Tuesday, July 22, 2025

I Seek To Amend This

The House will be in recess from August 2nd to September 8th, in accordance with the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970.

Turns out the House is effectively in recess as of now.
The HOUSE RULES COMMITTEE is supposed to hold the line for the leadership and vote down any Democratic amendments.

But they are unwilling to kill Epstein amendments, which means Johnson's leadership team cannot bring anything to the floor.

JOHNSON tried to push a non-binding resolution, but declined to bring it to the floor.

JOHNSON is caught between a House Republican Conference that is wary about voting against Epstein related measures and a president who wants nothing to do with revisiting the sordid episode.

Massie discharge petition will ripen in Sept. So the W.H./DOJ have some time to try to quell Rs concerns.

Meanwhile, this week has largely turned into a waste. Rs will only be able to bring bipartisan, non-controversial bills to the House floor.
As Emptywheel points out:
This is a Big Fucking Deal.

Because Trump is running scared, the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein has — however temporarily — deprived Trump of his majority in the House.
But I was assured MAGA had been distracted by new shiny things, and Trump was still large and in charge. And when the House comes back:
Dems arent in cooperative mood.

Senate holding test vote today.

70 DAYS until the shutdown deadline.....
Government shutdowns always work out well for the GOP.

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