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You know what's really hilarious about it?
Pelosi is the one Democrat that didn't vote for his removal, because she's in CA for Dianne Feinstein's funeral. Her absence from the vote actually made McCarthy's job easier, as it meant McCarthy could afford one more defection. But hey, it's all her fault, so let's kick her out of her office. And as supposedly pissed off as the GOP supposedly are with Gaetz, I don't see them shoving his office in a broom closet somewhere for leading the whole movement to oust him in the first place. You'd think if they were going to go after anyone, they'd go after the guy that caused their mess in the first place.
But nope. Not gonna do that. Because the party still needs his vote.
The GOP majority in the house exists because of four people:
That's not hyperbole. If those four people did not exist, we'd be talking about Speaker Hakeem Jeffries right now. The GOP majority literally exists due to the existence of multiple people who are either wholly unqualified for office, suspected of criminal activity that should have them in jail already, or both.
Help me out who’s the first one listed?
Santos
you gonna name names? or just assume we know who those people are?
Santos, Gaetz, Boebert, Greene. These aren't no name House members.
Maybe you should consider that not everyone is from the U.S.?
She was supposed to move out 10 months ago. She still has her normal office with every other House Rep in another building.
So no, it's not her office.
You're very opinionated for not reading the article you posted tho
No... she wasn't.
It is her office, or at least it was.
There are a number of unlisted offices that can be assigned. It is customary to allow a Speaker to retain one of these if they leave that role.
Maybe you're the one that should do some actual research?
Right it was...
Then, it wasn't.
She doesn't get to keep it indefinitely, and 10 months seems long enough to move out.
How much longer did you want them to wait?
If that's true, I googled and can only see Pelosi's recent claims:
Well, now there's a new ex-speaker...
How many ex-speakers get an office in the Capitol Building?
Do you think McCarthy and Pelosi should share?
Do we take someone else's office so they can both have one?
Just take two seconds and think about it
There are multiple offices. No one is sharing.
You really don't know what you're talking about. It is a long-standing tradition for the former speaker to maintain an office after their term. Pelosi allowed the speaker before her to maintain an office, for example.
This is just being done out of spite. Petty nonsense.
Mate, we got our representation capped because we ran out of space....
There's not infinite office space in the Capitol Building, that's why House office are in an adjoing building.
It's not rocket appliances
BS. Representation got capped because capping it benefited those in power.
It's easy to allocate more representative to more seats, it's easy to allocate more office space to more representatives - even if it's not necessarily in the same building.
This issue has come up in a multitude of nations, and everyone has managed to solve this puzzle - and you expect people to believe that "the greatest nation on earth" can't do it, because there's apparently a finite amount of fucking office space in America??
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-house-got-stuck-at-435-seats/
It can be changed literally whenever....
So you're saying for 113 years now, there's been a grand conspiracy where everyone in DC has agreed to deny Americans accurate representation?
It's capped because of physical space bud. They could telework these days
*But my point was the space in the Capitol Building is finite, it's not a fucking TARDIS. Not every house rep gets an office in that building
They have offices in an adjoing building.
I feel like I'm explaining to my dog the mailman doesn't show up everyday to steal his food, it's an entirely simple concept. There's not space for all 435 to have an office there.
Pelosi is no longer the most recent ex-speaker.
Wow.
You're linking an entire long and insightful article that precisely explains why the number of representatives was capped and that never once mentions that it was because of physical office space - and yet your takeaway is that it was capped because America ran out of office space for its representatives.
Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension?
It's capped because they ran out of seats in the chamber...
My point is that there's finate space. And they won't add more.
Which is why the vast majority of house reps have their offices in an adjoining building.
Why do you think there's just a bunch of empty offices no one are using in the Capitol Building?
Can you point out where you’re seeing the cap based on space? I read your article and it looks like it was capped due to the 1929 Permanent Apportionment Act.
No, it's not.
Why don't you just read the fucking article that you posted? You might learn something.
Are you under the impression there are only two offices in the building?