1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Congress Starting Today and the Election for Speaker.
That’s why everyone has to show up at noon today.
This poses an interesting, ethical question:
Here’s what to expect in the House today.
Nothing has constituted the House at that point. There is no Speaker. Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson presides.
Under normal circumstances, all 435 House members-elect would crowd into the chamber to vote electronically and record their presence.
Members are instructed to report to the chamber, record their presence and depart. We expect it will take until a little after 2 pm et to get the quorum there.
We expect the election of the Speaker sometime between 5:30 and 6 pm et.
The House should start at 432 members and three vacancies: 222 Democrats and 210 Republicans.
This is where it could get interesting.
Period.
Nothing can happen in the House until it elects a Speaker.
Nothing.
The successful Speaker candidate secures an outright majority of the entire House. Not the most votes.
That’s why some wonder if it could possible for the House to elect McCarthy or someone else as Speaker.
That scenario is unlikely. But it will come down to the math.
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1/ Imagine that as soon as the referendum result the EU announced that it was looking forward to the end of free movement of UK citizens in the EU
2/ Imagine if the EU said finally all those retired Brits in the EU27 could go home
3/ Imagine if the EU said finally all those Brits in the EU could stop driving down wages, taking jobs and stop sending benefits back to the UK
4/ Imagine if the EU said it was looking to use UK citizens as “bargaining chips” to get a better trade deal
5/ Imagine if the EU told UK citizens in the EU27 that they could no longer rely on established legal rights and they would have to apply for a new status which they have to pay for for less rights
Imagine, for a moment, the reaction of the UK Government, Brexiters, and the RW UK press if Juncker, Tusk, Macron or Merkel went on TV to say that Brexit was worth it to stop Freedom of Movement for UK citizens, and to stop Brits being able to come to the EU and jump the queue.
— Steve Bullock (@GuitarMoog) November 20, 2018
2/ Imagine if the EU said finally all those retired Brits in the EU27 could go home
3/ Imagine if the EU said finally all those Brits in the EU could stop driving down wages, taking jobs and stop sending benefits back to the UK
4/ Imagine if the EU said it was looking to use UK citizens as “bargaining chips” to get a better trade deal
5/ Imagine if the EU told UK citizens in the EU27 that they could no longer rely on established legal rights and they would have to apply for a new status which they have to pay for for less rights
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See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
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— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote: