House Rejects Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Effort to Remove Speaker Johnson From Office

TIME

Hardline Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried and failed in an action Wednesday to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans.

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00:00By passing the Democrats' agenda and handcuffing Republicans' ability to influence legislation,

00:06our elected Republican Speaker, Mike Johnson, has aided and abetted the Democrats and the

00:11Biden administration in destroying our country. Whereas removing this uniparty speaker will not

00:19give the speaker's gavel to the Democrats, which would only happen if Republicans actually vote

00:26for Hakeem Jeffries. Johnson regularly chooses to ally himself with Democrats.

00:40Now, therefore be it resolved that the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives

00:46gentlemen will suspend. The house will be in order.

00:48Resolved that the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby

00:58declared to be vacant. On this vote, the yeas are 359, the nays are 43, with 7 answering present.

01:06The motion is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

01:11I want to say that I appreciate the show of confidence from my colleagues to defeat this

01:15misguided effort. That is certainly what it was. As I've said from the beginning,

01:19and I've made clear here every day, I intend to do my job. I intend to do

01:23what I believe to be the right thing, which is what I was elected to do.

01:27And I'll let the chips fall where they may. Hopefully, this is the end of the personality

01:31politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress. It's

01:37regrettable. It's not who we are as Americans. And we're better than this. We need to get beyond it.

01:42The Speaker of the House serves the whole House. That's the job. Everybody. But I am

01:48a lifelong movement conservative Republican, and I intend to continue to govern in accordance with

01:54those core principles. We need steady hands at the wheel. We need people who understand

01:58what made America the strongest, the most powerful, the most free, the most successful,

02:04the most benevolent nation in the history of the world. We have to fight for that every day,

02:08because we're in a battle between two competing visions for what America is and what it's going

02:12to be. And that's what I'm about every day here. And I'll continue that. We have important work,

02:18not only to keep the House majority, but to grow the majority, because that will be necessary to

02:22help save this country and the work that we have to elect a Republican president.

02:27We're on that as well. Our decision to stop Marjorie Taylor Greene from plunging the House

02:34of Representatives and the country into further chaos is rooted in our commitment

02:41to solve problems for everyday Americans in a bipartisan manner. We need more common sense

02:50and less chaos in Washington, D.C. Marjorie Taylor Greene and extreme MAGA Republicans

02:58are chaos agents. House Democrats are change agents. We will continue to govern

03:08in a reasonable, responsible, and results-oriented fashion and put people over politics all day

03:20and every day. The only thing we ask of our House Republican colleagues

03:24is for traditional Republicans to further isolate the extreme MAGA Republican wing of the GOP,

03:36which has visited nothing but chaos and dysfunction on the American people.

03:42We're just interested in making sure that the House of Representatives can continue

03:49to work in a bipartisan manner, isolate the performance artists, the pro-Putin wing of the

03:57Republican party, and the MAGA extremists, so we can get things done for the American people,

04:04for hardworking taxpayers, and for the constituents that we are all privileged to represent

04:14in the People's House.

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