Political drama, but the US House has never done this in its history
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Patrick McHenry is speaker pro tempore until someone pushes for an election of speaker
Not sure on second question
Seems inefficient. Couldn’t they have simultaneously voted for a replacement?
This is the same House that took 15 ballots to elect McCarthy in the first place; pushing for an election would probably shut it down for a while
Another use case for instant runoff voting.