hard, heavy and often on both the DNC and the RINOs!
Posted on 10/09/2016 7:15:01 AM PDT by cotton1706
House Republicans appear to be trying to make it harder for rank-and-file revolts, like the one which caused John Boehner to step down last year, from happening again. California Congressman Devin Nunes told Roll Call, his proposal would keep leadership vacuums from happening.
The proposed change, offered by Rep. Devin Nunes, would end the privileged status of the motion to vacate that allows any member to call up the motion for a vote at any time. The California Republican is proposing that instead the majority or minority caucus must vote on the motion and that a majority of the caucus must approve it before it can be called up for a floor vote.
“We know the turmoil that can be created with a huge leadership vacuum in the Congress,” Nunes said. FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon isn’t happy with the proposal.
“The motion to vacate the chair is the most powerful tool members of the House have to ensure that the speaker is kept in check. It’s the sword of Damocles that hangs over the head of whomever happens to hold the office…Sadly, Rep. Nunes has been working to limit the democratic prerogatives of the members of the House of Representatives. [He] proposed a roadblock: before the motion [to remove the Speaker] can be brought up in the House, that member’s party conference in the House would have to sign off on moving ahead. And since these entities are controlled by either the speaker or the minority leader, approval just won’t happen. That is exactly what Rep. Nunes wants.”
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Perhaps Nunes needs to vacate his seat instead.
If anything, I’d like to speed up the process. Any legislator who wants to put a motion and can get fifty members to second it....ought to get a full-up-and-down chance for the whole House within forty-eight hours. I also think that the Speakers job ought to be limited to four years maximum.
nunes needs to be primaried. The fool represents the gop-e in their sinister and depraved need for power and apparently hates his electorate. Trumpe , if nothing else, is letting the electorate know who the duplicitous a**-holes are.
hard, heavy and often on both the DNC and the RINOs!
Traitors all.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Question: in the history of politics has any party, anywhere ever tried harder to alienate their own base?
The super rich put their man in, then you can’t get him out. Like they have been doing their hand picked presidents. Revolt people !
Dear Oligarchs, I have a word you need to ponder: Zeitgeist.
We need a government overhaul, how does a politician come in to office with a few sheckles have a base pay of 250,000 a year and amass millions of dollars, how? we know how it needs to end
How is this possible, considering how much most of our Republican congresscritters suck?!
The jokes just write themselves...
The back-stabber from WI should be the first to go! A #NeverTrumper to the bone!
Instead of being for a smaller, leaner, efficient, and responsive government the GOPe is only for itself.
The House Republicans see a President Trump as an increasing possibility and they are trying to cover their losses.
Dear Congressman Nunes, if you understood what leadership is, you would see that your proposal is the opposite. Leadership isn't protecting your position of authority over other people. It isn't stopping others from rising to the top. It isn't blocking your own rank and file from taking needed actions.
Leadership is sharing a vision for others to follow. It is building bridges in fulfilling that vision. It is humbly accepting the mantel to serve others.
You and the rest of the GOPe can go suck an egg.
Respectfully,
pgyanke
Mines a Ryan lackey
Should have been Nunes a Ryan lackey
Personally, I’ve quit voting for anyone who is an incumbent. Do a term, maybe two, then go back home. Anything more seems to corrupt all of them. “Politician” was never supposed to be a career field.
They’re trying to protect the apple cart by making it harder to remove those in positions of power.
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