Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is on the fence about supporting Kevin McCarthy but one condition could push her over the edge.
Boebert, who recently won a razor-thin re-election bid, says that she will only support the California Republican if there is a mechanism to easily remove him from the top post.
According to The Hill, while at a Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix, Boebert said, “We have to have an accountability mechanism on the Speaker of the House.”
“This is third in command for the presidency of the United States of American,” she said in an interview with “Real America’s Voice,” a conservative channel. “And we are going to strip away the one check-and-balance that members of Congress have?”
Some House Republicans have expressed the desire for any lawmaker to call a motion to vacate the Speaker chair to make it easier to remove someone from the leadership post.
Earlier this month, House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Scott Perry along with six other Republicans released a list of conditions for the next Speaker.
The requests in the letter include:
- Restore any member’s ability to make a “Motion to Vacate the Chair” and force a vote on removing the Speaker. Former Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a founding Freedom Caucus member, helped propel former Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) toward retirement by making a motion to vacate the chair in 2015.
- Require at least 72 hours from release of final bill text before it gets a vote on the House floor.
- Bar House GOP leadership and leadership-affiliated PACs from getting involved in primaries. The McCarthy-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund was active in many House primaries boosting McCarthy-friendly candidates in the 2022 cycle.
- Increase the number of Freedom Caucus members in committee chairmanships and on the House Rules Committee.
- Decline to raise debt ceiling without a plan to cap spending and balance the federal budget in 10 years.
- Do not “return to the blind embrace of earmarks.” The practice of directing federal spending to a specific recipient or project was brought back in this Congress as “community project funding” after a decadelong ban. The House Republican Conference last month overwhelmingly voted against an internal proposal to ban the practice.
- Use “must-pass” bills like the annual defense authorization bill and the farm bill as leverage to secure conservative priorities and “check the Biden administration.”
- Create a “Church Committee”-style panel to target “weaponized government.” While McCarthy and House Republicans have promised extensive investigations into the Biden administration and alleged politicization of federal agencies, some, like Roy, think the plans do not go far enough.
“Negotiations after that are just a wish list,” she said. “There’s no accountability attached to the promises.”
i like her idea
makes good sense to me! we’ve had way too much of “AS NORMAL” DC
Sounds like a pla.
What a singularly bad idea – essentially providing that at any moment, a congressman can call for a “no-confidence” vote and remove the Speaker of the House. Imagine the chaos.
Tired of the same old SAMEOLD.
I really like Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s proposal, but will it be adopted?
Republicans need to get their s-it in one bag. If not democrats will be eating their lunch. Everyone wants to be in charge and they will end up destroying the advantage they have.
Wayne
Looks to me like the house wants to fight over who is going to be speaker to the extent that nothing can get done. You are playing right into th Liberals Hands. We finally have a conservative House now a few members want to help the libs by fighting each other.
Sounds really reasonable. If you are honest, should be no problem to accept the conditions. It is the right thing to do. Great job Lauren!
I think this is a great idea. If we had had something like this in place years ago, Maybe we would not have had to tolerate “Crying Bohner several years ago. Anyone who still tears up today believing Nancy Pelosie did great things for America, should not only never have been the Speaker of The House, but should still be in an insane asylum.
Fantastic hopes she sticks to it! There needs to be checks and balances. No one person should have as much control as Pelosi! No one! Republican or Democrat’
Just get McCarthy out. He has already proven himself to be wallpaper as a legislator.
I don’t want Kevin because he is a RHINO !
About time the Speaker of the House
Is held accountable! Personally,
I’m not in favor of McCarthy .
We need stronger, bolder leadership
than him.
Americans of all political persuasions are again making the problem of “accountability ” of our elected officials way to complicated. Corruption is what corruption does. The best fix is simply: “Term Limits”. There is no governmental problem that I know of that shouldn’t be beyond amelioration in say six to eight years of a politicalness’ term of office.