House to vote on rule making it harder to oust speaker

The threshold that allowed a single member to trigger a no-confidence vote to remove the speaker will be increased to nine members.

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The rules package raises the threshold for triggering a vote from one GOP member to nine.
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House to vote on rule making it harder to oust speaker

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