An increasing number of House Republicans are vowing they’ll only vote for Kevin McCarthy for speaker, and that they’ll keep doing so “as long as it takes.”
“Americans elected a Republican Majority to provide a check and balance on the administration and to find solutions to the problems our nation is facing, we can’t do that if we don’t elect a Speaker on January,” wrote Reps.
Five conservatives are publicly threatening to vote against McCarthy for speaker, enough to keep him from the needed 218-vote threshold in House Republicans’ slim majority. They and other on-the-fence members have been pushing for changes to House rules, particularly to a procedural move known as the “motion to vacate” that allows lawmakers to depose a speaker. The Main Street Caucus Republicans specified that both the motion to vacate and one other proposed change were “problematic.
Any rules concessions would have to be “met with real, tangible, and proven concessions by those blocking Kevin McCarthy’s election as Speaker,” Bice and Johsnon wrote.
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