Remember, speaker is voted on by the entire house. We only need 12 democrats to vote with a unified republican vote and Boren could be speaker.
I'm not sure though if that would effect who gets majority positions on committees, I don't think that's a SPEAKER job, that's a majority leader job, which I presume would still be Pelosi if she didn't get speaker.
BTW, they could also put someone at Speaker that is NOT a member of the house.
Remember, speaker is voted on by the entire house. We only need 12 democrats to vote with a unified republican vote and Boren could be speaker.
There's definitely some confusion regarding this point at various websites, but this appears to be definitive:
At the commencement of each Congress, the Speaker, the four (4) Deputy Speakers, the Secretary General and the Sergeant-at-Arms shall be elected viva voce in successive order by a majority vote of all the Members, Provided, That in the election of the Speaker, the Secretary General shall call the roll and record the vote of each Member which shall be cast without explanation.---House Rules
In which case, I predict a whole helluva lot of triangulation from America's Top Ugly Leftist in the next two months.
"BTW, they could also put someone at Speaker that is NOT a member of the house."
Really? Has that ever happened?
"Remember, speaker is voted on by the entire house. We only need 12 democrats to vote with a unified republican vote and Boren could be speaker."
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I was unaware of that, thanks for that info.