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Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building (www.cnn.com)

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Truly the most important thing the interim House speaker should be focusing on right now - petty bullshit while someone is mourning a colleague. /s

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rep Jim McGovern has expressed some concerns about the validity of all this:

how would he know?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He may want to check the rules that he ratified for the 117th congress (the current congress) because what was suggested 20 years ago isn't what the current rules say.

(3)(A) In the case of a vacancy in the Office of Speaker, the next Member on the list described in subdivision (B) shall act as Speaker pro tempore until the election of a Speaker or a Speaker pro tempore. Pending such election the Member acting as Speaker pro tempore may exercise such authorities of the Office of Speaker as may be necessary and appropriate to that end.

So until a new speaker is elected, the speaker pro tempore has all the authority of the speaker. https://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/documents/117-House-Rules-Clerk.pdf

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you actually read the text you quoted there?

shall act as Speaker pro tempore until the election of a Speaker or Speaker pro tempore

may exercise such authorities of the Office of Speaker as may be necessary and appropriate to that end.

Have a seat, McGovern knows what he’s talking about, you don’t.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pending such election the Member acting as Speaker pro tempore may exercise such authorities of the Office of Speaker as may be necessary and appropriate to that end.

Anyway. It's all moot because guess what? The speaker of the house is exercising his authority thereof regardless of the whining of people like you and McGovern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What part of that sentence do you not understand? It means that he has all authorities of the Speaker to the end of electing a new Speaker. Nothing else. Are you an idiot?

It’s not really a moot point. He’s attempting to exercise power he doesn’t actually have, and as far as I know Pelosi hasn’t actually vacated yet because his power got checked by McGovern.

Someone like yourself complaining about whining is hilarious, you’re probably bitching about Pelosi all the time. And so mad that Trump is on trial for things he did.

Go sit your dumb ass down.

edit:

You may also want to go back and check the context and your claim overall, because in the second screenshot, he first quotes the “necessary and appropriate” portion from the new rules, and then says that such power was narrowly defined in a previous session, and provides a image of that text.

So he quoted both the relevant portion of the new rule, and provided the narrowly defining text when it was first introduced.