Posted on 04/19/2024 10:57:49 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate conservatives led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) urged House Republicans to oppose what they called a “sham” procedural tactic devised by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to break an emergency foreign aid package into four different pieces to give it a better chance of passing.
Senate conservatives warned it would result in the House passing an emergency foreign aid package “almost identical” to the $95 billion aid bill that the Senate passed in February, and which a majority of Republican senators opposed. The bill includes funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
“Members who vote for the rule to set up this sham process will be effectively supporting the Senate passed supplemental that a majority of the Senate Republican conference already rejected and signaling to leadership that it is fine to steamroll the priorities of rank-and-file members though this deceptive process,” the senators wrote in a letter sent to House GOP colleagues Thursday.
Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) signed the letter along with Lee.
On Friday morning, 55 House Republicans voted against the rule to set up the floor debate of the four-part emergency foreign aid package.
The rule passed anyway, however, because in an unusual move, House Democrats stepped in to save Johnson from losing the crucial vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Will the next thing be them saving him as Speaker in an actual vote for his job?
And why not?
I hope that was speaker Johnson who smoked outside the Trump trial! .
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https://babylonbee.com/news/mike-johnson-unzips-skinsuit-revealing-he-was-kevin-mccarthy-all-along
I remember when many here proclaimed Johnson a gift from the almighty Himself. Even then it reminded me of the old saw that “Republicans fall in love; Democrats fall in line.”
Why doesn’t this ever happen to the Democrats-— (Rhetorical).
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