House votes for rules to make ousting a speaker more difficult (1 Viewer)

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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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