Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told members of the House GOP conference Wednesday morning that he will not bring the Senate’s bipartisan continuing resolution to the floor for a vote.
Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) told reporters after a closed-door House GOP conference meeting that McCarthy informed lawmakers during the gathering that he will not bring the upper chamber’s legislation to the floor for a vote, even after the Senate voted to advance it in a bipartisan fashion Tuesday night.
“I don’t think he plans to do that,” Good said when asked about bringing the Senate stopgap bill up for a vote. “He reiterated that this morning. I called on him to consistently say that to the public, let the Senate know that’s dead on arrival and that there’s no way the House would pass that bill.”
The Electoral College has nothing to do with the position of Speaker Of the House. The evil here is the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. A law that could be repealed with a single act of congress. More info here, and again here.
Coincidentally, getting rid of that law would mean that Republicans would never again win the Electoral College.
ie. Electoral College.
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But that’s not the Electoral College at all.
If you want to criticize something, it’s helpful if you know what it is first. Neither the House nor Senate are part of the Electoral College.
The size of the House and the Senate together determine the size of the Electoral College, but no Senators or House Representatives are allowed to be members of both at the same time. In fact, no one holding any office at all can be eligible to be an Elector.
Also, the Electoral College only exists during presidential election years from the Second Tuesday in November until the Sixth day of January. That’s it. Roughly two months every four years. And they aren’t actually paid by the federal government. They might be paid by state governments, but I can’t find any evidence of any state paying them, just laws that issue fines if they act against the will of the people and cast a faithless vote.
So no. It’s not the Electoral College.
Jesus Christ. Are you a bot? The Electoral College is outdated, counter-productive, and completely corrupt, ergo: “people (elected officials) that don’t do their jobs” and in immediate need of abolishing. I don’t have time to hold your hand here, please read for comprehension.
Yes, the Electoral College is a bad idea, but you come off as an idiot for still trying to link it to the Speaker of the House.
Again, Electors only exist for 60 days every 4 years, and then aren’t actually paid for the job they do, And per the constitution, cannot be elected officials.
So again, you have no fucking clue how government works, but you’re railing against your little pet peeve, trying to link it to things completely unrelated. I already told you how to mostly fix both problems, but you don’t seem to have understood. Given the quality of your comments in this thread, it makes sense.