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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMcCarthy getting the gavel ?
everything will be shut down immediately j6, trump investigations, now what ???
Impeachment hearings..blah blah blah.
So pissed.
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McCarthy getting the gavel ? (Original Post)
Beachnutt
Nov 2022
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Even though it's likely for them to win, there are a few house seats that democrats
Claustrum
Nov 2022
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Ocelot II
(131,194 posts)1. Not until January, and they will have issued their report by then.
But it sucks anyway.
Claustrum
(5,060 posts)2. Even though it's likely for them to win, there are a few house seats that democrats
could flip in NY, OH, and WI. Those states closed later so we aren't getting results from them yet.
brettdale
(12,748 posts)3. Mccarthy
Has no power over Garland right?
magicarpet
(19,401 posts)7. McCarthy will now controls DOJ's purse strings.
Garland needed more money for the convoluted tRump investigations. McCarthy will likely shut Garland's money spigot off curtailing any further tRump investigations.
Maybe Garland can be loaded up with funds before the end of this Congress - before McCarthy officially gets the gavel come January 2023 ?
WarGamer
(18,847 posts)4. don't be pissed, figure out the problems and re-tool...
And go gettem' next time.
Demsrule86
(71,555 posts)5. According to Kornacke...maybe not.
CincyDem
(7,409 posts)6. Maybe. I think he gets an R challenger who's a total whackadoodle. n/t
Marius25
(3,213 posts)8. McQarthy can't shut down the DoJ
PlanetBev
(4,414 posts)9. Bunch of scorpions in a sock
Watch them tear each other to pieces to grab the gavel.