Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Westerman Tapped as Top Republican on House Natural Resources Committee | McMorris Rodgers Wins Race for Best GOP Spot on Energy and Commerce | EPA Joins Conservative Social Network Parler McMorris Rodgers Wins Race for Top GOP Spot on Energy and Trade OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Republicans in Campaign Mode for Top Positions in House Environmental Committees | Peterson Loss Leads to Scrambling for House Agriculture Seat MORE (R-Wash.) On Tuesday put forward the idea that Republicans should file a motion to leave Speaker’s chairman Nancy Pelosi
Nancy PelosiWall Street Goes To Zero On Georgia Runoffs Your Kids Are Running (Around) Washington COVID-19 Emergency Relief Bill: A Promising First Act for Immigration Reform MORE (D-Calif.), Citing the participation of Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore
Gwen Sophia MooreHouse Approves Rules Package For New Congress Top House Credits Republican Tests COVID-19 Positive Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene Wears ‘Trump Won’ Mask On House Floor MORE (Del.) In the speaker’s voice on Sunday, despite the positive test for the coronavirus a few days earlier.
Two GOP lawmakers, who attended a closed-door meeting on Tuesday where the idea was proposed, said they believe the move could gain significant support within the conference, Pelosi argued, by allowing Moore to take the vote in person. to attend, other members said “health at risk so the California Democrat retains the gavel.”
Moore announced that she tested positive for COVID-19 on December 28. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends those who test positive or have been exposed to the virus quarantine for at least seven to 10 days, Moore’s office stated she “has worked with doctors and is safe to travel” to the vote from January 3, six days later.
Moore told a reporter on Sunday that she “had not received a negative test,” but said she had been approved by the Capitol’s attending physician to be in the Capitol and quarantined for two weeks.
Republicans slammed Moore and Pelosi over decision to let her in, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
Kevin Owen McCarthyHouse Approves Rules Package For New Congress Trump Georgia Call Divides House GOP Perdue Defends Trump Over Call Pressuring Georgia Secretary of State MORE (R-Calif.) Sunday, two Republicans who tested positive declined to participate in the vote.
McCarthy, Member of the House Administration Committee Rodney Davis
Rodney Lee DavisHouse Sets Up ‘Separate Enclosure’ For Votes Of Members Exposed To COVID-19 Lawmakers Grapple With Implementation Of COVID-19 Vaccine On Capitol Hill House Republicans Who Did Not Apply For Texas Trial MORE (R-Ill.) Minority Whip Steve Scalise
Stephen (Steve) Joseph ScaliseNJ Republican Calls for Ways and Means Chair One Year After Switching Parties Friends and Colleagues Mourn Loss of Louisiana Rep.-elect Luke Letlow Louisiana Rep.-elect Luke Letlow Dies of COVID-19 MORE (R-La.) And House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney
Elizabeth (Liz) Lynn Cheney Obama warns of threats to ‘fundamental principles of our democracy’ after Trump calls Georgia Raffensperger: ‘If you are going to release things that we don’t believe are true, then we will respond in kind’ Trump Georgia call House GOP distributes MORE (R-Wyo.) Sent a letter to Pelosi on Tuesday, regarding the move as irresponsible, noting that the minority party was not aware of the construction of a plexiglass area in the visitor’s gallery of the room to allow members to break the quarantine in order to to vote.
“The opening day of the 117th Congress was the last example of medical counseling thrown out the window in favor of what is politically useful,” they wrote. The detailed logistics guidelines for January 3 issued by the House Sergeant at Arms and the attending physician at your direction were completely abandoned. Although science does not change, the guidelines we use are for your election as Speaker. “