Lacking a Speaker, One Part of Government Ceases to Function

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For more than 200 years, the House has used provisions from the Constitution and from a 1789 law to form the basis for its order. According to the Revised Statutes of the United States, at the first session of Congress, the body must first swear in a speaker who then administers the oath of office to all members present, “previous to entering on any other business.”

This statute, along with a precedent from March 4, 1869, provides that the election of a speaker is the first and highest priority of the House. This precedent was reaffirmed on Jan. 7, 1997, when the clerk ruled that nominations for speaker were of a higher constitutional privilege than a resolution to postpone the election of speaker until an ethics review had run its course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-representatives.html
 
But Mr. Connolly added that some of the Republicans causing the dysfunction are doing exactly what they came to Congress to do: blow things up.

“The extremism and dysfunctionality of the Republican caucus is coming home to roost,” he said.
 
we went without a functioning House from 2018 to 2022......didn't phase you idiots a bit........now, 48 hours has you in panic mode.....
 
The speaker swears in the congressmen. They are not in office yet. He determines the committees they sit on. the TRumpys refuse to vote for him without some concessions. They are trying to eliminate the ethics committees and rules , and allow the vote traders to pick their own committee assignments. They also want it set up so 5 congressmen can demand a new speaker vote if they do not like what he has done. They would make him powerless. But he might do it, he wants that office.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
we went without a functioning House from 2018 to 2022.
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All spending bills must originate in the House, so if we had no House for four years, like you claim, the government could not have spent money for four years.

It is unconstitutional for Congress to authorize money for the Army more than two years out, so we would have disbanded the Army in 2020 at the latest... I do not remember that happening.
 
Nordberg said:
The speaker swears in the congressmen. They are not in office yet. He determines the committees they sit on. the TRumpys refuse to vote for him without some concessions. They are trying to eliminate the ethics committees and rules , and allow the vote traders to pick their own committee assignments. They also want it set up so 5 congressmen can demand a new speaker vote if they do not like what he has done. They would make him powerless. But he might do it, he wants that office.
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did you know that historically it only took one member to demand a new speaker vote.......it was increased to five under Pelosi.....they want it to go back to one......McCarthy agrees......
 
Walt said:
All spending bills must originate in the House, so if we had no House for four years, like you claim, the government could not have spent money for four years.

It is unconstitutional for Congress to authorize money for the Army more than two years out, so we would have disbanded the Army in 2020 at the latest... I do not remember that happening.
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disfunction is not function......I remember the 2018 to 2022 House passing budgets that added trillions of dollars to our national debt.......I don't remember them doing anything that wasn't fuckups.....feel free to prove me wrong......
 
BidenPresident said:
For more than 200 years, the House has used provisions from the Constitution and from a 1789 law to form the basis for its order. According to the Revised Statutes of the United States, at the first session of Congress, the body must first swear in a speaker who then administers the oath of office to all members present, “previous to entering on any other business.”

This statute, along with a precedent from March 4, 1869, provides that the election of a speaker is the first and highest priority of the House. This precedent was reaffirmed on Jan. 7, 1997, when the clerk ruled that nominations for speaker were of a higher constitutional privilege than a resolution to postpone the election of speaker until an ethics review had run its course.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-representatives.html
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The one thing I look forward to when this is all over, who's gonna get blamed for VOTER FRAUD????
 
once before ...https://www.cbsnews.com › Politics
12 hours ago — Members of Congress cannot be sworn in until there's a speaker. Prior to this week's votes, 14 speaker elections required multiple ballots, with ...

Poor Walter appears to be anxious for Nervous Nancy to hand the gavel over to a Republican.

Walter, why aren’t you out earning your “plenty of bread?”
 
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ziggy said:
A Speaker of the House must be elected soon so Congress can get back to work helping the Ukrainian people.
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Oddly enough, Congress is much less involved with that then you would think. Biden can hand over our expiring ammo without permission from Congress.

The real job of Congress is to buy new ammo.

Something to think about: the last Stinger Missile was made more than 20 years ago. No one even makes the parts to build new Stinger Missiles anymore. It was designed over 50 years ago, and production started 45 years ago. The average Stinger Missile in our stockpile is 30 years old. They were all supposed to be retired by end of this year (2023), but have their lives extended through repairs to 2030 at the latest. THERE IS NO WAY TO EXTEND THEM PAST 2030, and even with the extension, the oldest ones will start retiring this year.

We can make better missiles. We have advanced in everything else since the 1970's. We do not need the old Stinger Missiles, but we do need new missiles. If the Ukrainians can use those missiles right before they expire, that does not hurt our defense at all. It is cheaper than us throwing them out. We need Congress to authorize the production of those new missiles.
 
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