{"id":2059460,"date":"2023-10-08T03:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T07:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/motions-to-vacate-introduced-or-voted-on-in-us-history\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T03:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T07:17:53","slug":"motions-to-vacate-introduced-or-voted-on-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/motions-to-vacate-introduced-or-voted-on-in-us-history\/","title":{"rendered":"US historical motions to vacate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmotions-to-vacate-introduced-or-voted-on-in-us-history%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2059460&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Historic Ousting of House Speaker: A Look at Previous Attempts<\/h2>\n<p>For the first time in United States \u2064history,\u200b the speaker of the House was ousted after eight House Republicans\u200b and all Democrats voted to vacate the speakership Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>While Rep.\u2063 Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s (R-CA)\u2064 removal as speaker was historic, it was not \u2064the first time that a motion to vacate was brought against a speaker. Until Tuesday, there had not been a vote to vacate the speaker&#8217;s chair since 1910, nor had one ever been successful.<\/p>\n<h3>Instances of Motion\u2063 to Vacate the Speaker&#8217;s Chair<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1910 &#8211; former House Speaker \u2063Joseph Cannon (Voted on &#8211; Failed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 1910, Rep. George Norris used a motion to vacate against former House Speaker Joseph\u2062 Cannon. Cannon was referred to as the\u200c &#8220;supreme dictator of the Old Guard&#8221; \u200din Time magazine&#8217;s first issue when he retired from Congress in \u20631923.<\/p>\n<p>Back in that time, the speaker of the House made all appointments to congressional committees and chairs of\u2062 committees, controlled the Rules Committee and\u200c what bills headed to the House floor for a vote, and held the &#8220;power\u2062 of recognition&#8221; that gave the speaker \u200bthe power\u2063 to control who spoke on the House \u2064floor,\u2062 according to the Bill of Rights\u2062 Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Norris, whom Cannon denied a spot on the House Judiciary Committee, disliked Cannon, and like other progressive Republicans at the time, he thought the concentration of power was too great.<\/p>\n<p>The Nebraska representative waited for a day\u200b when all of the Republican &#8220;regulars,&#8221; or defenders of party loyalty, were out celebrating St.\u2062 Patrick&#8217;s Day. Norris believed he could swing a vote on a resolution to strip the speaker&#8217;s powers.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cannon stalled the\u2064 vote on \u2062the \u200cresolution by \u2064having his supporters\u200d sing on the floor\u2062 or go into bars to find his supporters. \u200dThe sergeant-at-arms \u2064was ordered \u2063by \u2063the House, after a vote that favored the resolution, to arrest absent members and bring them back to\u200b the Capitol for a vote on the resolution itself. But the sergeant-at-arms instead asked members to arrive voluntarily and arrested none.<\/p>\n<p>Norris&#8217;s resolution was finally voted on and passed 191 to 156, \u2064stripping Cannon of his \u200dpowers. A motion to\u200b vacate\u2063 was later brought up by a Democrat \u2062from Texas, \u2062as Cannon wanted to prove a point and test progressive Republicans&#8217; loyalty to the party. The motion to vacate Cannon failed 155 to\u2064 192 after Republicans, like Norris, would not \u200drisk the ascension of a Democratic speaker.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2015 &#8211; former House Speaker\u2062 John Boehner (Filed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One hundred and five years later, Mark Meadows,\u200b who later\u200d went on to become the White House chief \u2062of staff under\u2062 former President Donald\u2064 Trump, filed a motion to vacate former House Speaker John Boehner in July 2015 when he was a representative from North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows said he filed the\u2062 motion to force a &#8220;family conversation&#8221; among Republicans on the course of congressional leadership following a series of conflicts between Boehner&#8217;s\u200d team and a handful of conservatives. He added that he hoped \u200cthe motion would never come to\u2064 a vote.<\/p>\n<p>While a motion to vacate \u200ccan be highly \u2062privileged under\u200c House rules if made on the floor, Meadows instead filed the motion as a resolution, sending it to committee rather than directly to the\u200b floor for a\u200c vote. It \u200bwas \u2063filed without any co-sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Meadows had recently been stripped of his position as chairman of the oversight and government reform \u200csubcommittee after voting against a leadership-backed procedural vote \u2062on\u2062 trade legislation, according to the \u2063Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans at the time worried that filing the motion just before summer recess would interfere with their position on opposing the Iran nuclear deal, instead turning people&#8217;s focus to intraparty disputes.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2015, Boehner ultimately stepped down as speaker before a vote on the motion to\u200b vacate \u2064was called. Before Boehner&#8217;s resignation, no House speaker since Thomas P. O\u2019Neill Jr., who held the gavel \u200bfrom 1977 to 1986, had left the job willingly.<\/p>\n<p>Many thought McCarthy, the Republican majority leader at the time, would take the gavel, but Paul Ryan succeeded Boehner after he left the speakership in October 2015.