A proposed set of rules governing House operations for the 119th Congress includes a notable change that would strengthen the speaker’s position against future ousting attempts.
The chamber’s current rules allow just one member of either party to force a vote to vacate the speaker. The new package, released on Jan. 1, would up that threshold by requiring the resolution to be brought by at least nine members of the majority party.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) decried the change on social media and accused his Republican colleagues of “injecting partisan extremism” into the House rules.
“Their proposed changes would, for the first time in history, shield the Speaker from accountability to the entire chamber by making it so that only Republicans can move to vacate the chair. This makes it clear that they have no intention of working together to find common ground,” McGovern wrote on X....
