Speakerless

I think it goes to Adam schiff or jerry nadler. That should be good for the yidden!

Next in line for the presidency, after the vacant position of Speaker, is the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.

This is a serious hesaron. If the country does not have Hamedaber, is it even human!?

They’re speechless!!

McCarthy will get it. This is all posturing for the sake of political theatre.

As the Speaker position is vacant, if both the Presdent and Vice-President die, the President pro temp of the Senate becomes President, though it is unclear whether she would get a regular term (it never happened before).

akuperma: Why is it any less clear than if the Vice President ascended upon the vacancy of the presidency (which has occurred several times)?

Dear Yungerman,

Please pour your thoughts out to God. That is not me.

Your fellow poster

“Right now, the House has no members, so it can’t happen”

CTLAWYER: What can’t happen?

Also, whoever the President nominates doesn’t assume the office of Vice President until confirmed by the Senate. (The House isn’t involved in the confirmation of a new VP.)

I too have a bunch of speakers I could lend them. 5 QSC, 4.5 JBL…

Well I’ll give McCarthy kudos for not crying voting fraud, even after having lost 7 times in a row.

@Always
Every time the Republicans shut down the Federal Government the shut out employees received their pay and benefits for the time not worked.
We taxpayers will pay for this Republican circus in many ways, rest assured the Boeberts and Gaetzes will continue to line their pockets with our money

And….McCarthy won.

Hey jackk, what do you think about McCarthy winning?

Johnson

@Little Froggie
“We all…..paid NOT to work.”

Please speak only for yourself.
This member of the CR, who is an employer, worked all through Covid, as did his employees and allwere paid to work. No employee of the CTL firm was laid off and collected unemployment. The nature of the practice made remote work practical. Clients were serviced via, Zoom, phone, email and fax.

CTL, I also wanted to reply but then, Little Froggie is probably not yet in the workforce so why disturb his fantasies?

The way WFH transformed the work environment is still an unfinished story. For the Jews specifically, there are now so many places where you have no problems with erev shabbos, taking chol hamoed off, staying away from pritzut and social drinking, healthy home diet instead of brown bag lunches, ability to learn with the kids during the day, and take Florida workations.

Bigger point is – employees always liked WFH, but employers, esp middle managers, were afraid of letting it happen. It seems that there was no productivity decline overall, probably a combination of two factors:
1) productive people are even more productive without constant control and inane meetings
2) non-productive people are equally not productive at home and not interfering with the rest.

@AAQ
The CT court system helped facilitate WFH by requiring all filings do be done electronically. No more trips to the courthouse to file papers.
Many court proceedings are still being held via Zoom. This saves clients loads of money. I typically bill $250 more per hours for court appearances (plus travel time) than my standard rate. Much of the day in court is wasted waiting for cases to be called, judges interrupted for motions, 90 minute lunch breaks when I can’t do other billable work, so the client pays a full day and I don’t do a full day’s work for the client, but have to be available as the judge’s clerk schedules.
With Zoom, I can do billable work, until I hear the clerk call the case, there is no travel time to be paid by the client, no gas, parking, etc. I don’t take 90 minutes to eat, so i have another hour to work and bill another client. The first client is not stuck paying for a full day.

We have used WFH for decades, as long as an office staff member is in the office during opening hours, the attorneys can come and go as appointments and meetings warrant. We do not have walk in trade.
During Mrs. CTL’s long illness I did 90% of my work from my home office. I have a separate outside entrance and a few select clients could see me in person if necessary without me being unavailable for her needs.
My daughters who work for the firm, loved being able to work from home when my grandchildren were very young and I extended that workstyle to non-family employees as well. each clerical worker chooses one half day per week to be in the office and file. Phones are often transferred to ring off premises at the office manager’s or receptionist’s home office.
If I didn’t own our offices, I would downsize the firm’s space, but owning a fully paid and depreciated building means it is a prudent decision to remain.