Oh look, the GOP monkeys in the House are throwing their feces again... McCarthy faces a threat to oust him as speaker. Here’s how that could work https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/13/politics/mccarthy-motion-to-vacate-vote-to-oust-speaker/index.html The impending showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding represents a significant leadership test for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The road ahead is rocky as the speaker faces tough vote math, major challenges and the potential threat of a conservative revolt against his speakership. House Republicans control only a narrow majority, a dynamic that has left McCarthy with little room to maneuver and has given hardline conservatives outsized influence to exert pressure over the speaker. To win over critics and secure the gavel, McCarthy and his allies made a series of concessions to conservatives. One major concession was to restore the ability of any one member to offer what’s known as a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair – a move that can trigger a House floor vote to oust the speaker. Firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, has so far been the most vocal in floating the possibility of using a motion to vacate against McCarthy. On Tuesday, Gaetz outlined a series of demands, including calling for passage of individual spending bills and not a short-term stopgap measure to fund the government, as he threatened a push to remove the speaker. “Do these things or face a motion to vacate the chair,” he said in a speech on the House floor. Later, Gaetz warned that there could be constant votes to oust the speaker. “We are going to have them regularly,” he told reporters, suggesting it could happen daily. “If we have to begin every single day in Congress with the prayer, the pledge and the motion to vacate then so be it,” he said. What is a motion to vacate? In practical terms, a motion to vacate the chair takes the form of a resolution to remove the speaker by declaring the speakership to be vacant. It is a rarely used procedural tool – and no House speaker has ever been ousted through the passage of a resolution to remove them. But threats over its use can be a powerful way to apply pressure to a speaker. How would an effort to oust the speaker unfold? Any member can file a House resolution to remove the speaker. According to House precedent, a resolution to remove the speaker would be considered privileged, a designation that gives it priority over other issues. But simply filing the resolution does not force a vote on its own, though it would be sure to ignite a political firestorm and a debate over the speaker’s future. To force a vote, a member would need to come to the House floor and announce their intent to offer the resolution to remove the speaker. Doing that would then require the speaker to put the resolution on the legislative schedule within two legislative days – setting up a showdown on the floor over the issue. If a member introduces a resolution, but does not announce it from the floor, that would not force a vote or have any immediate impact – making it more of a symbolic threat or warning shot to the speaker. How many votes are needed? A vote on the resolution to remove the speaker would require a majority vote to succeed and oust the speaker from their leadership post. A vote on a resolution to remove the speaker could still be preempted, however, even once it is on track to come to the floor for consideration. For example, when the resolution is called up on the floor, a motion to table – or kill – the resolution could be offered and would be voted on first. That vote would also only require a simple majority to succeed – and if it did succeed then there would not be a vote directly on the resolution to remove the speaker because the resolution would instead be tabled. What happens if it succeeds? According to the reference guide “House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House,” the speaker is required to submit a confidential list to the Clerk of people “in the order in which each shall act as Speaker pro tempore in the case of a vacancy.” Should McCarthy suddenly find himself out of his job as speaker, the Clerk will then pull out that list, and the number one name on that list becomes the interim speaker. His or her first order of business: The election of a new speaker – and once again, the House will have to vote as many times as it takes to get someone to 218 votes, or a majority of those present and voting for a speaker. Has this happened before? The last time a high-profile showdown played out on Capitol Hill over a motion to vacate was in 2015 when then-GOP Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina filed a resolution to declare the office of speaker vacant while John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, was serving as speaker. It was not brought to a floor vote, however. Not long after the resolution was filed, Boehner downplayed its significance, calling it “no big deal.” But a few months later, he announced that he had decided to resign, saying that he had planned to step down at the end of the year but that turmoil within his caucus prompted him to resign earlier than planned. Another notable incident took place in 1910, when then-House Speaker Joseph Cannon, an Illinois Republican, held onto the speakership after a resolution to remove the speaker came to a vote on the House floor and failed – 155 to 192. While a push to oust the speaker may loom as a major political threat, there are a number of factors that would make it challenging for such an effort to ultimately succeed in removing the speaker. “It’s probably harder to remove a speaker using a privileged resolution than people think,” said Matthew Green, a professor of politics at Catholic University in Washington, DC, and author of the book “The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership.” “It requires a pivotal bloc of members of the majority willing to withstand criticism and peer pressure from their partisan colleagues for introducing the resolution, bipartisan agreement that the incumbent speaker should be ousted, and a majority willing to select someone else to replace the speaker.” “It remains a potent threat as long as people believe it is a viable tool to remove a speaker. If it is actually brought to the floor and fails, it will lose its potency,” Green said.
