#Pa McCarthy

[cleolinda]

January 7, 2023

It’s finally over. After days of negotiations and 14 failed ballots—the most since 1860—Republican Kevin McCarthy was officially elected speaker of the House early Saturday morning. In exchange for the necessary votes to get him elected, the congressman had to beg, barter, and plead with a group of hardline Republicans who held out for a litany of concessions.

Since Wednesday, McCarthy and his supporters have been negotiating with several far-right GOPers, including some who have been implicated in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, as my colleague Dan Friedman previously reported. House members like Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), and Scott Perry (R-Pa.) all held out on their votes, until McCarthy eventually won them over.

According to CNN, here’s what the holdouts got from McCarthy in exchange for the speakership:

Any member can call for a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair

October 3, 2023

#politics #us politics #they specifically put that clause in eight months ago so they could do this #dance with the devil and see what happens #do you know why I had that link ready? #because they’re Chekhov’s assholes

[thewales]

WILLIAM AND CATHERINE’S STAFF.

Some of you asked me to do a post about the staff working for William and Catherine. It is important to mention that these are the people I know who work for/with them and that this information is mainly taken from LinkedIn. As I mentioned before, getting pictures of some of them would be complicated. Usually, those who accompany them on their engagements are in the background, so it is difficult to get a clear enough picture of them. It goes without saying how difficult it is to get photos of the people who don't usually accompany them on their engagements, although I guess there won't be much interest in them. Below each section, there is a collage in the order they appear in the list, if the number of X person in the list is not in the collage it means that I couldn't find a picture of that person, I hope you understand.

WILLIAM:

Jean-Christophe Gray, Private Secretary

Genevieve McCarthy, Assistant Private Secretary

Louis Reynolds, Assistant Private Secretary

Laura Baker, Assistant Private Secretary

JC has a private assistant named Katherine Hawley.

CATHERINE:

There is no confirmation yet, but the press has said that her new private secretary is named Alison Corfield.

Natalie Barrows, Assistant Private Secretary

Catherine's private secretary had a PA but she left in 2022, her name is Francesca.

 WILLIAM AND CATHERINE'S JOINT STAFF:

COMMUNICATIONS TEAM:

 Lee Thompson, Head Communications Secretary

Edwina Iddles, Deputy Communications Secretary

Adam Born, Senior Communications Officer

Rhea Vernon, Communications Officer

Annabelle M., Senior Communications Officer

Daisy Northway, Communications Secretary

Paul Rutland, Digital Communications Officer

Nathan Murphy, Personal Assistant to Communications Secretary and Communications Office Manager

A few months ago KP was looking for a Digital Lead, which was the position that David aka iPhone Guy had but so far I don't know who it is, I think it's safe to say that they did hire someone because, in the ad where they were looking for a digital content creator, they said that this person would work closely with the Digital Lead.

PROGRAM COORDINATORS

Emma Mager, Senior Events and Visits Manager

Jasmine Summers, Project Consultant

Katie Simon, PA and Researcher

Carys Rees MVO, Operation and Planning Manager

Tifare Alexander, Travel and Logistics Officer

EVENT/VISIT OFFICERS

Amy Kerr, Events and Visits Officer

Sophie Chauvin, Assistant Events and Visits Officer

Emma Bell, Diary Manager

PERSONAL STAFF

Rob Dixon, Equerry to The Prince and Princess of Wales

Lucy La Fleur, Deputy Personal Secretary to The Prince and Princess of Wales

Clare Brand (Haldane), Deputy Personal Secretary to The Prince and Princess of Wales

Natasha Jackson (née Archer), Personal Assistant to The Prince and Princess of Wales

Jamie Earlam, Deputy Personal Assistant at the Household of The Prince and Princess of Wales

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AND OTHERS

Emily G, PA to the APSs to The Prince and Princess of Wales

James Dawson, Process Manager at the Household of The Prince and Princess of Wales

Lucy Thorn, Head of Finance to The Prince and Princess of Wales

Emma Piper, Senior Human Resources Manager

Chyna Gentles, Team Assistant

Katie Smallman, Team Assistant

Carly M, Finance Assistant

Geeta Tailor, Management Accountant

Mary Vrabecz, Gifts and Inventory Curator

#The prince of wales #the princess of wales #KP #BRF #i cant believe I know all this m #KP staff

[jayhawksofficial]

Jayhawks Tour Update April 2024

Spring has sprung and we've got a bunch of shows coming up - with more announcements on the way.

