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The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker.
House lawmakers voted along party lines to set the chamber's rules for the 119th Congress.
Among them was a measure to raise the threshold for calling a "motion to vacate the chair" – which sets off a House-wide vote to depose the sitting speaker.
Ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., agreed to lower the threshold to just one person in order to win over holdouts and clinch the speaker's gavel in January 2023, at the start of the 118th...
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