JUST ONE OF MANY REASONS CONSERVATIVES, AND ALL REPUBLICANS, ACTUALLY, SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF THE VOTERS OF THE 4TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT TO HAVE STEVE KING IN THE GOP CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS. DLH
A motion to vacate the chair would call a referendum on Ryan’s speakership to the floor. It could force a vote on whether Republicans want Ryan to remain as speaker as a lame duck for the rest of the year, especially after all these failures in strategy and his efforts to undermine the president with an amnesty bill that the president opposes and said he “certainly” would never sign.
Ryan claimed, falsely, to House Republican members recently in a conference meeting that the president did support the Ryan amnesty bill–something the president confirmed on Fox and Friends on Friday morning was not true. The president opposes the bill and Ryan’s continued claims that Trump did back the bill are now proven to be false.
The fact that sitting House Republican members are contemplating calling forth a motion to vacate the chair–the same mechanism forced Ryan’s predecessor, now former House Speaker John Boehner into early retirement–is remarkable. He announced earlier this year he intends to serve out the rest of this term in Congress then retire at the beginning of next year. That thrust Ryan into a lame duck status in the speakership, meaning he has lost a significant amount of influence.
King is a firebrand. I have differences with him on some policy matters but going after Ryan is not one of them
We should already have a new Speaker.