We're back on the road in a few weeks with a show in St. Louis followed by two nights in Nashville. Our old pal and bandmate Stephen McCarthy will be joining us for the 2 Nashville shows, making for a very rare Jayhawks lineup.

We return to the east coast in early May with 4 shows, including a headlining slot at the Sing Us Home festival in Philly. NOTE: due to an unavoidable conflict, Karen Grotberg won't be able to make these May shows. As in recent years, Stephen McCarthy will be filling in with us again for this run.

In June, we'll be making our only Twin Cities concert appearance of the summer on 6/6 at the cool Utepils Brewing Company location, tucked away in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood. Then we're off to Spain to do some shows with our good friends at Heart of Gold.

On the Fourth of July we're doing the American Music Fest in Berwyn, IL, followed by a one off in Western Michigan. August finds us in the Ohio Valley for a couple of shows.

We're working on more 2024 shows to add to the schedule - the latest tour news can always be found on our website.

Tour dates & ticket links: bit.ly/JayhawksShows

See you soon!

TOUR SCHEDULE (as of 4/10) 4/19 - St. Louis, MO - Sheldon Concert Hall (sold out) 4/20 - Nashville, TN - City Winery (sold out) 4/21 - Nashville, TN - City Winery 5/2 - Beverly, MA - The Cabot 5/3 - Hartford, CT - Infinity Hall 5/4 - Philadelphia, PA - Sing Us Home festival 5/5 - Tarrytown, NY - Tarrytown Music Hall 6/6 - Minneapolis, MN - Utepils Brewing Company 6/13 - Barcelona, Spain - Parallel 62 6/14 - Bilbao, Spain - BBK Music Legends festival 6/15 - Vigo, Spain - Mar de Vigo Auditorium 6/16 - Madrid, Spain - Noches del Botanica 6/17 - Valencia, Spain - La Rambleta 7/4 - Berwyn, IL - American Music festival 7/5 - Three Oaks, MI - The Acorn (sold out) 8/15 - Lexington, KY - The Burl 8/17 - Cincinnati, OH - Memorial Hall 9/13 - Grass Valley, CA - Center For The Arts

#Jayhawks #tour dates

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Top 10 Representatives (2023)

This post is for 'Top 10 Representatives' I'd like to fuck and is purely based on appearance, not politics. If you don't agree, either scroll onwards, post your own idea or try another blog.

10. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-AL 1st District)

An American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district since 2021. Nothing to base this on, but Jerry looks like he could be had, if offered… THE DICK.

9. Rep. John Carter (R-TX 31st District)

Damn… they grow them hot in Texas. The U.S. Representative for Texas’s 31st congressional district, serving since 2003. Nicknamed Judge, Carter is falls in my ‘loves to fuck’ theory and he does look like he loves to fuck.

8. Rep. James Comer (R-KY 1st District)

An American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky who currently represents the state’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Something tells me he could be a great cocksucker. Just look at those lips. What? I’m not saying he is… just that he could be and I'd love to find out.

7. Rep. Jim Baird (R-IN 4th District)

An American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district since 2019. The best looking Pence brother from his silver hair, down to his nice legs and his various shoes.

6. Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA 41st District)

An American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 41st congressional district. Married young divorced not long after, no new wife or lady friend that I could find. He has a cute little dog he dresses up and carries around with him all the time. I might be projecting, but I think my chances are high with this one.

