Rep. Lauren Boebert introduces fourth bill opposing Biden’s executive orders
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Lawmaker calls for end to moratorium on gas, oil leasing
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 12:21 PM Updated: Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 10:14 PM U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has four bills in opposition to executive orders signed by President Joe Biden, including her most recent to end a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal lands. J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press file
Rep. Lauren Boebert introduces fourth bill opposing Biden’s executive orders U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has four bills in opposition to executive orders signed by President Joe Biden, including her most recent to end a moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal lands.
The 145-61 vote in favor of keeping Cheney in leadership, conducted by secret ballot, followed a marathon closed-door “family discussion” in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center, where dozens of House Republicans lined up to voice their frustrations with the Wyoming representative, the most powerful GOP woman in Congress, and called for her removal as conference chair, a role that entails leading the party’s messaging efforts.
The vote was the latest and most dramatic manifestation of the civil war raging within the GOP over the direction the party should take in the post-Trump era, a debate that has become increasingly contentious following the deadly attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Cheney, a mainstream conservative and daughter of former Vice President
Dick Cheney, forcefully swatted away a challenge to her standing as conference chair. Taking aim at her were House Freedom Caucus Chairman
Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) and Rep.
Matt Rosendale (R-Ariz.). The vote of 145 to 61 ended a four-hour marathon meeting during which Cheney (pictured above) explained but would not apologize for her statement that Trump on Jan. 6 betrayed his oath as president and should be impeached.
McCarthy, who yearns to be Speaker if Republicans can win the House majority next year, spoke of unity while defending the only woman on his leadership team.
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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs defended Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Tuesday amid a Democratic plan to strip the controversial Georgia congresswoman of her committees.
“Since taking back the House majority in 2019, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat conference have led the most radical agenda in our nation’s history, stopping at nothing to overthrow and undermine the Trump presidency and to demonize fellow Republicans in Congress, Biggs said in a statement. They seek to silence and discontinue conservative voices, while expanding their progressive, anti-American schemes. The Left is aided by their allies in the mainstream media, who issue hours and binders of propaganda from their ivory towers.”
We re going to bring a budget resolution to the floor next week and then it will send it over to the Senate. Then, if they change it, then we ll take it back and address it. But by the end of the week, we will be finished with the budget resolution, she said.
The reconciliation instructions included in the budget resolution will likely sign off on $1.9 trillion in spending, in line with Biden s coronavirus proposal. Congressional committees would then be tasked with drafting pieces of the aid package.
Schumer hasn t formally locked the Senate into approving a budget resolution, but has warned that the chamber could vote as soon as this week. Passing the budget resolution through the Senate this week, aides acknowledge, would be an aggressive timeline that would include a marathon session known as a vote-a-rama.