Republicans consider killing motion-to-vacate rule that Gaetz used to oust McCarthy

Washington —  Many Republican lawmakers have posed raising the threshold to trigger a no-confidence vote in the next House speaker — or ditching the rule altogether — after Kevin McCarthy was ousted from the role Tuesday. 

The California Republican paved the way for his own dismissal in January as he sought enough support to become the lower chamber's leader, making a deal with far-right Republicans that a single member could bring a motion to vacate the chair — a vote of no confidence in the speaker. McCarthy's ouster was the first time in U.S. history a House speaker has been removed by such a motion.