Paul Ryan Wants To Repeal Rule Implemented By Thomas Jefferson

[angelatc]

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/21/paul-ryan-demands-repeal-founding-father-thomas-jeffersons-rule/


According to Ryan’s spokesperson Brendan Buck, his demands included a change in the process for motion to “vacate the chair.”


“No matter who is speaker, they cannot be successful with this weapon pointed at them all the time,” Buck told reporters before Ryan’s speech.


The provision Ryan wants repealed was authored by America’s Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, according to National Review, in order to give members of the House power to remove the sitting Speaker of the House. It’s the motion Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) and the House Freedom Caucus used to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-OH).
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“It’s the piece of parliamentary procedure that’s been cited in the attempts to dethrone John Boehner, and based on conversations with two Freedom Caucus members, could prove Ryan’s most difficult obstacle to gaining their support,” noted National Review’s Elaina Plott.


So 250 years of Speakers have all been unsuccessful because of that rule. Thank you, Paul Ryan for telling us exactly how terrible it is to be held accountable.

[angelatc]

Related article http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/21/conservatives-rally-against-mafioso-style-paul-ryan-speakership-demands/


“In a bizarre act of arrogance unprecedented in American political history, establishment Republican Paul Ryan has spelled out the terms under which he will accept the third highest office in our constitutional republic and they amount to nothing less than the destruction of democratic government in America,” Rasley wrote on Wednesday (http://www.conservativehq.com/article/21409-paul-ryan-arrogantly-demands-end-constitutional-government). “What Ryan announced to the House Republican Conference last night was a set of conditions under which he would accept the Speaker’s gavel that amount to discarding any pretense that the House of Representatives is ‘the Peoples’ House,’ as in We the People, to make it simply ‘Paul’s House.’”

[timosman]

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[bunklocoempire]

Oh there he goes preserving stuff again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4uj59SMdbM

[Chester Copperpot]

what a douche

[Ronin Truth]

Does the proposed Ryan rule change make things better, functional and/or more entertaining?

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/paul-ryan-doesnt-want-eliminate-motion-vacate-chair_1050432.html


Paul Ryan Doesn't Want to Eliminate the 'Motion to Vacate the Chair'

One of the biggest objections among members of the House Freedom Caucus to Paul Ryan's conditions to serve as speaker is Ryan's reported desire to get rid of the "motion to vacate the chair." Under current House rules, any single member of the House may force a vote to oust the speaker (the measure needs a simple majority to pass). Although Politico reports that Ryan wants to "do away with" the motion to vacate the chair, Ryan's spokesman Brendan Buck told reporters last night that Ryan wants "a change to the process for a motion to vacate the chair," but he didn't call for scrapping it altogether.

Buck writes in an email today that Ryan has "not set on any one approach, just need to de-weaponize it so it's not always hanging over the head of whoever is speaker."

Ryan's spokesman declined to comment on any specific potential changes to the process for a motion to vacate the chair, but one obvious change would be to increase the number of sponsors required to force a vote on the floor. Whether or not the hardline House Freedom Caucus agree to any change to this process that's acceptable to Ryan remains to be seen."I think we need to invite him in and have him expand on what he meant,” Congressman Raul Labrador, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, told Politico.