![]() The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. It's unclear whether he has those votes right now.Ĭopyright © 2023 NPR. Some Republican moderates do not want to move ahead without concrete evidence, and McCarthy did say to a conservative outlet he won't start impeachment without a vote. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on the Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations from 1953-54, along with an index to those transcripts. McCarthy's coming under increasing pressure from conservatives, especially after the new indictments of former President Trump over the summer. This is a collection of five volumes of transcripts of the Executive Sessions of Joseph R. But they haven't shown that the president himself received any financial benefit. ![]() Some are alleging corruption related to his son Hunter Biden's business deals during the time Biden was vice president. They haven't uncovered any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden. ![]() WALSH: House Republicans haven't presented one yet. So what basis is there of possible high crimes or misdemeanors by the president? But there's going to be so much attention on his appearance on the floor later today and in his weekly press conference tomorrow.ĮSTRIN: The House returns next week, and Speaker Kevin McCarthy is signaling an impeachment inquiry is moving ahead. So far, Senate Republican colleagues have supported the 81-year-old senator. In March, McConnell fell and suffered a concussion, and the Capitol physician said lightheadedness was a symptom of recovering from that concussion. But this latest episode, combined with the other one you mentioned, were just really jarring, and there's still a lot of questions. The Capitol physician has cleared McConnell to work. This is the second time that's happened in two months. He froze up, struggled to speak for about 30 seconds at a press event. Even though there's bipartisan support for continuing aid for Ukraine on the Hill, some conservatives still don't want to approve any money.ĮSTRIN: Let's talk about top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell. The other big ask is about $20 billion for Ukraine. The White House has asked for about $16 billion in emergency aid to respond to the recent disaster needs coming out of Maui after the fires and the floods and the hurricanes that hit several states this summer. WALSH: Disaster aid and money for Ukraine are the two big things the Biden administration wants Congress to pass this fall. And besides avoiding a shutdown, what else is on the agenda? So they're still pretty far apart.ĮSTRIN: OK. Some far-right conservatives have issued demands about attaching items, things like a partisan border security bill. They're working on what's called a continuing resolution, or CR, to keep agencies funded at the current levels through this fall. There's broad agreement that Congress needs to pass a short-term bill to avoid a shutdown. So essentially the two are on a collision course. But a group of House conservatives who didn't like that deal forced the speaker to craft bills at a lower level. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden negotiated a debt ceiling deal in May that set overall government spending levels. The problem is the two chambers aren't even working off of the same math. Federal agencies run out of cash on September 30, and the House and Senate haven't agreed on any of the 12 annual spending bills. WALSH: You know, once again, they're going to be racing the clock. And the Senate's top Republican, Mitch McConnell, faces questions after another episode when he froze at a public event.ĮSTRIN: NPR congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh joins us now. First up is a fight over government funding that could turn into a potential shutdown. Though the public hearing transcripts were "published within months," executive session transcripts were closed for 50 years, and released to the public in 2003.The Senate returns to Washington today after a monthlong August recess.Īnd there's a lot on the agenda. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on the Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations from 1953-54, along with an index to those transcripts.Īs the introduction to the documents written by Donald Ricthie notes, McCarthy held 117 executive sessions in 1953, "took testimony from 395 witnesses in executive sessions and staff interrogatories (by comparison to 214 witnesses in the public sessions), and compiled 8,969 pages of executive session testimony (compared to 5,671 pages of public hearings)." ![]() This is a collection of five volumes of transcripts of the Executive Sessions of Joseph R.
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