From virginia laid out. And achieved them in divided government which calls for some degree of give and take. So im very proud of this speaker. Very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning, win or lose, im going to be pretty proud of the people i fought with and extraordinarily proud of the person i fought for. The Speaker Of The House, Kevin Mccarthy. With that, i reserve the balance of my time. Gentleman from florida. Mr. Speaker, my friend from oklahoma says my colleagues and i who dont support Kevin Mccarthy would plunge the house and the country into chaos. Chaos is Speaker Mccarthy. Chaos is somebody who we cannot trust with their word. The one thing that the white house, House Democrats, and many of us on the conservative side of the Republican Caucus would argue the thing we have in common, Kevin Mccarthy said something to one of us at one point or another that he didnt mean and didnt intend to live up to. I dont Think Voting Against Mccarthy is chaos. I think 33 trillion in debt is chaos. I think that facing a 2. 2 trillion annual deficit is chaos. I think not passing single Subject Spending Bills is chaos. I think the fact we have been governed in this country since the Mid 90s And Omnibus Is Kay Yot and the way to liberate ourselves from that is a series of reforms from this body that would outlast his time here, my time here and either of our majorities. Reforms that i have heard some of the most conservatives of this body fight for and some of the reforms that weve been battling for that ive even heard those in the democrat caucus say would be worthy and helpful to the house like open amendments. Like understanding what the budget is. We have been out of compliance with the budget laws for most of my life. By the way, if we did those things, if we had single subject bills, open amendments, trust and honesty and understanding, there would be times when my conservative colleagues and i would lose, win, times we would form partnerships that might not otherwise be really predictable but the American People would see us legislating. The last few days, weve suspending the momentum we established earlier, where we were bringing bills to the floor. Voting on them. Staying late at night, working hard. Thats what the American People expect. Its something the speaker hasnt delivered and thats why i move to vacate the chair. Gentleman from oklahoma. Mr. Cole. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Yield two minutes for my good friend from minnesota. Mr. Emmer is recognized for two minutes. Thank you. Kevin mccarthy has earned this. Under his leadership, our House Republican majority has actually defied all odds and overperformed expectations again and again and again. It all started with the speakers race when our speaker, Kevin Mccarthy, showed the American People how he would never give up. Carried over to a rules package. And since then, Speaker Mccarthys republican majority has been successful in bringing common sense back to our nations capitol by Passing Legislation to affirm a parents right to be involved in their childs education. Bolster American Energy production. Fully fund veterans care and benefits. Fight back against the regulatory state and continue delivering on our promise to reign in democrats reckless spending by passing fiscally responsible Appropriations Bills. Weve also achieved wins like passing the strongest Border Security in history. The first ndaa in history and republican only state and foreign operations appropriations bill. So Many Americans are better off because of mccarthys leadership. American families job creators, entrepreneurs, Service Members, Law Enforcement officers and the list goes on and on. These are just a few of our House Republican majority successes but make no mistake, we need Kevin Mccarthy to remain speaker if were going to stay focused on our mission of delivering common sense wins for the American People. Weve shown americans what Success Looks like when we come together as a team. Now its time for us to stand together stronger than ever so we can get back to the work our majority was elected to do. Im proud to support the speaker as we continue championing conservative priorities that will put our country on a better path. Thank you, Speaker Mccarthy. I yield back. Gentleman from florida. The opening line of my colleagues speech was that Speaker Mccarthy always overperforms expectations but after tweeting bring it and after engaging in Profane Laced Tirades at house conference, he just lost a motion to table so i wouldnt necessarily consider that overperforming expectations. Time and again, ive heard my colleagues say he deserves it because he went through a tough Speaker Contest. He prevailed in that Speaker Contest because he made an agreement to fulfill certain commitments to make this an open and honest process and he has failed to meet those commitments and thats why we are here. I reserve. Gentleman from oklahoma. Mr. Cole. I yield three minutes to my very good friend, mr. Jordan of ohio. Gentleman from ohio is recognized for three minutes. On january 3rd, we said the congress is about three things. Pass the bills that need passed, do the Oversight Work that needs to be done and stop the omnibus that comes from the United States senate right before the holidays. Mccarthy has been rock solid on all three. We have passed the bills we told the American People we would pass. 87,000 irs agents. That bill