U.S. House set to vote on challenge to remove McCarthy as Speaker; supporters pledge to keep backing McCarthy even if ousted - Roll Call - SCW Newswatch 10.3.23
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CQ's Roll Call reports on efforts to oust California's Kevin McCarthy as U.S. House Speaker.
"Speaker Kevin McCarthy [reportedly] told House Republicans the chamber would vote Tuesday on a motion to vacate the speakership, vowing he would not cut deals with Democratic members to help him retain the gavel. ... [A] House rule change that McCarthy agreed to in January to secure the speakership allowed one member to bring up a motion to oust a speaker. ..."
Procedurally, the effort to remove McCarthy is a vacate motion, to vacate the Speakership. There might be a vote on a motion to set aside, or table, the motion to vacate. If the motion to set aside were defeated, there could be a vote on the main motion to vacate.
Even if McCarthy is ousted, he could be nominated again for the later vote to select a Speaker anew.
Opposition to McCarthy was bolsetered by his handling of government funding, when, hours before an imminent government shutdown, McCarthy brought a bipartisan measure that gathered support from Democrats, while having a number of Republicans vote against it.
That measure left out funding for Ukraine.
[Seemingly absent from recent news coverage was McCarthy's seeming endorsement, on video, of the summary gunning down of an unarmed female protester when she stood on top of something to look through a broken window during Jan. 6, 2021, election verification protests at the U.S. Capitol. Addressing a scenario when the unarmed 110-pound woman easily could have been restrained, or ordered to desist, by multiple security employees nearby, McCarthy said that a Congressional security employee was "doing his job" when he summarily shot dead the woman instead.]
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Key Words: U.S. House, Congress, Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz
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