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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf we got a new speaker, could 1 person still ask for removal?
Or is that rule done since a speaker was ousted with it? Would the rule change under a new speaker, whoever it was ??
ificandream
(9,790 posts)2naSalit
(89,245 posts)The Rules Committee which could happen as soon as there is a new speaker.
Meanwhile, I hope that Pelosi and Hoyer have told that little peesqueak stand-in to fuck off and that they are not vacating anything.
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2naSalit
(89,245 posts)Shoot, um, I can't think of his name and I apologize for calling him that! Help, now I have a block. He was the Leader second to Pelosi. Grrrr!
Thanks for calling that out!
bottomofthehill
(8,505 posts)It is now Leader Jefferies and Whip Clark.
2naSalit
(89,245 posts)Got it, thank you. I knew the currents but Rep. Hoyer's name escaped me, I knew it was an "H" name!
Yikes.
griffi94
(3,756 posts)2naSalit
(89,245 posts)2naSalit
(89,245 posts)griffi94
(3,756 posts)You have no idea how much I hate it when that happens! I was trying to look it up but was not getting anywhere fast.
WhiteTara
(29,842 posts)I don't think they can change them.
bottomofthehill
(8,505 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,505 posts)The rules committee holds a hearing to amend the rules for the 118 congress. If the amendment passes the committee it is brought to the Floor of the House for a vote. It can come as a stand alone or attached to something else. Until a majority of the members vote to change the rule, the 1 person rule stays. Think back to the last Congress. Speaker Pelosi had Chairman Jim McGovern change the rules for screening members by putting them through metal detectors. The house voted on it and the Magnatometers stayed up until the end of the Congress. The new congress got sworn I , new rules were enacted by the new majority and the Mags were gone by about 12:02 on Jan 3.
Captain Zero
(7,208 posts)seems like a good summary
MichMan
(12,333 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,505 posts)MichMan
(12,333 posts)The demand by the Republican holdouts would restore the House rule on vacating the chair to what it was before Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elected speaker in 2019. Under Pelosi, a motion to vacate could be offered on the House floor only if a majority of either party agreed to it. Before that rule change, a single member could move for a vote to unseat the speaker.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mccarthy-motion-to-vacate-rule-speaker/
bottomofthehill
(8,505 posts)When I read that I thought is said it had to come up through the parties prior. That was the Pelosi rules change. My mistake. Thanks for catching.
Srkdqltr
(6,844 posts)He might not last a day.
Captain Zero
(7,208 posts)nt