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Charlie's cousin Kevin McCarthy is ousted from the House Speakership [1]

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Date: 2023-10-03  

Down with the ship. Kevin McCarthy lasted 270 days as Speaker. That's 27 Scaramuccis, plus or minus one Boehner, as McCarthy had handed the RWNJs the means to oust him in order to gain the position.

x If McCarthy is ousted, an acting Speaker would be appointed — chosen from a list of five names designated by McCarthy and shared with the House clerk, in a process implemented for continuity of government reasons after 9/11.



Follow live: https://t.co/q3uAlaHKyd pic.twitter.com/vQcJlokvCD — The Hill (@thehill) October 3, 2023

If McCarthy is ousted, an acting Speaker would be appointed — chosen from a list of five names designated by McCarthy and shared with the House clerk, in a process implemented for continuity of government reasons after 9/11.

What exactly would happen would throw the House into uncharted territory, but those in both parties expect that the acting Speaker would have the chief responsibility of presiding over a new Speaker’s election.

House Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said the House would likely recess, and each party would likely meet in a closed-door meeting to again designate a nominee for Speaker.

“I have no doubt in a situation like that Kevin McCarthy would be renominated right away,” Cole said.

thehill.com/...

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