United States House Committee on Rules

Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912 Growing Dissension all in all taft's administration from the first day had been disturbed by party discord high words had passed over the tariff bill and disgruntled members of congress could not forget them to differences over issues were added quarrels between youth and old age In the House of Representatives, there developed a group of young insurgent Republicans who resented the dominance of the Speaker, Joseph G. Cannon, and other members of the Old Guard, as they named the men of long service and conservative minds.

In 1910, the insurgents went so far as to join with the Democrats in a movement to break the Speaker's sway by ousting him from the Rules Committee and depriving him of the power to appoint its members.

the storm was brewing in the autumn of that year the democrats won a clear majority of the house of representatives and began an open battle with president taft by demanding an immediate downward revision of the tariff the rise of the progressive republicans preparatory to the campaign of nineteen twelve the dissenters within the republican party added the prefix progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of mr taft as early as january twenty first nineteen eleven they formed a progressive republican league at the home of senator la follette of wisconsin and launched an attack on the taft measures and policies in october they endorsed mr la follette as the logical republican candidate and appealed to the party for support the controversy over the tariff had grown into a formidable revolt against the occupant of the white house roosevelt in the field after looking on for a while ex-president roosevelt took a hand in the fray soon after his return in nineteen ten from a hunting trip to africa and a tour in europe he made a series of addresses in which he formulated a progressive program in a speech in kansas he favored regulation of the trusts a graduated income tax bearing heavily on great fortunes tariff revision schedule by schedule conservation of natural resources labor legislation the direct primary and the recall of elective officials in an address before the ohio state constitutional convention in february nineteen twelve he endorsed the initiative and referendum and announced a doctrine known as the recall of judicial decisions This was a new and radical note in American politics.

An ex-president of the United States proposed that the people at the polls should have the right to reverse the decision of a judge who set aside any act of a state legislature passed in the interests of social welfare.

All right, so Congresswoman Erin Houchin from the great state of Indiana, and also not just anybody, because, of course, you're Secretary of the GOP Conference, you're part of the leadership, and you're also on a whole bunch of different committees.

You're on the House Rules Committee, the Budget Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee, so...

You're a busy gal.

We're so happy to have you.

Mary Gay Scanlon is a Democrat from Pennsylvania.

She is among the top Democrats in the caucus, including on the House Rules Committee.

She tells Scopic Farland Reports her biggest concern is actually a lack of confidence that Trump's lies about election fraud sow a lack of confidence and distrust in the voting process and elections.

And that's something that they have to counter in advance.

In the House of Representatives, there developed a group of young, insurgent Republicans who resented the dominance of the Speaker, Joseph G. Cannon, and other members of the Old Guard, as they named the men of long service and conservative minds.

In 1910, the insurgents went so far as to join with the Democrats in a movement to break the Speaker's sway by ousting him from the Rules Committee and depriving him of the power to appoint its members.

the storm was brewing in the autumn of that year the democrats won a clear majority of the house of representatives and began an open battle with president taft by demanding an immediate downward revision of the tariff the rise of the progressive republicans preparatory to the campaign of nineteen twelve the dissenters within the republican party added the prefix progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of mr taft as early as january twenty first nineteen eleven they formed a progressive republican league at the home of senator la follette of wisconsin and launched an attack on the taft measures and policies in october they endorsed mr la follette as the logical republican candidate and appealed to the party for support the controversy over the tariff had grown into a formidable revolt against the occupant of the white house roosevelt in the field after looking on for a while ex-president roosevelt took a hand in the fray soon after his return in nineteen ten from a hunting trip to africa and a tour in europe he made a series of addresses in which he formulated a progressive programme in a speech in kansas he favored regulation of the trusts a graduated income tax bearing heavily on great fortunes tariff revision schedule by schedule conservation of natural resources labor legislation the direct primary and the recall of elective officials in an address before the ohio state constitutional convention in february nineteen twelve he endorsed the initiative and referendum and announced a doctrine known as the recall of judicial decisions This was a new and radical note in American politics.

An ex-president of the United States proposed that the people at the polls should have the right to reverse the decision of a judge who set aside any act of a state legislature passed in the interests of social welfare.

Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912 Growing Dissension all in all taft's administration from the first day had been disturbed by party discord high words had passed over the tariff bill and disgruntled members of congress could not forget them to differences over issues were added quarrels between youth and old age In the House of Representatives, there developed a group of young, insurgent Republicans who resented the dominance of the Speaker, Joseph G. Cannon, and other members of the Old Guard, as they named the men of long service and conservative minds.

In 1910, the insurgents went so far as to join with the Democrats in a movement to break the Speaker's sway by ousting him from the Rules Committee and depriving him of the power to appoint its members.

the storm was brewing in the autumn of that year the democrats won a clear majority of the house of representatives and began an open battle with president taft by demanding an immediate downward revision of the tariff the rise of the progressive republicans Preparatory to the campaign of 1912, the dissenters within the Republican Party added the prefix progressive to their old title and began to organize a movement to prevent the renomination of Mr. Taft.

As early as January 21, 1911, they formed a Progressive Republican League at the home of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin and launched an attack on the Taft measures and policies.

First current events topic we want to discuss, a big one, we've been covering it on this channel for quite some time now, and maybe finally seeing some progress in the right direction for gamblers, because according to fairplay.gov, the 90% cap on gambling losses would be repealed retroactive to January 1st of 2026 as part of the Ways and Means tax bill, and there's actually a vote recently on this, and...

The big tax bill with a provision on that 90% cap on gambling was overwhelmingly voted through on the repeal with bipartisan support to the House Rules Committee.

It's a technical step before it goes to the House floor for a full vote.

So still like work to do to have this happen.