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BumRushDaShow

(145,067 posts)
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 06:47 AM Jan 4

Nancy Mace's Bathroom Ban Excluded from House Rules Package

Source: Huff Post

Jan 3, 2025, 07:52 PM EST


The GOP-controlled House approved its rules package on Friday evening, including provisions targeting transgender and immigrant rights, but notably did not include the trans bathroom ban Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) had proposed.

The Republican introduced her controversial ban in November to restrict access to all “single-sex facilit[ies] on Federal property” based on “biological sex.” She admitted to HuffPost the ban specifically targeted incoming Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first transgender woman to be elected to Congress.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who narrowly won reelection to the chamber’s top job earlier on Friday, had reportedly assured Mace that her bathroom ban would be included in the package.

Mace congratulated Johnson on his reelection and did not make any mention of the bathroom ban’s absence from the rules package.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-maces-bathroom-ban-excluded-from-house-rules-package_n_6778768ae4b041e2bf94db14

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Nancy Mace's Bathroom Ban Excluded from House Rules Package (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 4 OP
It's always bullshit. truthisfreedom Jan 4 #1
Lots of showy noise for magas back home. Too busy to compromise and get Nation's business done (governing). . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 4 #2
I wonder if they didn't include it slightlv Jan 4 #3
Where's the poutrage, Nancy? riversedge Sunday #4
But Johnson snuck it it anyway Quiet Em Tuesday #5

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,709 posts)
2. Lots of showy noise for magas back home. Too busy to compromise and get Nation's business done (governing). . . . nt
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 12:31 PM
Jan 4

slightlv

(4,581 posts)
3. I wonder if they didn't include it
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 06:54 PM
Jan 4

because of the bathroom type mess their own people made all over the capitol building? Perhaps they didn't want to remind people that it was republicans and magas that actually have bad bathroom etiquette.

riversedge

(73,680 posts)
4. Where's the poutrage, Nancy?
Sun Jan 5, 2025, 04:59 PM
Sunday





Nancy Mace’s Bathroom Ban Not Included In House Rules Package
Where’s the poutrage, Nancy?

https://crooksandliars.com/2025/01/nancy-mace-s-bathroom-ban-not-included


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..............So Mace must be up in arms over the omission that she is sure endangers all women, right? Actually, no.

More from Fiallo:

Mace doesn’t appear to have any bad blood over the omission. She posted Friday morning that Johnson still had her vote to remain House Speaker.

“A vote for @SpeakerJohnson is a vote for President Trump’s America First agenda,” she wrote. “After the last few days of chaos we’ve seen in these tumultuous times, we need steady leadership and continuity. We need to stick together and get to work. We don’t have any time to waste.”


In case you thought Mace had even the tiniest bit of principles.





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Quiet Em

(1,350 posts)
5. But Johnson snuck it it anyway
Tue Jan 7, 2025, 10:52 AM
Tuesday

After South CarolinaRepublican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace made a spectacle of transgender people’s access to bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol at the end of the 118th Congress last year, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has quietly announced a rule restricting bathroom usage in the 119th Congress.

The policy, detailed on page 26 of the 87-page January 3 edition of the Congressional Record, mandates that single-sex facilities—restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms—be used solely based on a person’s gender assigned at birth. Notably, the rule was not included in the high-profile House rules package debated and voted on last week. Instead, it relies on unilateral authority delegated to Johnson under the House rules, which gives him “general control” over House-controlled facilities.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/republican-house-transgender-bathrooms

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