {'start': '4.800', 'end': '13.360', 'text': "It started out when Representative Luna and—I'm\xa0\nsorry, I don't have her name here—the Democrat,"}, {'start': '13.360', 'end': '16.320', 'text': 'these two young women who are members of Congress,'}, {'start': '16.320', 'end': '22.640', 'text': 'both had babies. Luna had her baby a few months\xa0\nago, the Democrat had her baby a few weeks ago,'}, {'start': '22.640', 'end': '29.760', 'text': 'and they both wanted Congress—the House\xa0\nof Representatives—to allow proxy voting'}, {'start': '29.760', 'end': '34.400', 'text': 'under motherhood circumstances,\xa0\nspecifically for new mothers.'}, {'start': '37.040', 'end': '44.880', 'text': 'Mike Johnson, principally in opposition to\xa0\nthe Democrat (this was before the Republican,'}, {'start': '44.880', 'end': '54.160', 'text': 'who I believe is Luna, got involved), blocked\xa0\nit. When the Democratic mom was asking for this,'}, {'start': '54.720', 'end': '58.240', 'text': 'she tried to get it done, and\xa0\nthere was some bipartisan support'}, {'start': '58.240', 'end': '61.840', 'text': "for it. She tried to get it done by\xa0\nwhat's called a discharge petition."}, {'start': '61.840', 'end': '68.880', 'text': 'Now, a discharge petition—here’s how the House\xa0\nof Representatives typically works: someone'}, {'start': '69.840', 'end': '75.600', 'text': 'proposes legislation, it goes to the appropriate\xa0\ncommittee, the committee debates it and decides'}, {'start': '75.600', 'end': '80.480', 'text': 'whether to report it out. If they do, that means\xa0\na majority of the committee members say, “Yes,'}, {'start': '80.480', 'end': '85.520', 'text': 'this is good legislation. Send it to the floor.”\xa0\nIt goes to the floor, it’s debated again, and'}, {'start': '85.520', 'end': '95.520', 'text': 'then there’s a vote. If a majority says yes, it\xa0\npasses and goes to the Senate. If it passes there,'}, {'start': '95.520', 'end': '103.040', 'text': 'it goes to the White House—or there can be\xa0\na reconciliation between the two chambers.'}, {'start': '103.040', 'end': '108.880', 'text': 'But the Speaker of the House can insert\xa0\nhimself into the process. Even if a bill'}, {'start': '108.880', 'end': '113.520', 'text': 'comes out of committee, before\xa0\na vote is held on the floor,'}, {'start': '114.960', 'end': '119.680', 'text': 'he can simply hold the bill and say, “I’m\xa0\nnot going to allow a vote.” That’s what'}, {'start': '119.680', 'end': '126.640', 'text': 'Mike Johnson did with this bill that\xa0\nwould have allowed moms of newborns'}, {'start': '126.640', 'end': '133.520', 'text': 'to vote by proxy. He didn’t want them to vote—or\xa0\nat least, he didn’t want the Democrat to vote.'}, {'start': '133.520', 'end': '140.160', 'text': 'So, she put together what’s called a discharge\xa0\npetition. A discharge petition is the one way'}, {'start': '140.160', 'end': '144.800', 'text': 'that average members of the House can\xa0\nget around obstruction by the Speaker.'}, {'start': '150.400', 'end': '158.240', 'text': 'If you can get a simple majority of the House to\xa0\nsupport it, the petition—also called a privileged'}, {'start': '165.600', 'end': '178.080', 'text': 'resolution—forces a vote. There’s a 15-day window,\xa0\nduring which it sits while it’s being discussed'}, {'start': '178.080', 'end': '184.400', 'text': "and debated. At the end of those 15 days, the\xa0\nHouse votes on it, and the Speaker can't block it."}, {'start': '185.200', 'end': '192.320', 'text': 'What Mike Johnson did was proclaim—quoting\xa0\nPolitico—that the remainder of the days in'}, {'start': '192.320', 'end': '199.040', 'text': 'the first session of the 119th Congress do not\xa0\nqualify as calendar days, exempting the national'}, {'start': '199.040', 'end': '204.400', 'text': 'emergency from the law that allows Congress\xa0\nto force a vote through a discharge petition.'}, {'start': '205.200', 'end': '211.200', 'text': 'So it started with, “We don’t want these young'}, {'start': '211.200', 'end': '216.960', 'text': 'moms to proxy vote,” but now it’s\xa0\nbeing used on the tariff issue.'}, {'start': '217.760', 'end': '223.040', 'text': 'In the Senate, they just voted to say,\xa0\n“No, Donald Trump can’t impose these'}, {'start': '223.040', 'end': '226.480', 'text': 'tariffs anymore.” He’s doing them based\xa0\non a state of emergency he declared,'}, {'start': '226.480', 'end': '232.000', 'text': 'and there is no emergency. They want to end it.\xa0\nCongress has the power to do that—it’s built into'}, {'start': '232.000', 'end': '237.760', 'text': 'the act that gives Trump the power to declare\xa0\nan emergency. The law says that the state of'}, {'start': '237.760', 'end': '245.760', 'text': 'emergency can be negated by a discharge petition\xa0\nin the House and concurrence from the Senate.'}, {'start': '247.200', 'end': '253.600', 'text': 'Mike Johnson is now hanging on to his assertion\xa0\nthat, between now and September 30th—the end of'}, {'start': '253.600', 'end': '260.880', 'text': 'the fiscal year—there is only one day. Therefore,\xa0\nthere will be no discharge petitions allowed.'}, {'start': '261.440', 'end': '267.120', 'text': 'We’ll see how long he can keep this going,\xa0\nbecause it’s starting to seriously anger'}, {'start': '267.120', 'end': '272.160', 'text': 'members of the House, as you can imagine. He’s\xa0\nbasically stripping from them one of their'}, {'start': '272.160', 'end': '277.280', 'text': 'major powers. It’s just a pure power play.\xa0\nI don’t know any other way to describe it.'}]