House pushes Build Back Better vote to Friday morning to accommodate GOP leader McCarthy's quasi-filibuster

House Democrats had hoped to pass their roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better domestic spending bill Thursday night, and they appeared to have the votes to do it, but shortly after midnight Friday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the House would recess until Friday morning so Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) can say his piece. At that point, McCarthy had been speaking for about four hours, in a sort of quasi-filibuster of the bill.

"I don't know if they think because they left I'm going to stop," McCarthy responded on the House floor. "I'm not."

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