O’Keefe: The House Is Like a Tinder Box Right Now

‘You`ve had attempts to undo an ethics office, you`ve had stiff penalties put in place on members who may try to act out on the House floor’

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O`KEEFE: "They`re going to pay a price for working with him. Republicans may pay a price for not getting any Democrats to play along with them. I would - you know, it`s been two weeks of the new Congress, and say that, you know, on the Senate side there are some genuine attempts at cooperation underway. I think you saw Joe Manchin earlier talking about the eagerness to do it. He needs to do it, frankly, if he expects to be reelected. Heidi Heitkamp, Joe Donnelly, Claire McCaskill, among others, have to think about it as Democrats. But, you know, I would caution, things up there are pretty - pretty hot right now. I think the comments made by John Lewis this weekend had as much to do with the presidency as it does with the tinder box nature of the House right now. If you look at what`s gone on up there kind of under the radar with all the focus on the administration in waiting, you`ve had attempts to undo an ethics office, you`ve had stiff penalties put in place on members who may try to act out on the House floor. They`re seen as sort of retribution against Democrats. Amid that you had, you know, a Republican congressman suggest that Mexican performers who were campaigning in Nevada with Democrats were just as much trying to influence the election on behalf of Mexico as the hackers did for Russia. And then - and then you have this fight over, you know, art hanging on the walls of the Capitol and whether or not some of it was appropriate. All these little things, you know, add up. And at some point if there is no check on this, or if there`s no attempt at cooperation, I - you could see some real trouble for Republicans stewardship of Congress."

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