Analysis: In the first big clash between the speaker and the right, the ‘motion to vacate the chair’ hasn’t proved an effective weapon, for a host of reasons.
This rule has existed for a long time, but it took on new resonance not that long ago, even
playing a role in House Speaker John A. Boehner’s 2015 resignation. Staff for Boehner’s successor, Paul D. Ryan, labeled the rule a “weapon pointed at” the speaker “all the time.” The message to McCarthy was unmistakable: If you don’t toe our line, we will wield that weapon. After five months of relative harmony between them, the clash between McCarthy and the hard right we all knew would come has arrived, with the Freedom Caucususe the motion to vacate as leverage.All of which reinforces both the limits of it and the apparent goodwill that McCarthy has built up.traces back nearly two centuries, and it’s basically the equivalent of a vote of no confidence.
Others, like Rep. Ken Buck , have floated the possibility. But Buck has also suggested it’s too early to talk about it in earnest, before the bill even passes. So, too, have Rep. Andrew S. Clyde and House Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry . Perry punted on a question about it at the end of a news conference with his caucus Tuesday. But it’s an odd posture, given that the motion would seem to provide the most leverageRep. Matt Gaetz has also spoken about a motion to vacate.
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