Posted on 10/23/2016 7:30:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When the 115th Congress convenes in January, the House of Representatives may vote on a rules package that guts a powerful tool that allows members of the lower chamber to keep the speaker in check.
In September, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., proposed a change to the rules of the House that would dissolve the privileged status of the "motion to vacate the chair," which allows any member of the House to introduce a resolution to depose the speaker. Under the current rules of the House, the resolution must receive a vote by the full chamber.
The proposal put forward by Nunes would require a majority of either party's conference to support the motion before it can move forward. Because party conferences are controlled by either the speaker or the minority leader, the motion to vacate the chair would essentially become an empty threat.
There's no question that this is what Nunes wants.
Sadly, it's part of a pattern from the California Republican. Nunes has expressed his contempt on more than one occasion for his conservative colleagues in the House, calling them "lemmings with suicide vests" and "right-wing Marxists." He also referred to Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., a principled constitutional conservative and opponent of domestic-surveillance programs, as "al-Qaeda's best friend in Congress" and raised money for Amash's unsuccessful 2014 primary challenger.
With Republicans like Nunes, who needs Democrats?
The motion to vacate the chair is the sword of Damocles that hangs over the head of whoever happens to hold the office. If a speaker begins to lose his or her way and act in a manner that harms the House, this procedural tool serves as a vital accountability mechanism.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
PING!
Paul Ryan is toast.
Sack RYno Now!!. I promise these Trump folks will not be leaving!!There are 50 million of us!!
——Sack RYno Now!!——
As speaker, he’s already toast, especially if Trump wins....
If Trump loses and destroys the down ticket, Ryan may survive...
As a congressman, he’s as safe as a pea in a pod in his district....
The 50 million Trump voters don’t vote in his district...
Trump was elected in a contentious primary election. The voters spoke. Paul Ryan’s failure to fully support the candidate of his own part is an outrageous attack on our Republic.
He must go....
He must go? How is he still there? He should have been fired last year.
This is good news, means Ryan’s in trouble.
The Motion to Vacate the [House] Chair is the closest procedure we have to a Vote of No Confidence used in Parliamentary systems. It should be left alone, not gutted.
This is the Uniparty trying to protect its Speaker, the weasel from the Badger state.
Sad to see that Nunes has sold out. I supported him in his fight for water for the mainly Hispanic farmed of San Joaquin Valley with the Dems of the state had cut off.
Now he’s with his former oppressors. Most be either the “Stockholm Syndrome” or he got bought off.
“Sack RYno Now!!.”
And add Nunes to the list.
If Trump loses, Ryan and the Republican party can forever more kiss my ass.
I will find a real conservative party to join. Not this dem lite crappola.
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