One-Vote Rule to Vacate Chair Likely Changed by Year’s End

“Fading fast” is the way House Republicans and their staffers increasingly describe the threat of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. to call for a vote by the full House to vacate the Speaker’s chair.

Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., went a step further Tuesday, describing Greene’s threat as “dead.”

Given the likelihood that House Speaker Mike Johnson will wield his gavel throughout the rest of the year, a growing number of his fellow Republicans are now telling Newsmax of their hopes to change the rule that dethroned former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and until recently threatened Johnson: that a single member can call for a motion to vacate the chair, resulting in an immediate vote by the full House.

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