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Lee
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Courage is the resolve to stand up against denigration, despair, when all surround to belittle and say no.
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In a loose sense of fantasy yes, in practice and reality it remains allowing lawless behavior by way of saying it represents freedom, and creating an environment to demonize others with no limits or allowable societal constraints.
It takes 9 Rs by the House rules of the 119th Congress; With the US House not in session by Johnsons orders and self made rule and the House by it out of session even if there were 9 Rs in favor no vote can be held.
None can currently be made, also the 119th session for vacating the speaker is 9 Rs as they are in the Majority and he is the leader of their party.
No. Before Johnson closed the House he twice would not allow a vote to take place both in June and September. The discharge petition is the legal remedy to bypass the Speakers ruling, but it needs 118 votes to pass, currently has 117, but when Johnson opens the House will have 118. Hence Johnson.
It had 117 of the 118 required before Johnson shut down the House. It doesn't require the Senate to disapprove or approve.
It is working it's way to a hearing.
I am really not sure what you are asking, could you clarify or maybe phrase it differently?
Yes, and nothing prevents it and in fact this is the only shut down where the Speaker shut the House down. The Senate is still working and today they stopped Trumps illegal tariffs on Brazil and working on stopping the ones on Canada. There no trade emergency to give validity to any of them.
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Mike Johnson ordered the House members to vacation for the last 85 out of 97 days to avoid swearing in Grijalva and then a release of the Epstein Files.

Entire country being held hostage by a lapdog protecting a pedophile.
Johnson loses more credibility daily.
Mike Johnson is too busy giving extremist partisan interviews, calling hard working Americans " Marxist " and the like and having press gaggles for his giggles.
While Mike Johnson is now complaining about his shutdown causing SNAP pausal issues, Medicaid non payments, from the time he entered the US House he championed and worked to do away with both. His Budget the one he and all Rs call ' Big ' and mandated ( by a tiny gov. majority margin cut ).
And there isn't anything to even give any credence he has ever broken any US Laws.
Donald Trumps a moron, NYers know his history there and have good reason to ignore and not at all like him.
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Hell yeah!

🚨 NEW: 22 states, DC, and 3 governors just filed a legal challenge over a $5 billion “contingency fund” meant to keep SNAP benefits going.
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You can almost hear David Attenborough voice reading this.
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The fatal flaw of the Constitution was its faith that Americans would choose moral leaders. It presumed that honor would outweigh shame and that norms would guard what laws didn't. This was a mistake.
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Trump - " I am the government ", " I am the chief Law Enforcement Officer ", " It says I'm the head of the military ", " it's a fake news poll by radicle ". To him it is because he convinced himself that everything he says is right, and he is beyond reproach.
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The decline isn’t subtle anymore.
The emperor of Japan is a figurehead role with the prime minster the head of the elective body of parliament that hold the governing power of the country. Trumps ignorance of is less importance to what he wants to project of true significance.