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Rep. McHenry's first official act as Acting Speaker was to evict Nancy Pelosi from her Capitol office https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/03/congress/mchenry-pelosi-hideaway-office-house-remove-00119803

he was retiring the next day, it was like an honorary thing https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-elects-a-speaker-for-a-day-march-3-1869-235501

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1709303547387408595

lol the alarm was in an entirely different building

the Bowman stuff was just drama I thought the dude tried to open an emergency exit door to take a shortcut

they're starting the alphabetical rollcall now

Show just started: https://live.house.gov/

The GOP majority is down a (moderate) seat due to a vacancy. Wouldn't be surprised if the Repubs can't get their shit together again. Which is probably part of the Dems' calculus.

everything I've seen indicates Dems appear 100% united https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1709255016358305973

happy birthday @scoobdog and happy birthday @Stonergoth187! 🎂🔥

For those keeping track, Jimmy Carter turned 99 today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/politics/mccarthy-speaker-gaetz.html

idk who that was but they're banned

No, it's on KN's list

saw a lot of posts that said the GOP waived their own rule and provided the Dems no advance time to read the 70-page stopgap to ensure it was clean and that he pulled it to stall for time this being the twitter, I can't say if that's real or speculation

I just sat back down and apparently everything's gone real fuckin weird https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/30/congress/bowman-didnt-start-the-fire-00119278

Looks like McCarthy is going to stop trying to do a GOP-only bill and offer a 45-day "clean" stopgap bill with the caveat that it includes no support for Ukraine. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/30/congress/3-votes-00119263

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1707784508253073422

If there's a way to test for competency without public humiliation, that'd probably be the way to do it. People age differently and I just don't think it's fair to set an arbitrary cut-off. NY has a 150 year old requirement to kick judges off the bench when they hit 70 years old, but judges on the state Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court can apply to an administrative review board to continue to serve in two-year increments until they're permanently cut off when they hit 76 years old. I think that 70 years old is an embarrassingly low cut-off (particularly for a judge), but there is a routine process to recertify the older judges in that 70-76 range.

I am conceptually opposed to term limits and age limits for different reasons (though i bounce back and forth a lot), but leaving it as is requires politicians and judges to be more willing to step in when their colleague is clearly unable to adequately perform their job.

IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/29/congress/stopgap-fails-00119129

How do people feel about ranks? The ASMB ones were supposed to be a limited run. The pre-IPB UEMB ranks are still in the system unthreaded. We could do something different. Or we could go back to special ranks only.

Wouldn't be surprised if Gavin Newsom appoints or announces a replacement today. Edit: ok, maybe not today - that's probably too soon. But like by next week. I feel like I read somewhere that Republicans have to approve replacing her on the now-deadlocked Judiciary Committee. Which unless Mitt Romney has a "I believe in comity and I'm retiring anyways" moment, means the judicial confirmation train goes back to relying on Kamala to break every single procedural tie vote.

I think when we got our candy it was still in the wrapper