Steve Scalise Wins Unanimous Support of House Republicans as New Majority Leader
“We’re ready to go to work day one, and we want to go fight for those hardworking families who are struggling and who are watching a Washington today that doesn’t care about them”
Current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is expected to become Speaker of the House when Republicans officially gain the majority in the chamber.
Until then, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana won unanimous support from House Republicans to be the new majority leader.
Scalise is an excellent choice for this role.
Virginia Aabrams reports at the Washington Examiner:
House Republicans unanimously back Steve Scalise for majority leader
The House Republican conference elected Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Wednesday to serve as their majority leader when the next session of Congress begins in January.
Scalise was uncontested for the position, and the move would keep him as the No. 2 to current Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), assuming he becomes speaker of the House. McCarthy is facing a challenge from the more conservative wing of the GOP.
“We’re ready to go to work day one, and we want to go fight for those hardworking families who are struggling and who are watching a Washington today that doesn’t care about them,” Scalise told the Washington Examiner about his plans for the majority earlier this month. “Democrats control the House, Senate, and White House, and they will not even bring bills to the floor to lower energy costs or to deal with inflation, or to secure the border because they want that far-left approach, even though it’s hurting regular people.”
In his pitch to the conference Monday, Scalise was greeted warmly by the gathered party members. Among his priorities, he pledged the House would investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop.
You can read Scalise’s statement below:
Honored to be elected by my colleagues to serve as the House Majority Leader in the 118th Congress.
It's time to get to work.
My full statement ↓ pic.twitter.com/0KbmGKIS8N
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) November 15, 2022
You can also watch his remarks here:
This House Republican Majority will fight every day for hardworking people all across America and work hard to get our country back on track.
Make no mistake: A check on the Biden Administration is finally here. pic.twitter.com/jMSiBw3wfY
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) November 15, 2022
Republicans have their work cut out for them. With a likely slim majority, they’re probably going to struggle to remain united on a number of issues.
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TY Mike… We are lucky to have him.. a miracle really.
Ehhhh…..,
the proof is in the pudding, as they say.
I didn’t vote for Trump the first go round – Land Developer who makes money doing huge union built projects in NY/NJ? Who gets along with Dem politicians in one-party cities?
Please. You might as well run an Italian-American candidate who got rich in garbage disposal and waterfront businesses. How can he NOT be corrupt?
But then after po’ing the political establishment by not graciously losing to their Golden Child candidate like establishment republican candidates are supposed to? And then either keeping or visibly trying to keep every election promise he made – like no one’s supposed to? And then 4 years in of unreal proctologist level “we’ll get him NOW!” Kangaroo court investigations still not “gotten”?
F@rk being nicely nice on social media, he had my vote second go round. And you can see what it got him.
The Biddens, like the Clintons, smell corrupt like week old smelt. The average national politician (or his family) gets rich from their time in office. I wouldn’t bet money on any of them facing TDS level of scrutiny untouched – let along low-hanging fruit like “The Big Guy”. Even when they admit corruption is going on the Pols won’t name names. They go along to get along. I can only hope to be pleasantly surprised if a (R) majority-held house is willing to name names and risk not being invited to the GOOD parties.
Speaker Of The House that survived an assasination attempt.
That is all…
Majority Leader is not Speaker.
oopsie!
He still survived an assassination attempt, IIRC
True.
Unfortunately
That was because he won’t have top job, NOT about the assassination attempt
I wondered…!
oops, gave you a downvote on that before reading the clarification.
Rep. Steve Scalise survives an assassination attempt, and you post that this is unfortunate. I don’t even have the words to express the contempt I have for you gonzotx . I trust this is not representative of the rest of the pro Trumpers here.
I thought it was obvious it was a comment to Grizzly’s point about the job title, there is no way Gonzo would ever wish that sort of thing on Scalise.
You beat me to it!
Woah! Stop right there. Gonzo was very clearly saying that it’s unfortunate that Scalise won’t be Speaker. A point she even clarified before you made this comment.
“JR” knew what gonzotx meant. Like all Trump haters they twist, distort, and outright lie.
Watch and see if Dems don’t go after weak Rs to get them to switch parties.
Using the FBI to blackmail them?
Yes
Who needs the FBI? Someone competent with PhotoShop or Affinity can work miracles.
You did pretty good on your selfie, you handsome bear.
That’s not Photoshopped. That is LI’s resident grizzly in slightly odd lighting, fresh from a phone camera.
Perhaps they’ll question the validity of the elections and refuse to seat two or three…
(Tongue-in-cheek, because they don’t have the votes for that.)
Yes, they do. They need 2/3rds to expel a member but they can just refuse to seat the member which has been done numerous times.
Only if they genuinely doubt that he was validly elected. Not just because they don’t want him in the House. In fact, even if two thirds of the House, which is enough to expel a member, votes not to seat someone, the decision is invalid. If the two thirds want to expel the member they must vote on a motion to expel, not a motion not to seat. See the case of Adam Clayton Powell.
Also, how do they get in before the disputed members? It’s the incoming house that would vote, not the outgoing one, so these members must also be allowed to vote on their own admission, and of course they would vote to admit themselves.
One would like to think that some of them Republicans would have learnt a lesson from Trump…and thats growing some fucking balls and telling the Democrat media to get fucked for a change (instead of bending over like they have always done).
I know what you mean.
I am fucking sure you’re fucking right.
“Weak-Rs Republicans”. Pronounce it out loud.
;-{)}}}
I can’t wait to hear the accusations that Rep. Scalise is endangering democracy by inciting political violence.
He did! He stood in front of someone shooting at him.
They’ve already made that very accusation.
We have had 3 RINOs in a row. Might as well keep the drunk if nothing’s going to change.
Scalise, yes. McCarthy, no.
Who then? I dunno, Stefanik? Someone else? Anyone, Who?
Jim Jordan
Jim Banks.
Stefanik
Yes
Somehow, I think Rep Scalise would tend to notice and respond to incitement and insurrection-y calls to political violence. We might get less of that.
Now, why to I think he’d be so aware-guy about whack jobs doing political violence to change the balance in the govt? Somebody remind me.
I’m reminded of something I noticed in earlier congresses. When Reps and Senators were unavailable because of political violence directed at them, nobody thought to hold legislative business till the people’s voices were again present.
Voice of the people seems to be only when the people voice the agenda already decided. Seems like take the advantage while you have it; no matter how you got it.
While I’d rather he’d run for Speaker, being Majority Leader is nothing to sneeze at. He’ll be a good fit.
In other news, Kennedy is rumbling to go for the governorship of Louisiana (which I truly don’t understand why you’d go for a term limited office than stay in an office where you can do the most for the state). Fortunately, The Biden suckup Bill Cassidy ALSO announced he might run.
Please Kennedy, for the love of God, don’t run. Let Cassidy run and LOSE. People do not really like him down here after his 180 after being reelected. I’m hoping he’ll end up just like Vitter did when he ran for governor.
It is such a joy to watch Kennedy’s quietly acerbic take-downs of BS.
Being Speaker of the House is considered one of the worst jobs in Washington.
Vice-President In Charge Of Nothing And Responsible For Everything. Yep.
He should be speaker. Much better choice.