the House of Representatives Adopted new rules that will make it more difficult to hold a vote to remove the Speaker of Parliament.
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 remove the Speaker” – which led to a House-wide vote to remove the Speaker.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, agreed to lower the threshold to just one person in order to win over the naysayers and win the speaker's gavel in January 2023, at the beginning of the 118th Congress.
But the 119th Congress now raises that number from one to nine – and amends the rule further, specifying that nine members of the current majority party must be the ones to call the vote.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson has led the House in making it more difficult to oust him from the nation's highest office. (Getty)
This sparked anger among Democrats, who accused Republicans of undermining the importance of the minority party.
“The proposed changes would, for the first time in American history, protect the Speaker of the House from accountability to the full House by making it so that only Republicans can move to remove the Speaker,” said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts. The top Democrat on the House Rules Committee.
“This shows that they have no intention of working together to find common ground. Instead of electing a Speaker of the House, they decided to elect a Chairman of the Republican Conference – who is being held hostage by their most extreme members.”
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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted after agreeing to lower the threshold for a motion to vacate the chair. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
McCarthy in particular was ousted by eight House Republicans and all House Democrats after former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., called a snap election. Movement to evacuate Chair in October 2023.
The one-vote threshold hung over Johnson like a sword of Damocles for more than a year after he won the Speaker's gavel later the same month.
The change is the product of negotiations between the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus and the more pragmatic Republican Main Street Caucus.
Other changes in the new House Republican rules package include replacing some non-gender-related familial language such as “child” and “parent” with more gendered language such as son, daughter, mother and father.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz led McCarthy's ouster (AP/J Scott Applewhite)
It also limits The ability of the Speaker of the House of Representatives To bypass traditional chamber processes to rush a bill to the House floor through a mechanism known as “rules hold.”
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Johnson's use of the suspension procedure to pass important legislation with support from Democrats angered GOP hardliners at the House GOP convention.
Under the new package, Johnson will only be able to put a bill in the House of Representatives for a vote under suspension on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
