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This is the first time in US history that a House speaker has been ousted like this!
As usual, The Bee is on it:
And so are we:
More from NBC:
The House voted 216-210 to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., with a handful of conservatives joining Democrats to remove him. There were seven members absent.
What comes next? It's unprecedented. But for now, a temporary speaker pulled from a list of alternates McCarthy compiled earlier this year will take over. Read more about that here.
It was the shortest term of a House speaker since 1876, when Michael C. Kerr died between the first and second sessions of the 44th Congress.
From ABC:
The motion to vacate has ever actually been voted on once, in 1910, in an effort to boot then-Speaker Joseph Cannon, R-Ill. The effort failed, though it did spark a series of procedural votes that ended up weakening Cannon.
It's never happened before in the history of the Republic.
Which means we're right about here in the plot of Star Wars:
WILD!
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