Joe Cannon forced a vote in 1910 to keep his post as House Speaker.
reported. That motion also did not come to a vote, as Boehner resigned as speaker several months later.
Norris, who was elected to Congress in 1902 and was reelected four times, later served 30 years as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1913 to 1943. But Cannon’s steel grip on the House was loosened by Norris’ action that sparked the 1910 revolt by Progressives The Speaker “is broken, overruled, without power to back his decisions as presiding officer,” a 1910 editorial notes.“Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons,” he once said.
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