BREAKING: Sen. Ron Johnson has reportedly secured signatures from five Republican senators demanding a delay in Senate GOP leadership elections.
The signatures are reportedly enough to force a Republican conference meeting to discuss postponing the vote.
These are the 4 that have publicly said they've signed.
Will Senate Republicans agree to a delay?
@RonJohnsonWI, @BasedMikeLee, @SenRickScott, @SenJohnKennedy
🚨 BREAKING: Sen. DAVE MCCORMICK (R-PA) just JOINED the effort to block John Thune's reelection as Senate GOP Leader this week, instead DELAYING Minority Leader selections
Wow! That's now Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, John Kennedy and McCormick
"One of the things I learned in business and the Army is that after a failure, you have to start with honesty, transparency, and accountability." 🔥
"I don’t believe we should move to leadership elections until we have digested and debated the lessons of the midterms and how to move forward."
"We need leadership in place fast, but Tuesday is too soon."
Republicans need answers about what went wrong BEFORE rushing to hand out leadership titles, and see how Thune leads us through the lame duck period
GET SHT DONE and SHOW US!
Pennsylvania’s @SenMcCormickPA is absolutely right:
No need to rush into Senate GOP leadership elections.
We first need to digest what happened last week and make plans to move forward.
Turning to leadership elections Tuesday morning would put the cart before the horse.
The SAVE America Act was popular from day one.
Republicans, Democrats, and Independents wanted it. Washington blocked it at every turn.
We pushed for it HARD, and we won’t stop. Now’s our chance, we MUST PASS this before Democrats take charge in January.
🚨Stunning Development🚨
Group that makes money complicating and delaying the federal permitting process opposes a once-in-a-generation, bipartisan bill making that process simpler and faster.
Pass BAAJA.
NEW: @NRDC says BAAJA "still needs improvements" and opposes it despite changes. President Manish Bapna says "we recognize that meaningful permitting reform requires compromise" but the bill "goes too far in weakening essential environmental safeguards and public participation"
Americans spoke clearly this week that they want their elected representatives focused on affordability. We have legislation that would reduce household electricity bills by billions of dollars by making it easier to build clean energy projects. Let's get it done and pass BAAJA.
The formula remains the same:
(1) Put the SAVE America Act on the Senate floor.
(2) Require filibustering senators to speak, calling the vote at a simple-majority threshold when they stop speaking.
(3) Announce that debate will continue until it passes.
There is no reason GOP Congress should not meet every day from now til January 3rd. We could:
- Pass reconciliation package to reduce spending/fraud, fund defense modernization (not war), cut taxes for American families including healthcare
- Ban Congressional Stock Trading (I have a bill)
- Codify Border Security (I have a bill)
- Pass Permitting Reform.
And more.
Turn things we should have finished into things we have done.
We owe it to Americans.
The formula remains the same:
(1) Put the SAVE America Act on the Senate floor.
(2) Require filibustering senators to speak, calling the vote at a simple-majority threshold when they stop speaking.
(3) Announce that debate will continue until it passes.
I’ve been fighting for over two years to get the SAVE/SAVE America Act, passed in the Senate.
We have two months to get it done. Every candidate for a leadership job must commit to passing it. Failure is not an option.
It’s insulting to be asked to re-elect leadership immediately after a truly stunning defeat—without even a whisper from current leadership about plans to move forward.
There’s a lot to do in the next eight weeks.
Anyone seeking a leadership position needs to provide a plan.
The “lame duck” Congress is only a lame duck if it wants to be. If Republicans want to show they learned anything from the midterms, they’ll actually do something with the power they have before January.