Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote.
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told reporters after a closed-door House GOP conference meeting that McCarthy informed lawmakers during the gathering that he will not bring the upper chamber’s legislation to the floor for a vote, even after the Senate voted to advance it in a bipartisan fashion Tuesday night.
“I don’t think he plans to do that,” Good said when asked about bringing the Senate stopgap bill up for a vote. “He reiterated that this morning. I called on him to consistently say that to the public, let the Senate know that’s dead on arrival and that there’s no way the House would pass that bill.”
What a raging dickhead
*Sniveling spineless magat
If he put it to the floor, one of the triple-kookoos will call a motion to vacate and possibly oust him as speaker and apparently he thinks there’s a good chance they would, or else he just wants to act like he’s in control of the House and not being hand-held by the adults in the upper chamber, since the Senate bill would easily pass in the house.
Any at-risk Republican want to call the same motion if he doesn’t put it to the floor?
These fuckers actively want this country to burn so they can rule the ashes. Not even making an attempt to do their jobs anymore.
Moscow Mitch did this all the time. How the hell the Speaker can unilaterally say “no” to a vote is beyond me.
This is a rules of the Senate thing, not a Constitutional thing. It can easily be changed.
The doublespeak is deafening. He is not holding a vote because he knows that there is enough support in the House for it to pass. It would just require Democratic votes to do so, which would result in a new speaker.
There would be a motion but I don’t know if any body else in the GOP wants that job. Especially with the clown show that they have become.
Pretty sure removal doesn’t preclude him from being nominated again. It would just be that clown show when he was first elected all over again but he’ll have even less leverage.
We really don’t need a speaker of the house at all. Eliminate the position and replace with nothing. Tired of my tax dollars paying for people that just don’t wanna work anymore.
/the Electoral College has entered the chat
Making him singularly responsible for the shutdown.
If a discharge petition gets more than a majority for it, would that be considered “McCarthy holding a vote?” or would that be enough hands off for him to save his job?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote.
While the measure has the backing of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, a number of House conservatives have already lined up against the legislation, pointing to the inclusion of Ukraine aid and the exclusion of border security provisions.
), who represents a district President Biden won in 2020, said he would support the Senate’s legislation and that McCarthy should bring it to the floor “if that is the only option.”
Instead, however, McCarthy said he plans to bring a GOP-crafted stopgap bill to the floor Friday, legislation that will be dead on arrival in the Senate but is meant to open negotiations with Democrats in the upper chamber.
Good told reporters that McCarthy’s stopgap measure would keep the government open for 30 days, decrease spending to a top-line level of $1.471 trillion for that duration and include border security provisions.
Good also noted that McCarthy wants to pass the stopgap “in conjunction with continuing to move our spending bills,” which has been a key demand among conservatives.
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He needs to choke on a fat dick
According to most sources, Putin’s not that hung, though. 🤷🏼♂️
