Posted on 03/22/2024 11:56:24 AM PDT by packagingguy
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) announced Friday he would resign from Congress before his term is up, shrinking the GOP’s already razor-thin majority in the House.
Gallagher, a four-term lawmaker who is considered a rising star within the GOP, announced last month that he would not seek reelection. But Friday, he said he would leave the House on April 19.
“I’ve worked closely with House Republican leadership on this timeline and look forward to seeing Speaker Johnson appoint a new chair to carry out the important mission of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party,” he said in a statement.
Gallagher’s departure will leave House Republicans with 217 members to Democrats’ 213, meaning Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) can afford to lose only one vote on any bill that doesn’t have Democratic support...
“I think that the fact that we have so many lifers and careerists in this institution is why it’s so dysfunctional, and that the framers, when they created the Constitution and this country, had in mind that you would embark on a season of service and then return to private life,” he said.
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You return to private life when you finish your term, not in the middle when the people who elected you expected you to be there representing them.
And when will McHenry leave to turn Congress back to the Democrats!!! RINOS are scum every last one of them!!!
This is just the derpstate taking its ball and going home rather than waiting to be beaten in the arena.
ComDems paid him a BONUS to leave.
Bought his vote, without having a ballot cast.
These people qre Democrats and they dont want impeachment hearings going on during the election.
They wanted the majority, we gave them the majority, now they screw us.
Ken Buck predicted there would be three more Congresscritters resigning, enough to hand Hakeen Jeffries the speaker’s gavel in the near future.
I’m getting to the point I think Trump should just say, “screw this crap” and quit.
It’s pretty pitiful that his biggest opponent is the GOP.
RepublicRats are running for the hills.
Another RINO leaves the house, good. Hey Wisconsin, elect a real Republican this time.
Did he vote “Yes” on the just passed Omnibus bill????
Santos
Santos
Santos
I wouldn’t blame him if he did. Buck, Gallagher and more to come have something up their sleeve to derail Trump and keep Biden in. They are aligned and have a common goal.
Santos had a 99.3% voting record BETTER than ANYONE in the house BUT these bastards just couldn’t have that, this was ALL PLANNED, BANK ON IT!!! This is OUR FAULT for holding our noses and voting for SCUM because they had an R next to their name ENOUGH ALREADY, let the stinking Dem have the seat BECAUSE the R is a Dem anyway!!! We can NOT continue to hold our nose and vote for R and expect ANYTHING to change!! For DECADES we have done the same stinking thing over and over and expected a different outcome ENOUGH, I am DONE being a battered wife!!!
The rino rats are showing their true colors. May they rot in hell for eternity.
Blackmail
If another Republican leaves Congress before the session expires, the Democrats will have the majority. Let’s say that happens in May of this year. At that point, what is to prevent the House and Senate from passing a bill giving citizenship to all illegal aliens and giving them automatic voter registration so they can vote for President in the November election? If that happens, won’t the vast majority of the new Americans vote for the Democrats, thereby destroying any chance of any Republican candidate from becoming President, for now, and probably forever? The threat of electoral repercussions for the Democrats would not stop them from doing this because they would create more than enough new Democrat voters to compensate.
Republicans are a bunch of disgusting arrogant spineless weak willed lily liveried eunuchs.
Nothing would surprise me.
Republicans are a bunch of disgusting arrogant spineless weak willed lily liveried eunuchs.
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