Matt Gaetz acted Monday night to force a vote on a motion to vacate the office of the speaker, following through on a threat he made last week to take the gavel from the California Republican while the threat of a shutdown loomed. ...
The House has not voted as a body to authorize an impeachment inquiry. What we have are partisan theatrics, proceeding under the ipse dixit of SpeakerNancy Pelosi(D-Calif.). It raises the profile, but not the legitimacy, of the same “impeachment inquiry” House Judiciary Committee Chairman ...
Matt Gaetz acted Monday night to force a vote on a motion to vacate the office of the speaker, following through on a threat he made last week to take the gavel from the California Republican while the threat of a shutdown loomed. ...
Now, Jordan doesn’t have enough votes to become speaker, but the Freedom Caucus represents a large enough bloc that it could stop McCarthy again. One scenario is that we get a repeat of 2015 and McCarthy is forced to step aside for a consensus candidate like Scalise or a handful of ...
A House reading clerk announced immediately after the vote that Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina was the first name on McCarthy's list and therefore was appointed speaker pro tempore. "Pending such election, the member acting as speaker pro tempore may exercise such authorities of the ...