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House makes history, removes McCarthy as Speaker (thehill.com)
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Political drama, but the US House has never done this in its history

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Patrick McHenry is speaker pro tempore until someone pushes for an election of speaker

Not sure on second question

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems inefficient. Couldn't they have simultaneously voted for a replacement?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the same House that took 15 ballots to elect McCarthy in the first place; pushing for an election would probably shut it down for a while

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Another use case for instant runoff voting.