Posted on 09/25/2024 4:45:48 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Over the past 15 years, members of Congress have survived two near-deadly shootings, a train crash with dozens of them on board, and a Capitol riot that had hundreds of lawmakers fearing for their lives.
Despite those incidents, the institution is wholly unprepared for a catastrophic event that kills or incapacitates multiple members — even if that hypothetical tragedy results in a major power shift: changing which party holds the majority in the House or Senate.
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Right now, the main idea to address the issue is a constitutional amendment that would require members of the House to submit a list of at least five possible successors to be tapped in the event of their death. If any member dies in office, the state’s governor would select an individual from the list to serve on a temporary basis until officials hold a special election for a permanent replacement.
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Opportunities to address the issue — known in congressional parlance as “continuity of government” — have come and gone over the past quarter century.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
“Our Democracy” continues to work as expected. Unfortunately.
I wish you would stop saying how JAN.6TH was a mass casualty event. Not one congressman or women would have been hurt if they were confronted that day. To say they would have is just pure BullSh!t! If they were hurt it would have been by CIA,FBI OR DOJ plants.
Oh horse shit.!!! :(
Must have slipped their minds about the attempt at the Republican baseball practice.
Selective shaping of their carefully crafted narrative.
Lazy article.
RLTW
I hear that pistol weighs 40lbs. Just ask Sheila Jackson Lee (if you can commune with the recently departed).
Trump is setting the tone of bravery and defiance in the face of this most recent spate of crazed anarchy.
“WTF is a pistol clip?”
ZACTLY!!!!
Congress must be feeling really uneasy about the decisions they have been making. Why else would the “servants” fear their “masters”?
Yes, this is what they are up to. The left wants to make sure that if the power goes to the right that they can shoot up the critters on the right and replace them with their own leftists.
Such truly filthy vermin.
“WTF is a pistol clip?”
Half-moon?
I am surprised this hasn’t come up before now. Dems and RINOs are playing with fire.
It holds 120 sheets of paper together.
This is just an attack ad on Trump. They want people to be in fear he’ll have his pistol clipped MAGAts attacking the noble Mr. Smith Goes To Washington.
The governor of each state....sometimes with conditions imposed by the state legislature...selects the replacement - not the congress critter themselves. This is a matter for the states and not the federal government or any politician in the federal government to determine.
As you know, it's a magazine--for those whose firearms literacy is restricted to watching television.
The reality is, Congress should fear the people. But the most those lick-spittle miscreants had to fear that day was little old ladies looking for the toilet.
They should be afraid. Very afraid.
It’s in the first sentence. I assume the other shooting mentioned is the Gabby Gifford shooting?
So....if that is all it takes to ensure continuity of Government, just keep one cabinet member safe at all times.
Problem solved!
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