5. Greg Pence (R-IN 6th District)

An American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana’s 6th congressional district since 2019. The best looking Pence brother from his silver hair, down to his nice legs and his various shoes.

4. Jeff Duncan (R-SC 3rd District)

An American politician who has been the United States representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district since 2011. Well, all I can say is this man is almost perfect for me. Why not perfect? He's not naked and in my bed with my jizz all over him. What? Then he’d be perfect.

3. Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA 15th District)

An American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district since 2019. Nice and manly, he looks like he would be a champion in bed.

2. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE 2nd District)

An American politician and retired military officer serving as the U.S. representative for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district since 2017. Handsome, nice tits and body. This man is husband material. Better yet, trophy husband material. The type of guy you can walk into a room with him on your arm, telling everyone “Yeah… I’m fucking this.”

1. Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL 12th District)

An American politician. This man is almost perfect. The only thing wrong with him is that he isn’t in my bed. Nice build, nice dresser and a very handsome face.

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA 20th District) Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL 3rd District) Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD 5th District)

#top 10 list #top ten list #american politician #politician #us representative #celebrities #pilf #jerry carl #john carter #don bacon #mike bost #glenn thompson #jeff duncan #greg pence #jim baird #james comer

[soberscientistlife]

Here's to the officers and families who refused today to shake hands with McConnell or McCarthy when accepting Congressional Medals for their Jan 6th service!

WOULD YOU BELIEVE 21 HOUSE GOP REPS VOTED AGAINST honoring these officers who were savagely beaten, and some killed, to defend our democracy and the lives of our representatives that day!!!

THOSE 21 are on the side of the insurrectionist mob to their eternal disgrace -- they include:

Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Thomas Massie (Ky.), Andy Harris (Md.), Lance Gooden (Tex.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Louie Gohmert (Tex.), Michael Cloud (Tex.), Andrew S. Clyde (Ga.), Greg Steube (Fla.), Bob Good (Va.) and John Rose (Tenn.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Barry Moore (Ala.), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Matthew M. Rosendale (Mont.), Chip Roy (Tex.), Paul A. Gosar (Ariz.), Warren Davidson (Ohio), Scott Perry (Pa.), Jody Hice (Ga.) and Mary Miller (Ill.).

In contrast, Pelosi gives her heartfelt thanks to one of the officers. (Officer Michael Fanone)

H/T E Q Freeman

[mariacallous]

Kevin McCarthy is having a terrible week. 

Over the course of six votes, including three on Wednesday, the California Republican has failed to win enough support from his colleagues to become the next speaker of the House. The House remains leaderless as McCarthy twists in the wind. Until the House chooses a speaker, there can be no committee hearings, and members can’t even be sworn in.

But the story is about more than the House standing still for one man’s total humiliation – it’s a preview of high-stakes legislative battles that could shut down the federal government and foment a financial crisis. 

The Republicans opposed to McCarthy want all-out war against Democrats and President Joe Biden. They think that by taking the government’s creditworthiness hostage this year, the House can force the Democratic-controlled Senate and White House to agree to legislation that slashes federal spending, erects a border wall and cuts retirement benefits from Medicare and Social Security. 

McCarthy’s opponents have just barreled into a House speaker fight with no alternative candidate and no plausible path to success. All they’ve done so far is humiliate McCarthy and prevent the House from functioning. And they don’t care at all — which is exactly why their legislative threats are so serious. They will gladly shoot their hostages. 

Just listen to House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who was intimately involved in Donald Trump’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, describe the federal government under Joe Biden not just as bad, but as an actual menace to everybody in America. 

“We have an administration that has contempt for the American people and is using these big corporations to spy on Americans and using the instruments of federal power to persecute and prosecute them because this town is broken,” Perry said Wednesday afternoon. (You need to be familiar with a few different right-wing memes to decode those particular grievances; this is not a group that wants to make a deal.)  

