A Speaker Scalise or Jordan would face the same sword of Damocles that brought down McCarthy: the motion to vacate and its one-member threshold that triggers a vote on dethroning the speaker.
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We can all rest easy knowing accountability is in the unassailable hands of the newly minted Republican House leadership.
Steve Scalise says Republican leaders will sit down and talk to Rep. George Santos regarding his lies and fabrications. He says there will be an internal process; no commitments on what comes next for him.
Scalise’s remarks come the same day that Democratic lawmakers actually did something tangible about the fact that there’s a freshman member of Congress who was just sworn in after admitting he lied about basically everything he’s ever said and done.
