LogFAQs > #976764311

shadow_dreamer posted...

I was asking about that earlier (if we would just move from getting stuck on a speaker vote loop to stuck on a vacate vote loop), and someone said they thought the rule allowing 1 person to call for vacate required the 1 person to be from the same party as the speaker. Haven't had a chance to verify that yet.

Until 2019 it was 1 person of either party. Democrats changed it to require something limited to the caucus iirc. The Republicans changed it back to anyone.

So technically the Democrats could have forced the same vote, but naturally it's a stupid thing to do since normally people would just vote on party lines.