It’s not clear how the speaker drama will play out. It’s possible McCarthy can mollify his House Freedom Caucus opponents with some sort of horsetrading on future legislation. It’s possible the Freedom Caucus will accept McCarthy’s scalp and support an alternate candidate, such as McCarthy deputy Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), even though he would essentially represent a continuation of the McCarthy leadership. 

Or maybe the House will just keep holding unsuccessful speaker votes forever. I will be here, loyal reader, chronicling the Leeroy Jenkins jokes and documenting the vibe shifts on the House floor. 

For more on how this week’s speaker fight is a preview of the next two years in Washington, see my story below with Igor Bobic.

[grumpycakes]

IF you are watching the live votes and want a list of the Republican Representatives who aren't voting for McCarthy to see if anything's changed, here's the list. Then you can just listen for these names and see if anyone's defected to McCarthy

Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.)

Rep. Dan Bishop (N.C.)

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.)

Rep.-elect Josh Brecheen (Okla.)

Rep. Michael Cloud (Texas)

Rep. Andrew Clyde (Ga.)

Rep.-elect Eli Crane (Ariz.)

Rep. Byron Donalds (Fla.)

Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.)

Rep. Bob Good (Va.)

Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.)

Rep. Andy Harris (Md.)

Rep.-elect Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.)

Rep. Mary Miller (Ill.)

Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.)

Rep.-elect Andy Ogles (Tenn.)

Rep. Scott Perry (Pa.)

Rep. Matt Rosendale (Mont.)

Rep. Chip Roy (Texas)

Rep.-elect Keith Self (Texas)

elect means they need to be SWORN IN CAUSE THEY HAVEN'T BEEN CAUSE A SPEAKER HASN'T BEEN ELECTED

#political o’clock #politics #us politics #speaker of the house vote 2023

[christian-dubuis-santini]

Si vous croyez qu’on peut vivre dans ce monde et ne pas en faire partie, je vous assure que vous faites fausse route.

Ce n’est pas la chute qui compte, c’est ce qu’on entraine dans sa chute. Les actes entrainent des conséquences qui produisent de nouveaux mondes et ils sont tous différents.

Et tous ces mondes seulement inconnus de nous ont toujours été là. Je vous engage vivement à voir la réalité de la situation dans laquelle vous êtes, c’est mon conseil.

Il ne m’appartient pas de vous dire ce que vous auriez dû faire ou ne pas faire.

Le monde dans lequel vous chercherez à réparer les erreurs que vous avez commises est différent du monde dans lequel ces erreurs ont été commises.

Vous êtes à la croisée des chemins et vous voulez choisir mais il n’y a plus rien à choisir.

Vous ne pouvez qu’accepter.

Vous avez déjà choisi.

Il y a longtemps.

(Cormac McCarthy - The Counselor)

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Call the CLOWNS & tell them to vote for Jordan or RESIGN

BREAKING: Jordan LOSES Second Bid to Become Speaker - Here are the 22 Turncoat RINOS Who Voted Against Him and Defied We the People | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

Don Bacon (NE-2nd)- Kevin McCarthy

Linda Chavez-Deremer (OR-5th)- McCarthy

Anthony D’Esposito-(NY-4th) Lee Zeldin

Vern Buchanan (FL-16th)- Byron Donalds

Andrew Garbarino (NY 2nd) -Zeldin

Jake Ellzey (TX-6th) – Mike Garcia

Jen Higgins (VA-2nd) – McCarthy

Drew Ferguson (GA-3rd)- Steve Scalise

Ken Buck (CO-4th)- Zeldin

Mario Diaz-Balart (FL-26th)- Scalise

Nick Lalota (NY-1st)- Zeldin

Kay Granger (TX-12th) – Scalise

Mike Lawler (NY-17th)- McCarthy

Marinette Miller-Meeks (IA-2nd) – Kay Granger

John James (MI-10th)- Candice Miller

Tony Gonzales (TX-23rd)- Scalise

Carols Gimenez (FL-28th)- McCarthy

Mike Kelly (PA-16th) – John Boehner🤦‍♂️

John Rutherford (FL-5th) -Scalise

Mike Simpson (ID-2nd)- Scalise

Pete Stauber (MN-8th) – Bruce Westerman

Steve Womack (AR-3rd)- Scalise

#unbelievable #clown show #republicans #house of representatives #RINOs #rinos #jim jordan #house speaker #speaker of the house

