{"id":92787,"date":"2019-12-21T00:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T08:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=92787"},"modified":"2019-12-21T00:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T08:25:02","slug":"congressman-mcclintock-says-speaker-pelosi-abusing-her-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=92787","title":{"rendered":"Congressman McClintock Says Speaker Pelosi Abusing Her Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Congressman Tom McClintock today issued the following statement in response to the Speaker\u2019s announcement that she is indefinitely delaying transmittal of the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for trial: The Speaker of the House has no authority superior to, or independent of, the House of Representatives.  The transmittal of official acts of the House is strictly a ministerial function of that office.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tom_McClintock_Official_Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tom_McClintock_Official_Portrait.jpg 220w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tom_McClintock_Official_Portrait-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tom_McClintock_Official_Portrait-150x226.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If the Speaker can refuse to transmit acts of the House at whim, she creates an entirely unconstitutional veto power over any measure the House enacts.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, this is both an abuse of her powers and an obstruction of the acts of Congress, exactly what the articles of impeachment falsely charge the President.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Congressman Tom McClintock today issued the following statement in response to the Speaker\u2019s announcement that she is indefinitely delaying transmittal of the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for trial: The Speaker of the House has no authority superior to, or independent of, the House of Representatives. The transmittal of official acts of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Tom_McClintock_Official_Portrait.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}