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McCarthy Elected Speaker of the House on 15th Vote
Following four days of voting, negotiations, and drama, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has been elected Speaker of the House on the 15th ballot.
McCarthy garnered 216 votes after several early holdouts voted in his favor. Six other GOP holdouts voted “present”: Reps. Andy Biggs (R–AZ), Lauren Boebert (R–CO), Eli Crane (R–AZ), Matt Gaetz (R–FL), Bob Good (R–VA), and Matt Rosendale (R–MT). This lowered the number of votes McCarthy needed to grant him the Speaker’s gavel.
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D–NY) gained 212 votes. The vote was concluded shortly after midnight.
In the 14th round of voting, McCarthy confronted Rep. Matt Gaetz, whose vote on that ballot would have given McCarthy the win. A motion to adjourn failed, so the 15th ballot moved forward.
With the Speakership settled, the House can finally get back to the important business of borrowing several trillions of dollars for unnecessary projects.
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Except of course the Dimocrats wouldn’t do it.
Dan Crenshaw Loses Bid to Lead Top House Committee (townhall.com)
Was this a form of payback as well?
I dunno, but Crenshaw’s non-apology for the “terrorists” remark was disgusting. He’s on my short list for Worst House Republicans.
If you ever think of this Canadian guy’s name, let us know. I might want to check it out.
I have been called a moron (actually “idiot”) for my anti-corruption stand. I couldn’t afford to attend Occidental College. I had to go to another school to become a credentialed moron.
There is a lot of on-line coursework available.
It’s this guy. For some reason, I can’t find the videos I saw. It was from real vision. I can’t find it behind the pay wall or out of it.
The basic idea is, if society does it collectively, you only have to fund to the halfway point when everybody dies. In effect, if you lived at age 90 you don’t need as much *capital at all because other people have already kicked off. It’s common sense, but nobody talks like that and we certainly don’t run things that way. Now it’s going to implode society.
But not in the 1970s.
That’s true. Back in the 70s, you had to tune your TV between channels to get the good stuff.
extreme correction to #127 lol
But he favors defined benefit plans! That’s where I stopped listening.
If you literally have a fully funded annuity system, everybody is going to be better off. You literally only have to save half the capital. The *private sector can keep the other half, or people can simply be poorer by choice or not.
Another major edit! lol #132
Where we really need term limits is on the bureaucracy not the politicians.
Or, we could just shutter entire agencies and limit terms that way. . .
I can dream, can’t I?
“Public goods” only.
I have never been successfully challenged on this concept even once.
And reduce the pensions.
And move the offices somewhere cheaper than D.C.
Closer to the people they “serve” in flyover country.
I’m on Crenshaw’s side. I haven’t heard Crenshaw’s non-apology, but people are just too sensitive.
It’s not that big of a deal, and to make more of it than it is says more about the people making more of it.
Is there anyone of sound mind that thinks that Crenshaw was literally saying the group were literally terroists? I don’t mind his being called on it in a measured way, but why add to the hyperbole?
And why is a full throated apology really necessary?
Maybe he should do something like when Kamala Harris said about her accusing Biden of racism during the campaign, “hahaha, it was just an election!”
I guess I am not of sound mind then in yiur estimate. He was livid and hurling invective when he was interviewed. His use of terrorists was because he felt the holdouts were holding the Caucus hostage, when he called them enemies later he meant it.
I guess if you think calling your Caucus mates terrorist and enemies isn’t a big deal then it isn’t, and since he didn’t apologize, he either still thinks they are terrorists and enemies or he thinks calling someone that is meaningless. I figure he either is an enemy and terrorist to conservatives, or those terms don’t matter and we can just call him Dan “Terrorist” Crenshaw from now on.
We don’t need term limits. Congress needs to legislate and not give power to agencies.
State Legislatures around the nation are far more functional (though some are not)