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1997 &#8211; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Considered)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was threatened with a motion to vacate \u200cfollowing an ethics violation. He was reprimanded after using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-foreign-press-association-accused-of-ethical-violations-ahead-of-golden-globes\/\" title=\"Hollywood Foreign Press Association Accused Of Ethical Violations Ahead Of Golden Globes\">tax-exempt organization<\/a> for political purposes and providing\u200d false \u200dinformation to the House Ethics\u200c Committee.<\/p>\n<p>While a motion to vacate was never filed, his \u2064ethics investigation and the poor\u200d showing by Republicans in the 1998 congressional elections led to his resignation as\u2062 speaker on Nov. 6, 1998. He resigned from the House altogether\u200d on Jan. 3, \u20631999.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2023 &#8211; former \u2063House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (Voted on \u2062- Passed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rep. Matt\u200d Gaetz (R-FL) made the \u200dmotion to vacate after accusing McCarthy of making a &#8220;back\u2062 deal&#8221; with Democrats to \u200cpass a continuing resolution to fund the government temporarily, which he says is in \u200bdirect violation of the speakership agreement brokered in January.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s \u200d216-210 ouster was led by members of his right flank. The Republicans who\u200b voted to oust McCarty include \u200bGaetz and Reps. Tim \u2063Burchett (R-TN), Ken Buck (R-CO), Eli Crane (R-AZ), Bob Good (R-VA), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), Andy \u200bBiggs (R-AZ), and\u2062 Nancy Mace (R-SC).<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats held a heavy hand in the vote, and the party voted together as a conference to oust McCarthy. Several party members said ahead of the vote they weren\u2019t interested in helping Republicans sort out \u2062their intraparty tensions, and\u200b they cited a deep mistrust of McCarthy as part of that decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not here to keep Kevin McCarthy \u200bin power. This is their problem,\u201d Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) said Tuesday before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Patrick McHenry \u2063(R-NC) will serve as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-legislature-votes-to-repeal-state-song-over-ties-to-confederacy\/\" title=\"Maryland Legislature Votes To Repeal State Song Over Ties To Confederacy\">speaker pro tempore<\/a> until a new speaker is selected.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy \u2062made concessions to rank-and-file conservatives during the speakership vote, one of which was allowing any single lawmaker (Democratic or Republican) to bring a \u201cmotion to vacate the chair.\u201d Before the change, a member would need to get a majority \u2064of their\u200d party in support of the motion in order to move it forward.<\/p>\n<p>The California representative announced late Tuesday evening that he would not run for speaker again. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) have announced they are running for the speakership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/historic-ousting-of-house-speaker-a-look-at-previous-attempts\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has the power and role of the speaker of\u200c the House evolved over time?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Gether in January 1999.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The historic ousting of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy marks a significant moment in United States history. While this is the\u2064 first successful vote to vacate the speaker&#8217;s chair since 1910, it\u200d is not the first time \u2063such a motion has been brought\u2064 against a speaker. Previous attempts\u200c to remove the speaker include those against former House Speaker Joseph Cannon in 1910 and former House \u200bSpeaker\u2064 John Boehner in 2015. Additionally, former \u200dHouse Speaker Newt\u2063 Gingrich faced threats of a\u2064 motion to vacate in 1997 but ultimately \u200dresigned due to an ethics violation. \u200dThese instances \u200chighlight the occasional dissatisfaction and desire for change within the\u2063 House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The power and role of the speaker of the House have evolved over time, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/motions-to-vacate-introduced-or-voted-on-in-us-history\/\" title=\"US historical motions to vacate\">position holding significant authority<\/a> in terms of committee appointments, \u200dbill control, and the power of recognition. Movements to \u200cvacate the speaker&#8217;s chair have \u200doften been motivated \u200cby concerns over the concentration of\u2064 power and disagreements within the party. While previous attempts were unsuccessful, \u2063the successful\u2064 ousting of Speaker McCarthy demonstrates a shift in dynamics within the House of \u2063Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>As the United States continues to witness historic moments in its political landscape, it is crucial to reflect on the pattern of attempts to \u2062remove the speaker of the House. These instances serve as reminders of the complexities\u200d and challenges of leadership within the\u2063 legislative branch, as well as the importance of accountability and checks\u200b and balances.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, \u2063the ousting of Speaker McCarthy opens up new possibilities and questions about the future of House leadership. It remains to be seen how this \u200bhistoric event will shape the \u2064dynamics and\u2063 decision-making processes within the House of\u200b Representatives. As the nation progresses, it is vital for \u200bthe American\u2063 people to stay informed and\u2064 engaged in the political\u2063 developments that shape their democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in US history, the House speaker was ousted as eight House Republicans and all Democrats voted to vacate the speakership. Rep. Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s removal was significant, but not the first motion brought against a speaker. 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