Replay / count. Cathy McMorris RodgersCathy McMorris Rodgers: On Energy Night: Westerman Top Republican on House Natural Resources Committee | McMorris Rodgers wins the race for 1st Republican spot in energy and commerce | EPA Joins Conservative Social Network Parler McMorris Rodgers Wins Race for Republican Top in Energy and Trade OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Republicans campaign for highest places on House environmental committees | Peterson’s loss leads to a House Agriculture MORE chair scramble (Republican from Wash) floated the idea Tuesday that Republicans should submit a motion to vacate the House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy Pelosi on Wall Street on Recent Tours in Georgia Your Children Run (About) COVID-19 Washington Relief Bill: Promising First Step to Immigration Reform More (D- California), citing Share Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore
Gwen Sophia MooreHouse Agrees to the Rules Package for New Supreme Congress Appropriations, Republican Tests for COVID-19 Positive, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green Wears a “ Trump Won ” Mask on the House Floor More (Weiss) in the House Speaker vote on Sunday despite positive tests for Coronavirus only a few days ago.
Two Republican lawmakers, who attended a closed-door meeting on Tuesday where the idea was proposed, said they believed the move could garner significant support within the convention, Pelosi said, by allowing Moore to attend the vote in person, and putting other members in place. Health is in danger for a California Democrat To recover Speaker hammer.
Moore announced that she had tested positive for the COVID-19 virus on December 28. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that those who have tested positive for the virus or have been quarantined for the virus for at least seven to 10 days, Moore’s office stated that she “has worked with doctors and is safe to travel” to the January 3 vote, six days later.
Moore told a reporter on Sunday that she “did not get a negative test,” but said that a Capitol treating physician had allowed her to be on the Capitol and was placed in quarantine for two weeks.
Republicans criticized Moore and Pelosi for the decision to allow her into the room, along with the minority leader in the House Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthy House approves a package of rules for the new Congress Trump’s call to Georgia stokes divisions in the Republican House of Representatives and defends Trump over a call that puts pressure on Georgia’s foreign minister More (R-California) Noting on Sunday two Republicans who tested positive abstained from participating in the vote.
McCarthy, a senior member of the House Management Committee Rodney DavisRodney Lee DavisHouse creates a “ separate container ” for the votes of members who have been exposed to COVID-19, lawmakers grapple with implementing a COVID-19 vaccine on Republicans at Capitol Hill House who have not signed the Texas lawsuit.More (R-Ill.), Minority Whip Steve Scales
Stephen (Steve) Joseph Scales, New Jersey Republican pushes for a Ways and Means seat after a year of changing parties. Friends and colleagues mourn the death of Representative Luca Little, Louisiana Representative-Elect Luke Little, due to COVID-19 More (Republic of Lara) and President of the Republican Congress in the House of Representatives Liz Cheney
Elizabeth (Liz) Lynn Cheney Obama warns of threats to “basic principles of our democracy” after Trump’s call with Georgia Bravensberger: “If you are going to raise things that we don’t think are true, we will reciprocate.” Trump Georgia splits the Republican house further (R-Wyo.) He sent a letter to Pelosi on Tuesday, describing the move as irresponsible and noting that the minority party had not been informed of building a plexiglass area in the room’s visitor lounge to allow members to breach the quarantine to vote.
“The opening day of the 117th conference,” they wrote, “was the latest example of medical guidance thrown out the window in favor of what was politically appropriate.” “The detailed guidance on logistics for January 3 issued at your direction by the House Parent and Attending Physician has been completely abandoned. Although the flag has not changed, the guidelines we have worked under to elect you as a speaker.”