House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who came to the helm of the U.S. House of Representatives last week, says he’s open to changing a rule allowing a single member to make an effort to vacate the speaker’s chair.
A motion to vacate allows the House, when it loses confidence in its elected leader, to remove the speaker from their position. Until this month, no speaker in U.S. history had ever been successfully removed through the mechanism.
