Pelosi: GOP's response to guns sit-in an 'inside power grab'
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans Wednesday of attempting a “power grab” to snuff out free speech on the House floor with their controversial new rules package.
“While the American people worry for the financial security of their families, Republicans are opening the new Congress by turning their backs on the outside calls for help with an inside power grab in the House Rules,” Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote in a letter to colleagues ahead of a Thursday caucus call.
The proposed Republican rules changes would give the sergeant-at-arms the power to punish members for taking pictures or video on the House floor by deducting fines up to to $2,500 directly from lawmakers’ paychecks.
Democrats say the proposed fines, a response to their gun control sit-in over the summer, is an unprecedented breach of decorum. And some experts have questioned the constitutionality of such a move, which House members are expected to approve as part of a broader rules package in early January.
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