McConnell: Next Speaker Must End Motion To Vacate

The Washington Examiner reports:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) replacement on Wednesday to eliminate the motion to vacate after the procedural tool was used to force the latter’s historic ouster.

“I have no advice to give to House Republicans, except one: I hope whoever the next speaker is gets rid of the motion to vacate,” McConnell said at his weekly leadership press conference. “I think it makes the speaker’s job impossible, and the American people expect us to have a functioning government.”

The motion, McConnell reiterated at the end of the press conference, “puts whoever the speaker is a hammerlock of potential dysfunction.”

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Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) calls for the House to get rid of the motion-to-vacate rule for the position of House speaker, saying it makes governing “impossible.” pic.twitter.com/xpZbzz4yv7

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