Posted on 01/08/2015 6:50:24 AM PST by maggief
A routine procedural vote on Thursday could become the vehicle for a conservative protest against House GOP leadership for punishing lawmakers who voted against Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) this week.
Before voting on legislation requiring only a simple majority to pass, the House must adopt a "rule" that sets parameters for floor debate. Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), one of the 25 Republicans who opposed Boehner's bid for a third term as Speaker, urged Republicans to vote against the rule until the two former members of the House Rules Committee are reinstated.
"Two members taken off Rules Cmte yesterday after voting for a dif House speaker. Let's all vote "NO" on all rules until they're put back on!" Weber tweeted Wednesday. Those booted members off the influential panel, which determines how bills are considered on the floor, were Florida Republican Reps. Dan Webster and Rich Nugent. Weber himself claims he also got payback for voting for Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) for Speaker by being removed as the sponsor of a noncontroversial bill regarding low-dose radiation research this week.
The House is slated to vote on a rule for consideration of a bill to establish that a full-time workweek should be 40 hours intead of 30 under the healthcare law. A vote on the rule is expected around 1-2 p.m.
Two members taken off Rules Cmte yesterday after voting for a dif House speaker. Let's all vote "NO" on all rules until they're put back on!
Can they vote HELL NO?
We’ll see.
Not holding my breath, and remain with my prediction that thanks to Bonehead and McDorkell, the GOP is dead, dead, dead.
May both their graves be located under a septic tank.
Sooner rather than later.
+1
Boehner seems to get his marching orders here:
http://bipartisanpolicy.org/about/leadership/
Rebecca Tallent, his amnesty architect, and Brett Loper, former deputy chief of staff, both worked or now work for the ‘bipartisan think tank’.
Check out pages 84-85 for list of donors:
2013 Grants & Contributions
Foundations $14,845,647
Corporations & Individuals
$6,142,242
Carry Forward Funds
$3,100,00
Grand Total
$24,087,889
Exactly!
Thanks for that excellent research.
I was just commenting on another thread that Boehner acts like someone who is being blackmailed.
This would give the disgusting new HOR members who campaigned as constitutional conservatives and actively solicited for campaign money as such to redeem themselves.
Check out post #6 for some good research.
Tom Delay was on Cavuto last night and said the cryin Cheeto was in deep trouble if he did not want to listen to his detractors.
Here's a bit more ...
http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/louie-gohmert-leadership-staff-power/?dcz=
Louie Gohmert: Does Leadership Staff Call the Shots?
By David Eldridge
Posted at 10:42 a.m. Jan. 7
(snip)
In an appearance on Fox News to talk about the aftermath of Tuesday’s failed revolt against Boehner, Gohmert criticized the removal of Reps. Daniel Webster and Rich Nugent, who voted against the speaker, from the Rules Committee in the 114th Congress.
“We were going to work together after the battle was over, then we’re told it’s not over. We’re going to screw you over. And it’s one thing when you get hurt on your own exercise equipment, but it’s another when your own speaker does it to you,” the Texas Republican said.
(snip)
“If I woke up some day and was told, ‘Well, you’re out, your party turned against you,’ … I would literally be able to say, ‘Thank you, God. I thought I was going to have to keep doing this job.’”
He also questioned whether the decision to remove Webster and Nugent was made by Boehner.
“We need to find out … was this from the speaker or was this from his speaker’s staff? I’ve had more than one of the speaker’s inner circle say, you know something I know we can work on together is getting the speaker back in control.”
“It’s something [former Rep.] Dan Lungren had commented about when he was in Congress and then went to be attorney general of California, then came back. He said, ‘I couldn’t believe how much members lost control and leadership staff were running Congress.’ And that is something that needs to be worked on and changed.”
I predict they will get their Rules Committee seats back and everybody will make nice with each other.
Al Gore reincarnated.
I wonder how all our “Conservative” freshmen are going to vote on this?
More like complicit. A true wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I don’t think we can take another Al Gore, one was too many.
I seem to recall an article I read saying that it was Boehner’s STAFF that notified Webster and Nugent.
But now I can’t find it again.
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