Whoever wins the House speakership could face a near-constant threat from rebels within the Republican Party. Having an easily deposed speaker makes the task of legislating that much harder.
House reading clerk Tylease Alli calls the roll during the eighth round of voting for speaker on Jan. 5, 2023. Seemingly endless roll call votes have become the signature of the House’s inability to choose a speaker for the new Congress. But however long it takes to choose a speaker, it might be time to get accustomed to hearing hundreds of representatives’ names called out.
But through the first 10 ballots, McCarthy failed to sway about 20 members of his caucus to vote for him, leaving him short of the majority needed to win . The specifics of how to oust a speaker will be finalized once members are sworn in and pass a rules package, which will be the new speaker’s first order of business.
During the previous Congress, an internal GOP policy required a majority of the party’s membership to agree to pursue a motion to vacate — a fairly high bar. After Republicans secured control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections, McCarthy agreed to a much lower threshold, just five members.to the GOP bloc opposing him: In the next Congress, any single member could offer a motion to vacate, news outlets reported.
"The motion to vacate coming to a vote is embarrassing but survivable if some vote ‘present,’ but it is not survivable if Democrats are sufficiently angry and hard-nosed that they all vote to vacate," Schickler said.expressed a willingness
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