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  Magnetometers and bag screening and armed guards for schools but not for Congress. Excellent idea when your constituents are actively talking about using their second amendment rights to keep politicians in line.
context: Remove magnetometers that are in place to protect members of congress and their staff?  Is that really an issue for the GOP?  Why am I still surprised? Oy. >
  
  I believe it's because  the Treason Trio of Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie TG refuse to use them (presumably because they're illegally carrying concealed handguns), and rack up a fine every time they bypass them. >
  
  This circus isn't funny or entertaining.
  
  Committee chairs would have limited authority "to allow [non-governmental] witnesses to appear remotely at" proceedings under the new rules.
  GOP leaders would also remove entry magnetometers, create a new select committee on the alleged "weaponization" of the DOJ and FBI, and more, per the new rules.
  
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  House Republicans are targeting President Joe Biden directly in at least two areas with their new rules. The package would allow the House to consider stripping the Internal Revenue Service of additional resources Biden's Inflation Reduction Act made available to the agency last summer.
  Additionally, the chamber would consider preventing non-emergency drawdowns from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a tool the Biden administration has regularly used amid rising gas prices in recent months.
  Other federal employees could soon become targets of a GOP-controlled House. The proposed rules package would allow legislation to zero out a government official's salary, cut specific government programs, or even fire specific federal employees. For a Republican Party with some members who championed the #FireFauci movement, this rule is a notable inclusion.
  
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  Well, they can't have the IRS going after owed taxes.  That would ever so slightly inconvenience their donors. >
  
  More like their "owners". >
  
  
  Additionally, the chamber would consider preventing non-emergency drawdowns from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
  
  It's right there. The GOP wants you to pay more for gas. >
  
  Lmao they want gas prices to go up >
  
  Then they will blame Biden >
  
  It’s unbelievable.  It won’t be long before a GOP prez needs the oil reserve… >
  
  And they won’t get it but they will somehow blame it on the Dems. >
  
  All the world’s economies are collapsing and this is what the GOP wants to focus on?   
  Vote these bums out!!!! >
  
  Never fear, Gym Jordan has already announced investigations ala Bengazi-Bengazi-Bengazi and will throw in dick pics to keep their base excited. >
  
  GOP leaders would also remove entry magnetometer... I called that. But also, do they really think that is a good idea?
  ...the committee would investigate COVID's origins, "the impact of school closures on American children," and the development of vaccines and corresponding federal mandates. They keep trying to imply that Fauci is somehow responsible for Covid. I mean, it started in China... you know, the place Trump paid more taxes to than the U.S. 
  The package would allow the House to consider stripping the Internal Revenue Service of additional resources Biden's Inflation Reduction Act made available to the agency last summer. Can't have the IRS going after the rich!
  Additionally, the chamber would consider preventing non-emergency drawdowns from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a tool the Biden administration has regularly used amid rising gas prices in recent months. Gas prices are Bidens fault!!! He should do something!!! and No! We won't let him do anything to bring those prices down again!
  The rules also permit the House speaker to recognize any member to read the Constitution aloud on the House floor until the end of February. Okay, I mean they obviously need a refresher course! >
  
  Ah yes the issue every American is worried about: magnetometers at the entry to the elites' playground otherwise known as the House chamber. >
  
  The whole notion of weaponizing has been so utterly overused by the deranged buffoon and his legions of weaklings, it no longer carries any rhetorical heft. >
  
  Democrats want to solve problems, Republicans want to exploit problems. >
  
  So, ~~doubling~~ tripling down on lunacy. >
  
  So the GOP wants to bring more conspiracy theories, make it harder to vote, and bring in more guns.
  They should have paced themselves.  What will they do with the remaining two years, now that they've already applied every solution a Republican has thought of in the last ten years? >
  
  I wonder how long it will be before MTG, Boebert, or some other goon has a negligent discharge in Congress. >
  
  Every time they make an announcement like this, the White House should issue a statement that says "They're idiots.  Ignore them."  And, with the Senate, just shut down anything they do, and blame all blowback directly on them.
  Every.  Time. >
  
  From this wish list you'd be hard pressed to tell they're supposed to be politicians in Nation's Capital >
  
  
  The Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic would make a significant item on many Republicans' wish lists a reality. According to the proposed rules, the committee would investigate COVID's origins.
  
  What an embarrassing waste of taxpayer money. And I'm very curious what experts they would rely on in such an investigation. >
  
  Biased ones. >
  
  Reading The Constitution out loud on the House floor does no more good than reading the Bible in church. >
  
  Ah yes, helping the American people based on what they campaigned (fear mongered) on. >
  
  They're willing to do away with magnetometers and put us all at greater risk in order to garner the "stupid vote". >
  
  
  House Republicans are targeting President Joe Biden directly in at least two areas with their new rules. The package would allow the House to consider stripping the Internal Revenue Service of additional resources Biden's Inflation Reduction Act made available to the agency last summer. Additionally, the chamber would consider preventing non-emergency drawdowns from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a tool the Biden administration has regularly used amid rising gas prices in recent months.
  
  Can they do this stuff with no input from the Senate? >
  
  not to my knowledge( I have asked op). all they can do is "consider" as far as I know. >
  
  This is why we cannot take the GOP seriously. Conspiracy reigns supreme. >
  
  Why probe and waste tax payer money if COVID was just a flu? >
  
  C-span is about to become the cartoon channel\. >
  
  The “looney tune “ channel if you will. >
  
  I find it ironic they want to remove metal detectors since they are most likely to get involved in a deadly gunfight. >
  
  They don't understand how elections work and they are all going to weigh in on genetics, mutations, viral transmission and zoology. 
  This is gonna be rich. I hope MTG can 'splain it all to us common folk. Matt Gaetz doesn't want to be involved in the "covid origins" investigation because covid is already too old for his tastes. I think he said "it's too old and the 19 in it is a real turn-off". Ron Johnson loves covid as long as it doesn't have abortions. >
  
  Lets say they find something they're looking for... What are they going to do about it? Probably nothing other than using it as a campaign talking point as usual. >
  
  sounds like leaving the country for the next few years might be all that saves my sanity >
  
  Giving the base what they crave: entertainment. >
  
  Hunters laptop.  Impeach Biden.  Kill Obamacare. >
  
  Keep showing your fucking ass Republicans, you are the dwindling minority. >
  
  Bold…visionary even. >
  
  What? The GOP is going to remove metal detectors from congress?
  They are going to kill someone. >
  
  Here come the fascist performance trolls wasting time and taxpayer dollars. I would call them morons but they’re just assholes.