WASHINGTON — House Republicans approved a sweeping rules package Monday that includes many of the provisions sought by right-wing lawmakers in exchange for their support of Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker.
The new package for the 118th session of Congress was approved in a nearly party-line vote, with 220 Republicans backing its passage and 212 Democrats and one Republican voting against it. The package, which lays out how the lower chamber will conduct its business for the next two years, contains key provisions that McCarthy negotiated with far-right members of his party in order to win the speaker’s gavel — including making it easier for those same lawmakers to seek to remove him from power.
According to the new rules, it will now only take one lawmaker to propose removing the speaker from power, instead of five. The package also puts an end to pandemic era voting by proxy, which had allowed members to cast votes without being in Washington.
Scalise derided the previous Democratic-led Congress, which he accused of crafting legislation and jamming it through hidden from public view. He said the $1.7 trillion spending bill passed late last month, was “dumped by dark of night right before the vote.”House Republicans touting a 72-hour requirement before voting on bills. They also touted it the last time they were in charge but it didn’t last.Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
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