Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks to reporters after announcing his run for Speaker.
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00:00 Will you change the motion today, Kate?
00:04 That's up to the conference.
00:05 That's not my fault.
00:06 What promises are you making?
00:08 What promises are you making to the conference?
00:12 Policy-wise, agenda-wise?
00:13 The agenda is what I spoke about on the floor, Mon.
00:16 We need to pass the bills that need to be passed.
00:21 We've done a lot of that.
00:22 The biggest one, of course, is H.R. 2, the immigration border security legislation.
00:25 Frankly, I wish Chuck Schumer would bring it up.
00:28 He can amend it.
00:30 He can change it.
00:31 But take it up.
00:32 It's the biggest.
00:33 I think Mayor Adams is somewhere in Central America as we speak.
00:35 This is how bad this problem is.
00:37 Democrats get it.
00:38 Republicans get it.
00:39 Independent Americans get it.
00:40 So bring it up.
00:41 Make changes to it.
00:42 Then let's go to a conference committee.
00:44 Hash it out.
00:45 We'll have Republicans, Democrats.
00:46 Hash it out.
00:47 They'll get a majority of Democrats from the Senate.
00:49 We'll have a majority of Republicans from the Senate.
00:50 But we'll sit down, hash it out, put that bill up for a vote.
00:53 That's how this system works.
00:54 But they won't even take it up.
00:55 They won't take it up.
00:56 They just keep talking.
00:57 Meanwhile, Eric Adams says it's -- he talks about how it's hurting his city, one of our
01:02 great cities.
01:03 So I do not understand that.
01:05 Just take our bill up.
01:06 What about Ukraine?
01:07 Are you willing to move forward with an aid package for Ukraine if you're a speaker?
01:10 I'm against that.
01:12 What I understand is at some point we're going to have to deal with this appropriation process
01:16 in the right way.
01:17 And we're going to try to do that in the next, what are we down to, 41 days.
01:21 The most pressing issue on Americans' minds is not Ukraine.
01:23 It is the border situation and it is crime on the streets.
01:27 And everybody knows that.
01:28 So let's address those.
01:29 If the Senate wants to send us something on other issues, that's their prerogative.
01:33 But that's what we have to do.
01:36 I think we're a conservative center-right party.
01:38 I think I'm the guy who can help unite that.
01:39 I think my politics are entirely consistent with where conservatives and Republicans are
01:44 across the country.
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