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The Speaker of the House is chosen by the Majority Party. In this Congress, it is the responsibility of House Republicans to choose a nominee & elect the Speaker on the Floor. At this time there is no justification for a departure from this tradition.

The House will be in order.
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Kevin McCarthy’s House speaker job under threat, with vote possible today
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is at risk of losing his job as early as Tuesday, as a faction of hard-right Republicans seeks to oust him and Democrats signaled they are not willing to vote to save him. Earlier Tuesday, McCarthy told GOP lawmakers he would make a motion to table a resolution to remove him as speaker. But to survive, McCarthy would need Democratic support, and leading members of the party said Tuesday that they feel no obligation to provide votes. “We are ready, willing and able to work together with our Republican colleagues, but it is on them to join us,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters after an hours-long Democratic caucus meeting.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Monday introduced the resolution to remove McCarthy from his leadership position after weeks of threatening to do because McCarthy passed a stopgap measure to fund the government with Democratic support.
There has never been a successful effort to remove a House speaker, putting the House in uncharted territory.

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House rejects attempt to spare Kevin McCarthy a vote on removal
The Republican-led House on Tuesday voted down a motion to table a resolution that would remove the California Republican from the speakership. As a result, the chamber will move forward with a vote on whether McCarthy should lose his position. His removal is being sought by hard-right members of his party and Democrats have signaled they won’t save him.


By Marianna Sotomayor
Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives
More Republicans have voted not to table the motion than GOP leadership was expecting. A private whip count had seven, maybe eight voting with Democrats to table.

By Amy B Wang
National politics reporter
In a 208-218 vote, the motion to table failed, meaning the House will advance to the motion to vacate House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). Eleven Republicans voted with Democrats against the motion to table.

By Marianna Sotomayor
Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives
Cannot stress how quiet the chamber was when Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) announced that the motion to table had failed. There was no audible reaction from either side of the aisle.

Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) just smiled as he spoke to Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.), an ally of his.
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More updates:

By Marianna Sotomayor
Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives
There have been some quite stunning remarks from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who admits he used to be the thorn in GOP leadership’s side in a different era. His passion in calling for Democrats to save the House as an institution is the feeling that many Republicans are experiencing.

They’re angry. They’re frustrated. They’re sad that their party can’t govern itself.

But Democrats have yet to react or show that they’re convinced by these arguments. Many have told Republicans privately, including in the final hours leading up to this vote, that Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans could have tried to save the institution for years now. They’re not convinced this is a pivotal moment.


By Theodoric Meyer
National political reporter and co-author of the Early 202 newsletter
The six House Republicans who never voted for Kevin McCarthy for speaker in January and instead voted “present” — Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Elijah Crane (Ariz.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Bob Good (Va.) and Matthew M. Rosendale (Mont.) — have been among McCarthy’s toughest critics in the nine months since that vote. But they didn’t vote as a bloc on the motion to table.

Boebert was the only one who voted to table Gaetz’s motion, siding with McCarthy.

“Call it what you may, but this sure beats [Nancy] Pelosi’s House where everyone Zoomed in from their districts,” Boebert wrote on X on Monday evening.

By Marianna Sotomayor
Congressional reporter covering the House of Representatives
Many Republicans just groaned in unison as Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) charged that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made a “secret deal” with Democrats on Ukraine funding.

They appear to be over Gaetz.

By Leigh Ann Caldwell
Early 202 co-author and Washington Post Live anchor
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who spoke to defend Speaker Kevin McCarthy, has become an ally of his over the past several months. He has defended McCarthy and voted with him more than he has voted with leadership in the past.

One reason Massie has become an ally is because McCarthy inserted into the debt limit bill a version of a Massie plan to prevent an all-encompassing omnibus spending bill.

By Jacob Bogage
Business reporter
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) invoked a “secret Ukraine deal” that he accused Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of striking with President Biden after averting the government shutdown. House Republicans, and especially Gaetz, are increasingly skeptical of sending more aid to Ukraine, but Democrats in the House, Senate and White House have all said they expect McCarthy to bring a bill including Ukraine aid to the House floor, where it is likely to pass with mostly Democratic votes. McCarthy allies groaned and booed when Gaetz brought up Ukraine funding. McCarthy laughed and shook his head.


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KEY UPDATE
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Were you wondering why Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and those voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are speaking from the Democratic side of the aisle? Well, according to multiple people familiar with the matter, Republicans would not allow him to speak from their side. The vitriol within the GOP conference against Gaetz is palpable, and we are all seeing it based on this small move.
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Meanwhile...

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NBC News: A handful of moderate House Democrats have received calls from Republicans asking them to vote to save Kevin McCarthy's job. One source describes those calls as "begging."
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Kevin McCarthy ousted as speaker in Republican-led House

The Republican-led House voted Tuesday to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as speaker, the first such removal in congressional history. McCarthy’s removal was sought by hard-right members of his own party. Democrats did not provide votes that would have been needed to save him. The move puts the House in uncharted territory as it searches for a leader.

