Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz filed a resolution late Monday to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, setting up a likely showdown vote in the House in the days ahead.
I'm Lisa Mascaro. I'm the chief congressional correspondent for the Associated Press after *** head spinning few days at the Capitol on the brink of *** federal government shutdown. It's back to business as usual, almost *** threat of an ouster hangs over house speaker Kevin mccarthy after he reached across the aisle for democratic votes. In order to keep the federal government open. It was *** big bipartisan deal but it now risks Speaker mccarthy's job.
It's a historic moment: the first time in more than 100 years that a lawmaker has actually used an obscure legislative tool that has been threatened at times against other House speakers, but never fully employed to try to remove them. "It's a really bad idea," said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of the more conservative lawmakers in the House.
"Do we side with a sociopath or an incompetent?" said Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., a progressive leader."I don't know?"Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said he has spoken privately to some Democrats who have told him they would vote to help McCarthy remain in office."I'm sure Mr. Gaetz will have some allies who will go with him. But I don't see enough.
Gaetz acknowledged the effort is likely to fail. He responded to questions about what he hoped to accomplish by saying Americans need to know who's in charge. A motion to vacate is a rare and strong procedural tool that has only been used twice in the past century against Republican speakers. But in recent years, conservatives have wielded the motion as a weapon against their leaders.
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