Speaker Johnson Unveils Scheme to Bring Ukraine Vote to House Floor

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Speaker Johnson Unveils Scheme to Bring Ukraine Vote to House Floor

Bradley Jaye 15 Apr 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled a gambit to burst a legislative logjam and unleash a four-vote flood including a standalone vote on tens of billions in American taxpayer aid to Ukraine.

The plan appears to exploit the sense of urgency in Congress for sending aid to Israel in the wake of Iranian missile attacks in a scheme to bypass Republican animosity towards continuing to fund Ukraine’s war against Russia.

Johnson unveiled his plan to his colleagues during a Monday night House Republican Conference meeting. His plan is to hold a single vote on a rule — the product specifying which legislation heads to the House floor as well as time and amendment considerations — which, if successful, would unlock four separate votes on aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan as well as a TikTok bill.

The rule only needs majority support on the floor to pass. If it does, each of the four pieces of legislation would only need majority support as well.

The move would enable Johnson — once an ardent foe to continued American subsidization of Ukraine who has flip-flopped to adopt a fervency for more funding — to avoid passing yet another bill under “suspension of the rules.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/15/speaker-johnson-unveils-scheme-to-bring-ukraine-vote-to-house-floor/

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Battle of the Mikes: Sen. Lee Calls Out Speaker Johnson

Elizabeth Weibel 15 Apr 2024

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday night after it was revealed that House Republicans were planning to attempt to pass four bills, including one that would send more aid to Ukraine, under the guise of one.

Johnson revealed during a closed House Republican Conference meeting that he had a plan to pass four separate bills, three of which would focus on sending aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

A fourth bill would focus on “additional measures to counter” adversaries of the United States and to “strengthen our national security,” Johnson wrote in a post on X.

Under Johnson’s plan, all four bills would be combined into a single legislation package, and a single vote would be held. If successful, the vote would unlock separate votes on each of the four bills.

“The GOP shouldn’t help Biden hold other priorities hostage to leverage additional aid to Ukraine,” Lee wrote in a post on X. “In no case should multiple, separately passed bills on these topics-including Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and TikTok-be sent from the House to the Senate as a single, combined bill.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/15/battle-of-the-mikes-sen-lee-calls-out-speaker-johnson/

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'Scheme' it is what they do best.

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Thomas Massie just called to vacate the chair.

[Free Vulcan]

It almost seems too clever by half and reminds me of Boehner's 'Sequester' which was nothing but small thinking and focus on the process rather than accomplishing something that resulted in absolutely nothing of consequence.

The lack of any border legislation in this is telling.

[Free Vulcan]

Thomas Massie just called to vacate the chair.

And that is the other problem. These guys are just going to bulldoze ahead with no plan or even thinking one move ahead, and we are going to have Speaker Jeffries.

The Republicans are so caught up with internal navel gazing they seem to have no clue of any kind of big picture.

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you.

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Battle of the Mikes: Sen. Lee Calls Out Speaker Johnson

Elizabeth Weibel 15 Apr 2024

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday night after it was revealed that House Republicans were planning to attempt to pass four bills, including one that would send more aid to Ukraine, under the guise of one.

Johnson revealed during a closed House Republican Conference meeting that he had a plan to pass four separate bills, three of which would focus on sending aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

A fourth bill would focus on “additional measures to counter” adversaries of the United States and to “strengthen our national security,” Johnson wrote in a post on X.

Under Johnson’s plan, all four bills would be combined into a single legislation package, and a single vote would be held. If successful, the vote would unlock separate votes on each of the four bills.

“The GOP shouldn’t help Biden hold other priorities hostage to leverage additional aid to Ukraine,” Lee wrote in a post on X. “In no case should multiple, separately passed bills on these topics-including Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and TikTok-be sent from the House to the Senate as a single, combined bill.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/15/battle-of-the-mikes-sen-lee-calls-out-speaker-johnson/

F**k Mike Lee.