House Speaker Will Be More Difficult To Remove In Approved Rules Package

In a 215-209 vote, the House of Representatives approved a rules package that makes it more difficult to remove the Speaker of the House.

“A rules package that will make it harder to remove the House speaker was passed in the chamber along party lines on Jan. 3. The 215–209 vote happened hours after Republicans handed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) the gavel, entrusting him with steering the party’s historically narrow majority,” The Epoch Times wrote.

“Under the rules of the previous Congress, a single member of either party could force a vote on a motion to vacate the speaker. The new policy not only increases that threshold to nine members, but also stipulates that those members must be from the majority party,” it added.

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