House Democrats are being urged to vote 'yes' on a motion to vacate.
The House will vote Tuesday afternoon to determine whether House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will remain speaker, after Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced aFirst, the House will vote to table Gaetz's motion to vacate the speaker's chair, a move House Republican leadership is making in an effort to quash a handful of Republican detractors including Gaetz. GOP Rep. Tom Emmer, the majority whip, announced the vote Tuesday afternoon.
Ahead of the vote, McCathy told reporters"it is what it is" but insisted he was"confident" he would remain speaker. He earlier said he spoke with Jeffries Tuesday morning, but when he was asked whether he would have to rely on the votes of Democrats to retain the speakership, he replied,"No, I personally am not."
"Well it's never happened before we've never had a speaker be ousted through the motion to vacate," said Casey Burgat, assistant professor and legislative affairs program director at George Washington University.
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