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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. Voluntary dismissal - Wikipedia

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   Voluntary dismissal is termination of a lawsuit by voluntary request of the plaintiff (the party who originally filed the lawsuit). A voluntary dismissal with prejudice (meaning the plaintiff is permanently barred from further litigating the same subject matter) is the modern descendant of the common law procedure known as retraxit .

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 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 ...

6. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Mike ... - AOL

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   But Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., remained noncommittal on the motion to vacate, saying he wants to hear a plan from Greene for who would take over as speaker if Johnson is ousted.

7. McCarthy removed as House speaker after motion to vacate ...

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   Kevin McCarthy has for now lost the House speaker’s gavel in an historic moment on the heels of a showdown on Capitol Hill over government funding.