How much you wanna bet she heard her husband crying out “Oh God! Oh God!” in the spare bedroom with the pool boy, and his excuse was that they were praying that Hillary loses?
I still find it humorous that members of the party of god are so filled with hatred of others and against anything benefitting anyone other than themselves.
I’m genuinely curious – to what degree are Congress critters allowed to go on junkets overseas and make pronouncements on foreign policy? That seems like the province of the State department. So when Bachmann, say, implies that the official US policy is to blame the Muslim Brotherhood for 9/11 and we support the overthrow of the government in Egypt, and it turns out that this is not the official US policy – what’s the response? Does she get a very nasty phone call from John Kerry? The Speaker of the House? If it leads to an international incident or some Benghazi-like repercussions, could she be censured by the House?
There is no restriction on where members of Congress can go or what they can say to whom, aside from the same laws that apply to everyone else. Indeed, they get immunity from anything arising from anything they say on the floor of the House or Senate.
The House of Representatives can decide for itself when or why to censure a member, but it has not done so very often. Theoretically, they could, but u could think they’d be reluctant to censure a member for doing what they might themselves sometimes do.
The secretary of state could certainly write a nasty letter to a member of Congress, but it would have no legal consequence. Congress is equal to the president, so the secretary of state is below Congress.
She can be censured by the House for any reason. There are minimal statutory or Constitutional limitations on the internal processes of the House and Senate. Having said that, negotiation by unauthorized persons (the POTUS or his delegates) with foreign governments is a criminal violation of the Logan Act.
Speaking of which, Representative Steve King is in danger of censure by Representative Steve King, who has made his opposition to this sort of activity very clear:
“As an educator, parent, and grandparent, I feel very firmly that ‘creation science’ based on Biblical principles should be incorporated into every Biology book that is up for adoption.”