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Now comes the fun part...



Fun might not be the right word but you either laugh or

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Here's what to know
Following McCarthy’s ouster, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) was designated as speaker pro-tempore. He presided over the chamber briefly before calling a recess to allow Republicans and Democrats to meet privately.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) introduced the resolution to remove McCarthy from his leadership position after weeks of threatening to do so because McCarthy passed a stopgap measure to fund the government with Democratic support.

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You know that Pelosi and Jeffries already know what their next move is.

As for the GQP

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If something like this happened anywhere but here in the States media coverage would be the equivalent of the rich looking down their noses at the poors but since it's happening here it's not being looked at that way at all. Instead they want us to think this is normal political shenanigans when this has never happened in the history of the US. All because Kevin wanted to ensure the government, in all of its aspects, continued to run.
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Popular guy this Gaetz person.

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By Marianna Sotomayor and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff

Speaking to reporters after the vote to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) “shouldn’t be in the Republican Party.”

He said Republicans plan to meet later tonight to discuss the next steps, but he expects McCarthy to be nominated and eventually become speaker again.

“We don’t let eight people dictate the rest of the conference,” Bacon said of Republicans who voted against McCarthy.

When asked if he would rather work with moderate Democrats or Gaetz and the others who voted to oust McCarthy, Bacon said: “I would never want to work with Matt Gaetz.”

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.) said no one else had stepped forward to run for speaker and that her assumption was that Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) would run again.

“I haven’t heard him say he’s not,” Greene said. “I think the vote today shows that he really truly has the support of the whole conference except a few people.”
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There Is No Clear Replacement Candidate for McCarthy
Republicans focused on ousting Speaker Kevin McCarthy aren’t in agreement about who they want to replace him.

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Representative Steve Scalise, center, is the No. 2 Republican in the House and a rival of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s.Credit...Tom Brenner for The New York Times

By Annie Karni
Reporting from the Capitol

Oct. 3, 2023
Updated 1:27 p.m. ET
If not Speaker Kevin McCarthy, then who?

That was the question hanging over the Capitol on Tuesday, as it became clear that Democrats were not going to help Mr. McCarthy survive the vote to oust him.

That there isn’t an obvious answer to the question was part of Mr. McCarthy’s ability to win the bruising battle for the job in the first place — he never let a serious alternative emerge.

Nine months later, there still isn’t a clear candidate in waiting.

“I think there’s plenty of people who can step up and do the job,” Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, one of the rebels bent on pushing Mr. McCarthy out, said Tuesday morning, but he said he did not know who he had in mind for the job instead.

Representative Eli Crane of Arizona, another one of the hard-line holdouts against Mr. McCarthy, said he wasn’t there yet in terms of supporting someone else.

“I don’t like to get the cart before the horse,” he said. “For me, right now, this is just about representing my voters and holding the speaker accountable for deals made and deals broken."

Some names were starting to be bandied about, even as all of the potential successors vowed that they were not looking to replace Mr. McCarthy, whom they said they still supported.

Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, on Monday night said he was open to supporting Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the current No. 2 House Republican and a longtime McCarthy rival who is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for blood cancer.

“I am not going to pass over Steve Scalise just because he has blood cancer,” Mr. Gaetz told a horde of reporters as he left the Capitol on Monday night.

Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 Republican in the House who serves as the majority whip, has also been mentioned by some of his colleagues as a viable option. Mr. Emmer, who has hosted many late night sessions in his office with various factions of the Republican conference, trying to help the group find common ground, has gained the trust of the far-right members. But they don’t view him as a particularly strong leader.

“He’s a good sounding board. He’s got some nice conference rooms. He doesn’t lie to us,” Mr. Gaetz said of Mr. Emmer in an earlier interview. “We know he can’t make anything happen.”

Another logical person to turn to would be Representative Patrick McHenry, the longtime North Carolina congressman who is close with Mr. McCarthy and has previously served in leadership. But Mr. McHenry would most likely resist any attempt to draft him into the role. He chose not to run for a leadership role last year, opting instead to lead the powerful financial services committee.

In a scramble, Representative Elise Stefanik, the top woman in leadership whose role means she works closely with all members of the conference, could emerge as another potential alternative. Serving as conference chair and overseeing messaging for all House Republicans, she is widely seen as someone with big political ambitions outside of the House — like potentially serving in a future Trump administration.

Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, one of the longest serving Republicans in the House who leads the Rules Committee, is also respected by both Republicans and Democrats alike.


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My statement in the aftermath of the Motion to Vacate the Chair.

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This is former Speaker Jim Boehner who took one look at the "Freedom Caucus" and decided it was time for it to be 5p all the time and booked.
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