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

During the Wednesday huddle in the office of whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), moderates Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), David Joyce (Ohio) and Dusty Johnson (S.D.) met with holdouts Chip Roy (Tex.), Donalds and Scott Perry (Pa.), with Emmer, McCarthy and Jim Jordan (Ohio) also on hand.

According to sources familiar with the meeting, the small gathering became a therapy session of sorts as members opened up about the deep frustration that led them to air their grievances publicly in a contentious closed-door conference Tuesday.

Truly an episode of VEEP

House Democrats, meanwhile, remained united behind caucus leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), who received 212 votes on all 11 ballots. When Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) nominated Donalds again for speaker, he told the chamber, “Yesterday we could have elected the first Black speaker of the House.” Democrats responded with a standing ovation and chants of “Ha-Keem! Ha-Keem!”

really love the absolutely BONKERS energy happening here

#speakergate 2023 #us politics #politics #house of representatives

[odnagnisul]

100 livres à avoir lu dans sa vie (entre autres):

1984, George Orwell ✅

A la croisée des mondes, Philip Pullman

Agnès Grey, Agnès Bronte ✅

Alice au Pays des merveilles, Lewis Carroll ✅

Angélique marquise des anges, Anne Golon

Anna Karenine, Léon Tolstoï

A Rebours, Joris-Karl Huysmans

Au bonheur des dames, Émile Zola

Avec vue sur l'Arno, E.M Forster

Autant en emporte le vent, Margaret Mitchell

Barry Lyndon, William Makepeace Thackeray

Belle du Seigneur, Albert Cohen

Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates

Bonjour tristesse, Françoise Sagan ✅

Cent ans de solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Charlie et la chocolaterie, Roald Dahl ✅

Chéri, Colette

Crime et Châtiment, Féodor Dostoïevski

De grandes espérances, Charles Dickens

Des fleurs pour Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Des souris et des hommes, John Steinbeck ✅

Dix petits nègres, Agatha Christie ✅

Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson ✅

Don Quichotte, Miguel Cervantés

Dracula, Bram Stocker ✅

Du côté de chez Swann, Marcel Proust

Dune, Frank Herbert ✅

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury ✅

Fondation, Isaac Asimov

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley ✅

Gatsby le magnifique, Francis Scott Fitzgerald ✅

Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers, J.K Rowling

Home, Toni Morrison

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Kafka sur le rivage, Haruki Murakami

