How an obscure motion to 'vacate the chair' spoils House GOP's August vacation (WAHHHHHHH!!)

csmonitor.com ^ | 7/31/15 | John Feheery

[cotton1706]

The House is hitting the highways after passing a three-month extension of the Highway bill. In the game of chicken between the chambers of Congress, both sides blinked and the only real victim seems to be the small businesses that care deeply about the Export Import Bank.

Republican leaders had a plan to talk about the Iran deal and some of their legislative accomplishments over the August recess. Unfortunately, Mark Meadows threw a monkey wrench into that plan.

At the behest of somebody, the North Carolina second-term congressman and subcommittee chairman made a non-privileged motion to vacate the chair.

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I am not sure what a non-privileged motion to vacate the chair is, actually. A motion to vacate the chair is basically an effort to oust a sitting Speaker of the House. It is a privileged motion, by definition, although the parliamentary tactic is not specifically mentioned in the Rules of the House.

[cotton1706]

Feheery is an Establishment stooge!

[cripplecreek]

If Boehner had any dignity he would simply step down and claim he was doing it for the greater good of the house.

[Reno89519]

Now the summer to get members to commit to new speaker, Bohner then resigns. Would be nice.

[Fiddlstix]

Boehner has been bought and paid for by the best lobbyists in DC

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Boehner’s mafia-like tactics are used to gain support for bills that ultimately enable Obama instead of stopping the unconstitutional behavior of this regime. American’s have been demanding that representatives stop Obama. Recall that it was Boehner who took impeachment off the table. Boehner’s lap dogs attempt to make a case for Boehner’s success with the claim that Boehner has passed more bills than any other Congress in history—mostly bills that support Obama’s agenda thus Liberal media is also supportive of Boehner. However, most Americans understand the principles of our constitutional founding, and thus understand that the success of Congress is NOT measured by how many bills Congress can pass… but rather by how many bills they can prevent and block—the slow percolation of legislation.(Click For More)

From the day he arrived, Boehner made it clear that out lobbyists wouldn’t get past his receptionists until we wrote out checks for the maximum amounts allowed and that if we wanted consideration for our legisaltive initiatives, those checks had better keep coming.

He demanded invitations to Realtor conventions at locations where he could play golf. Boehner cares more for golf than he does for the needs of his constituents. In 2009, his campaign fund spent $82,998 for golf outings for himself and his cronies.(Click For More)

A September 2010 New York Times story said Boehner was "Tightly Bound to Lobbyists" and "He maintains especially tight ties with a circle of lobbyists and former aides representing some of the nation’s biggest businesses, including Goldman Sachs, Google, Citigroup, R.J. Reynolds, MillerCoors and UPS.".(Click For More)

John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. Boehner is a corrupt, votes for sale, old-school politician. He doesn’t give a damn about the people who elected him to office. All he cares about are the fat-cat lobbyists who deliver the big Political Action Committee Checks.(Click For More)

In June 1995, Boehner distributed campaign contributions from tobacco industry lobbyists on the House floor as House members were weighing how to vote on tobacco subsidies. In a 1996 documentary by PBS called The People and the Power Game, Boehner said "They asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly before we got to the end of the month and I complied. And I did it on the House floor, which I regret. I should not have done. It's not a violation of the House rules, but it's a practice that‘s gone on here for a long time that we're trying to stop and I know I'll never do it again."(Click For More)

[Louis Foxwell]

John certainly does not have a clue about the conflict between Boehner and the conservative caucus.

[txhurl]

Sausage time.

[Walrus]

“...the small businesses that care deeply about the Export-Import Bank”

What a total crock!

I myself am a small businessman AND am in the field of international trade.

I can assure you that we small businessmen only “care deeply” that this mega corporation welfare program be killed ASAP!

[kitchen]

You know, small businesses like GE, Boeing ...

[Macoozie]

Christian Science Monitor.
At one time, in the distant past, it was an interesting read. Sort of a mix of views to balance things out.
With D-Bags like Feheery, guess I will be “turning the page’, so to say, on this once august publication.

Language is the first casualty of war.
The BigMedia’s intentional obfuscation of “Republican” and “Conservative” is just too much.
Will SOMEONE just tinkle in their Wheaties already?

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

bump for a later read

[hadaclueonce]

maybe the elected officials can take the Lobbyist teat out of their mouth long enough to do what we elected them for.

No, they are all paid whores. Think they will come home to face the ones who sent them to Washington?

Hell no they are on their way to the south pacific to check on a turtle.

[867V309]

It’s hard for the Tea Party to get any traction when you have Donald Trump. Why pay for crazy when you can get it for free?

I hate Christian Science Monitor.

Not Christian.
Not scientific.
Doesn't monitor anything.
Fairly evil.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“Christian Science”

Same thing as “Grape Nuts.”