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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. We all agree with her, of course, BUT she's new
Thu Jan 10, 2019, 09:32 AM
Jan 2019

and just learned that ranting in this manner against the POTUS on the house floor violates rules and standards for professional behavior among representatives who are supposed to work together. Kind of like DU rules for no personal attacks on each other here.

Just deliver it to the cameras outside is all, Congresswoman Pressley.

Rep. G.K. Butterfield, a Democrat from North Carolina, warned Pressley to follow the House rules. “Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president,” Butterfield said. US Representatives are asked to hold back opinions or criticisms of colleagues and leadership during floor discussion. It is considered “unparliamentary,” according to the House rules. ...

This breach in etiquette has happened more frequently in the the last decade. A Bloomberg analysis showed that House members of the 115th Congress were chastised for violating the rule 48 times, compared with just five times during the 111th Congress from 2009 to 2010.


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