a motion to vacate could be offered on the House floor only if a majority of either party agreed to it. Before that rule change, a single member could move for a vote to unseat the speaker.
involving what’s known as the “motion to vacate,” a mechanism by which members can force a vote to depose the speaker. The reported concessions will empower individual members at the expense of McCarthy’s sway as speaker.
“When I called the motion to vacate, it wasn’t Republicans that saved Mike Johnson. It was Democrats that saved Mike Johnson,” Greene said in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo. “And when you haveNancy Pelosi,who was Speaker of the House ...
The California Republican was one of 147 congressional Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. McCarthy resigned from the House late last year after fellow Republicans ousted him as speaker using the motion to vacate. During the event, McCarthy repeatedly cracked joke...
Ryan, I can tell you that this chamber has been run better, more conservatively, and more transparently, under Mr. McCarthy than any other speaker that I have served under," said hardline conservative Rep. Thomas Massie from the House floor before Tuesday's vote on the motion to vacate. ...
McCarthy said Gaetz had asked him to stop the investigation and filed the motion to vacate when he refused — a charge Gaetz has denied. McCarthy has been on a so-called revenge tour against the “Gaetz eight” — the Hill’s nickname for the Republican members who moved to oust ...
Next steps are highly uncertain as there is no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority. McCarthy’s chief rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, orchestrated the rare vote on the obscure “motion to vacate,” and pushed ahead swiftly into a dramatic afternoon roll call. While Mc...
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The motion to vacate the speakership is a rare and shaky check on power by Don Wolfensberger, opinion contributor 10/06/23 12:30 PM ET Congress Blog Who will be the next Speaker of the House? by Michael E. Bednarczuk, opinion contributor 10/04/23 4:30 PM ET Most...