Distraction, McCarthy (hands smaller than Trump's) will cave on the budget. Impeach the Supreme Court for willful ignorance of corruption.
Errr you heard about Blowbertjuice? Vaping too. You must be heaving filth like her then. Bad upbringing or were you dropped on your head? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66798627 After an initial warning at intermission, an usher approached them again five minutes into the second half requesting they leave after additional complaints of being loud and recording the show. Taking pictures and recording at the show are not permitted. In the report, one usher claims Ms Boebert and her companion "told me they would not leave". "I told them I would (be) going to get Denver Police. They said 'go get them'." Once in the lobby area, ushers claimed the congresswoman resisted leaving, saying "I will be contacting the mayor" and "Do you know who I am?"
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Top GOP House monkey flings poo back... 'File The F**king Motion': Kevin McCarthy Dares GOP To Oust Him Far-right Republicans have been threatening for months to file a motion forcing a no-confidence vote in the House speaker. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-motion-vacate_n_6503144ce4b034d7e741c25b?anf
"...since he prevailed against the same antagonists in January, when it took 15 rounds of voting for the House to elect him as speaker..." OMG I remember that! What a clown show!
The poo flinging by GOPers keeps getting more amusing... Effectively -- "Even worse than his sex crimes with minors, Gaetz is working with a Democrat". Gaetz says McCarthy ‘lying,’ in response to accusations he’s colluding with Swalwell https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...g-to-accusations-hes-colluding-with-swalwell/ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) attacked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) Wednesday, saying the Freedom Caucus ally has been “working with” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) to conspire against him. Gaetz has long been an opponent of McCarthy, including refusing to back his Speakership bid in January. He re-upped calls to replace the Speaker last week with a tweet to Swalwell inquiring about Democratic support, which McCarthy claims is, in reality, about an ethics complaint against the Florida congressman. “Matt is working with Eric Swalwell, but let me be very clear,” McCarthy told CNN. “Matt is upset about an ethics complaint. I don’t care what they threaten against me. I’m not gonna interject into an independent committee like ethics, and I’m not going to put Swalwell back on the intel committee. So, they can do whatever they want.” Gaetz is facing a House Ethics Committee investigation over allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct and did drugs, among other claims. The Department of Justice (DOJ) declined to prosecute Gaetz on sex trafficking allegations in February. In an MSNBC interview later Wednesday, Gaetz denied that he is motivated by that investigation. “I am the most investigated man in the entire Congress, and right there you saw Kevin McCarthy lying like a dead dog because I have never asked him to interfere in any ethics matter,” Gaetz said. He called McCarthy’s implication that he asked for special treatment on the complaint an “abject lie from a sad and pathetic man who lies to hold onto power.” Gaetz’s calls for a new Speaker were sparked by his demands for an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. McCarthy backed an impeachment inquiry Tuesday, but Gaetz said that move is only “baby steps.” Swalwell originally called out Gaetz’s threat to remove McCarthy as “empty.” “I’ve never seen a colleague make more empty threats — day in/day out than this guy. Gaetz folded like a cheap card table to make McCarthy speaker and will never — I repeat, never — make a motion to remove McCarthy. I do not work with serious people,” Swalwell wrote last week. House Republicans removed Swalwell and fellow California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff from the Intelligence Committee in January, in a political move Democrats claimed was retribution for similar removals of far-right Republicans from committees. The controversy over removing McCarthy and impeaching Biden come as negotiations over the federal budget continue. The budget is set to expire at the end of the month.