"Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors." - Al Green.

January 6, 2026. The day I nearly bought stock in Orville Redenbacher's.

Now that the framework for legislative research is complete, now that most topics catalog proposed legislation for at least six to eight weeks in 2025, I am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not a train.

Monday night, I finished Rep. Lloyd Smucker’s complete “file” from June 12, 2025 through December 31, 2025. I did it first, because Smucker does so little. There’s something delightful about marking a task complete. Even if it’s just Smucker’s pitiful bits of bills and remarks. The man loves to hear himself talk.

Nearing the end, I saw it: House Roll Call Vote 322 – Voted Yea - H.Res.939. Looked up H.Res.939. Wha-, what? It’s Rep. Al Green’s resolution: Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors.

As stunning as Trump’s veto of Lauren Boebert’s innocuous bill had been, this was even bigger. No longer was it simply a matter of pigs flying. Gravity had ceased to exist, we learned this is in fact a simulation, and I was going to wake up tomorrow and Kamala Harris would be president.

If you have the time or inclination, take a look at Smucker’s 2025 record. This is the same guy who cosponsors bills that would define life as beginning at conception, who was one of thirty House Republicans who voted to censure Mark Kelly et al, who does everything in his power to break unions and legislate against labor.

This same Lloyd Smucker took a taxpayer-paid vacation to Las Vegas and Simi Valley in July, supposedly hyping the Big Bad Bill that had passed three weeks prior. He works to dismantle DEI. He believes that it should be mandatory that any company or individual getting government contracts should not be allowed to hold gun control views. Of course he joined the rest of his Republican colleagues in a resolution honoring Charlie Kirk.

His support for the Afghan Adjustment Act, which would recognize the special status of Afghan refugees who assisted the USA during the Afghan war as they apply for asylum, surprised me. I am wondering how he is going to spin his support now that Donald Trump hates Afghans. Oh well. It’s still in committee, where it will likely die.

Smucker would be humorous if he were not so infernally annoying. He loves to make remarks on the House floor, congratulating constituents on their retirement, recognizing someone for placing second in the 2025 3M “Clash of the Grinders” competition, applauding Reist Popcorn’s 100th anniversary. If he legislated as much as he remarked…

Perhaps it’s a good thing he’s happy with banality. Because Lloyd Smucker is so deep in Donald Trump’s pocket, he couldn’t find his way home if he had to. It was sad when he apparently felt compelled to make a public remark on the floor of the House on December 11, 2025, apologizing for missing a vote the day before. He sounded so much like a first grader who’s afraid he’s made the principal angry. The vote had passed without him.

So... When I read: House Roll Call Vote 322 – Voted Yea - H.Res.939, and when I realized that was Al Green’s impeachment resolution, I nearly fell out of my chair.

But I learned a good lesson, one I had already “learned,” but that is now burned into my brain.

Read the whole thing. Assume nothing.

Because Lloyd Smucker had not voted in favor of impeaching Trump. Heaven forbid! He’d have needed more than a note from his doctor to beg forgiveness for that sort of misstep. He voted in favor of tabling Al Green’s resolution. It’s dead in the water.

We are not dealing with opponents who say what they mean and mean what they say. They cloak racist legislation in Orwellian terminology.

It’s not overt attempts to overturn DEI regulations, it’s “anti-racist” legislation.
It’s not “non-discrimination” when they say Firearm Industry Non-Discrimination Act, it’s “to prohibit the Federal Government from entering into contracts with an entity that discriminates against the firearm and ammunition industry.”
It’s not helping people who are on unemployment due to a strike at their place of employment, or “SHIELD Act (Securing Help for Involuntary Employment Loss and Displacement Act).” It’s making it federal law that a person may not collect unemployment if they are involved in a labor dispute.

Orwellian. Loyalty Oaths.

So no. All is still normal in Smucker’s world. Donald J. Trump, Mike Johnson, and his MAGA base in Lancaster and York Counties are still happy with him. He can keep performing his city council duties on the floor of the House. Because he always, but always, “votes right.”

Funny postscript: Believe it or not, Lloyd Smucker loves talking about Smucker’s jams and jellies in his banal remarks on the floor of the House.

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