Posted on 01/05/2023 9:08:32 PM PST by algore
Washington Sen. Patty Murray was sworn in Tuesday as Senate president pro tempore, becoming the first woman in the country’s history to hold that role.
In the process Murray immediately, and temporarily, became the second person in line for the presidency.
The Senate president pro tem position is typically third in line for the presidency, after the vice president and the House speaker. But there currently is no House speaker.
Three times on Tuesday, in votes stretching over most of the day, Republicans, who hold the House majority, tried and failed to elect a speaker. With House Democrats united in support of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, of New York, House Republicans were unable, ballot after ballot, to muster a majority for their leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, of California. Each time, 19 or 20 GOP members chose an alternate candidate, depriving McCarthy of a majority.
So, for the time being, Murray is second in line, by default.
Murray, 72, a Democrat recently elected to a sixth term, will also chair the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee in the newly begun 118th Congress, putting her in a key position to direct billions of dollars of federal spending.
“I do feel the weight of the responsibility,” Murray said in a phone interview Tuesday. “I don’t think our country wants to see chaos right now. I think they really want us to work together and make sure we’re funding the priorities and passing the policies that really help everyday average people.”
She said her reference to “chaos” wasn’t specifically to House Republicans’ inability to choose a leader, but about “the last six years.”
The Trump administration, she said, was chaotic. So was Jan. 6. So is what’s going on in the House
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She stole her first election. Probably every one since.
she’s dumb as rocks
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I want a Harris vs Murray debate.
America needs to know which of these two jokers has the stronger intellect.
From a Las Vegas odds perspective it’s a “coin flip.”
What a joke.
Thank you State of Washington. /s
For maximum entertainment value add Hirono to the mix. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the dumbest Demoncrat of them all?
Hirono has strong competition from Marxine Waters.
I asked Google who the stupidest members of Congress are, and to my surprise every one that was mentioned was a Republican.
She looks it!
God help us.
They should rename WA State; it does not reflect the values of George Washington. People there can’t wait to vote for a whole liberal slate.
When I was working on Capitol Hill, the informal poll of staffers voted her the dumbest Member of Congress.
Patty Murray is one of the stupidest people in Congress.
She was teaching some worthless course at a communuity college and was let go due to poor demand. Of course, she blamed “the system” and became politically active. Get the picture? A typical Leftist knucklehead.
We used to call her “stinky shoe’ for the sneakers she always wore.
Brought to us curtsy of the 20 GOP Clowns
Was she able to sign a check over to Ukraine?
That’s why I’m not too interested in the House Speaker votes. Gaetz & Co. may be trying to do the right thing, but in the end they cannot elevate a true disruptor - that will take a long, bottom-up campaign of replacing House and Senate RINOs with actual Americans.
Stolen election of 2020 has consequences..
It’s too bad it’s only 20..
Shows just how many domestic enemies there are in 435..
it doesn’t go to the Senate Majority Leader!
Order of succession, after VP is the Speaker of the House
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