All articles tagged with #rules vote
Two Democratic lawmakers crossed party lines to back a GOP rule, blindsiding House Democratic leaders and enabling Republicans to push a slate of messaging bills heading into the midterms; the vote was aided by absences and salvages Speaker Johnson's September agenda, though it’s unlikely to change the bills' fate in the Senate.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy blames the chaos on the House floor on a "miscalculation" between Majority Leader Steve Scalise and a conservative member. Eleven hard-line Republicans banded together to tank a procedural measure, known as a vote on rules, that was meant to precede a GOP bill cementing Americans’ access to gas stoves. It was the first time a rules vote has failed in two decades. Many have claimed the GOP got "rolled" on the compromise, pointing out that more Democrats than Republicans had voted for it in both chambers.