Thread by @MattGlassman312

One congressional truism is this: if you ran the Senate on the House procedures, you would lose some things but it would ultimately work fine. But if you ran the House on the Senate procedures, it would turn into some combo of Lord of the Flies and Mad Max within hours.

Just imagine Gohmert Hour, except you can’t stop it, and it’s happening in the middle of trying to conduct business.

That’s problem one of about six dozen.

Meanwhile, Matt Gaetz is moving to table the motion to proceed. Not a specific motion to proceed. Every one of them.

Unfortunately, Andy Biggs won’t give unanimous consent to *anything,* so there’s nothing to do but try to move motions to proceed.

All of this is happening without the electronic voting system, so every roll call is taking over an hour.

The Speaker has no discretion in recognition, so the Majority Leader has to spend every minute standing on the floor, otherwise some backbencher will get control and offer his own motion to proceed to some bill top names a post office.

Another hour for the tabling roll call.

Bobert, Gaetz, Greene, and Biggs have now made a pact to always have one of them guarding the floor, and they are objecting to every single UC request.

The good news is we don’t need to setup a hotline system. It’d be useless.

We’re thinking maybe six weeks for the vote-a-rama on the budget resolution.

Meanwhile, a standoff has formed where people on *both* sides are refusing to end a quorum call, because 26 different members have holds on more than 500 bills each.

Daniel Webster is now demanding his amendment gets a vote, and is threatening a live quorum call after each procedural motion for the foreseeable future.

Tom Cole has accidentally let it slip that amendments need not be germane to the underlying bills.

150 different members have now filed abortion and gun control amendments to the FAA reauthorization.

Clay Higgins gets wind that you can force all amendments to be read in full, and has let it be known that he will deny UC to dispense with the reading of the substitute unless HIS amendment goes first.

Hoyer tries to dispense with morning hour by UC. The entire gallery laughs.

Eighty-five people are in line to get control of the floor and use Rule XVI to bypass the committee system and get their bill directly onto the calendar.

Another 40 were in line, but were just informed that you can attach your entire bill to any other bill as an amendment.

They all are now standing outside the parliamentarians office, waiting for a meeting.

The Dems from the Bay Area are now getting the floor in sequence, moving to proceed to local ceremonial bills, and then filing cloture petitions that they have signed on each of them. Gonna be 12 or 13 hours of roll calls to defeat them two days from now.

Carolyn Maloney is pissed about something—presumably a non-germane amendment she wants—and now is objecting to letting the committees meet while the House is in session.

Paul Gosar takes note. “Didn’t know you could do that. Interesting.”

Marcy Kaptur is arguing that you can't be President Pro Tem *and* Majority Leader, so as second in seniority to Hoyer, she should be PPT. Just to spite her, Hoyer resigns as majority leader, muttering "there's no power to this job anyway."