House Republicans announced Wednesday Night, an Agreement to raise the Threshold to invoke a Motion to Vacate the Speaker’s Chair, in exchange for Amendment Changes.
The Motion to Vacate Rule, currently allows just a Single Member of Congress to Call for a No-Confidence Vote against the Speaker. The New Agreement raises that Threshold to Nine.
Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD, 1st District), a Member of the House Freedom Caucus, said the New Agreement would be able to “eliminate the controversial issues” in order to “deliver on” President-Elect Trump’s (R) Agenda.
“We know who our speaker designate is right now, and we’ve been able to work across the conference to eliminate the controversial issues that could have divided us and move forward together to deliver on the president’s agenda,” Harris said. “That’s it. That’s what the American people expect us to do, and the first steps were taken today, very concrete steps.”
South Dakota Rep. Dusty Johnson, a member of the Main Street group, said the agreement will remove amendments “that probably would have divided this conference.”
“We had an opportunity to set the motion to vacate at a higher than number one, that motion to vacate will be set at nine in return for getting rid of some amendments that probably would have divided this conference. Andy did a good job of explaining to Main Street leadership why those amendments would have divided the Republican conference,” Johnson said.
The Motion to Vacate is a rarely used Procedural Tool, and McCarthy is the Only Speaker to have 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.
To Win over Critics and Secure the Speaker’s Gavel last year, McCarthy and His Allies made a series of Concessions to Conservatives, which included Restoring the Ability of any One Member to offer a Motion to Vacate.
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