With House Republicans poised to meet Tuesday evening, it was clear that one particular item would be topping their agenda: scrapping or at least amending the 'vacate the chair' rule that brought down Speaker Kevin McCarthy a week ago.
With House Republicans poised to meet Tuesday evening, it was clear that one particular item would be topping their agenda: scrapping or at least amending the "vacate the chair" rule that brought down Speaker Kevin McCarthy a week ago.
Most House Republicans who spoke to Newsmax said they were sympathetic to changing the present rule in which a single member can make a motion to "vacate the chair" and have an immediate "up or down" vote on the fate of the speaker. The one-vote threshold had actually existed for well over a century but was only invoked once: in 1910 against conservative Republican Speaker Joseph Cannon, R-Ill. and threatened against Republican Speakers Newt Gingrich in 1998 and John Boehner in 2015. The "motions to vacate" went nowhere against either but is considered key in convincing Boehner to resign a few months later.
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