McCarthy behind move to kick Pelosi out of her office, sources say -- so he can move into it | CNN Politics
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Kevin McCarthy was behind interim Speaker Patrick McHenry’s move to kick former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer out of their office spaces, two Republican sources told CNN.

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

  • robsuto@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    This seems kinda dumb to report on at the moment.

    No actual journalism done to dig into this to see why. Maybe he just wanted the office, or maybe he’s being political and trying to piss of the dems.

    Without additional information, we have no idea if this is a sign of something, or a big nothing burger.

    • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

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

      how would he know?

      • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
        28·
        1 year ago

        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

        • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
            19·
            1 year ago

            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.

            • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              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.

              • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
                18·
                1 year ago

                So because you think i’m a trump support my use of the term “whining” is hilarious? Sorry to rain on your parade, but I’m a militant leftist, not a trump support. And pelosi fucking sucks too.

                Anyway, you may also want to check the official log of the house at house.gov and you will see the Speaker declaring recesses and conducting business. Make sure to let them know that actually the speaker isn’t the speaker.

                04:47 PM ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE - Pursuant to clause 8(b)(3)(B) of rule I, the Honorable Patrick T. McHenry was designated Speaker pro tempore and the authorities of the Office of Speaker were bestowed upon the Speaker pro tempore to the extent necessary and appropriate until the election of a new Speaker.

                There is the declaration, so apparently our congress has collapsed and isn’t following The Rules. What are you going to do about it?

    • memfree@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I disagree. This is unusual and newsworthy. The ‘why’ is given in the article: Speaker Pro Tempore McHenry wants it for “speaker office use”. It is rare that news CAN contain any more of a ‘why’ because we rarely know actual reasons. Sometimes we get BS reasons like “I don’t pay taxes because I’m smart” when the truth is closer to “I don’t pay taxes because I lie to the IRS, but since those docs are private, you’ll never know.” Sometimes little birds chirp rumors about underlying reasons over drinks, but it would be negligent for reporters to wait until then to give the public notice that something is up.

      • memfree@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Update: CNN says Kevin McCarthy is responsible for moving Pelosi and Hoyer out of their offices and it was done as ‘real estate revenge’ and Kevin is moving IN to Pelosi’s office. They say an anonymous republican source told them, “Kevin is on a revenge tour. Patrick would never do that on his own. This was Kevin’s call.”