L'adieu aux armes, Ernest Hemingway ✅

L'affaire Jane Eyre, Jasper Fforde

L'appel de la forêt, Jack London ✅

L'attrape-cœur, J. D. Salinger ✅

L'écume des jours, Boris Vian

L'étranger, Albert Camus ✅

L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être, Milan Kundera

La condition humaine, André Malraux

La dame aux camélias, Alexandre Dumas Fils

La dame en blanc, Wilkie Collins

La gloire de mon père, Marcel Pagnol

La ligne verte, Stephen King ✅

La nuit des temps, René Barjavel

La Princesse de Clèves, Mme de La Fayette ✅

La Route, Cormac McCarthy ✅

Le chien des Baskerville, Arthur Conan Doyle

Le cœur cousu, Carole Martinez

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas : tome 1 et 2

Le dernier jour d'un condamné, Victor Hugo ✅

Le fantôme de l'opéra, Gaston Leroux

Le lièvre de Vaatanen, Arto Paasilinna

Le maître et Marguerite, Mikhaïl Boulgakov

Le meilleur des mondes, Aldous Huxley

Le nom de la rose, Umberto Eco

Le parfum, Patrick Süskind

Le portrait de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ✅

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery ✅

Le père Goriot, Honoré de Balzac ✅

Le prophète, Khalil Gibran ✅

Le rapport de Brodeck, Philippe Claudel

Le rouge et le noir, Stendhal ✅

Le Seigneur des anneaux, J.R Tolkien ✅

Le temps de l'innocence, Edith Wharton

Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, Luis Sepulveda ✅

Les Chroniques de Narnia, CS Lewis

Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent, Emily Brontë

Les liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos ✅

Les Malaussène, Daniel Pennac ✅

Les mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée, Simone de

Beauvoir

Les mystères d'Udolfo, Ann Radcliff

Les piliers de la Terre, Ken Follett : tome 1

Les quatre filles du Docteur March, Louisa May

Alcott

Les racines du ciel, Romain Gary

Lettre d'une inconnue, Stefan Zweig ✅

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert ✅

Millenium, Larson Stieg ✅

Miss Charity, Marie-Aude Murail

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur, Harper Lee ✅

Nord et Sud, Elisabeth Gaskell

Orgueil et Préjugés, Jane Austen

Pastorale américaine, Philip Roth

Peter Pan, James Matthew Barrie

Pilgrim, Timothy Findley

Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier

Robinson Crusoé, Daniel Defoe ✅

Rouge Brésil, Jean Christophe Ruffin

Sa majesté des mouches, William Goldwin ✅

Tess d'Uberville, Thomas Hardy

Tous les matins du monde, Pascal Quignard

Un roi sans divertissement, Jean Giono

Une prière pour Owen, John Irving

Une Vie, Guy de Maupassant

Vent d'est, vent d'ouest, Pearl Buck

Voyage au bout de la nuit, Louis-Ferdinand Céline ✅

Total : 37/100

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The disorder in the House is leaving lawmakers fuming over their inability to stay apprised on national security matters, as it is blocking them from entering classified briefings or meeting with top officials.

Lawmakers say they can’t even go into a special room known as the sensitive compartmented information facility or SCIF where they discuss top-secret information with national security officials.

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) said he was blocked from entering the SCIF by security as he arrived for a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on “matters in the Indo-Pacific.”

“I’m informed by House security that technically, I don’t have a clearance. I’m a member of the Intel Committee. I’m on the Armed Services Committee, and I can’t meet in the SCIF to conduct essential business. My point is we have work to do that we can’t do right now,” he said at a press conference alongside other Republicans pleading for a quick resolution to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) quest for the gavel.

McCarthy supporters are largely sounding the alarm on the national security issue as they try to pressure opponents to reach a deal on the Speaker fight. McCarthy lost an eighth straight ballot to become Speaker on Thursday afternoon.

Incoming chairs for the House intelligence, Armed Services, and Foreign Affairs committees complained the delay is hindering their oversight of the Biden administration — a top priority for the GOP majority.

“There is no oversight of the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, or the intelligence community. We cannot let personal politics place the safety and security of the United States at risk,” Reps. Michael Turner (Ohio), Mike Rogers (Ala.), and Michael McCaul (Texas) said in a statement.

Lawmakers don’t directly hold security clearances but are deemed trustworthy for receiving such information simply by the office they hold.

Other briefings are restricted by committee membership — and the committees cannot be formally comprised until a Speaker is elected.

“No members have clearances. Our election is supposed to be our vetting process. But the rules only let Intel Committee members view certain materials, the vast majority of the classified materials, and until we’re constituted, members really aren’t able to get those kinds of briefings or accesses,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who lead the intelligence committee during the prior session.

Talks to reach a deal among Republicans to make McCarthy the Speaker have not been successful so far.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who is among those opposing McCarthy, suggested in comments Thursday that it could take much more work to reach a deal. One of the concessions that has been discussed is a proposal that would allow a single member of Congress to force a vote to oust the Speaker.

“There is a trust issue with the gentleman who wants to be Speaker,” Perry said. “It is hard to restore trust in just a month or two and it’s really hard to betray confidences in a meeting where the details are then leaked out to the press.”

