The Hitchhiker’s Guide to what happens if Greene tries to oust Speaker Johnson

So far, it’s been each speech and nary enactment from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and her menace to telephone a vote to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

Greene introduced her solution to telephone a ballot of nary assurance connected the level for the Speaker 38 days ago. But Greene has not triggered her resolution. Doing truthful would compel the House to enactment connected her solution either instantly oregon docket it wrong 2 legislative days. 

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It is believed that Greene would apt suffer successful her effort to dump Johnson. Some Republicans support removing Johnson. But Democrats mightiness backmost him up – particularly aft avoiding aggregate authorities shutdown scenarios and advancing the overseas assistance package.

Democrats could ballot successful favour of retaining Johnson – oregon simply "take a walk." If Democrats don’t vote, that helps Johnson, changing the mathematics successful the House indispensable to region the Speaker.

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It should beryllium noted that different subordinate too Greene could trigger the solution to "vacate the chair" and unit the House to tangle with the anticipation of removing the Speaker.

Or, successful a peculiarly audacious move, Johnson himself oregon an state could trigger the resolution, assured that their forces volition decision Greene soundly. Such a script could embarrass Greene and apt euthanize immoderate effort to region the Speaker for the remainder of the Congress.

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Here’s what happens if Greene’s solution is triggered:

The archetypal ballot is apt connected a question to array oregon termination the resolution. If the House votes to table, the gig is up. The House volition person vanquished Greene’s effort.

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However, if the question to array fails, the House then instantly votes, up oregon down, connected whether to region Johnson. This is the existent "motion to vacate the chair."

If the House votes successful favour of removing Johnson, chaos ensues.

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The House ceases to function, overmuch like past fall erstwhile members removed erstwhile Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). The House is paralyzed and cannot instrumentality immoderate legislative enactment until it picks a caller Speaker. An acting Speaker Pro Tempore, similar House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) would instrumentality over. But they would person small powerfulness different than to gavel the House into league and out.

By rule, the adjacent bid of concern is for the House to instrumentality names successful information for a caller Speaker. The House past votes connected Speaker. In the lawsuit of past fall, it took respective days earlier the House was adjacent ready to consider a caller Speaker. The Speakership sat vacant for 22 days.

The afloat House selects a Speaker. The palmy campaigner is idiosyncratic who receives the outright bulk of each House Members casting a ballot for idiosyncratic by name. The Speaker of the House does not request to beryllium a Member. 

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And, it volition beryllium astir the math. Here is the contiguous breakdown successful the House:

429 members.

217 Republicans, 212 Democrats.

Six vacancies.