The conservative Freedom Caucus wants to change congressional rules to make it easier to remove a House speaker in exchange for helping elevate Kevin McCarthy to the post.
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Allowing members to offer a motion to vacate the chair is seen as an insurance policy by hardline Republicans. Many fear that once entrusted with the speaker's gavel, McCarthy will refuse to threaten a partial government shutdown in an effort to get President Biden to make concessions on policy.Motions to vacate the chair were deployed only twice between 1910 and 2015.
Boehner's allies within leadership prevented the motion from going directly to the floor, instead sending it to the House Rules Committee for consideration. Three months later, Boehner resigned after conservatives indicated they would not drop the issue. "The House can't function if anyone can take the entire chamber hostage at any point over a petty disagreement with the speaker," said a senior House Republican aide said at the time."The House Freedom Caucus has long called for this change – along with other changes to return power back to the body – and any true leader should be willing to subject themselves to that accountability," he said.
The Freedom Caucus has more than two-dozen members and has been working to educate new members on how to. The group knows that any path for McCarthy to get to 218, the number needed to win a speakership election on the House floor, goes through them.
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