Colorado Rep. Ken Buck’s move to retire next week makes House Speaker Johnson’s job that much harder — and may end Lauren Boebert’s congressional career. We can only hope.
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Ken Buck, left, shakes hands with former Special Counsel Robert Hur after he testified before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 12, 2024, in Washington. The Republican lawmaker from eastern Colorado already announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his term. But now that apparently is not soon enough.
“This place has just devolved into this bickering and nonsense and not really doing the job for the American people.”Pardon my excitement, but I couldn’t help but agree. By all accounts, Buck sounds like a liberated man, freed at last from the constraints of a political world that seems increasingly bent on feuds, factionalism and theater more than workable solutions.
He has criticized his fellow Republicans for echoing Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. He has had the temerity to express doubts about Republican claims to have found evidence that President Joe Biden committed an impeachable offense. He was one of three House Republicans to vote against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, citing the lack of evidence against him.
Buck’s departure will leave a House in which Republicans will outnumber Democrats 218-213, which means House Speaker Mike Johnson can afford to lose only two votes to pass legislation along party lines. That increasingly is forcing Johnson to turn to Democrats to move must-pass legislation like the bill that recently kept the federal government from closing down.
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