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The Senate GOP leader urged those in the House to ditch a rule he said would make the job of any future speaker “impossible."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has urged House Republicans to ditch a rule that led to the stunning downfall of Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the speakership, warning it would make any future speaker’s job “impossible.”
“I have no advice to give to House Republicans, except one: I hope whoever the next speaker is gets rid of the motion to vacate,” McConnell said Wednesday at a weekly press conference.
“To do that job, for anyone, you have to get rid of the motion to vacate because it puts whoever the speaker is in a hammerlock of dysfunction, potential dysfunction,” he added.
The “motion to vacate the chair” is a rarely used procedural tool that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) utilized earlier this week, leading to McCarthy’s ouster as speaker — a first in American history.
McCarthy won the House’s top job in January partly by agreeing to lower the threshold required to set the procedure in motion, a demand of hard-line conservatives. As a result, a single lawmaker could trigger a snap no-confidence vote in his speakership. Ironically, it’s that very same change that led to his undoing on Tuesday.
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I detest McConnell, but he's certainly right about the "motion to vacate" that can be triggered by a single lawmaker. What do you think?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has urged House Republicans to ditch a rule that led to the stunning downfall of Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the speakership, warning it would make any future speaker’s job “impossible.”
“I have no advice to give to House Republicans, except one: I hope whoever the next speaker is gets rid of the motion to vacate,” McConnell said Wednesday at a weekly press conference.
“To do that job, for anyone, you have to get rid of the motion to vacate because it puts whoever the speaker is in a hammerlock of dysfunction, potential dysfunction,” he added.
The “motion to vacate the chair” is a rarely used procedural tool that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) utilized earlier this week, leading to McCarthy’s ouster as speaker — a first in American history.
McCarthy won the House’s top job in January partly by agreeing to lower the threshold required to set the procedure in motion, a demand of hard-line conservatives. As a result, a single lawmaker could trigger a snap no-confidence vote in his speakership. Ironically, it’s that very same change that led to his undoing on Tuesday.
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Mitch McConnell Warns House Republicans About 'Hammerlock Of Dysfunction'
The Senate GOP leader urged those in the House to ditch a rule he said would make the job of any future speaker “impossible."
I detest McConnell, but he's certainly right about the "motion to vacate" that can be triggered by a single lawmaker. What do you think?