{"id":2125481,"date":"2023-12-14T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T00:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-friend-turned-foe-burchett-gives-blunt-answer-about-congresss-productivity\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T00:29:01","slug":"mccarthy-friend-turned-foe-burchett-gives-blunt-answer-about-congresss-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-friend-turned-foe-burchett-gives-blunt-answer-about-congresss-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy friend-turned-foe Burchett gives blunt answer about Congress&#8217;s productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmccarthy-friend-turned-foe-burchett-gives-blunt-answer-about-congresss-productivity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2125481&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As Congress looks to wrap up work for the year, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) doesn&#8217;t believe it has been productive, taking a jab at his colleagues under former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-CA) leadership. <\/p>\n<p> When CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju asked Burchett on the steps of the Capitol if \u201cthis been a productive Congress,\u201d the Tennessee Republican said, \u201cNo.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> BIDEN OFFICIALLY A TARGET OF HOUSE IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY AFTER VOTE <\/p>\n<p> The House adjourned for Christmas recess on Thursday without reaching a deal to pass wartime aid to Ukraine, while the Senate decided to delay its break and return next week to continue negotiations. <\/p>\n<p> House Democrats have said it has been \u201cthe least productive Congress since the Great Depression,\u201d blaming \u201cextreme MAGA Republicans\u201d for the lack of productivity. <\/p>\n<p> Republicans have expressed frustration at their own party for allowing infighting to get in the way of passing legislation. <\/p>\n<p> In a heated moment on the House floor last month, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) asked members to come to the floor \u201cand come explain to me one material, meaningful, significant thing the Republican majority has done.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Some Republicans blame McCarthy, who will not seek reelection in 2024 and will retire at the end of the year, for the recent wave of Republican losses and slow Congress. <\/p>\n<p> Burchett, once an ally to McCarthy, was one of seven Republicans who voted to oust him as speaker in October. Burchett cited a lack of urgency in the House, specifically in having to pass numerous appropriations bills and failing to deliver on various promises. <\/p>\n<p> CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER <\/p>\n<p> \u201cI hate to lose him as a friend, but I had the choice between that and my conscience and what my conscience tells me to do,\u201d Burchett said in a video explaining his vote. <\/p>\n<p>Since the House\u2019s historic ousting of McCarthy, the former speaker and Burchett\u2019s relationship has faltered, intensifying last month when Burchett accused McCarthy of elbowing him in a Capitol hallway. McCarthy denied intentionally jabbing Burchett, and the Tennessee representative said he has \u201cno vengeance towards him\u201d a day after the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Congress looks to wrap up work for the year, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) doesn&#8217;t believe it has been productive, taking a jab at his colleagues under former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-CA) leadership. When CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju asked Burchett on the steps of the Capitol if \u201cthis been a productive Congress,\u201d the Tennessee Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2125482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}