John Boehner has lost the support another House Republican.
Iowa’s Steve King revealed Sunday night that he “can’t vote for John Boehner again” to become Speaker of the House of the 114th Congress.
“When a president does violence to our Constitution, those who also take an oath to our Constitution have an absolute duty to defend it,” King wrote in an op-ed at Breitbart News. “We need a Speaker of the House who carries in his bones the conviction of our oath.”
King joins Texas’ Louie Gohmert, Florida’s Ted Yoho, Michigan’s Jim Bridenstine, Indiana’s Marlin Stutzman and Kentucky’s Thomas Massie as other House Republicans who have publicly declared they will not support Boehner’s speakership bid.
King cited Boehner’s failure to challenge the passage of Obamacare in October 2013 and his support of the Obama administration’s “executive amnesty” on immigration as the reasons why he will not vote for him.
“It takes a Speaker who both understands and believes his sworn duty is to use all the powers of his office to defend and restore the proper constitutional balance of powers,” King wrote. “Instead, our Speaker has placed Obama’s executive amnesty on the path to permanent full funding.”
“We need a Speaker who will help us all keep our oath, including his own, to the Constitution, not one who has consistently blocked our efforts to keep ours,” he added.”I will vote for an alternative candidate for Speaker. I can’t vote for John Boehner again.”
Voting on House leadership is slated for Tuesday.
