By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-14 19:15:28 | Updated at 2024-11-22 18:45:35
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House GOP Moves to Make It Nine Times Harder to Vote to Vacate the Speaker
Breitbart ^ | 11/14/2024 | Nick Gilbertson
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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KEYWORDS: deepstate; gop; gopestablishment; harder; house; rinos; speaker; uniparty; vacate; vote
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Great, just great.
To: ChicagoConservative27
2 posted on 11/14/2024 11:09:12 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Yeah its no secret that a major portion of the republican politicians are deep state. It’s not just democrats.
3 posted on 11/14/2024 11:10:40 AM PST by Revel
To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
4 posted on 11/14/2024 11:14:58 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Accepting a false premise initiates conversational defeat.)
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