Posted on 10/13/2023 8:27:22 AM PDT by hcmama
Lawmakers in both parties are expressing growing openness, both in public and in private, to a bipartisan deal to elect a House speaker as Republicans are continually thwarted in their efforts to do it alone.
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What we're hearing: A bipartisan group of roughly ten House lawmakers is quietly holding "very" serious discussions, a moderate Republican involved in the discussions told Axios on the condition of anonymity.
"The question is who gets you to the largest minority of the majority," the GOP lawmaker said. "Is it Don Bacon, who gets 20 [GOP] votes and 200 Democrats? Is it French Hill who gets 100 votes from Republicans? And the fewer Republicans, the more dangerous this is – not just politically, but structurally."
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"We're open to anything that's reasonable," said Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), a member of the moderate Republican Governance Group. "Bipartisanship is not a sin." Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a perennial bipartisan
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
Congress’ chronic inability to follow its own appropriations process is hardly new. In fact, in the nearly five decades that the current system for budgeting and spending tax dollars has been in place, Congress has passed all its required appropriations measures on time only four times: fiscal 1977 (the first full fiscal year under the current system), 1989, 1995 and 1997. And even those last three times, Congress was late in passing the budget blueprint that, in theory at least, precedes the actual spending bills.
Select Jordan and be done with this.
Yep, take a public vote, and those that can't support Jordan get primaried.
Lots of Democrats pretending to be Republican need to be recalled or primaried.
Bipartisan is just another way of saying bisexual.
Me too.
I called my rep. The party knows WE want Jordon and that means nothing
Yep, and those who can't vote for Jordan can get primaried for being an idiot.
Biden knows we want the border shut, so he opens it. This is our government.
the so-called republican party in congress... is only about 15 percent “conservative”.
it is 65 percent “centrist” and supports MOST demosocialist policies.
The balance of so called republicans, are actually hard left communists... who work surrepticiously to undermine the nation and our allies worldwide.
Nancy had all of her party plus 65 percenters of the republican party on her side... who voted with her enough that she got what she wanted, but voted against her selectively to make sure they would get re elected over and over again.
we do NOT have anything close to a majority in the house
Same thing.
Bipartisan Deal - NEVER!!
If GOP goes this route they should ALL just declare themselves DEMOCRATS.
STOP bending over for Democrats!!!
Punch them in the face!!!!!!!
good. then the fake ‘bipartisan’ system is finally breaking down and the uniparty is exposed to the average gop voter.
Their constituents could care less if they support Scalise or Jordan, so they should all get behind Jordan.
Who will vote against President Trump for Speaker in a recorded vote?
Go Go GOOBs!
The GOPe falls for the “calls for bi-partisanship” and “working across the aisle” every da*n time. What happens then is that a democrat-lite takes charge and hands the left everything they want on a silver platter.
Next, the GOP sends out requests for campaign donations and promises that if elected or re-elected, then next time, next time for sure, they will work to pass a conservative agenda.
Rinse and repeat!
What's the difference between McCarthy and Bacon?
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