“Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry ordered former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to vacate his Capitol hideaway office on Wednesday after McCarthy was dethroned.
Kevin McCarthy was ousted as House Speaker on Tuesday in a 216-210 vote after Rep. Matt Gaetz filed a Motion to Vacate the Chair.
8 Republicans voted to oust McCarthy: Biggs, Buck, Burchett, Crane, Gaetz, Good, Mace, and Rosendale.
Patrick McHenry wasted no time after he slammed down the gavel.
Patrick McHenry also ordered Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday.
“A spokeswoman for Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told The Post that the former House majority leader had also been asked to vacate his Capitol hideaway office on Wednesday,” The New York Post reported.
Rep. Patrick McHenry (NC) was appointed as Acting Speaker after McCarthy was ousted.”
When Rayburn found a Democrat congressman who looked to him like a possible future leader of his party, he would bring him into the Board of Education and teach him how the House really worked.
When Lyndon Johnson was a mere congressional secretary to Congressman Dick Kleburg of Corpus Christi, Johnson managed to get his hands on the assignment of New Deal money to Texas, bypassing Rayburn, Senators Connally and Shepherd, and Vice President Garner. Once Johnson pulled off his maneuver, "Cactus Jack" Garner said, "Who the hell is this Lyndon Johnson?!"
When Congressman Buck Buchanan died of a heart attack, Johnson ran for his seat in a special election and won. Sam Rayburn wasted no time in bringing LBJ into the Board of Education. It was the beginning of a major political career.
Speaker Sam once said that he got uncomfortable when the Democrats had too big a majority in the House. "These northeastern liberals come up here with these squirrely ideas like eliminating the Oil Depletion Allowance." Rayburn also had a way of dealing with freshmen who wanted to become stars outside the proper channels, like AOC. "You know, this House has 435 members, and it's real easy to get lost in here."