Republican Lawmakers Consider Ditching Motion-to-Vacate Rule That Sen. Gaetz Used to Oust McCarthy

Many Republican lawmakers have posed raising the threshold to trigger a no-confidence vote in the next House speaker — or ditching the rule altogether — after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the role Tuesday.

The California Republican paved the way for his own dismissal in January as he sought enough support to become the lower chamber’s leader, making a deal with far-right Republicans that a single member could bring a motion to vacate the chair — a vote of no confidence in the speaker. McCarthy’s ouster was the first time in U.S. history a House speaker has been removed by such a motion.

Without an elected speaker, legislative business in the House is now at a standstill as the federal government inches toward a mid-November deadline to avoid a government shutdown.

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