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2. Motion to vacate the chair - Wikipedia

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   Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised allows this motion to be used if the occupant of the chair is not the regular presiding officer of a society, in which case it is a question of privilege affecting the assembly. [1] If the chair is the regular presiding officer, the motion to declare the chair vacant cannot be used. [2]

3. House passes rules package that will raise threshold for ...

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   Under the new rules package, which cleared the lower chamber in a near-party-line vote, 215-209, a motion to vacate the chair will require a minimum of nine members of the speaker’s same party ...

4. Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House - Wikipedia

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   On October 2, Gaetz, a member of the Freedom Caucus, filed a motion to vacate. Following an unsuccessful motion to table by Representative Tom Cole, Republican Chair of the Rules Committee, Republican representatives debated McCarthy's speakership on the House floor. When the time for debate expired, the House voted to remove McCarthy, with ...

5. House Republicans strike deal on motion to vacate, making it ...

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   House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday evening that House Republicans from across the conference struck a deal to raise the threshold for the motion to vacate -- a procedure rank-and-file ...

6. House GOP leadership announces new rules package raising ...

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   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 ...

7. Motion (legal) - Wikipedia

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   A "motion to dismiss" asks the court to decide that a claim, even if true as stated, is not one for which the law offers a legal remedy.As an example, a claim that the defendant failed to greet the plaintiff while passing the latter on the street, insofar as no legal duty to do so may exist, would be dismissed for failure to state a valid claim: the court must assume the truth of the factual ...