House to vote on bill to reopen the government

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00:00The House of Representatives could begin their process for voting to reopen the government as

00:04soon as today. But because politics is never simple, it is not a straightforward journey.

00:11For starters, they have to get back to Washington. And as I have noted more than once,

00:16that's proving to be difficult for some thanks to the shutdown itself snarling air travel.

00:22In fact, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said it could be so bad this weekend

00:26if the government doesn't reopen that airlines could simply decide to ground all of their

00:32planes, a weekend travel Armageddon, if you will. But OK, back to Congress. Assuming they do get

00:40back to D.C., the bill to fund the government will be taken up by the House Rules Committee,

00:44led by Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey. Now, Massey has suggested he would strike language

00:49snuck into the bill that bans the unregulated sale of intoxicating hemp products. Mind you,

00:54this has nothing to do with the shutdown. But Kentucky has a lot of hemp farmers and Massey

01:00hopes to protect them after his Senate colleague Rand Paul tried and failed to do that same thing

01:05before the bill left the Senate. So if it gets out of the Rules Committee, with or without the hemp,

01:11it would then go to the floor where amendments could still be added, which further delays the bill.

01:17Democrats have suggested they may try to force a vote on the extension of Obamacare subsidies.

01:21Yet another wrench in the works to get this thing passed and the government reopened.

01:27That's all to say that Congress could move a step closer today to ending the shutdown,

01:32but it may just be a little tiny baby step.