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Posted on 11/26/2022 7:09:56 AM PST by george76
The proposed amendments still pending include the reimplementation of the Holman Rule, which would permit the targeted slashing of specific federal programs or individual federal employee salaries.
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The House Republican leadership has rejected 6 out of the 8 House Freedom Caucus rules changes that have been considered so far, ..
The amendments that failed included a requirement that spending bills must pass before the fiscal year officially begins on Oct. 1. If not, other legislation would not be able to be considered on the floor. An amendment that would ensure all members of the Republican Conference are able to participate in conference meetings was rejected, and a rule change to allow one member, with the support of 25 others, to request having one Republican staffer admitted to conference meetings also failed.
In addition, House GOP leadership rejected an amendment that would have allowed committee members to elect their own chairmen.
The two amendments that passed were related to prohibiting steering committee members, except elected leadership, from serving on the executive committee of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and reopening House grounds to the public again after access was limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
According to a GOP aide, there are many other rules changes proposed by the House Freedom Caucus that are supposed to be formally considered when members return to Capitol Hill after their Thanksgiving break.
The outstanding amendments still up for consideration include the reimplementation of the Holman Rule, which would strip the salaries of federal employees who are not cooperating with existing law.
"Democrats eliminated the 'Holman Rule' when they took the House because it allows members to make targeted spending cuts in appropriations funding bills by slashing the funding of specific federal programs or cutting the salaries of individual federal employees (e.g., Dr. Anthony Fauci)," according to an official House Freedom Caucus summary of their desired rules changes.
Conservatives such as Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene have suggested using the Holman Rule to defund Jack Smith, the special counsel that the Department of Justice appointed this week to investigate former President Donald Trump, who has announced a 2024 presidential run.
A rule amendment ending the ability to "automatically suspend the debt ceiling without a standalone vote" whenever the House adopts a budget resolution and another banning earmarks are also set to be considered. Earmarks are usually targeted pet projects, which are often slipped inside large spending bills.
As the rules change process continues to unfold, McCarthy is losing votes from some conservatives in the House GOP conference. So far, 5 Republican House members have indicated that they don't plan on supporting him for speaker.
Uh, gopE and “leadership” are not to be used in a sentence.
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Andy Biggs and Kevin McCarthy (for example) simply don’t belong in the same political party.
The system is not two parties.
McCarthy has to go.
More of the do nothing we have come to expect. All talk, no meaningful action. Sounds like the same gop that ensured we were masked, locked down, operation warp speed and mail in ballots.
McCarthy is losing votes from some conservatives
Some hope left finish him off asap.
While it is not constitutionally a two party system, it has become a defacto two party system.
The ‘Lip Service Season’ aka The Midterm selection is over. Time to make some money.
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And how would having more political parties help?
In every country that has multiple political parties it is the fringe parties that have outsized power. European countries are farther along the road to socialist hell because of radical parties having excessive influence.
Or you could look at Israel. How many elections have they had in the past few years because they couldn’t form a government?
It has become de facto a one party system.
The GOPe and the America First wings of the republican party have become separate parties with the GOPe more aligned with the democrats hence their RINO label.
“In every country that has multiple political parties it is the fringe parties that have outsized power.”
Perhaps a bit naive of me, but wouldn’t it be great if the GOPe Party NEEDED the assistance of the “fringe” Conservative Party in order to form a governing majority in Congress, and Squish McCarthy would therefore have to make certain concessions instead of just taking the same liberal path to hell that the Democrats always take when they are officially in charge?
I suppose the naive part is assuming that the GOPe even gives a damn about having a majority, when they are so much more comfortable being on the minority side of the Uniparty.
Chip Roy gave a helluva speech on broken congress and the United States of free stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq2vpd00euA
I don’t want a fringe Conservative Party. I want the GOPe to be driven out completely. I want them run into exile.
Plus, imagine the having the Green Party or the socialist party having to work with democrats. Things are bad now, but imagine having even more restrictions on freedom because of deals with whack job parties. We would be like Europe.
“Plus, imagine the having the Green Party or the socialist party having to work with democrats“
That’s exactly what has happened. The Greens and Socialists have merged with the rats. No more Green spoilers and they fund the Libertarians.
The middle-class remains unrepresented - by design.
Question:
Why is new leadership and rule making for the next Congress not made by the next Congress in 2023?? Why is the old Congress dictating what is to be for the new?? I don’t believe the next Congress is even complete - yet!
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