Capitol Hill

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There is a Capitol Hill police force that has been used.

There's a small jail within the Capitol that no one knows about that people have been cuffed and stuffed and sat in.

You can use the organization of the house.

They bring into question the role of states conducting their own elections.

Let's check in with Capitol Hill correspondent Eric Rosales with the latest.

Eric.

Well, good evening, Veronica.

And I think that's, you know, so much of what I do is based on understanding these people.

And I have to go spend some number of hours and days every week on the Hill talking to people because ultimately people pay me for my knowledge of Capitol Hill and how it works.

That's one thing AI won't be taking away anytime soon.

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I'm talking too much.

You have a long history working on the Hill, appropriations, so that's really financial management, right? At the highest level.

What are you seeing with regards to emerging tech and how that's going to help what you did on the Hill, how the Pentagon does financial management and industry for that matter?

Well, I think the challenge right now is trying to get all the data that exists finding the data that's relevant to what you need and making decisions and using that to make intelligent decisions and trying to make that time space shorter so that you can rapidly respond.

And I think that's what I've noticed the most in some of the conversations that I've had, but also seeing what's here in the presentations and talking with the abstract folks that I sat in with.

And hopefully that that funding will trickle through.

And I think the authorities that the authorizers have been putting into place are really giving the opportunity, leaning the department forward on other transaction agreements, contracting faster.

I mean, you know, we used to hear when we were on the Hill about how long it would take and these companies were going out of business waiting for contracts, right? And so the fact that, you know, one company I work with received a contract when they won an outfit, they won an outfit recently, they received a contract faster than the Pentagon was able to put out the press release.

But this reporter is also told that some senators foresee a pathway for the self-proclaimed secretary of war to step down before the Senate is forced to address potential impeachment.

Already, there's chatter on the Hill that Hegseth has been angling for Senator Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to her Senate seat, which would vacate after winning.

her gubernatorial election.

Hegseth lived in Tennessee for three years before he took over the Pentagon, but his short tenure there might not count as a real Tennessee roots.

The one other thing that I will note, which is kind of picking up on some of what the congressman was touching on, is the focus the president has had.

We've been reporting for weeks now that there has been some anxiety amongst Republicans, particularly in Washington on Capitol Hill, about what the president has been spending his time focusing on.

Back a couple of weeks ago when we did some of that reporting, it was on the Arch.

It was on the Kennedy Center.

We disagree with them.

With the House of Representatives over on Capitol Hill in D.C. You see, under Article 1, Section 5 of a little thing that's called the U.S. Constitution, each House is the sole judge of the elections and returns and qualifications of its own members.

a power that belongs exclusively to the House itself.

That final decision is made by a simple majority of the House members present and voting.

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