Sometimes we just need to stop and think things out.
First, the current House will have nothing to do with certifying the presidential election. As happens every two years, all 435 seats will be up for election in November and a new House of Representatives will be convened on January 3rd 2025. The first act of the newly convened House will be to elect a Speaker. That may be Johnson, or it may not depending on who the majority wants at that time but it will be the new House along with the Senate that certifies the Presidential election. That certification will be under the new procedures enacted into law under the last democrat led House.
Second, Johnson is the Speaker, not the Dictator of the House. With the current membership, and a Democrat led Senate, he does not have the leverage to get the budget he or most of us want. It does appear he successfully kept the 60 billion for Ukraine out of bill. If he tried to hold out and a government shutdown resulted, it would have only taken a week or so for the democrats to use current House rules to force a vote over his objection and pick up one or two republican votes to pass the bill. In the meantime republican candidates in tough election for both the House and Senate would have suffered with the voters. Sometime, discretion is the better part of valor, something Cong. Green doesn't seem to understand.
Sometimes we just need to stop and think things out.
First, the current House will have nothing to do with certifying the presidential election. As happens every two years, all 435 seats will be up for election in November and a new House of Representatives will be convened on January 3rd 2025. The first act of the newly convened House will be to elect a Speaker. That may be Johnson, or it may not depending on who the majority wants at that time but it will be the new House along with the Senate that certifies the Presidential election. That certification will be under the new procedures enacted into law under the last democrat led House.
Second, Johnson is the Speaker, not the Dictator of the House. With the current membership, and a Democrat led Senate, he does not have the leverage to get the budget he or most of us want. It does appear he successfully kept the 60 billion for Ukraine out of bill. If he tried to hold out and a government shutdown resulted, it would have only taken a week or so for the democrats to use current House rules to force a vote over his objection and pick up one or two republican votes to pass the bill. In the meantime republican candidates in tough election for both the House and Senate would have suffered with the voters. Sometime, discretion is the better part of valor, something Cong. Green doesn't seem to understand.