by jpitney | Dec 14, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Lauren Fox et al. at CNN: The House Republican Conference is still entrenched in an internal war over whether to reinstate an arcane rule that would empower any member to bring up a vote to oust a speaker at any time. The bitter divide is only heating up and has...
by jpitney | Dec 1, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Yesterday, the House GOP Conference rejected an earmark ban. At The Hill, Zachary Courser and Michael Thorning suggest that the Republicans made the right call: Directed spending is not deficit spending. Directed spending falls within the topline spending...
by jpitney | Nov 30, 2022 | House of Representatives, Public Service
From UVA Law School: U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin ’86, a University of Virginia School of Law alumnus who was reelected to his fourth term in Congress this month, died Monday of colorectal cancer. He was 61. McEachin, a Democrat representing Virginia’s 4th District,...
by jpitney | Nov 29, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Yes, McCarthy as Speaker can later engineer House votes on resolutions removing anyone he wants from any standing committee, as the Democrats did twice in 2021. It is clear what is at play here is a belief that “revenge is sweet” and...
by jpitney | Nov 24, 2022 | House of Representatives
At The Hill, Donald Wolfensberger says that House Freedom Caucus members may withhold votes from Kevin McCarthy, forcing the election of a speaker to go to multiple ballots. The Caucus wants concessions that would decentralize power in the House. Some observers have...
by jpitney | Nov 20, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
At Roll Call, Jim Saksa reviews how the Freedom Caucus is proposing to change Republican Conference rules and House rules. “Congress has been testing this speaker-dominant model for at least 30 years,” said Kevin Kosar, congressional scholar at the American Enterprise...
