Posted on 11/14/2024 11:04:47 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Two factions of the House Republican conference have brokered a deal to raise the threshold to trigger a motion to vacate the chair, the procedure to force a vote to remove the Speaker of the House, from one member to nine. CNN reported that the rules package for the House of Representatives in the 119th Congress includes a change to the motion to vacate rule, which derived from an agreement between the House Freedom Caucus and the Main Street Caucus. The outlet’s Annie Grayer and Sarah Ferris wrote: The conservative House Freedom Caucus and governing-focused GOP Main Street Caucus had been in talks — along with Speaker Mike Johnson – about changes to the motion to vacate, according to three Republicans involved in the discussions. An internal party rule change would defuse the procedural weapon used to remove Johnson’s predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, from power. In exchange, GOP lawmakers would not push for changes that would punish members for voting against rule. If Johnson can successfully raise the threshold, it would eliminate a key problem for him in the next Congress, where CNN projected on Wednesday that Republicans will have a majority in the House. The GOP conference would need to approve the deal on Thursday. As CNN noted, the tool was used to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) in October 2023. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who resigned Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him as attorney general, filed a motion to vacate the chair in October 2023.
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Yeah its no secret that a major portion of the republican politicians are deep state. It’s not just democrats.
This is good, they could have a new speaker every week with the old rules. Just give everybody a turn. This is better and makes the office more meaningful.
I think the Gingrich takeover led to the ending of a bucket of ice being delivered to each congress office everyday but I don’t think they succeeded in getting rid of having a paid employee to sit in the elevator and push the buttons for them.
Good point
Still 9 is not many to get.
Agree totally...we had a mess on our hands..
1 is too low and 9 is too high.
5 would be about right.
One wacko vindictive conservative woman forced this issue
—”This is good, they could have a new speaker every week with the old rules.”
Hakeem Jeffries was “THIS CLOSE” to taking it.
‘“I would rather be governed by the first 200 people in the telephone directory, than by the swamp caucus’ or something like that.
It means that 2% of the House must support the Motion to Vacate.
That still feels like a very limited and very simple threshold to cross.
Then the American people will vacate them from their elected seat. If Repukes want to appoint somebody to Speaker that lost their seat, that’s on them. If they do that, then the people who voted for that need to go too.
The mess our country is in but the main interest of the Congress is themselves.
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