rfenst wrote:1. Please explain my oversimplified example less simply.
You simply made it sound as though it was arbitrary when the reasons are much more complicated.
wrote:2. Please provide historical examples of such "arrangements" that have been succesfull-as opposed to leading to new, continuous fights over who will be Speaker
For one, they want to be allowed to offer amendments to bills once a bill reaches the floor. Presently this can only be done in committee. So if a member isn’t on the committee that writes the bill he can’t directly offer an amendment, or participate in debate of such.
They want an end to these one-stop-shop Omnibus bills dropped in their lap a few hours before the vote where there is little time to debate or read the bill before it must be voted on. “We must pass this bill so we can see what’s in it” ~ Nancy Pelosi (ties into #3)
wrote:3. Please explain what Pelosi has to do with any of this?
The demand by the holdouts would restore the House rules on vacating the chair to what they were before Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker in 2019. Under Pelosi, a motion to vacate could be offered on the House floor only if a majority of either party agreed to it. Before that rules change, a single member could move for a vote to unseat the speaker.