Rep. Alcee Hastings dies, narrowing Democratic House majority to just 7 (six vacancies)

cnbc.com ^ | 4/6/21 | Christian Nunley

[cotton1706]

Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., died Tuesday after a more than two-year bout with pancreatic cancer, NBC News confirmed.

Hastings, who served in the House for nearly three decades, was 84. Throughout his career, he held several key committee assignments and leadership positions, most recently as vice chairman of the Rules Committee.

After the congressman’s death, Democrats hold a narrow 218-211 advantage in the House, giving the party a small margin for error in passing legislation. Six seats are vacant.

Hastings, a former federal district court judge, was impeached in 1988 amid accusations of bribery and perjury. The Senate voted to remove him from the bench the next year, but did not vote to disqualify him from holding future office.

[Wuli]

Christ teaches us to “love our enemies”, but I cannot bring myself to say R.I.P.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

6 seats vacant? How does that happen?

[DaBroasta]

Ted and John have put out an extra folding chair...

Hope he gets there in time for the show--word is that RGB is performing on stage tonight.

[1Old Pro]

Democrats hold power by a mere thread.

There has to be 7 Dem Congressmen who got lucky in a Red district that can be pressured locally to not support the socialist Dems...if we only had a GOP party at the state and local levels.

[doug from upland]

Meant bad driver

[kenmcg]

Hell got a little hotter today with that pile of shit!

[gr8eman]

HA! For some reason that made me think of some redneck I know who tattooed "Place Tag Here" on the top of his right foot with an arrow pointing to his big toe!

Hopefully Al See had that tatted somewhere on him!

[BykrBayb]

I thought you meant avid. Enthusiastic. Eager.

[Impy]

Unless some die that aren’t in safe seats or it doesn’t matter much.

There are like 14 rat Senators in R Governor states, including MA and VT.

Poor Bob Taft died in 1953 right after finally becoming Maj Leader (though he was unofficially the real leader during 47-48 when GOP had the maj).

[Joe Boucher]

Bull shit.
This ass clown WAS a federal judge who was impeached for taking bribes in federal drug running cases.
The crappola district he is from elected his sorry ass to send a finger to the real world.

[cotton1706]

6 seats vacant? How does that happen?

Biden picked a couple for cabinet posts, so those are likely dem seats. One guy died.

Don’t know about the others.

[russdawg]

ditto

[miserare]

Was Hastings the one who hid bribe money in his freezer?

[skepsel]

Good riddance, crooked sumbitch was my congress creature for 30 years.

[miserare]

Good one!

The over-80 crowd in Congress better get their affairs in order.

[jean michael]

I live in Alcee’s gerrymandered district, and there isn’t even a bit of a chance he won’t be replaced with someone even worse than him.

[LS]

Well, then its time to pray. Time to go on God’s offensive.

[Lurker]

No. Hastings was the impeached and removed corrupt Federal judge.

L

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Oh right.

[doug from upland]

I guess that would work. Reckless also would have worked.