lpetrich
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I checked House Committee on Oversight and Reform and Paul Gosar is gone from it. However, Home | The House Committee on Natural Resources does not look updated.
Why Paul Gosar thinks he is a winner - CNNPolitics
Being stripped of one's committees will make one very ineffective in Congress.
Why Paul Gosar thinks he is a winner - CNNPolitics
Seems like they are describing what they would do if they could.Now look at him. For the base, Gosar is suddenly a hero of free speech and the antidote to Democrats' pursuit of cancel culture and wokeness.
That sentiment was everywhere in the floor debate over Gosar's censure on Wednesday.
"House Democrats have broken nearly every rule and standard in order to silence dissidents and pass their radical agenda," said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Texas Rep. Chip Roy accused Democrats of "chilling debate" with the censure motion. "What scares me most about this is the attack on the freedom of speech from the Left this year," said high profile conservative Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Being stripped of one's committees will make one very ineffective in Congress.
Madison Cawthorn, for instance.That line of thinking, however, presumes that the goal of a Member of Congress is to, you know get stuff done. That is NOT in fact the goal of Greene and plenty of Republicans elected in the Trump years to the House. Their goal is to be someone -- ideally a major figure on the state television of the right (Fox News), which can lead to lucrative books deals, speaklng engagements and maybe a plum lobbying job when they get out of Congress.
"I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation," wrote Cawthorn -- meaning that he is spending a lot more time and energy on building a communications operation that will get him known outside of the halls of Congress than he is in putting together a staff that can help him actually do the hard work of legislating.