Re: [OT] Question about rules around appointments

Rhino wrote wrote:

I see that Trump is hoping to appoint at least two members of the House
to posts in his government: Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador and Matt
Gaetz as Attorney-General. I know that Gaetz has already resigned his
seat but haven't heard if Stefanik has too.
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Do House members have to resign their seats before they qualify for
senior jobs like this? It seems odd to me that they would give up their
seats prior to actually getting confirmed in the job. After all,
Republican control of the House is very narrow. I'm assuming that
special elections will be held to replace Stefanik and Gaetz and there
seems like at least SOME risk that those seats could be lost to the
Democrats, meaning that control of the House could be lost to the
Democrats if enough of the not-fully-counted seats go their way.
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It would make more sense to me to nominate Gaetz and Stefanik but leave
them in the House until their appointments are approved; if they are NOT
approved, they'd still have their seats in the House rather than
potentially losing them to the Dems.

I'm not clear on the details, but Gaetz was giving his "two weeks notice",
despite Democrat claims to the contrary.

I am hoping Trump doesn't select too many Congressmen, resulting in loss of
Republican control. It's bad enough that there are a bunch of RINO who are
more than willing to sell us out.

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