since any member of congress can call for a new speaker vote

[drray23]

under the rules adopted by this new congress, schiff and swalwel should call for a vote every day until mc carthy gives up trying to boot them for Intel commitee or loses the speakership

[getagrip_already]

1. Any member can, but....

The process still means it won't go anywhere.

Immediately after calling a motion for a vote, another member can vote to table the motion. If a majority approves, it doesn't move to a vote.

Even if the gop doesn't stop it by tabling it, the motion will go to committee where it can again get tabled.

So really it doesn't mean anything unless the gop fail to table the motion. Not likely unless the arsonists want it.

[bullimiami]

3. so maybe 20 dems each call for their own vote each day. waste their time. be aggravating.

[drray23]

4. they can force a count instead of voice vote.

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if they keep doing it, it will paralyze the house. I would think each attempt will consume at least half an hour. If there happens to be missing members (one gop member is recovering at home after an accident) they would have trouble making the vote. It might require keeping it open and marshall all the votes.
The goal is not to remove Mccarthy but rather disrupt the proceedings so that he gives up.

[brush]

7. Right. If Dems coordinate it, they can manipulate...

the new rule to halt House proceedings to a stand still.

The insurrectionist repubs could be sorry they ever extracted that rule out of McCarthy.

[sl8]

6. Can a privileged motion be tabled or sent to committee?

I thought that it took precedence over almost all other House business?

[brooklynite]

8. No it won't go to Committee

This is a "privileged" motion, which under the rules means it immediately comes up for a yes/no vote by the entire House.

[getagrip_already]

9. Let's see, who chairs the rules committee?

Don't think for a moment that the rules will stand if the arsonists want them changed.

[brooklynite]

10. But they won't change them...

THEY want the right to immediately call for a vote as well.

nb: The Rules Committee develops procedures for debating and voting on individual pieces of legislation. The Motion to Vacate the Chair is part of the underlying rules the House votes for at the start of the Congress. Changing that rule requires a vote of the entire House, and can still be preceded by a Motion to Vacate.

[Omnipresent]

2. That would probably work...

There are few Republicans that don’t like what he is doing.
Maybe, they now have something like, “buyers remorse” after reluctantly giving him the gavel, after voting against his speakership 14 times in a row.

[MichMan]

5. That was the rule for 100 years prior to 2017.

until Speaker Pelosi changed it. It has never been used that way before against an opponent, but I suppose it could.