Buffalo Chip Roy tries to scuttle debt limit bill in House Rules Committee

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rep. Chip Roy accused House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday of cutting a deal that could complicate negotiators’ efforts to pass a bill to raise the US debt ceiling this week.

But McCarthy’s allies quickly refuted the Texas Republican, underscoring the tension ahead of a key meeting of the House Rules Committee on Tuesday – and putting new pressure on a conservative holdout, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who has yet to take a position on the plan.

Roy contended that McCarthy cut a hand-shake deal in January that all nine Republicans on the powerful panel must agree to move any legislation forward, otherwise bills could not be considered by the full House for majority approval. That would essentially doom the debt ceiling bill since Roy – who sits on the panel – and another conservative committee member are trying to stop the bill from advancing.

“A reminder that during Speaker negotiations to build the coalition, that it was explicit both that nothing would pass Rules Committee without AT LEAST 7 GOP votes - AND that the Committee would not allow reporting out rules without unanimous Republican votes,” Roy tweeted.

https://news.yahoo.com/republican-tries-scuttle-debt-limit-211119344.html

[BOSSHOG]

1. Oh, it's Tom massies turn

To be the prissy little attention whore.

My broken record. “They” don’t know how to lead, govern or manage money.

They do know how to look pathetic and stupid at the same time when the cameras are turned on. So they have no time to do the above.

[calguy]

2. If the amateur crazies want to play hard ball

Joe the Pro can play his Ace card. He'll have the perfect cover to enact the 14th Amendment.
He negotiated in good faith and hammered out a deal. If the GOPricks refuse to pass it, I don't see where he has any choice but to use his constitutional authority to avoid a default.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. What does this even mean?

"...reporting out rules..."

Someone please help me make some sense of it.



Bottom line, Chip's an assh*le and I really don't care about what he thinks. But that sentence is confusing.

[Cha]

4. Can he Screw this up for

America & the Planet?

[rsdsharp]

5. Well, it passed -- 7-6 -- so it goes to the floor for a vote.

[gratuitous]

6. Like the rest of his gutless caucus

Roy will whine and moan about the bill, but in the end it will pass and these impotent dimwits will run back home to brag about how they almost did something.

As Sam Goldwyn once said, a verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Same goes for handshake agreements with any Republican.