Steve Herman"Chaos is Speaker McCarthy," says Rep. Matt Gaetz on the House floor rebutting GOP colleagues' concern his move to vacate (oust the speaker), if successfull, will send the chamber into chaos.
“It’s disgusting, it’s what’s disgusting about Washington,” says Rep. Garret Graves (R-#Louisiana) about Republican colleagues immediately sending out fundraising text messages and e-mails about their support of the motion to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) quickly defends raising money off the move to oust McCarthy, telling the speaker's supporters: "You all keep showing up for lobbyist fundraisers and see how that goes for you."
"We have to rip off the Band-Aid," says Rep. Gaetz, adding he doesn't know how the vote will go to oust Speaker McCarthy, which he has instigated. "Let's vacate the chair. Let's get a better speaker."
A roll call vote now begins on the move to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House.
Kevin McCarthy removed as speaker of the US House of Representatives on a vote of 216-210.
Eric Gilmour@w7voa can the acting speaker actually run the house, or can they only facilitate the election of the next speaker
Big Kumera Energy"However, in the 108th Congress, the House amended clause 8(b) of rule I(11) to require the Speaker to provide to the Clerk a list of Members to serve as Speaker pro tempore in the case of death or incapacity of the Speaker. Although the need to use this authority has not yet arisen, were a Speaker to die or become incapacitated during his or her term of office, a designated Speaker pro tempore, pursuant to this rule, would preside over the election of a new Speaker."
@erictgilmour @w7voa
From "Precedents of the House" - I believe their only duty is supposed to be 'handle the election of a new speaker'.
From "Precedents of the House" - I believe their only duty is supposed to be 'handle the election of a new speaker'.
Precedents in various formats: https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/precedents-of-the-house?path=/gpo/Precedents%20of%20the%20U.S.%20House%20of%20Representatives/000-Precedents%20of%20the%20U.S.%20House%20of%20Representatives%20(2017%20series)
Current PDF version: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-HPREC-PRECEDENTS-V1/pdf/GPO-HPREC-PRECEDENTS-V1.pdf
