The Week Ahead

While a Washington mired in sub-freezing temperatures will see very little public political action in the final week of 2022, things are going on behind the scenes.

The vote for the next House speaker will come on the third day of the new year, and Kevin McCarthy will spend the days between now and then making his list of key undecideds and checking it twice — and thinking about how to persuade some of the naughties to play nice.