Speaker Pro Tempore Matthew Carrington says House will vote on President Laylin's 2024 Inflation Reduction Act on Tuesday morning. This is the first major vote he has called since assuming office as Speaker Pro Tempore.
RUFUS - House Speaker Pro Tempore Matthew Carrington has announced that the House will vote on Tuesday morning for the 2024 Inflation Reduction act that was proposed by President Jay Laylin just 10 days after assuming the presidency, on November 26, 2024. The president was hoping to have a vote sent to the House floor during the leadership of former Speaker Gretchen LeWolf, but LeWolf sidelined the bill to work on pro-LGBTQ legislation.
The bill was then delayed by the former Speaker herself, just a few weeks before Congress recessed for winter break. Additionally, she also moved to hold off on the inflation reduction act, until the President changed course and stopped what she called "racist," "isolationist," and "violent rhetoric" about illegals. She purposely delayed the vote until after the new year, and if she remained as speaker, she would have further delayed the vote.
"I think it is important that the Representatives duly elected to the House should have the final say on what bills pass and which ones fail," said Speaker Pro Tempore Carrington. "Representative Gretchen LeWolf as speaker didn't leave that choice up to the Representatives that voted for their Representatives. I will not do that. All votes will always be up to the Representatives whether it should pass or not. It's not the chair's job to prevent progress in Congress, in either the House or the Senate."
Carrington has also said that he would work to expedite several of the bills that were delayed, to ensure that the bills reach the House floor. He said that he will not delay any bills, for the sake of preventing any legislation from getting passed.