House Freedom Caucus Gets Its Revenge for Debt Deal
There was a clash between Republican members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday afternoon as members of the House Freedom Caucus torpedoed a rule vote on the floor of the lower chamber, reportedly the first time such a procedural tactic had been used in years.
The vote was on the rule for H.R.463, House Republicans’ bill to prohibit the use of Federal funds to ban gas stoves, and it failed 206-220 with 12 members of the House GOP Conference voting against the rule: Reps. Andy Biggs (AZ), Dan Bishop (NC), Lauren Boebert (CO), Ken Buck (CO), Tim Burchett (TN), Eli Crane (AZ), Matt Gaetz (FL), Bob Good (VA), Ralph Norman (SC), Matt Rosendale (MT), Chip Roy (TX). House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) also voted against the rule in order to preserve his ability to bring the rule back to the floor for a vote at a later time.
The move to block the House from moving forward with consideration of the Republican bill was done as an act of protest against GOP leadership, launched by the 11 lawmakers to register their disapproval of the way the deal to avert a debt default was handled.
The showdown was also, according to “no”-voting Rep. Bishop, an ambush on leadership:
Thanks, Rusty.
Let’s see if McCarthy can pass the resolution censuring Adam Schiff. I think that is tonight or tomorrow night.
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Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert were on WR yesterday talking about this.
They totally surprised McCarthy who had no clue this was coming.
This was a warning shot to McCarthy.
McCarthy had better wake up, business as usual is over in DC.