{"id":10720,"date":"2023-10-27T01:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T01:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/so-the-house-took-three-weeks-to-elect-a-speaker-just-so-members-could-try-to-punish-or-expel-each-other\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T01:50:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T01:50:52","slug":"so-the-house-took-three-weeks-to-elect-a-speaker-just-so-members-could-try-to-punish-or-expel-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/27\/so-the-house-took-three-weeks-to-elect-a-speaker-just-so-members-could-try-to-punish-or-expel-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"So the House took three weeks to elect a Speaker\u2026 just so members could try to punish or expel each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Perhaps it was better without a Speaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">With no Speaker, the House floor was closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRUMP AS HOUSE SPEAKER WOULD BE THE \u2018DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS\u2019 OF POLITICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that the House elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), there was an absolute PARADE on the House floor today of lawmakers demanding that the body either expel or sanction their fellow colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re scoring at home.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her support of the massive anti-Israel rally on Capitol Hill last week which resulted in more than 300 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>That measure comes up next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE CHAOTIC, CONVOLUTED PATH HOUSE REPUBLICANS TOOK TO ELECT A SPEAKER LEADS BACK TO SQUARE ONE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) still wants to expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) \u2013 especially after he pleaded guilty to pulling a false fire alarm on Capitol Hill in late September.<\/p>\n<p>New York Republicans introduced a resolution to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.). The House must tangle with that resolution. Some Republicans want Santos gone. Yet other Republicans may move to table or kill the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Expelling Santos would shave the GOP\u2019s already narrow majority. This is going to be a challenge for Johnson to finesse this.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the House is TRULY back in form now that it has a new Speaker and is \u2018open for business.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Chad Pergram currently serves as a senior congressional correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in September 2007 and is based out of Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it was better without a Speaker. With no Speaker, the House floor was closed. TRUMP AS HOUSE SPEAKER WOULD BE THE \u2018DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS\u2019 OF POLITICS Now that the House elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), there was an absolute PARADE on the House floor today of lawmakers demanding that the body either expel or <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}