{"id":2029870,"date":"2023-09-12T20:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaetz-makes-his-move-on-mccarthy-from-house-floor-i-rise-today-to-serve-notice\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:32:01","slug":"gaetz-makes-his-move-on-mccarthy-from-house-floor-i-rise-today-to-serve-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaetz-makes-his-move-on-mccarthy-from-house-floor-i-rise-today-to-serve-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaetz&#8217;s Move on McCarthy: &#8216;I Rise to Serve Notice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fgaetz-makes-his-move-on-mccarthy-from-house-floor-i-rise-today-to-serve-notice%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=2029870&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--><h2>Gaetz Makes \u200cHis Move \u200bon\u2062 McCarthy from \u2063House Floor &#8211; &#8216;I Rise Today to Serve Notice&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Love him or hate him, GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz from Florida plays hardball, and he plays for keeps.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House Kevin\u2063 McCarthy, on the other hand, plays the part of the consummate \u200cpolitician, a House version of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a calculating Republican from Kentucky who at times seems more interested in maintaining the status\u2062 quo than championing conservative\u2063 causes.<\/p>\n<p>In a short formal statement, McCarthy announced, \u201cToday, I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,\u201d\u200d as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/speaker-mccarthy-expected-endorse-impeachment-inquiry-president-biden\/story?id=103114626#:~:text=Speaker%20Kevin%20McCarthy%20announced%20Tuesday,in%20a%20short%20formal%20statement.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>. Sounds good,\u2062 right? It\u2019s about time. Gaetz isn\u2019t buying it and is calling\u2064 out McCarthy for what he \u200cjust might be \u2064\u2014 a champion for the status \u200bquo.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after McCarthy\u2019s impeachment inquiry announcement, Gaetz <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&#038;ik=a5dc1d72ed&#038;attid=0.1&#038;permmsgid=msg-f:1776853761590618351&#038;th=18a8a714fd6ce8ef&#038;view=fimg&#038;fur=ip&#038;sz=s0-l75-ft&#038;attbid=ANGjdJ-n9SrXvT2qMKcvRw-D0mRhqDmM_ZCqtbLb0FowKDlCvUWWKB1ZpzOg24xQ1Hh-dNpN5j95dRECYZRhwa4ePvbIkM_9UbQ4dbCeQVFyTiIBtYVIuZ98Gk4f-3w&#038;disp=emb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a> on the House floor. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On this \u200bvery\u2063 floor in January, the whole world witnessed \u2063a historic contest for\u200c House Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>I rise today to\u2063 serve notice. Mr. Speaker, you are out of compliance with\u200b the agreement that allowed you to assume this role. The path forward for the\u200b House of Representatives\u200c is to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1IFsrmT8KK\">pic.twitter.com\/1IFsrmT8KK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMattGaetz\/status\/1701635980392890544?\">September\u2062 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s pretty close \u200bto \u2064calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mccarthy-set-initiate-logical-next-step-toward-impeachment-biden-week-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McCarthy<\/a> a straight-out liar. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/matt-gaetz-introduces-bill-shut-uspss-covert-spy-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaetz<\/a> wasn\u2019t finished, not even close.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe path forward for the House of Representatives is to either bring you into \u2064immediate total compliance or remove you,\u201d Gaetz continued, \u2064\u201cpursuant to a motion to vacate the chair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz then \u2063went on to give a \u200clitany of\u200d McCarthy\u2019s failures as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/steve-bannon-endorses-marjorie-taylor-greene-next-speaker-house-crowd-goes-wild\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaker of the House<\/a>. \u201cWe have had no vote on \u2062term limits or on balanced budgets, as the agreement demanded and required. There\u2019s\u200d been no full release of\u200b the January 6 tapes, as you promised.\u200d There\u2019s been insufficient\u2062 accountability for the Biden crime family, and instead of cutting \u2062spending\u200d to raise \u2064the\u2062 debt\u2062 limit, you relied on budgetary gimmicks \u2062and rescissions so\u2062 that you ultimately \u2064ended up serving\u2063 as the valet to\u200b underwrite Biden\u2019s debt and advance his spending agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the\u200b failure to subpoena Hunter Biden, though McCarthy promised he would use \u2063the power of the subpoena if \u200che\u200c assumed the\u2062 role. The fact\u2064 that Donald Trump Jr. \u2063was subpoenaed numerous times is not lost on Gaetz.\u200c Why hasn\u2019t the House subpoenaed Hunter \u200dBiden to date?<\/p>\n<p>And how about the power of\u2064 the \u200cpurse, a primary tool that can be used by the House to hold the government accountable?