After electing a Speaker, the House gets back to its usual business of passing bills and poisonous internecine warfare.
Everything is back to normal on Capitol Hill. The House is functioning again after more than three weeks. It finally elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. And that means lawmakers are back to doing what they do best: attacking one another and debating whether to expel or sanction fellow colleagues. Sure, moments after the House finally installed Johnson, it approved a measure to condemn Hamas. The House also plowed through the annual energy & water spending bill.
But the real action came when Members planned to take revenge on one another. In other words, business as usual for Congress. If you are scoring at home, the House must wrestle this week with two efforts to censure a lawmaker and one potential expulsion. The House floor had barely opened last Thursday morning when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., introduced a special resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
The House had barely caught its breath when Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., took to the floor as well. Not to be outdone, Balint proposed censuring Greene for 'fanning the flames of racism, anti-Semitism, hate speech against the LBGTQ community, Islamophobia, Asian hate, xenophobia and other forms of hate,' said Balint. She also claimed that Greene perpetuated 'conspiracy theories related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which sought to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
have to pay a $1,000 fine and stay out of trouble for three months,' said Bowman. 'It wasn’t a conscious decision to do something wrong.' But Malliotakis and other Republicans have zeroed in on Bowman’s background as an elementary school teacher and principal. 'If this was his school, he would have suspended or expelled the student,' said Malliotakis. 'So that is exactly the type of action that we as Members of Congress should take.
So, now that there’s a Speaker, lawmakers are letting off pent-up anger. Members are fighting. Sometimes even with people on their own side as exhibited with the measures to punish Tlaib and Santos. Everyone is brawling. That means the House is back to normal.
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