{"id":27560,"date":"2023-10-05T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=27560"},"modified":"2023-10-04T18:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T23:33:35","slug":"representative-bob-good-gives-reasons-for-why-house-speaker-mccarthy-lost-his-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/representative-bob-good-gives-reasons-for-why-house-speaker-mccarthy-lost-his-seat-20231005","title":{"rendered":"Representative Bob Good Gives Reasons For Why House Speaker McCarthy Lost His Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On October 3, 2023, before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy lost his seat, United States Representative Bob Good gave several reasons on why McCarthy should lose his seat.<\/p>\n<h2>Cutting Spending<\/h2>\n<p>Representative Good and some of his colleagues begged McCarthy to utilize the debt-ceiling. Instead, McCarthy &#8220;negotiated an unlimited increase to the debt-ceiling through January of &#8217;25.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>A Vote<\/h2>\n<p>According to Good,McCarthy had agreed to bring the balance budget vote to Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Speaker had committed to bring a balanced budget vote to this floor. Something that still has not happened despite the work that&#8217;s been done in our budget committee to mark it up and have it ready to come to the floor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Appropriations<\/h2>\n<p>McCarthy also said that he would bring the appropriation bills to the floor before the September deadline; that did not happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 3, 2023, before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy lost his seat, United States Representative Bob Good gave several reasons on why McCarthy should lose his seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[203,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27566,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27560\/revisions\/27566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}