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Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 9:24 pm Thr Hastert Rule?

The Hastert Rule, also known as the "majority of the majority" rule, is an informal governing principle used in the United States by Republican Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to maintain their speakerships[1] and limit the power of the minority party to bring bills up for a vote on the floor of the House.[2] Under the doctrine, the Speaker will not allow a floor vote on a bill unless a majority of the majority party supports the bill.[3]

Under House rules, the Speaker schedules floor votes on pending legislation. The Hastert Rule says that the Speaker will not schedule a floor vote on any bill that does not have majority support within their party—even if the majority of the members of the House would vote to pass it. The rule keeps the minority party from passing bills with the assistance of a minority of majority party members. In the House, 218 votes are needed to pass a bill; if 200 Democrats are the minority and 235 Republicans are the majority, the Hastert Rule would not allow 200 Democrats and 100 Republicans together to pass a bill, because 100 Republican votes is short of a majority of the majority party, so the Speaker would not allow a vote to take place.[4]

The Hastert Rule is an informal rule and the Speaker is not bound by it; they may break it at their discretion. Speakers have at times broken the Hastert Rule and allowed votes to be scheduled on legislation that lacked majority support within the Speaker's own party. Dennis Hastert alleged the rule as being "kind of a misnomer" in that it "never really existed" as a rule.

Origins

The Hastert Rule's introduction is credited to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert; however, Newt Gingrich, who directly preceded Hastert as Speaker (1995–1999), followed the same rule.[5] The notion of the rule arose out of a debate in 2006 over whether Hastert should bring an immigration reform bill to the House floor after it had been passed by the Senate. “It was pretty obvious at that point that it didn’t have the votes to move it out, especially in the Judiciary Committee,” he said later. “It was pretty well stacked with people who weren’t willing to move.”[6]

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 9:24 pm

Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 7:48 pm So, Kevin. You saying you cant muster Five Republican votes to pass a clean debt ceiling raise?

Oh right. The Hastert rule. It's amazing how dedicated you are to the rule named after a past Republican speaker, who plead guilty to being a Child Molester.

Thr Hastert Rule?

Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 9:24 pm Thr Hastert Rule?

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:37 pm I'd bet on the former.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar wrote: Kevin McCarthy certainly has a way with words

Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 7:48 pm So, Kevin. You saying you cant muster Five Republican votes to pass a clean debt ceiling raise?

Oh right. The Hastert rule. It's amazing how dedicated you are to the rule named after a past Republican speaker, who plead guilty to being a Child Molester.

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 4:47 pm

Suranis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 7:48 pm So, Kevin. You saying you cant muster Five Republican votes to pass a clean debt ceiling raise?

Oh right. The Hastert rule. It's amazing how dedicated you are to the rule named after a past Republican speaker, who plead guilty to being a Child Molester.

To be fair to Hastert, he plead guilty to structuring banking transactions to circumvent currency reporting to the IRS to bribe those he molested to keep quite. By the time it was revealed the statute of limitations had passed for the assault...

In the past few days, prominent Republicans have:

- Said adoptive mothers are not real parents.
- Mocked Mattel for releasing a Barbie with Down syndrome.
- Passed a bill to kick 1M mothers and children off the WIC nutritional assistance program and 300K kids out of child care and Head Start.

The Party of Family Values™

ACOSTA: People listen to what you said & say it's your job to fix gun violence. Why not?

REP. BURCHETT: I was probably speaking more from a Christian perspective. We need revival in this country

ACOSTA: There's Christianity in other countries & they don't have mass shootings

@davidrlurie
Knoxville was.radically gerrymandered to force this embarrassment on the citizens of that city.

@davidrlurie
McCarthy's debt limit extortion bill was too liberal for this guy. He voted against it. If the bill called for arming all schoolteachers with ARs, that might have changed his vote.

Great question by Acosta. In response to the Congressman who said more adherence to Christianity would bring down rates of shootings, the US actually has some of the highest rates of both Christian belief AND mass shootings in the world. So why hasn't that worked yet?

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:06 am I'm sure it's somethign to do with the fact that there's too many believers in the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912 and not enough in the Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879. I mean, it Emo Philips called it years ago, right?