4 Democratic centrists to McHenry: Let's make a deal

[GregariousGroundhog]

7. Nope

The Constitution grants the House of Representatives the power to enact its own rules, and one of the rules Kevin McCarthy aquiesced to in order to secure his speakership was a rule allowing a single member to submit a motion to declare the speakership vacant.

There is no current Speaker of the House, so no one can submit a motion to declare the speakership vacant. McHenry is Speaker Pro Tempore, and the rules around how the Speaker Pro Tempore is determined and what they can do were written after 9/11. They laid out what to do if the Speaker of the House became unavailable or incapacitated for whatever reason.

The House is free to change its own rules, if they can get at least half of the representatives to agree to them. I'd bet on the House's ability to herd cats before I'd bet on their ability to change the rules prior to the next election though.