The Republicans who joined Gaetz last week in voting down McCarthy’s short-term funding bill included Reps. The rebels had demanded the House to pass all 12 appropriations bills with steep spending cuts, before negotiating funding with the Democratic-controlled Senate. The vote Friday by the 21 conservative rebels to scuttle House Republicans’ 30-day funding bill last week had left them without a plan to avert a shutdown. McCarthy said Saturday that the vote left him with no choice but to drop Republicans' demands. His announcement came a day after a group of conservative rebels, led by Gaetz, blocked House Republicans’ short-term funding bill to keep the government open. Under the rules adopted earlier this year, any Republican lawmaker can call for a motion to vacate the speaker's chair, and the House would have to vote on it within two legislative days.īefore Congress passed the bill Saturday, McCarthy announced he would nix Republican demands for spending cuts and policy provisions on immigration in order to hold a quick House vote on a "clean" stopgap bill. Olivier Douliery / AFP - Getty Images file 6, the day before McCarthy became speaker. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in the House chamber on Jan. McCarthy removed the provision from the bipartisan Senate bill, saying it should be considered separately at a later date. However, it does not include aid to Ukraine. The short-term funding bill authorizes additional disaster relief money and buys Congress more time to reach a funding agreement for the full year. “So be it, bring it on, let’s get over with it and let’s start governing." Gaetz is “more interested in securing TV interviews than doing something," McCarthy added. He’s tried to do that from the moment I ran for office. In response to Gaetz's announcement, McCarthy said, “That’s nothing new. A comparison video looking at action-based content with and without the effect is shared below for you to make your own mind up about how to enjoy your next movie night.Gaetz also confirmed that he'll soon file a motion to vacate the speakership in an appearance on ABC News' "This Week," after the Senate and House voted on Saturday night to pass a short-term bill to keep the government funded through Nov. Motion smoothing technology most commonly comes under the guise of '240Hz TruMotion', 'Motion Smoothing Effect' or 'Auto Motion Plus' on TV sets. Whether it will prove to be an impossible mission to get to the mainstream TV-owning audience to adjust their settings remains to be seen, but Cruise took to Twitter to share a video speaking about the pitfalls of motion smoothing with director Christopher McQuarrie (Mission Impossible - Fallout and Top Gun - Maverick). Although creating new frames in between the 24 or 30 frames per second in video content can be useful for enjoying sports, this effect can change the look of TV and films for the worse and not actually deliver the ‘smooth’ effect its name purports. The motion smoothing setting is present in nearly all TVs incorporating HD and 4K resolution support and is most often left on by default by manufacturers – creating what some lament as the ‘soap opera’ effect. It’s a technology that the majority may leave on on their TV settings and some will claim turning off brings no discernible difference (decide for yourself below) to watching content, but actor Tom Cruise wants you to enjoy how content how he and his film industry contemporaries intended it to look – without motion smoothing. Tom Cruise feels passionately about motion smoothing – that is, turning it off to enjoy his (and others’) movies ‘properly.’
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