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The right vs left now playing in US congress |
Posted by: zigbee - 01-14-2025, 09:15 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion
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If you want to take it outside': Nancy Mace challenges Dem to fight
A fellow lawmaker triggered Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) so much that the MAGA lawmaker asked the Democrat if she wanted to "take it outside."
Mace has been on the offensive over which bathroom her new trans colleague uses. The Republican has lashed out about transgender people and where they urinate.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) responded to the speech by accusing Mace of needing money from the culture warriors.
"Somebody’s campaign coffers are struggling right now," Crockett said. "So she’s going to keep saying trans, trans, trans.. Child listen.."
With large cross-earings dangling above her shoulders, Mace unleashed.
"I am no child! Do not call me a child. I am a grown woman. If you want to take it outside..." Mace ranted.
Democratic colleague, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), said Mace's threat of violence is acceptable under the committee's chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-KY).
"As long as it’s in the form of a question," said Frost. "Wild!"
Critics have responded by calling Mace a "snowflake."
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Thomas Massie…anyone dislike this chap? |
Posted by: zigbee - 01-14-2025, 06:05 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion
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Massie removed from powerful House committee after vote against Johnson
Massie had said he would voluntarily step down from the panel after he opposed Johnson for speaker
House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., listen to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testify before the committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 4, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., no longer sits on the powerful House Rules Committee after he was the only Republican to vote against Speaker Mike Johnson in the House leadership election.
"I volunteered to step aside if the Speaker wanted to place someone else on the Rules Committee and he chose that option. This was not retribution for my vote against him," Massie posted on X.
"I look forward to continuing my work on the Judiciary and Transportation committees."
The Rules Committee holds sway over which bills make it to the House floor for a vote. Massie, a hardline libertarian, had said he would step aside from the panel voluntarily after he opposed Johnson for speaker on grounds that Johnson had relied on Democratic support to pass major spending
But Massie's uncompromising positions have often isolated him from the rest of the GOP conference. One Republican lawvmaker told Fox News Digital, "98% of the conference wanted Massie off rules."
The House Republican conference met behind closed doors Tuesday morning and voted for a new committee roster. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., a member of the House Freedom Caucus, has succeeded Massie on the Rules Committee.
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SCOTUS coming through for Democracy |
Posted by: P1tchB7ack - 01-13-2025, 01:02 PM - Forum: ZigbeeNutHouse List of topics for discussion
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Supreme Court Rejects New Bid to Let President Fire Agency Heads
The US Supreme Court turned away a fresh bid to put independent federal agencies under direct presidential control, as the justices steered clear of a fight with implications for the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.
The high court, without comment, refused to hear an appeal from Leachco Inc., an Oklahoma-based company seeking to stop a complaint being pressed by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Leachco contended the case was fundamentally flawed because the CPSC’s commissioners have job protections that insulate them from political accountability. The company argued in its appeal that the Constitution gives the president broad power to fire the heads of executive-branch agencies.
Leachco urged the Supreme Court to reconsider a 90-year-old ruling that paved the way for the independent agencies that now proliferate across the US government. The 1935 ruling, known as Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, upheld job protections enjoyed by FTC commissioners.
Overturning that ruling has become a top priority for anti-regulatory groups. The conservative-dominated Supreme Court, which has slashed regulatory power in other contexts, rejected a similar appeal in October.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ify%20wall
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