{"id":1764618,"date":"2022-12-06T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764618"},"modified":"2022-12-06T11:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:33:34","slug":"rep-massie-proposes-rule-to-keep-3-day-review-period-before-voting-on-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-massie-proposes-rule-to-keep-3-day-review-period-before-voting-on-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Massie Proposes Rule to Keep 3-Day Review Period Before Voting on Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-massie-proposes-rule-to-keep-3-day-review-period-before-voting-on-legislation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764618&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) is pushing for a House rules change that would require lawmakers to take at least three days after the introduction of a bill for that bill to be voted on.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Republicans are expected to take the majority of the lower chamber, they will have control over the rules that the House will have to follow during the 118th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republicans-pass-first-round-of-rule-changes-after-flipping-house_4870199.html\">voted on a series of proposed rules changes before the Thanksgiving Recess,<\/a>\u00a0but some proposals, including one by the libertarian-leaning Massie, have not been voted on yet.<\/p>\n<p>Under Massie\u2019s proposal, the House would be required to take a minimum of three days to read a bill before sending it to the floor for a vote. This rule could only be overcome with the consent of two-thirds of the House, meaning that most bills would end up eligible for the rule.<\/p>\n<h2>Republicans and Democrats Have Broken Rules<\/h2>\n<p>Massie discussed the proposal in a phone interview with The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House has some pretty good rules right now. The problem is they don\u2019t follow them,\u201d Massie said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that this critique is not only meant for Democrats. Republicans, Massie said, have also \u201ccheated\u201d on rules \u201call the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the rules that we used to have when Republicans were in charge was the three-day rule,\u201d Massie said.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, he continued, was that \u201cwe cheated on it all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He explained: \u201cThe parliamentarian said that if you introduce a bill at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, then Monday counts as one day of the three. And then Tuesday, the bill has to be viewable. And then on Wednesday, you could vote at 1 a.m. on the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through this \u201ccheat,\u201d Massie said, \u201cyou can take a three day rule and turn it into a 25-hour rule. And that\u2019s how Republicans frequently cheated on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWhen Democrats took the majority, I was somewhat astonished because they changed the three-day rule to a 72-hour rule, which required an honest-to-goodness 72 hours from the introduction of the language of the bill before a vote could be had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This rule was passed in response to a much-criticized comment Pelosi made years earlier saying that Democrats \u201chad to pass [a bill] before they could know what\u2019s in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Massie said this new rule was \u201cone of the few things they did that I can applaud.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018No Good\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1597291656570875904\">Twitter thread<\/a>\u00a0announcing the proposal, Massie explained his reasoning for the rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have served in Congress for ten years,\u201d he wrote. \u201cRegardless of which party has been in the majority, Speakers, acting through the majority comprised of their party, have always had enough sway to casually suspend the 3 day rule with only a simple majority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cNo good comes from this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massie argued that his proposal would not stall quick legislative action during a crisis, as the two-thirds vote would allow the House, with bipartisan consent, to suspend the rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis safeguard is for the American people,\u201d Massie wrote. \u201cI welcome anyone to make arguments against it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massie opined that the only argument he could see against his proposal is that it\u2019s too weak. \u201cIn reality, it should be a 1-month rule, and suspending it should be more difficult than a 2\/3 vote,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut,\u201d he acknowledged, \u201cchange is hard, so I\u2019m proposing the most modest change that is still impactful.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4860958\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/US-Capitol-GettyImages-1244635656-1200x800-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4860958\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-large wp-image-4860958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/US-Capitol-GettyImages-1244635656-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Capitol building\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4860958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/US-Capitol-GettyImages-1244635656-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Capitol building\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> The U.S. Capitol building is seen as the sun rises in Washington on Nov. 9, 2022. (Samuel Corum\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Modest\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Echoing his earlier comments on Twitter, Massie told The Epoch Times that his proposal, if anything, is too \u201cmodest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy rule Amendment says that it would require a two-thirds majority vote of the full house rather than a simple majority of the house in order to suspend a rule,\u201d Massie said.<\/p>\n<p>The consent of two-thirds of the House, Massie contended, \u201cshould be required to suspend any rule of the house, in my opinion. Otherwise they\u2019re not really rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that such rules are also followed by many legislatures at a state level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other degree in which my offering is too modest is 72 hours isn\u2019t that long when the bills are still 6,000 pages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the benefits of his proposal, Massie said, \u201cI\u2019m under no illusion that even a majority of our colleagues wouldn\u2019t read the bills even if you gave them three months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, under the proposal, Massie said, media outlets and constituents would have enough time to read the bill.<\/p>\n<p>A 72-hour rule \u201cgives the media time to report it. It gives people time to see how the language of the bill modifies existing statutes. And then it gives the public time to call their congressmen and tell their congressmen what\u2019s in the bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Publicly Unspoken Objections\u2019 by Other Republicans<\/h2>\n<p>Asked about how confident he was that his proposal could go through, Massie said that some of his colleagues have \u201cpublicly unspoken objections\u201d to it.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Massie said that Republicans have expressed concerns to him in private that the measure would weaken their power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the unspoken objection that I will receive from the GOP,\u201d Massie said. \u201cWell, publicly unspoken. It was privately spoken to me this morning in our conference in the back room while I was getting coffee. \u2018Look, we worked hard to get this majority and we don\u2019t want to give up any power. You\u2019re making it easier for the Democrats to gum up the works. If you require us to go to the Democrats in order to suspend this rule, they haven\u2019t been kind to us and we shouldn\u2019t be kind to them.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Massie replied to these reported objections, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s not a defensible argument to the public that, you know, to be efficient, we have to be sloppy and not diligent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In view of these objections, and his long experience in Washington, Massie joked,\u00a0\u201c10 years [in D.C.] have grounded me down and I\u2019m not confident about anything, really, that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Massie predicted that if the measure were brought to the floor in a standalone vote, it would be able to pass with bipartisan support. He said he thinks every Democrat would vote for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all of them for pure reasons,\u201d he added, arguing that many would vote for it simply because it would restrict Republicans\u2019 power.<\/p>\n<p>Massie said it\u2019s unlikely he\u2019ll get a standalone vote on the House floor, but he might succeed in a Republican conference meeting.<\/p>\n<p>If the majority of the GOP caucus voted in favor of the rule, it would be set to head to the floor as part of the final GOP House rules package.<\/p>\n<p>Passing the package will be the second order of business for the House in the 118th Congress after they choose a speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-joseph-lord\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ttl7dayRJQ_WEB_JosephLord-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"Joseph Lord\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joseph Lord is a congressional reporter for The Epoch Times.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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