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing the \u200c118th Congress is known \u200dfor at this point is electing Kevin McCarthy speaker and underwriting Biden\u2019s\u200d debt,\u201d Gaetz \u200dsaid. \u201cAnd, \u2062unfortunately, there\u2019s only \u2064one of\u2064 those things we can remediate at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz\u200c still wasn\u2019t finished. \u201cPower of the purse. Our leadership right now is asking us \u2062to \u2064vote for a continuing resolution. A vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the Green New Deal, a vote to continue\u2063 inflationary spending, and, the most \u200dtroubling of fashions, a vote for a continuing resolution is a vote to continue the election interference \u200dof Jack Smith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not\u2062 like McCarthy didn\u2019t\u200c know what he could do. He had options. They\u200d were spelled out for him by House \u2063Republicans. \u201cMr. Speaker, we told you\u2063 how to use the power of the purse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy didn\u2019t \u200clisten. He could have directed the House to cut the salaries of bureaucrats who\u2064 had \u201cbroken bad\u201d and relentlessly \u2064pursued President Trump. Or \u2063how about holding accountable those \u2063responsible for attempting\u2063 to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hunter-biden-indictment-coming-soon-special-counsels-court-filing-reveals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden<\/a> \u200d a slap on the wrist and a get-out-of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senator-sounds-alarm-on-far-left-biden-doj-nominee-who-supports-defunding-police-she-must-be-stopped\/\" title=\"Senator Sounds Alarm On Far-Left Biden DOJ Nominee Who Supports Defunding Police: \u2018She Must Be Stopped\u2019\">-jail-free card<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>What about\u200d the wide\u200c open border?<\/p>\n<p>The list goes \u2063on and time is running out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeptember \u206230 is rapidly approaching and \u200cyou have not put us in a position to succeed,\u201d Gaetz said. \u201cThere is no way \u2064to \u200bpass all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-gaetz-praises-speaker-mccarthys-work-so-far\/\" title=\"Matt Gaetz Praises Speaker McCarthy's Work So Far\">individual appropriations bills<\/a> now and \u2063it\u2019s not like \u2062we didn\u2019t know when September 30 was going to show up \u2064on the calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The way Gaetz sees it, an impeachment inquiry on Joe Biden is\u2062 too little too \u200blate, a show move or,\u00a0 as <a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/the-hollow-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T.S. Eliot<\/a> put it, a \u201cgesture without motion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoments ago Speaker McCarthy endorsed an impeachment inquiry,\u201d\u2064 Gaetz said.\u2063 \u201cThis is\u2063 a baby step \u200dfollowing weeks of pressure from House conservatives to\u2063 do more. We\u2064 must \u2062move\u200b faster. I must be better. You must be better. And \u200cthis house must be better \u200bfor \u2062it is the\u2064 last best hope for tens of\u2064 millions of \u200cRepublicans. We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaetz-makes-his-move-on-mccarthy-from-house-floor-i-rise-today-to-serve-notice\/\" title=\"Gaetz's Move on McCarthy: 'I Rise to Serve Notice'\">demand real oversight<\/a> against\u200d this weaponized government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those who\u200b think Geatz is prone to hyperbole, he \u200bis fully aware that at least some of what he is calling for will in all likelihood not pass if comes \u2064to the House floor\u200d for a vote. \u201cNow \u2063I will concede that the votes I have called for will\u200b likely fail. Term limits, balanced budgets,\u200b maybe even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lawmakers-officially-calling-impeachment-new-mexico-governor-suspension-gun-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impeachment<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Gaetz is no fool. A vote on any of these issues would\u200b at least allow \u201cthe American people to\u2062 see who is fighting for them and \u2063who is willing to tolerate more corruption and business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well \u2064said, Matt Gaetz.<\/p>\n<p>A\u200d vote to vacate McCarthy as\u200c Speaker, however, might \u2062not fail. \u201cA motion to\u200d vacate might not \u2062pass\u2063 at first.\u2062 But it might before the 15th vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the\u2062 vote \u2064to vacate didn\u2019t pass\u200c because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/103-house-democrats-call-biden-official-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a> decided to bail \u2062McCarthy out, Gaetz \u2062vows he would fight on. \u201cAnd if Democrats bail out \u2062McCarthy, as they \u200bmay do, then\u200d I will lead\u2063 the \u2064resistance to\u2064 this uni-party and the Biden-McCarthy-Jeffries government that they are attempting to \u2062build.\u201d Gaetz is\u2063 savvy when it comes \u2064to rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, Gaetz asks McCarthy to show himself for who he really is. \u201cI know that Washington isn\u2019t a town where people are known for keeping their word. Well, Speaker McCarthy, I\u2019m here to hold you to yours.\u201d The impact\u2064 question in Gaetz\u2019s statement is, \u201cIs \u200cyour word any \u2064good, Kevin McCarthy?\u201d The American people\u2063 deserve to know.<\/p>\n<p>Love home or \u200bhate him, at least it is clear where Gaetz stands. Can \u200bthe same be said about McCarthy?<\/p>\n<p>As my grandmother was\u200c fond of saying, \u201cTime will tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post \u200d <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gaetz-makes-move-mccarthy-house-floor-rise-today-serve-notice\/\">Gaetz Makes His Move on McCarthy from\u200b House Floor &#8211; &#8216;I\u200b Rise Today to Serve Notice&#8217;<\/a> appeared\u2063 first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love him or hate him, Florida GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz is known for his aggressive tactics and unwavering determination. 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