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Also, she could move to censure other members, like committee chairs. Those would be privileged motions. If successful, House Republican conference rules say they should step down. But it could be waived.

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She's been in at least 5 years? If she's a short termer, she may have a little help, per CRS.

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Here's how CRS explains their benefits. It appears the better pension benefit ended in 2012. www.everycrsreport.com/files/2023-0...

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Here's Mel Watt from 2014. Note that the Speaker pro tempore is providing the document (laid before the House).

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It doesn't have to be only this language. See Fortenberry from 2022. Letter to the House, letter to the governor (Nebraska)

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Here's Mark Foley's resignation -- another Florida Member.

RESIGNATION FROM THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.
MURPHY) laid before the House the fol-
lowing resignation from the House of
Representatives:
H OUSE OF R EPRESENTATIVES,
Washington, DC, September 29, 2006.
Hon. J. DENNIS H ASTERT,
Speaker, House of Representatives,
Capitol Building, Washington, DC.
DEAR M R. S PEAKER: I hereby resign as the
representative of the 16th Congressional Dis-
trict of Florida, effective today.
Sincerely,
M ARK F OLEY,
Member of Congress.
H OUSE OF R EPRESENTATIVES,
Washington, DC, September 29, 2006.
Hon. J EB B USH,
Governor, State of Florida,
Tallahassee, FL.
D EAR G OVERNOR B USH: I hereby resign as
the representative of the 16th Congressional
District of Florida, effective today.
Sincerely,
MARK F OLEY,
Member of Congress.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 20/11/2025

This is what that letter looks like. From Congressional Record on November 14, 2024.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE
CLERK OF THE HOUSE
The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be-
fore the House the following commu-
nication from the Clerk of the House of
Representatives:
O FFICE OF THE C LERK,
H OUSE OF R EPRESENTATIVES,
Washington, DC, November 13, 2024.
Hon. M IKE J OHNSON,
The Speaker, House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
DEAR M R. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the per-
mission granted in Clause 2(h) of Rule II of
the Rules of the U.S. House of Representa-
tives, the Clerk received the following mes-
sage from the Secretary of the Senate on No-
vember 13, 2024, at 3:38 p.m.
That the Senate passed S. 2581.
With best wishes, I am,
Sincerely,
KEVIN F. M CC UMBER,
Acting Clerk.
f
RESIGNATION FROM THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be-
fore the House the following resigna-
tion from the House of Representa-
tives:
CONGRESS OF THE U NITED S TATES,
HOUSE OF R EPRESENTATIVES,
Washington, DC, November 13, 2024.
Hon. M IKE J OHNSON,
Speaker, House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
MR. S PEAKER: I hereby resign, as United
States Representatives for Florida’s First
Congressional District, effective imme-
diately, and I do not intend to take the oath
of office for the same office in the 119th Con-
gress, to pursue the position of Attorney
General in the Trump Administration.
Enclosed please find the letter I have
transmitted to Florida Governor Ron
DeSantis.
Respectfully,
MATT GAETZ,
Member of Congress

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If it makes you feel any better, the wayback machine didn't get my college newspaper for quite a while.

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Once corrected, I had it put it into ical format, and the rest is straightforward.

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But what it extracted was wrong, so I had to feed it corrections.

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I then uploaded the whole-year-in one calendar, and Chat GPT started turning it into data.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 12/11/2025

I used AI to do it. There's probably a story or something in what it took to do. I first uploaded the month-by-month calendar, and ChatGPT freaked out.

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Surely no senator would make use of the provision to sue the government that Sen. Thune snuck into the approps bill, right?

Lindsey Graham says he would sue the government.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 10/11/2025

Individual members of the conference may recommended changes to the Rules as the need arises... and may bring that proposal directly to the Conference for its consideration w/ 1 week notice. A self-executing rule change could provide for removal and require only a majority of conference vote.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 10/11/2025

I'm turning this into the First Branch Forecast newsletter, but some initial notes.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 18/10/2025

You likely have it already, but it did show up in the movie Airplane II, from 1982.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 03/10/2025

They've got it exactly backwards. Why should Dems be willing to negotiate with Republicans on anything if the appropriations agreement can be changed at will by the administration? They key item to negotiate are provisions to ensure approps deals are followed by the admin.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 02/10/2025

Um. Going after the Southern Poverty Law Center?

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 30/09/2025

Tonight the Senate passed a Potemkin member security bill that won't protect members but will prevent oversight. The "privacy protections" it provides are for members only -- Sen. Cruz objected to efforts to provide privacy protections to all Americans or to only federal, state, and local electeds.

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Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org · 11/09/2025

Relevant language on congressional security in the recently Approps-passed CJS appropriations committee report See p. 43 docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/...

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I don't know who needs to know this, but a new DOJ OLC opinion dropped on Tuesday. www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

Whether the Creation of Natcast Violates
the Government Corporation Control Act
The Government Corporation Control Act applies to an agency that brings a corporation
into existence, even if the agency does not retain ownership of or control over the
corporation.
An agency cannot avoid the strictures of the Government Corporation Control Act by
enlisting private individuals as proxies to incorporate an entity that would otherwise
violate the Government Corporation Control Act.
The creation of Natcast violates the Government Corporation Control Act because the
Department of Commerce exercised undue control over the private persons who in-
corporated Natcast to oversee Congress’s multi-billion investment in the semiconduc-
tor industry.

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So, it looks like you can provide public announcements of classified briefings. Rep. Steil, House Admin Chair, put out this press statement. cha.house.gov/press-releas...

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I thought you'd appreciate the irony of using free Google satellite view to take an image of the agency responsible for using satellites (and other mechanisms) to take pictures of others.

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I agree it's likely misleading language, used to get clicks? Look at the AP lede: "The top ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says a classified meeting planned with a key U.S. spy agency was called off after it was criticized by Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist."

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This is a brilliant way to use speech or debate clause protections.

Thomas Massie: "The survivors said that they had decided to compile their own [Epstein] list. But the reality is, if they try to release that list, they're going to be sued into homelessness... what my colleague Marjorie Taylor Greene volunteered to do, and I've volunteered to do as well, is to read that list on the floor of the House of Representatives, because our founders put into the Constitution Speech or Debate Immunity, which says that we can't be prosecuted for what we say on the floor of the House."

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The statement is a quote of Sen. Warner. Who wrote it? IDK, but his office attributes it to the senator. He seems to average a statement on his website every 2-3 days. It would make sense that he or a senior staffer reviewed it, and that he (or a senior staffer) directed it be issued.

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