House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), in a major reversal, has decided to support restoring a rule that allows a motion from the floor of the House of Representatives to “vacate the chair” and force a vote on a new speaker of the House.
McCarthy’s quest to secure the speaker’s gavel is to be one of the newly convening 118th Congress’s first orders of business on Jan. 3. The California Republican is likely to succeed the outgoing speaker, Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), although some in the GOP have been warning they still aren’t ready to give him the support he needs.
