Posted on 12/28/2020 7:35:57 AM PST by Onthebrink
According to a report, Democrats are panicking, fearful that the COVID-19 pandemic could prevent Nancy Pelosi from being re-elected as House speaker despite Democrats holding a majority in the chamber.
Is this really possible? Well, let’s see.
While House members can vote by proxy due to emergency rules adopted in May to protect members from getting and spreading COVID-19, but, as The Hill reports, “the proxy-voting rule expires with the new Congress, requiring lawmakers to be in the Capitol in person if they want to participate in the Jan. 3 floor vote for Speaker.”
New rules governing the 117th Congress happen after the vote for speaker.
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Republican fan fiction
A republican will not be speaker of the house.
Stop trying to make “fetch” happen.
Really. People will print anything to get hits.
Well to be fair, absent the assassination, Jack Kennedy would have lived another 20 or 30 years before his illnesses killed him.
My point wasn’t really about how long JFK has been dead, but how old the photo has to be. I don’t know that the Founders intended lifetimes in government.
Eek!!!
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