Posted on 01/28/2015 1:07:31 PM PST by cotton1706
House Republican leadership’s crackdown against dissenters is continuing.
Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 3 House Republican, is laying plans to boot lawmakers from the leadership’s elite vote-counting team if they oppose party-line procedural motions. That might sound like insignificant inside baseball, but it’s a critical development — and yet another sign that top Republicans are looking to ostracize troublemakers in the Capitol.
Procedural motions are crucial for the majority party. The rule vote, for example, is a party-line motion that allows the speaker to control the House floor by laying out the guidelines for legislative debate. If the House cannot pass a rule, the majority often must drop consideration of key legislation. In the worst-case scenario, control of the floor could shift to the minority.
But Scalise is also is considering not allowing anyone who votes against the Republicans’ nominee for speaker to join the whip team. Republicans will still be permitted to vote against legislation they oppose, but if they are on the whip team they cannot vote against proceeding to debate.
As of now, there is no formalized policy on snubbing leadership. Scalise began talking about the policy with senior lawmakers on the whip team this week in the Capitol. Scalise’s whip team is an important part of keeping the Capitol working. Members of the group have to arm-twist to help pass the leadership’s priorities, and
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He needs to be primary-ed.
I believe nothing Politico.
Question is, do you plan on continuing to vote for the leftist GOP, who vows to crush the Tea Party? That, my FRiend, is the most important question.
They want an intra-party civil war and they’re going to get it. Finally, once and for all, we will turn the tables on these fools and get them all out.
Bring charges of extortion and Corruption against the speaker of the house. He is blackmailing the members of congress to get the vote he wants.
(sigh)...gotta Pavlov train these morons.
Only option is to sit home and let the Dems clean their clock. Then hope they learned their lesson and start over again.
My guess is that all this is a response to the new conservative caucus which is going make Tammy Faye’s life a misery. Loving it.
I am a Tea Party member Politico is as media matters RAT controlled, I do my own research, and firing Boehner is on top of my list of priority’s.
Behold, lesser evil at work!!!
Ah, so it's now a club is it? And the country be damned?
John Boehner needs to remember three things:
1- Those who opposed him as Speaker were doing the will of the voters who put them in office
2- Without the conservative/ Tea Party voters, Boehner would NOT be Speaker of the House in the first place
3- Conservatives have a long memory . . . which is one reason they ARE concervatives
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