House votes to kill Gohmert-sponsored resolution to ban Democratic Party
Source: Washington Post
WASHINGTON House Democrats on Tuesday killed a Republican resolution that would have effectively banned the Democratic Party or any political organization for its past history of supporting slavery and the Confederacy.
The House voted 223-to-176 to table the resolution sponsored by Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who introduced it in July as a counter to the overwhelming, bipartisan House vote to remove statues of Confederate leaders from the Capitol.
Gohmert reintroduced the privileged resolution last week, forcing a swift procedural vote in the House that fell along near-party lines
The resolution from Gohmert also would have directed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to remove "any item that names, symbolizes, or mentions any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the Confederacy, from any area within the House.
Read more: https://www.news-journal.com/news/local/house-votes-to-kill-gohmert-sponsored-resolution-to-ban-democratic-party/article_4f03d544-0321-11eb-b4ec-e33a58fb4216.html
Link is to the Longview News-Journal.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)yesphan
(1,587 posts)Tess49
(1,579 posts)2naSalit
(86,572 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)CincyDem
(6,354 posts)...the fact that 176 members were in agreement...I don't even have a work for that.
TwilightZone
(25,467 posts)Ohiogal
(31,986 posts)marble falls
(57,079 posts)Basket of Deplorables?
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)If they had their choice they would ban SCIENCE... and take us back to the 1600 where they burned women they didn't care for , by calling them witches.
marble falls
(57,079 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)The Republican SENATE HATES THE Democratic Party and will keep their power even if it means supporting a dictator.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)marble falls
(57,079 posts)BainsBane
(53,031 posts)House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)to let Trump keep destroying the country, er, fund the government.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)America, but Putin
moonseller66
(430 posts)republican Donorrhea!
mdbl
(4,973 posts)Initech
(100,065 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Here are the non democrats who voted to kill the resolution
Republican
Trey Hollingsworth Indiana 9th
Adam Kinzinger Illinois 16th
Independent
Justin Amash Michigan 3rd
Also, 11 democrats and 20 republicans did not vote.
keithbvadu2
(36,783 posts)Hey, Gohmert: Thank God you republicans won that war back in the 1860s.
A democrat should introduce that resolution.
Surely the republicans would vote in favor.
nykym
(3,063 posts)to remove "any item that names, symbolizes, or mentions any
political organization or party that has ever held a public position
that supported slavery or the Confederacy,
from any area within the House.
Which would include himself!
lutherj
(2,496 posts)forward a pathetic and likely unconstitutional resolution to try to counter the fact that their president, who is a blatant racist, is going down in flames. Got it. That will probably work.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)cstanleytech
(26,284 posts)almost all Republican.
mainer
(12,022 posts)because they were the slaveholders.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)You really want to go down this path, Louie ?