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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Political drama, but the US House has never done this in its history

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Context? They just put another ghoul and thats it?

Also was this the guy that mentioned his wife died just before making an announcement?

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Buhbye.