passed. Parents bill of rights. That passed. Energy legislation passed. Border security, Immigration Enforcement legislation, the strongest bill ever to pass the Congress Passed earlier this year. We have done what we told them we were going to do. We cant help it the senate wont take up those good common sense bills. Theyll have to answer to the American People come election day. Oversight. We have done the oversight were supposed to do. Because of our oversight, we know parents were targeted by the department of justice. We know that 51 former intel officials misled the country weeks before the most important election we have and because of our oversight, the Disinformation Governance Board at the department of Homeland Security is gone. Because of our oversight, the memo attacking prolife catholics have been rescinded. Unannounced visits to americans home by the irs has stopped. That happened under Speaker Mccarthy. And on the third one, on this side of the youre listening to jim jordan argue on behalf of Speaker Mccarthy. Right now, they are debating before they go into a vote to decide on whether or not to get rid of the speaker. This was a motion to vacate that was called by matt gaetz. So this is going to happen this afternoon at some point. Were going to see whether he has 214 votes to keep him there. Lets bring in jim clyburn. There was a lot of talk and you and i had this conversation about whether democrats would come to his aid as they did in passing the continuing resolution. Now weve learned democrats dont plan on it. Can you tell us why you would not vote to keep the speaker. I understand hes not a member of your party, but it keeps the house from freezing in place. Thank you very much for having me. I think that the American People watched the day after he voted that bill to keep the government running, the next morning, Speaker Mccarthy went on all the National Media blaming the democrats for everything that he could think of. For the majority of the people who voted for his legislature and it was his bill, were democrats. We were in the majority. He is blaming us for bringing us to the brink of disaster. He knows who brought us to the brink of disaster. The American Public knows who brought us to the brink. And so a lot of democrats got very, very upset over that and he continues. This morning, he says im not going to deal with the democrats. Im only going to deal with my own caucus. He called it the conference. Well, if thats what hes going to do, then i think we decided to let him deal with his conference. Youre not going to deal with us, why would you want us to vote to keep you in office . Hes just telling us exactly what we can expect of him and so i think thats what democrats are concerned about. So ten republicans voted not to table the motion. Which meant that it was not tabled this vote is going to proceed. Were not clear if those ten republicans are going to vote to oust mccarthy. Right now, there are six on the record saying they will do so. Potentially a seventh with ken buck whos said mccarthy hasnt kept his promises but did not indicate which way he would be voting if this comes to a vote. If its not mccarthy, who do you expect its going to be . Oh, i dont know. I dont know who will be coming forward. The fact of the matter is democrats are looking to do things in a bipartisan way. We tried to do that with every piece of legislation we put up and got bipartisan votes for our infrastructure bill. Bipartisan votes for the chips and science act. Bipartisan vote for the Safer Communities act and i think we got it if my memory serves, a bipartisan vote for the inflation reduction act. Not sure about that one. And the pack act for veterans. We have tried very hard to put up legislation and to support legislation that will allow the bipartisanship. You heard the speaker all he said is republican only this, republican only that. And he has been one of the names ive heard to succeed mccarthy. He seemed to be preferred things be done in a republican only way. There are more than republicans in this country. There are democrats. Independents. Congressman, thank you very much for joining us and indicating that it was a big part of the decision behind democrats to say no to mccarthy was just the way he acted over the weekend, blaming democrats for not coming to the table even though most voted for that continuing resolution as you just indicated more than republicans. Were going to go back into this debate. This is andy biggs on the floor. Two trillion plus structural deficit like we had in 2023. You know what that leads you to . A 30 trillion national debt. Which is where we sit today. Leads you to somewhere north of 700 billion in interest payments. You know why that happened . Because this body is entrenched In A Suboptimal Path and refuses to leave it. Refuses to leave that path. You cannot change if youre unwilling to change. We had every opportunity to change. We were promised change. We were promised we were going to go ahead and get those 12 bills done and if we did, do you know why you do 12 bills . Because it allows you to reduce spending, get rid of wasteful, due politictive programs. It allows you to set an agenda to restore fiscal sanity. We chose to not do it again. We were promised wed do it. Thats why at the end, some people said well vote present. Well go ahead. Were going to put our trust in mr. Mccarthy to become the speaker. That didnt happen. I suspected that would be the case. That was my struggle. That was my struggle last november and december. I iterated it to this body. Our conference, anyway. When we got to the debt ceiling, again, that seemed to spring upon everybody like a surprise. When that happened, i was in there for some of those negotiations and was astonished how that 1. 