Truly the most important thing the interim House speaker should be focusing on right now - petty bullshit while someone is mourning a colleague. /s

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    I disagree. This is unusual and newsworthy. The ‘why’ is given in the article: Speaker Pro Tempore McHenry wants it for “speaker office use”. It is rare that news CAN contain any more of a ‘why’ because we rarely know actual reasons. Sometimes we get BS reasons like “I don’t pay taxes because I’m smart” when the truth is closer to “I don’t pay taxes because I lie to the IRS, but since those docs are private, you’ll never know.” Sometimes little birds chirp rumors about underlying reasons over drinks, but it would be negligent for reporters to wait until then to give the public notice that something is up.

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      Update: CNN says Kevin McCarthy is responsible for moving Pelosi and Hoyer out of their offices and it was done as ‘real estate revenge’ and Kevin is moving IN to Pelosi’s office. They say an anonymous republican source told them, “Kevin is on a revenge tour. Patrick would never do that on his own. This was Kevin’s call.”