Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) ordered Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to vacate her Capitol hideaway office so he could take it over, just hours after becoming acting Speaker, Pelosi’s office said Tuesday.
McHenry became acting Speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was ousted from the role Tuesday, the first time a Speaker has been voted out of the job.
McHenry’s office requested that Pelosi vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday because it was being re-allocated “for speaker office use,” the message, first reported by Politico, reads. A small number of senior Representatives have “hideaway offices” inside the Capitol Building.
Pelosi denounced the demand in a statement late Tuesday.
“With all of the important decisions that the new Republican Leadership must address, which we are all eagerly awaiting, one of the first actions taken by the new Speaker Pro Tempore was to order me to immediately vacate my office in the Capitol,” she said.
“This eviction is a sharp departure from tradition,” she continued. “As Speaker, I gave former Speaker Hastert a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished.”
She called on McHenry and House Republicans to focus instead on legislation.
“Office space doesn’t matter to me, but it seems to be important to them. Now that the new Republican Leadership has settled this important matter, let’s hope they get to work on what’s truly important for the American people,” she said.
Pelosi is in California in preparation for the memorial services of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) later this week. She did not vote on the motion to vacate Tuesday.
“Sadly, because I am in California to mourn the loss of and pay tribute to my dear friend Dianne Feinstein, I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time,” she added.
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Good for him!
Good for him! She is such a whiner! She doesn’t deserve any special office.
Great first move!
Good for Patrick McHenry!!!
In many places when a new tenant wishes a certain space and the old tenant want vacate, the new tenant has a right to remove and dispose all property of the former tenant. If that was my choice ( hello homeless this is for your pleasure)
There is no new tenant and the house offices do not belong to the representatives, it belongs to the PEOPLE.
As an ex-landlord myself, never had a problem with any of my tenants because we treated each others with respect and consideration….sometimes exercising what YOU think is your right just makes you a dick
And it seem dickiness runs deep with Republicans (besides stupidity and hypocrisy, but we’ll leave that for another day)
Mchenry is no more than another southern, bow tied dandy who unexpectedly got power when Republicans decided to cut their own head to spite their noses….he is just been petty and decided to bully an old lady.
Karma is a b–tch…..
Most Republicans glad to finally see the GOP leadership finally grow some balls! Now we evict ALL USA-hating Democrats!
Seems very petty. This moron is not a Speaker, he is just a babysitter to the Republican children.
Bow Tie? Another sissy from N Carolina that probably thinks of returning to the old plantation and sit in the porch drinking ice tea while looking at the stud black men working the fields?
Bless his heart…..
Good first move acting Speaker, move Nutty Nancy to the far corner somewhere and let’s sing a song starting with “Ding dong the witch….”
Pelosi thinks she owns the building. Good move by McHenry.👍🏼
Good job by McHenry. Push her out the door!
Petty
She should have been gone long before now!!
Boo hoo, it’s going to be okay, she shouldn’t be in that office anyway she is no longer the speaker I guess McCarthy let it slide. Okay you can get back to your name calling now