Question: Is the House rule that allows a single representative to propose vacating the speakership being preserved? If changed, does anyone know what the new threshold is? Or won’t we know the rules until the new Congress is sworn in and seated in 2025?
I ask because I wonder if this yet another weapon in the Democratic arsenal. In other…
Question: Is the House rule that allows a single representative to propose vacating the speakership being preserved? If changed, does anyone know what the new threshold is? Or won’t we know the rules until the new Congress is sworn in and seated in 2025?
I ask because I wonder if this yet another weapon in the Democratic arsenal. In other words, at critical times when there is insufficient Republican attendance, Democrats can "gum up the works" by proposing to remove Speaker Johnson – and threatening to elect Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker.
Yes, I realize it may be more advantageous to simply continually highlight Republican dysfunction...
Question: Is the House rule that allows a single representative to propose vacating the speakership being preserved? If changed, does anyone know what the new threshold is? Or won’t we know the rules until the new Congress is sworn in and seated in 2025?
I ask because I wonder if this yet another weapon in the Democratic arsenal. In other words, at critical times when there is insufficient Republican attendance, Democrats can "gum up the works" by proposing to remove Speaker Johnson – and threatening to elect Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker.
Yes, I realize it may be more advantageous to simply continually highlight Republican dysfunction...
New Congress sets new rules, and with Gaetz and his hate-boner for McCarthy gone, I’d imagine it doesn’t survive
A reminder that the current rule had been the historical norm before Pelosi changed it. I would not be surprised to see it persist.