Posted on 06/15/2018 5:15:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
[FULL TITLE] Exclusive — Steve King: Republican House Members Considering Forcibly Removing Paul Ryan from Speakership
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told Breitbart News Tonight earlier this week that House Republicans are considering forcibly removing House Speaker Paul Ryan from the speakership via a “motion to vacate the chair” over Ryan’s efforts to undermine President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“It’s kind of odd that he has as much power as he has,” King said of Ryan during the appearance on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel with Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak on Breitbart News Tonight earlier this week. “But I do predict, and it is happening, that that power is diminishing. I also have got information that there are–I’ll say ‘members’–I say that plurally, with knowledge, that are considering introducing a motion to vacate the chair. If they do that, that will throw this place into a tizzy and force the kind of election for a Speaker that may bring out someone who is a lot stronger on this.”
A motion to vacate the chair would call a referendum on Ryan’s speakership to the floor. It could force a vote on whether Republicans want Ryan to remain as speaker as a lame duck for the rest of the year, especially after all these failures in strategy and his efforts to undermine the president with an amnesty bill that the president opposes and said he “certainly” would never sign.
Ryan claimed, falsely, to House Republican members recently in a conference meeting that the president did support the Ryan amnesty bill–something the president confirmed on Fox and Friends on Friday morning was not true. The president opposes the bill and Ryan’s continued claims that Trump did back the bill are now proven to be false.
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I can’t stand the weasley little undocumented Democrat, but I’m sure he’s not going anywhere until the end of his term. We’ll be damn lucky if the majority vote doesn’t elect his hand-picked successor (McCarthy) as the new speaker.
Trump just Reversed himself and now SUPPORTS the
Ryan Amnesty bill written by K Street .
Trump killed that Amnesty disaster treason this morning and now he just gave Ryan and his cheap labor traitors to ram thru Amnesty !
Keep up with the latest news .
Its awful news .
The Chamber has been bragging about this for weeks.
You suddenly trust Paul Ryan and K street .
Spare us.
They wont let the Amnesty facts out until the bill is passed .
They never do .
Remember Ryan TPP treason bill .
Deal with Trump shocking reversal and fight it or Enjoy the invasion.
JUST!
DO!
IT!
Again I ask...why doesn’t Ryan announce he’s becoming a democRAT right now.
He would remain as speaker until his term is up, or the Republicans sought to oust him from the speaker’s position.
There is nothing in the House Rules that says the speaker must be of the Party in the majority or even a member of the House.
We would at least see Ryan’s true colors.
They considered it for about a millisecond. No one is going to embarrass an out going leader period.
foolishness, absolute foolishness
to even mention such a manuver in June is just stupid
It pales in comparison to Presidents Trumps nuclear attack on North Korea,
And his caving to the Democratics on the Second Amendment, ushering in some of the strongest gun control measures in our lifetimes.
Buck up, we've been through much worse during the first 500 days of the Trump Presidency.
Past time to Cantor this howdy Doodie wanna be, Ryan.
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