It's typically a routine step on day one of the new Congress, but into the second week of the new majority, Republicans worked to try and pass their first bill
WASHINGTON — Electing the House speaker may have been the easy part. Now House Republicans will try to govern.
With sky-high ambitions for a hard-right conservative agenda but only a narrow hold on the majority, which enables just a few holdouts to halt proceedings, the Republicans are rushing headlong into an uncertain, volatile start of the new session. They want to investigate Biden, slash federal spending and beef up competition with China.
Central to the package is the provision the conservative Freedom Caucus wanted that reinstates a longstanding rule that allows any one lawmaker make a motion to"vacate the chair" — a vote to oust the speaker. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had done away with the rule when Democrats took charge in 2019 because conservatives had held it over past Republican speakers as a threat.But that's not the only change.
"A little temporary conflict is necessary in this town in order to stop this town from rolling over the American people," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said over the weekend on CNN.
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