The rapporteur Mike Johnson (R-La.) And the Republican leaders of the Chamber refused to swear Democrats in the elected rep. In the elected Adelita Grijalva (d-ariz.) Tuesday, saying she would be sworn when the house returns to a normal session.
This step deprives the petition with the last signature needed to vote on the bill to issue a case of Jeffrey Epstein, a impetus that is contrary to Republican leaders and president Trump.
Grijalva, selected last week in a special competition to change its father, the deceased rep. Raúl Grijalva (d-aria) has already promised to sign the petition as soon as it is sworn, and bilateral lawmakers have been preparing to release the Epstein case as soon as possible.
Grijalva is in Washington this week, along with many palace Democrats who returned to the Capitols during a break that the GOP leaders negotiated the bilateral government funding Act. Although there are no votes, the floor of the house on Tuesday is briefly opened in a Pro -form session – a regular procedure that allows one camera to pause the floor for long stretchs without another consent.
Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA.) Was chaired by Tuesday’s professional “Form” session, walking and refusing to recognize democrats screaming on the floor when they tried to vote for a democratic proposal to make the government open. He did not shrink the grill.
“Historically, you do this when the house is held in another session except Pro Form,” said Griffith after the session, when asked how not to go in Griyalv.
Grijalva noted that the Florida Republicans were sworn during the Pro -form session this year, April 2, the day after their special elections. The house was in the session the day before.
“There is no reason why I could not be sworn, and it is very problematic because we are facing the closure of the government. We will have voters who have questions and there is nothing to answer the questions,” Girtalva said.
She said she had no direct communication with the rapporteur’s office when she was sworn.
“Your guess is as good as mine,” Grijalva said over time.
However, a spokesman for the Rapporteur’s Bureau said Grijalva would be sworn when the house returns to a regular session, currently scheduled for 7 October.
“As usual practice, when the house now has received the right documents from the state, the rapporteur’s office intends to plan the swear of the representative’s elect, when the house returns to the session,” the spokesman said in a statement.
It was previously foreseen that the palace would take place on Monday and Tuesday, but Republican leaders canceled those voting days as they seek to press the Senate democrats to accept the GOP -based Stopgap funding measure.
The closure will not interfere with Grijalva to swear. The whole house was sworn in during the closure of the Government, when January Started a new congress.
Emphasizing the arrival of Griyhan, the Democratic Women’s Mask wrote a letter to Johnson on Tuesday morning, calling for it immediately.
“It is common in the House of Representatives that the elected representatives are sworn immediately after their decisive elections, some of them were sworn just 24 hours after they won,” the spokeswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (DN.M.), who chaired the group.
“This case should not differ.”
Johnson’s decision to refuse Democrats’ involvement has no impact on the current debate disabling, as this does not change the palace’s voting mathematics on the transfer of accounts. The palace currently has 219 Republican and 213 Democrats, and the Republican little cushion will be the same, even if the Democrats add the place. In any party’s vote, Republicans can only afford two deficiencies, assuming that all members are and voted.
However, Grijalva swear would be the main development of petition for petitioning to force the vote on epestein cases led by representatives Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) And RO Khanna (D-Calif.). This is only one signature that reached 218 names that needed to bypass the Republican leadership and the actions of force on the floor of the house.
Only three Republicans, in addition to Massie – Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA.), Nancy Mace (SC) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.) – signed a petition. Republican leaders say the draft law does not properly protect the victims and that the Chamber’s Supervisory and Government Reform Committee is already investigating the Epstein matter.
Rep. James Walkinshaw (d-va.), Who was elected earlier this month to a place organized by the late rap Gerry Connolly (d-va.), Successfully made similar pressure on the VD leadership by traveling to Capitol the day after he was elected and demanded to sign a request for hearing. Walkinshaw was sworn on the day the palace voted, not in the form of a session.
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