As few days as our Congress is in session, I don't think it is too much to ask our Representatives to be present in or around the Capitol during business hours unless it is a life or death emergency. My employer wouldn't keep me around if I was slacking off whenever I felt like it.
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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Ah, so all of Congress is the old boys network. You don't call out one of your own if you want to have a future in the big business of government.
Not present: Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
Made me laugh. Of course she's on the list.
11 dem no show, i wonder who side are they even on.
I'm very disappointed in my rep, Melanie Stansbury. She won't get my vote again. I wrote a message to her on the government contact form, saying as much. Fat lot of good that will do.
the new york rep that would have voted no was stuck in traffic, like two other democrats that would've voted no??
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rep-gillen-misses-hegseth-impeachment-150400234.html
Living in this country is so embarrassing! Ahhhhh!
They were stuck in traffic having attended an AIPAC linked organizations event.
Gotta collect their bribes somehow
Get ready for another year of protesting even with dems in Congress.
Dems in Congress only means there’s a chance people will listen as opposed to before when there was no chance.
We are NOT out of the woods yet.
So stupid. This was never going to pass.Who would think that it would? (makeup of house and senate are unchanged until January).
It wasn't intended to pass. It was intended to give republicans the opportunity to reconsider their loyalty to Mike Johnson and trump, in the context of the incoming power change. Some of them may want to break ranks and signal that now. Or not.
Maybe, but I think it was more of an attack on Jefferies. It was intended to show how ineffectual and incompetent Jefferies is.
We need new leadership!
Chris Van Hollen is calling his colleagues: https://www.ms.now/news/van-hollen-schumer-senate-majority-leader-democrats
Let's get the new leadership we so desperately need!
7 calls to help replace Schumer and Jeffries:
- Call Ayanna Pressley and encourage her to run for speaker of the house. She would be a great leader in addition to being the first black speaker of the house - which eliminates Hakeem Jeffries false claim only racists oppose him.
https://pressley.house.gov/contact-us/
- Call Senator Chris Van Hollen and encourage him to run for Senate leader to oust Chuck Schumer.
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/ Numbers at the bottom of the page
- Call your representative and urge them to support Ayanna Pressley for speaker of the house.
4 & 5) Call your senators and demand they support Chris Van Hollen and oppose Chuck Schumer for Senate leader.
http://5calls.org/issue/house-senate-leadership/
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Call Chuck Schumer and demand he step down as Senate leader: (202) 224-6542
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Call Hakeem Jeffries and demand he step down as house leader: (202) 225-5936
Repeat every day until we have new leaders.
When leadership can't get everyone on the same page, people start asking serious questions. What do you think this vote says about the party's direction?
What do you think has changed in the house since the election? You do know none of the winners are sworn until January, right?
The will of the American voters has been expressed. And we were loud and clear.
That's what changed.
I understand that 10 of the 11 Dem no-shows take money from Israel's super pac, AIPAC.
I'm happy to be corrected, but that is my understanding.
Follow the money.
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The 11 Democratic members of the House who were not present for the procedural vote on the Pete Hegseth impeachment resolution are:
- Julia Brownley (Calif.)
- Lou Correa (Calif.) — note: the report notes he was recovering from a medical procedure and unable to travel
- Laura Gillen (NY)
- Steven Horsford (Nev.)
- Jonathan Jackson (Ill.)
- Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
- Brittany Pettersen (Colo.)
- Melanie Stansbury (NM)
- Haley Stevens (Mich.)
- Marilyn Strickland (Wash.)
- Frederica Wilson (Fla.)
Fuck haley stevens what a stupid bitch
A part of kegsbreath's impeachment is he's working for Israel's interests rather than the US', so of course AIPAC goons like Stevens and Pelosi are gonna be absent for his impeachment vote.
Of course it includes Pelosi. Stupid leech.
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Majority of dems who didn’t vote, also had funding to their campaigns through aipac. Looking at you Marylin Strickland.
Not only that, they were attending an AIPAC event instead of being there to vote.
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Jeffires is comprised by both Israel and Trump. Secret meetings with Kushner and sucking Bibi's dick, swearing off getting justice and calling it revenge. You could fill a book with good reasons why he should not only never have additional power, he should be primaried and replaced asap.
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