INTERVIEW | Ryan Walker on Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s Battle for House Speaker and What to Expect From 118th Congress

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Congress is back in session, and members have their work cut out for them.

“I agree that it is one of—if not the most critical time in our nation's history,” says Ryan Walker, vice president for government relations at Heritage Action for America. (Heritage Action for America is the grassroots partner organization of The Heritage Foundation.)

“We are at the precipice of continuing the Left's march toward socialism, a full and fundamental takeover of our public institutions, not just government, but education, business, university systems, you name it,” he says.

With Republicans controlling the House, Walker says, the House Oversight and Reform Committee has a responsibility to hold the Biden administration accountable and to investigate the crisis at the southern border, COVID-19 spending, and much more.

Walker joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss what we should expect from the 118th Congress, and to explain the significance of the battle to become House speaker of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Thermal Podcast for Wednesday, January 4th, I'm Virginia Allen.
0:11.0	Some big questions here at the beginning of 2023, will House Republicans be able to
0:16.1	pass any conservative legislation over the next two years without controlling the Senate?
0:21.9	What exactly is oversight, and how could it be used to restore accountability to Washington
0:27.2	D.C. in the new Congress?
0:29.1	Brian Walker, Vice President of Government Relations at Heritage Action for America, joins
0:34.2	me on the show to answer these questions and explain the significance of Representative
0:39.2	Kevin McCarthy's battle for House Speaker.
0:42.1	Stay tuned for our conversation after this.
0:48.8	This is Mike Owl at the Heritage Foundation.
0:50.7	I know how the left and the deep state operate, because I've seen it from the inside.
0:55.4	When I was working for the Trump Administration, I learned how the left made our lives
0:58.7	miserable and how they continued to think they could play by their own rules.
1:02.5	Well, now we're taking all these tricks and tactics that were deployed against the
1:06.2	Trump Administration and turning them against the Biden regime.
1:10.3	Through the work of the Oversight Project, we're exposing the left for what they are and
1:14.4	embarrassing some actors responsible.
1:16.8	We're using strategic foyes and fearless litigation to force these bureaucrats to deliver
1:23.2	documents they'd prefer to never see the light of day.
1:26.8	But for our work to be successful, we need patriots like you to stand with us.
1:31.1	You can take action now, visit Heritage.org slash oversight to learn more.
1:35.5	There's no time to waste.
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