McClintock Proposes Rule to Automatically Expel GOP House Members Who Defy Majority

[mystery-ak]

McClintock Proposes Rule to Automatically Expel GOP House Members Who Defy Majority

Bradley Jaye 10 Oct 2023

Any House Republican who votes against the wishes of the majority on the floor will be automatically expelled from the conference, if a new rule proposed by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) is adopted.

McClintock offered the amendment to prevent a handful of Republicans in a slim majority from partnering with Democrats on significant motions like the motion to vacate that was used to remove then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) when eight Republicans voted with a unified bloc of Democrats.

His push for the amendment began Tuesday less than 24 hours before Republicans are expected to vote Wednesday morning on amendments to conference rules. After amendment votes, conference will vote on the Speaker candidates.

McClintock’s rule change would handcuff a dissenting minority of the Republican conference, even as large as 49 percent, to the wishes of the majority.

In a Congress with the current makeup of 221 Republicans and 211 Democrats, only 111 Republican Representatives — or 25.5 percent of the House — could dictate not only who becomes Speaker but, through any potential future rules changes enabled by the new rule, what legislation is brought to the floor.

According to an email sent by a McClintock staffer to Republican legislative directors and obtained by Breitbart News:

    The proposed rule would automatically remove members from the Republican Conference if they voted on the House Floor contrary to how the conference votes in conference on Speaker Races, Rules votes, or if they sign a discharge petition without the leave of Conference. There is a method to add members back to the Conference with a 2/3rds majority of Conference voting for them to be added back into the Conference.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/rmcclintock-proposes-rule-to-automatically-expel-gop-house-members-who-defy-majority/

[libertybele]

 

[DB]

The headline is misleading. It is expelling members from the Republican conference. Tom McClintock is a solid conservative.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Well that's an absolutely terrible idea.

Literally forcing everyone to vote with the majority every single time??  Talk about destroying accountability - how the hell are voters supposed to know whether someone actually supported something, or just voted for it because they had to?

[sneakypete]

McClintock Proposes Rule to Automatically Expel GOP House Members Who Defy Majority

Bradley Jaye 10 Oct 2023

Any House Republican who votes against the wishes of the majority on the floor will be automatically expelled from the conference, if a new rule proposed by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) is adopted.

McClintock offered the amendment to prevent a handful of Republicans in a slim majority from partnering with Democrats on significant motions like the motion to vacate that was used to remove then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) when eight Republicans voted with a unified bloc of Democrats.

His push for the amendment began Tuesday less than 24 hours before Republicans are expected to vote Wednesday morning on amendments to conference rules. After amendment votes, conference will vote on the Speaker candidates.

McClintock’s rule change would handcuff a dissenting minority of the Republican conference, even as large as 49 percent, to the wishes of the majority.

In a Congress with the current makeup of 221 Republicans and 211 Democrats, only 111 Republican Representatives — or 25.5 percent of the House — could dictate not only who becomes Speaker but, through any potential future rules changes enabled by the new rule, what legislation is brought to the floor.

According to an email sent by a McClintock staffer to Republican legislative directors and obtained by Breitbart News:

    The proposed rule would automatically remove members from the Republican Conference if they voted on the House Floor contrary to how the conference votes in conference on Speaker Races, Rules votes, or if they sign a discharge petition without the leave of Conference. There is a method to add members back to the Conference with a 2/3rds majority of Conference voting for them to be added back into the Conference.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/rmcclintock-proposes-rule-to-automatically-expel-gop-house-members-who-defy-majority/

@mystery-ak

McClintock Proposes Rule to Automatically Expel GOP House Members Who Defy Majority

Heil,McClintock!

[sneakypete]

Well that's an absolutely terrible idea.

Literally forcing everyone to vote with the majority every single time??  Talk about destroying accountability - how the hell are voters supposed to know whether someone actually supported something, or just voted for it because they had to?

@Maj. Bill Martin

Maybe he has the money in his office budget to buy  them some spiffy brown uniforms with Sam Brown belts,and knee high leather boots?

Hell,maybe he will even be willing to make up OUR minds for us too,if making up the minds of his fellow House Members gets too boring?

[DB]

I'd read whatever he actually proposed and not what Breitbart is reporting.

[bilo]

The headline is misleading. It is expelling members from the Republican conference. Tom McClintock is a solid conservative.

Sure doesn't seem like it. All he's proposing is tyranny of the minority by the majority.

He's probably more of an Establishment Loyalist than anything else.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

His proposal - with one very important exception - applies only to Rules votes and votes for Speaker.

The exception is discharge petitions, meaning that on substantive legislation, moderates would be banned from signing a discharge petition with Democrats to being legislation to the floor that is against the will of the GOP majority.

No way in hell the moderates would agree to that.

[DB]

His proposal - with one very important exception - applies only to Rules votes and votes for Speaker.

The exception is discharge petitions, meaning that on substantive legislation, moderates would be banned from signing a discharge petition with Democrats to being legislation to the floor that is against the will of the GOP majority.

No way in hell the moderates would agree to that.

Thank you. The truth matters.

[Sighlass]

NO

[Hoodat]

Maybe McClintock is auditioning for Majority Whip.