House GOP has plan to protect speaker from ouster threat

House Republicans will make it more difficult to oust the speaker for the 119th Congress, according to a rules package released Wednesday.

The Republicans’ proposed rules package prevents House Democrats from introducing a motion to vacate the speaker and raises the minimum number of Republicans required to prompt a vote on the speaker’s ouster to nine GOP members. The current rules for the 118th Congress allow any member of the House to trigger a vote to oust the speaker.