Scalise had a similar assessment when he spoke to USA Today Network this week. The role of the conference chair is to be the spokesperson for the House Republicans, Scalise said. Liz has moved farther away from that and the membership has wanted a change for a couple of weeks.
McCarthy, Scalise and Trump have endorsed New York Congresswoman Rep. Elise Stefanik to replace Cheney, but some members who don t believe she is conservative enough have approached Johnson to run.
“I would proudly support Mike Johnson in the race for conference chair if he decides to run, North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn told Politico s Olivea Beavers this week. He is a powerful conservative mind who is a happy warrior and the leader we need.”
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Pelosi rebukes sick GOP denial of Jan. 6 violence
To Democrats, it seems that Republicans are trying to gloss over the facts of the insurrection at every turn.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday slammed the growing number of Republican lawmakers who have downplayed the threat of Jan. 6 s deadly insurrection, calling the GOP’s false narrative “quite appalling.”
“Really? Well, I don t know a normal day around here where people are threatening to hang the vice president of the United States, or shoot the speaker, or disrupt and injure so many police officers,” Pelosi told reporters in her first public remarks since multiple House Republicans shrugged off the Capitol riot during a hearing on Wednesday. One GOP lawmaker compared the siege to a “normal tourist visit.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell, New Mexico’s lone Republican lawmaker in Congress, would not tell the
Sun-News Wednesday whether she supported the ouster of Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., from her leadership position as the chair of the House Republican Conference.
What Herrell did say, in a statement, was that no Member of Congress is entitled to a leadership position.
A conference vote May 12 removed Cheney from her role as the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. Votes were cast by voice in a closed-door meeting at the Capitol.
Cheney has been a frequent critic of former President Donald Trump and his provably false claims that the 2020 election was stolen claims which spurred the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection in January. Cheney voted to impeach the former president following the insurrection.
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