re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

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they’re talking about ‘punishment’
removal from committees and so forth…but

One of McCarthy’s members spent the weekend with Ashli Babbit’s mom.

But keep acting like this is just a normal Washington game. https://t.co/aWvYPm42PV

— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) July 26, 2021

… i wonder if the R’s are as clever as electoral-vote.com.
because they gamed this out better:

In other words, not only must a committee member be a House member, they also have to be a member of the Democratic caucus or the Republican conference. So, if angry House Republicans decide to toss Cheney and Kinzinger out of the Republican conference, then they would lose their 1/6 committee seats (and all other committee assignments) until and unless they joined the Democratic caucus and were reappointed. It is legal to do this without being a registered Democrat—Sens. Angus King (I-ME) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), for example, are members of the Senate Democratic caucus. However, if the two representatives are forced to perform these bureaucratic gymnastics, then it will provide even more ammunition for opponents. “Rep. Cheney/Kinzinger agreed to serve on Nancy Pelosi’s phony commission, and then even started caucusing with the Democrats. Can you say ‘Republican in name only’?,” is what the folks running against Cheney and Kinzinger in 2022 would say.