So what does this look like now? Yeah, look, my Republican colleagues are in disarray. It is chaos and it is hurting the country. For when something like this happens, The powers of the current speaker pro tem are very limited. They are about electing a new speaker. The Congress and the House cannot respond to the security situation or providing assistance or anything else we might need to take up in the House until there's a speaker elected. (00:47–00:51)
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