Another push to remove Santos from House, this time from some Republicans
The new charges allege Santos filed fraudulent fundraising reports and repeatedly charged donor credit cards without permission.
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The new charges allege Santos filed fraudulent fundraising reports and repeatedly charged donor credit cards without permission.
No, we do not have that," Aden said.
"Not only do I not feel comfortable with Scalise’s plan, I think he’s not properly setting expectations," Massie said.
"Congress and the Biden administration should not engage in heavy-handed regulation with uncertain impacts that I believe pose a great risk to limiting political speech." How far is too far?
Without a duly elected speaker in place, we are unable to draw that contrast. If a speaker is installed in the next week to 10 days, I would argue it’s a footnote and a forgotten matter by next year.
As Jason said, I will be moderating this discussion and asking questions, on behalf of the Associated Press.
"It wasn’t because he couldn’t work," he said.
"I don’t think voting against Kevin McCarthy is chaos. I think $33 trillion in debt is chaos.
"I think there’s some reason to doubt whether or not Matt Gaetz is serious," said Rep. Dusty Johnson, Republican from South Dakota. Talk about an understatement.
I don’t know how you get a speaker with that coalition.
"I didn’t want to be in the press, and I didn’t want my Wikipedia page to say, ’And he got bitten by a rabid fox,’" he said.Â
"I think we need to be very thoughtful about the roles and the authority that he can exercise in that position," Graves said.
Without a clear heir to McCarthy, Republican members will return Tuesday for a candidate forum in what could be a wild race to decide who will be the 56th speaker of the House.
"I will not run for speaker again," McCarthy said at a news conference Tuesday. "I’ll have the conference pick somebody else."
"I get your point that this is different, that it’s unique, that it’s odd, that they’ve never gone this far," Thomas said. "But that’s — not having gone this far is not a constitutional problem."
It passed with mostly Democratic votes and without the severe spending cuts the dissident bloc was demanding. A top McCarthy ally, Rules Chairman Tom Cole of Oklahoma, called it a "very sad day."
That’s not the case, Bowman insisted, saying in a statement Saturday, "As I was rushing to make a vote, I came to a door that is usually open for votes but today would not open.
The court, without Thomas, declined Monday to hear an appeal from attorney John Eastman, who sought to overturn a lower-court decision that gave a House select committee access to his emails with former
"This should not go without punishment. This is embarrassing," McCarthy said.
Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., said after the House vote as she was heading in to the office of Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D.Â