The House goes into recess after two minutes:

[tblue37]

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Fred Wellman
@FPWellman

Republicans are blanketing media and social media attacking Biden for not doing enough for Israel. Meanwhile these incompetent idiots can’t even hold a session of Congress. Journalists do your damn jobs. Call them out for their failure.

[dchill]

1. They're just blowing it up.

[Thunderbeast]

3. They MUST pay the price for their incompetence.

WE must campaign like never before to make it happen.

[bdamomma]

8. Seriously

who can we call to voice our opinions about this, should we make phone calls to our Reps and say we need a functioning government, because we are faltering. Those in the House that uber right wing putin puppets are doing this.

[Hekate]

10. I think we should call our Congresscritters,regardless of party.If Dem, tell them to stay the course

If Repub, tell them we need a functioning government operated by adults, so get their butts in gear and do their jobs.

[Boomerproud]

11. I want every last one to get the hell out of my life.

Stop the chaos and total incompetence now.

[Hekate]

12. I don't include the Dems in that, & hope you don't either.

[Boomerproud]

32. Yes, I meant the insanity that has overtaken the repugs.

It started in 1980.

[bdamomma]

19. We got to start somewhere

let's start calling, we need to light up the switchboards!

https://contactrepresentatives.org

https://contactsenators.com/articles/senator-phone-numbers/

[gopiscrap]

24. exactly

[ratchiweenie]

2. Just once you'd think the Republicans could pick someone slightly sane like

Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington. But no, it's got to be a total lunatic or nothing at all.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. You're asking a raging dumpster fire to call the fire department on itself.

The dumpster is on fire because it likes it that way.

[Maru Kitteh]

25. Is Steve Scalise Palestine in this analogy of yours? Because I was talking about the House. nt

[Mossfern]

31. Wow

Israel is causing inaction in the US House of Representatives?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

14. I've had that thought as well

My district is represented by Don Bacon, and though I don't love all of his positions, he's one of the "Main Street" Republicans and I think there is a group of Dems who, with that group of Republicans, could form something of a Venn diagram and move forward on some issues. The problem: election year politics - no one on their side of the aisle wants to govern effectively if that possibly means making Biden look good

[ggma]

27. Don Bacon is a booty-butt

Voted against him and will do so again and every time he's on a ballot. Don't count on him to do the best thing for us; he forgets who we are as soon as he gets back in DC.

gg

[Algernon Moncrieff]

33. To be clear, I voted for Vargas

..and Eastman
.. and Ashford

I get what your saying. I'm just saying he's less nuts than many of the others over there.

[ggma]

34. No snark intended AM;

He just royally pisses me off. Sorry I fussed at you. INSERT CONTRITE EMOJI HERE

gg

[Algernon Moncrieff]

38. It's all good

Sometimes it feels like I'm all alone is a sea of red here in West O.

[Stuart G]

4. K & R

[Johonny]

5. GOP response has been all over the map

Trump is praising terrorists, Tommy is saying don't pi k sides, and some are complaining we're not doing enough, but passed a budget that didn’t even fund the Ukraine aid. So basically, at this point the GOP has no actual response to the middle east conflict. It won't until Biden has handled it.

[dem4decades]

6. Wow, they got everything done in 2 minutes?

[lindysalsagal]

9. Thread Win For The Month.

[usonian]

15. It blew their mental circuit breakers.

[dem4decades]

20. I would have thought it would have taken longer than 2 minutes for Boebert to figure out how to vote

For the session to end.

[usonian]

21. Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world

Ya never know what people are going to use to communicate.

[dem4decades]

35. They figured out it was a vibrating device because she was smiling even before she won the pot.

[ggma]

39. WINNER!!! 😂

gg

[rurallib]

22. doubled their work for the year, they did

[bif]

16. I'd be curious to know how much they make an hour.

They seem to be off more than they actually work.

[appleannie1]

17. Well at least we know that like a child with a wooden spoon, they know how to pound a gavel.

[ffr]

18. Inaction is complicity. No other way to see this. They might as well march in

bearing Russian uniforms!

[ShazzieB]

23. What? Why?

Why even convene a session just to immediately adjourn? I. Don't. Get. It.

[Marcuse]

26. David Duke without the baggage miscounted his votes.

[ShazzieB]

28. Good lord.

I still don't understand why that means a recess. But there are a lot of things about Congress that I don't understand.

EDIT: Never mind. I did some googling and found a helpful article. Here it is, for anyone else who's confused: https://apnews.com/article/kevin-mccarthy-ousted-speaker-jordan-scalise-1492ca6b58604c51186015c23f7efccd

Hard-line Republicans won't back Scalise for speaker and frustration grows as the House sits idle
Rep. Steve Scalise has been unable to sway enough skeptical Republican colleagues to support him for speaker, and the anger and frustration is growing in the House

[Marcuse]

29. The House can do nothing without a Speaker. The placeholder has no power unrelated to electing one.

McHenry can’t appoint Committees or reassign Pelosi’s office space.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Could be like the Senate's "pro-forma" sessions

gavelling in every 3 days since the Constitution has a provision about being out of session -

Article I

(snip)

Section 5.

(snip)

Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.

(snip)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Taking it out on the playground

[EndlessWire]

37. I want Hakeem as Speaker.

Can we vote for him, or do only they get a vote? These guys are clowns...

[live love laugh]

40. Wondering when it'll be clear Republicans own the media and hate journalism.

[Blue Owl]

41. More like they've gone into fecess