Democrat rants about speaker vote in House, gets mic cut

Democratic Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett disrupted the floor vote Friday as she raged about non-representatives not having the ability to vote for the next speaker.

Plaskett disrupted the speaker vote Friday to submit a “parliamentary inquiry” about U.S. territories not being called to vote for the speakership. The clerk explained that delegates-elect and the resident commissioner-elect are not eligible to vote for the speaker, and that only representatives-elect are qualified to cast a ballot.