20 Relax, The GOP Fight Over House Speaker Doesn’t Really Matter (thefederalist.com) WWG1WGA posted 1 year ago by ashlanddog 1 year ago by ashlanddog +21 / -1 Relax, The GOP Fight Over House Speaker Doesn't Really Matter However the speaker vote ends up, it won’t matter much because neither side has anything special or particularly consequential to offer. 15 comments share 15 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Tell me again how the Speaker of the House doesn't matter when they did stuff like this 3 years ago...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6800/all-info
3 days. All Democrats. Proxy Voting. $3Trillion Spending Bill.
...basically the speaker is merely voicing what his/her constituents in the house want done...
....the only power they have is what is allotted to them by the members on the floor...
The speaker sets the agenda for what is heard on the floor.
...under advisement from his/her handlers....