Posted on 01/06/2023 12:44:50 PM PST by RandFan
What McCarthy has offered
Motion to vacate: McCarthy has offered to lower the threshold to bring up a move to force a vote on ousting the House Speaker down to just one member, a change from a threshold of five members that was revealed in a House rules package over New Year’s weekend.
That was also lowered from a threshold of half of the House GOP conference that was agreed to in November.
Floor vote to establish term limits for all House lawmakers: Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who has introduced a term limits bill, said McCarthy made that commitment.
Floor vote on a border security bill: In a House GOP conference call on Friday, Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) said there will be movement on legislation encompassing a border security plan crafted by Texas Republicans, according to a source.
Commitment to move bills through regular order: McCarthy has pledged to bring up 12 regular appropriations bills individually and also made commitments on an open amendment process.
Create subcommittee on “Weaponization of the Federal Government”: Housed under the House Judiciary Committee, the panel is a response to a request from GOP members who have withheld support for McCarthy to form a “Church-style” committee to investigate alleged government abuses, in reference to a 1975 Senate select committee named for former Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) that investigated intelligence agencies.
Require 72 hours from release of final bill text before a vote on the House floor.
Bring back the Holman rule: A recently released House rules package brings back the Holman rule, which allows members to propose amendments to appropriations bills that cut the salaries of specific federal workers or funding for specific programs down to $1, effectively defunding them.
Some Republicans have suggested using the rule to defund certain investigations and officials in the FBI and Department of Justice or the Department of Homeland Security or officials who were involved in COVID-19 policies.
I hope it's worth it....
The only thing with teeth is the Holman Rule.
LINE. ITEM. VETO.
Ok. Where is the signed agreement?
A floor vote on term limits LOL, LOL, LOL lime these bastards would EVER vote term limits what a joke WHY BOTHER!!!
ALL. BILLS. ON. ONE. PAGE.
You want to give Biden unilateral power to strike legislation? No thanks.
What McCarthy has offered his GOP opponents
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Keyword being “ offered”
Aka
Empty promise of a conman.
In writing or nothing.
This one alone was worth a couple days squabbling. Hopefully the final holdouts can squeeze out even more.
Floor votes on doomed legislation. Yay!
concessions in writing
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Meaningless
We have a constitution, a bill of rights and thousands of laws
In Writing
And d.c. routinely ignore them every damn day.
Nothing on releasing the files of the J6 kangaroo court or releasing all the video of the day?
Time to move ahead.
concessions in writing
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Meaningless
We have a constitution, a bill of rights and thousands of laws
In Writing
And d.c. routinely ignore them every damn day.
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Does anyone deny this ?
Kev is just as much a liar as biden is.
Min of 72 hours plus 12 hours for each 100 pages of the bill.
Sure, it may mean a Democrat congress in 2024, but I suspect they're working on rigging the vote anyway.
Returning to regular order could be huuuuge. When Pelousy was the tyrant, all the committees, subcommittees, and panels ceased. Pelousy, behind closed doors, crafted legislation and spending, and then forced votes with no time to read. The DemocRAT S could not vote against anything. Pelousy would not fund their next election if they dared the question their own Dictator.
Awesome! Shows what a rat McCarthy is for trying to block that at first. And actually sort of amazing that Gatez and crew got it flipped in just a couple of days of drama. I expect his power to grow after this, not dither. At least I sure hope so.
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