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'This Institution Will Fail!' — Massie's warning if McCarthy is removed

Oct 3, 2023 · 2:39 leadership-fightsmccarthymotion-to-vacate

Two and a half minutes on the House floor: the lone co-sponsor of the original 2015 motion-to-vacate stands up to defend Kevin McCarthy and warn that removing him will break the institution.

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  1. 0:00 Introduction
  2. 0:37 as a member of the rules committee what
  3. 1:16 cannot be for both at the same time
  4. 2:01 hundred billion dollars that's a lot of money

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  1. two minutes to my very good friend from Kentucky and fellow member of the rules committee Mr Massey the gentleman from Kentucky Mr Massey is recognized for two minutes Mr Speaker as the only still
  2. serving co-author and co-sponsor of the motion to vacate Speaker Boehner I can tell you this motion to vacate is a terrible idea as the only member who's
  3. serving here who took every chance to vote against Speaker Boehner and to vote against speaker Ryan I can tell you that this chamber has run has been run better
  4. more conservatively and more transparently under Mr McCarthy than any other speaker that I have served under
  5. as a member of the rules committee what one of three one of three conservatives who were placed there out of trust the speaker
  6. gave us a blocking position by putting three of us on there to keep an eye on the rules committee to make sure the process was fair and even I can tell you
  7. it's been fair and even none of us are voting against the speaker today regular order is at odds with predetermined outcomes
  8. yet the speaker is is being accused of not holding to regular order and predetermined outcomes at the same time it is not possible you
  9. cannot be for both at the same time I was a party to the January agreement and I can tell you
  10. that there were promises in there but there was never a promise for an outcome there was never a promise that you could force Joe Biden to sign something
  11. there was only the promise that we would try and try we have we have tried in the rules committee we have tried on the floor we've been trying this since this
  12. summer and there's enough blame to go around for why we don't have 12 bills but part of it was a relitigation of the debt limit deal by the way there was no
  13. promise on the debt limit deal no conditions on that in January zero whatsoever I was in the room for that so the 12 bills were delayed over what a
  14. hundred billion dollars that's a lot of money but it's nothing compared to the two trillion dollars that I came here to object to with speaker Pelosi and president Trump pushed that bill through
  15. we've had over 500 amendments listen this is a this is a referendum on this institution we have tried regular order speaker
  16. McCarthy has tried regular order if regular order fails today if you vacate the speaker nobody is going to try gentlemen's time is expired institution
  17. will fail please do not vacate the speaker [Applause]