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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican fears Democratic speaker as Fox News reporter reveals GOPers eyeing exit for "big payday" (Salon)
By IGOR DERYSH
Managing Editor
More House Republicans may quit before the end of their terms, which could potentially allow Democrats to regain control of the chamber before the elections. The early departures of Reps. Ken Buck, R-Colo., and Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., dropped the Republican majoritys margin to just one vote. Gallaghers planned departure on April 19 is immediately after a date that would trigger a special election to fill his seat, meaning it is expected to stay empty until in the election.
But other Republicans are angling to get out as soon as they can, Fox News Chad Pergram reported. A big payday in the private sector could lure some members to cash in their voting card early. Pergram reported that some House Republicans are fed up and just exasperated. Control of the House has never changed in the middle of a Congress. But if its going to happen, the 118th Congress is as ripe for that possibility, Pergram added.
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., expressed concerns about such a possibility on Fox Business Monday, urging Gallagher to stay. We can get a special election. Its a very safe Republican seat. Well add to our majority. We dont have the other special [election] to fill Kevin McCarthys seat until April 30th. And were perilous. We could end up being having a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in the interim here while were waiting for special elections, Tenney said.
Personally, if youre going to make a commitment to the people that elect you, that youre going to serve for two years unless you have a really good reason not to serve, then why would you do that? And arent we team Republican? she asked.
But other Republicans are angling to get out as soon as they can, Fox News Chad Pergram reported. A big payday in the private sector could lure some members to cash in their voting card early. Pergram reported that some House Republicans are fed up and just exasperated. Control of the House has never changed in the middle of a Congress. But if its going to happen, the 118th Congress is as ripe for that possibility, Pergram added.
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., expressed concerns about such a possibility on Fox Business Monday, urging Gallagher to stay. We can get a special election. Its a very safe Republican seat. Well add to our majority. We dont have the other special [election] to fill Kevin McCarthys seat until April 30th. And were perilous. We could end up being having a Speaker Hakeem Jeffries in the interim here while were waiting for special elections, Tenney said.
Personally, if youre going to make a commitment to the people that elect you, that youre going to serve for two years unless you have a really good reason not to serve, then why would you do that? And arent we team Republican? she asked.
Link: https://www.salon.com/2024/03/26/fears-democratic-speaker-as-fox-news-reporter-reveals-gopers-eyeing-exit-for-big-payday/
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Republican fears Democratic speaker as Fox News reporter reveals GOPers eyeing exit for "big payday" (Salon) (Original Post)
ificandream
Mar 26
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Firestorm49
(4,077 posts)1. Team Republican? Bwaaa. Ha ha ha!!!!
Traildogbob
(9,115 posts)2. Is Soros
Offering buyouts? Cant take the cash with him, may as well do good with it, gotta squeeze through that needle eye at the end.
MineralMan
(146,438 posts)3. She means "Team Trump."
Biophilic
(3,891 posts)4. Is MTG the offensive coach?
Grins
(7,394 posts)5. "And aren't we team Republican?"
Tenney: And arent we team Republican?
From the same people who gave us the term RINO.
Since Reagan, Republicans have PROVEN one thing: Their inability to govern.
Books have been written about it, and this is just a further example.