The group has also floated having members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus be appointed as subcommittee chairs, subverting the normal process. The idea has drawn pushback from Rogers, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, who characterized it as “insane.”

“As if Kevin McCarthy or any Speaker magically gets to tell members, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m giving your seat to somebody else who’s an aggravation to the conference,’” Rogers told The Hill. “It just shows how insane they are.”

The total freeze has also led to an interesting dynamic.

A GOP staffer told The Hill that staff who receive security clearances due to the nature of their work are still able to access the SCIF and receive briefings, even as lawmakers cannot.

“Nobody on our committee can go down and get briefed on things,” Schiff said.

“The committee will need to be reconstituted. And most of the materials are only accessible to members of the committee and until reconstituted there are no members of the committee,” he told The Hill. “So Intel is more impacted really than probably just about any other committee.”

The Intelligence Committee’s formation is more complicated than some other House panels, with members typically seeking waivers to bypass limitations on how many terms a member can sit on the panel — a nod to the importance of institutional knowledge in the constant churn of Congress.

“Every delay here has a compounding impact. Because the first thing that happens, there has to be a Speaker. Then committees are constituted, but Intel is a select committee. So the leader on the minority side and the Speaker have to agree to ratios. Then they have to work out other waivers that have to take place. Who’s the rank[ing member] or who’s the chairman, all these things take time,” said Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), who will need a wavier to continue to serve on the panel.

Some see the shutdown of the House over the Speaker fight as embarrassing and worry it could have negative real-world consequences.

McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill on Thursday that he was worried about missing classified hearings on matters like Syria and the war in Ukraine.

“Classified briefings about things like that Iran bombed our base in Syria,” he said. “You know, what’s going on in China and Taiwan? What���s going on in Ukraine? We don’t have time to get our classified briefings.”

Quigley said it doesn’t take more than just a few days for lawmakers to fall behind on world affairs.

“The world doesn’t stop because one caucus can’t agree. And a couple of days is one thing. Beyond that, it gets complicated and eventually dangerous. You’re flying blind. You don’t know what’s happening,” he said.

Gallagher said the standoff risks hurting the nation’s global standing.

“We’ve seen what happens over the last two years. When deterrence fails, when weakness invites aggression. It’s up to this Congress to restore deterrence, to restore peace through strength, but we aren’t able to do that vital work until we actually get past the Speaker vote, populate our committees and start getting to work,” he said.

In some corners, the ire is only growing at the 20 lawmakers objecting to McCarthy’s leadership.

“We have business, serious business, to do. This is not the place to be frivolous,” Rogers said. “And we’ve got some people who are being very frivolous right now.”

#us politics #news #the hill #2023 #118th congress #us house of representatives #national security #classified briefings #scif #Rep. Mike Gallagher #Joint Chiefs of Staff #Rep. Kevin McCarthy #house armed services committee #house intelligence committee #house Foreign Affairs committee #Biden administration #rep. Michael Turner #rep. Mike Rogers #rep. Michael McCaul #department of state #department of defense #Rep. Adam Schiff #Rep. Scott Perry #House Freedom Caucus #republicans #conservatives #gop #Rep. Mike Quigley

[keepingitcountryon]

Republican Calls for Ousting of House Speaker

[jloisse]

Le président de la Chambre des représentants, M. McCarthy, ne soutiendra pas un projet de loi visant à financer l'Ukraine sans régler la crise frontalière, quatre jours avant la date limite de fermeture du gouvernement.

#kevin mccarthy #house #house speaker

[louise-dominique]

'' Les temps durs font les gens durs J'en ai tant vu de la méchanceté des hommes que j'me demande pourquoi le Bon Dieu a pas éteint le soleil et a pas fichu le camp' '

* Cormac McCarthy *

#Cormac McCarthy

[cmesinic]

Kevin McCarthy is infuriated that President Joe Biden is 1000 times better President than his Don ever was.

#cmesin