5 trillion number was negotiated. Unbelievable. I would tell you this. To his credit, the speaker told us one thing that i believe to be true. He said thats basically in a poker game, he can sit down at the table. I told my colleagues he supported that 1. 5 trillion in eight months that youre willing to raise the debt ceiling, thats the opening marker. And indeed, it was. And now projections are many trillion dollars above that. Yes. I think its time to make a change. Im not the only one. And thats somber. Thus it is somber. But what have we failed to accomplish . Why didnt we get this stuff done . When were campaigning, were talking about an extension of the debt ceiling to january of 2025. Were talking about additional ukraine funding. Maybe thats good in your districts. Maybe its not. But that moneys not off set. Were not paying for it. We havent designated how were going to pay for that. The same with the disaster package. The irs remains 80 increased. And i would tell you, i could go down the list but ill just tell you why this happens. When you dont do your 12 budget bills and you rely ally on a cr, ill get to the calendar in a second. What happens is you cannot leverage this administration to actually enforce the border laws that you need to have enforced. This is a lawless biden regime. They will not enforce border laws. And we could pass them till were blue in the face but until you leverage the budget and the spending, you will not see enforcement by this administration. So take a look at the calendar we were just provided last week. Were supposed to finish, supposed to finish by november 3rd our 12 bills. By november 17th, thats when were supposed to see that the Conference Committees have come together, both sides, and we resolve this. I dont believe thats going to happen. It wasnt going to happen before. You were betting on the come again. At some point, id urge you to stop betting on the come and bet on the reality. Thats why i cant support the speaker any longer. Members are advised to direct your comments to the chair. Please. Gentleman from oklahoma. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield two minutes to my very good friend from arkansas. Recognized for two minutes. Selah. This unique word scattered throughout the psalms urges the reader to take a deep breath. To emphasize the significance of a statement. For example, king david wrote blessed be the lord who daily bears our burden, the god who is our salvation. Selah. That is a profound statement with huge implications. It deserves more than a cursory consideration. Within the next hour, this house will vote to vacate the speakers chair. A profound action with huge implications. It was last tried in 1910. 100 years later, were in the Office Building and uncle canons statue sits outside this chamber. No living human has taken the vote woor about to take. It deserves we pause, reflect, consider deeply the ramification of our actions. To my fellow republicans who would consider voting yes to removing our republican speaker, please pause and ask yourself two questions. Will your yes vote make america stronger . Will your yes vote strengthen conservative policies . If you believe yes is the right vote, please stand before this body and the American People and articulate your plan. Not your grievances or wishes. Your plan. Convince the vast majority of the Republican Congress that disagrees to follow you. If you cannot do that, which you have failed to do so far, then voting yes is at the at least a disruptive overreaction. In reality, its selfish. Bad for conservative policies. And bad for america. Thats why i strongly support Speaker Mccarthy and why without hesitation or reservation, i will vote no on this disastrous resolution. I yield back. Gentleman from florida. Theres nothing selfish about wanting a Speaker Of The House who tells the truth. I reserve. Gentleman reserves his time. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Mr. Speaker, i yield two minutes to my very good friend from kentucky. Gentleman from kentucky is recognized for two minutes. As the only still serving coauthor and cosponsor of a motion to vacate Speaker Boehner, i can tell you this motion to vacate is a terrible idea. As the only member whos serving here who took every chance to vote against Speaker Boehner and speaker ryan, i can tell you this chamber has been run better, more conservatively and more transparently under mr. Mccarthy than any other speaker that i have served under. As a member of the Rules Committee, what, one of three, one of three conservatives who were placed there out of trust, the speaker gave us A Blocking Position by putting three of us on there to keep an eye on the Rules Committee to make sure the process was fair and even. I can tell you its been fair and even. None of us are voting against the speaker today. Regular order is at odds with predetermined outcomes. Yet the speaker is being accused of not holding to regular order and predetermined outcomes at the same time. It is not possible. You cannot be for both at the same time. I was a party to the january agreement an