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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(Full Link: https://t.co/zixs1HazLk)
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His arrogance and ambition prohibit any allegiance to morality or character.
Thus far, his plan to seize the presidency has fallen into place.
An explanation in photographs.
🧵
Joshua grew up in the next town over from mine, in Lexington, Missouri. A a teenager he wrote a column for the local paper, where he perfected his political condescension.
2/
By the time he reached high-school, however, he attended an elite private high-school 60 miles away in Kansas City.
This is a piece of his history he works to erase as he builds up his counterfeit image as a rural farm boy from a small town who grew up farming.
3/
After graduating from Rockhurst High School, he attended Stanford University where he wrote for the Stanford Review--a libertarian publication founded by Peter Thiel..
4/
(Full Link: https://t.co/zixs1HazLk)
Hawley's writing during his early 20s reveals that he wished for the curriculum at Stanford and other "liberal institutions" to change and to incorporate more conservative moral values.
This led him to create the "Freedom Forum."
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