Watch: Dem. Delegate’s Hissy Fit Ends in Mic Being Cut After She Proves She Has No Idea How House Actually Works

She might “have a voice,” but she doesn’t seem to have much understanding of her job.

Delegate Stacey Plaskett, who represents the U.S. territory of the Virgin Islands, had her microphone cut in the middle of a tirade Friday over the voting rights for U.S. territories in Congress when it comes to the House speaker.

As it turns out, they have none — something a U.S. delegate should probably be aware of, if she understood at all how the House works.

During the dramatics that ended with the election of House Speaker Mike Johnson by a squeaking 218-215 vote, Plaskett demanded to know why she and other members of Congress from U.S. territories had not been called upon.

“I note that the names of the

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