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From Fox News: The House of Representatives has adopted new rules that would make it harder to trigger a vote to oust a speaker.
House lawmakers voted 215-209 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 Congress.
The 119th Congress has now raised that number to 9. Therefore, any lawmaker seeking to oust a Speaker must obtain eight co-sponsors in order to introduce the motion.
Additionally, they must all be in the party of the “ruling majority,” which means only Republicans would have the power to introduce the motion for the next two years.
House votes for rules to make ousting a speaker more difficult https://t.co/HQeSE6JzIE
— Fox News (@FoxNews) January 4, 2025
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