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If the chair is the regular presiding officer, the motion to declare the chair vacant cannot be used. [2] However, the assembly could temporarily remove the chair for the meeting using a suspension of the rules. [3] The bylaws of the organization would determine how to permanently remove the officer. [4]
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 ...
Greene threatened to introduce her motion to vacate for weeks. She did so May 8 and 15 minutes later, a ranking member of her own party led the effort to kill the bill. That effort won 359 votes ...
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 ...
Earlier this year, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate the speaker's chair, threatening to oust Johnson just months after he ascended to the speakership.
A motion to vacate may refer to either: A legal motion seeking vacatur of a judgment or other ruling A motion to vacate the chair , seeking removal of a legislative body's presiding officer
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made concessions to the far right to get his job, including changing the rules to allow any member of Congress to force a vote to remove him.
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.