Thing for the country without a doubt. My friends and i agree on that whether or not we agree on the speaker. He did the right thing. He did the right thing i think for this institution. He showed it could function in a time of crisis. Finally, i think he did the right thing for our party. He made sure we could continue to negotiate and achieve some of the very objectives my friend from virginia laid out and achieve them in divided government which calls for some degree of give and take. So im very proud of this speaker. Im very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning, whether i win or lose, im going to be pretty proud of the people i fought with, and im going to be extraordinarily proud of the person i fought for, the speaker of the house, Kevin Mccarthy. [ applause ] with that i reserve the balance of my time. Gentleman from oklahomas time is reserved. 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 is that the thing we have in common, Kevin Mccarthy said something to all of us at one point or another that he didnt really mean and never intended to live up to. I dont think voting against Kevin Mccarthy is chaos. I think 33 trillion in debt is chaos. I think facing a 2. 2 trillion annual deficit is chaos. I think not passing single Subject Spending Bills is chaos. I think the fact that we have been governed in this country since the Mid 90s By Continuing Resolution and omnibus is chaos. And the way to liberate ourselves from that is a series of reforms to this body that i would hope without outlast Speaker Mccarthys time here, would outlast my time here and outlast either of our majoritys. Reforms that ive heard some of the most conservative members of this body fight for and some reforms that ive even heard those in the democrat caucus would be worthy and helpful to the house, like open amendments, like understanding what the budget is. We have been out of compliance with budget laws for most of my life, most of many of your lives. By the way, if we had singlesubject bills, if we had an understanding on the top line, if we had open amendments, if we had trust, honesty and understanding, there would be times when my conservative colleagues and i would lose, might be a few times when wed win. There would be times that wed form partnerships that might otherwise not be really predictable in the american body politic, but the American People would see us legislating. The last few days we suspended the momentum we established the week earlier, where we were bringing bills to the floor, voting on them, staying late at night and working hard. Thats what the American People expect. Its something Speaker Mccarthy has president delivered. Thats why i move to vacate the chair. Mr. Speaker i yield two minutes to my good friend from minnesota. Gentleman from minnesota, mr. Emmer is recognized for two minutes. Thank you. Kevin mccarthy has earned this. Under Speaker Mccarthys 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. It carried over into the speaker spearheading a rules package to create the most transparent, memberdriven legislative process ive ever seen since ive been here. Since then Speaker Mccarthys republican majority has been successful in bringing common sense back to our Nations Capital by passing legislation a parents right to be involved in their childs education, fully fund veterans care and benefits, fight back against the regulatory state and continue delivering on our promise to rein in democrats reckless spending by passing physically responsible Appropriations Bills. Weve also achieved historic conservative wins, like passing the strongest Border Security legislation in history, passing the first republicanonly ndaa in history and passing the first republicanonly state and foreign operations appropriations bill. So Many Americans are better off of Kevin 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. 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. Gentleman from florida. [ applause ] the opening line of my colleagues speech was that Speaker Mccarthy always overperforms expectations, but after tweeting bring it, and after engaging in profanelaced tirades at house conference, he just lost a motion to table. 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. Let me let everyone know he prevailed because he made an agreement to fulfill certain commitments to make this an open and honest process. Hes failed to meet those commitments. Thats why were here. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. I yield three minutes for my very good friend, mr. Jordan of ohio. Gentleman from ohio is recognized. On january 3rd we said the 118th Congress is about three things. Pass the bills that need pass, do the Oversight Work that needs to be done and stop the inevitable omnibus that comes from the United States senate right before the holidays. We passed the bills we told the meeb we would pass. 80,000 irs agents, parents bill of rights, 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 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 that were supposed to do. Because of our oversight, we know parents were targeted by the department of justice. Because of our oversight, we know 51 former intel officials misled the country weeks before the most important election we have. Because of the oversight, the Disinformation Governance Board at the department of Homeland Security is gone. Because of our oversight, the memo attacking prolife catholics has been rescinded. Unannounced visits to americans homes by the Internal Revenue service has stopped. That happened under Speaker Mccarthy. On the third one, on this side we know theres a Big Old Ugly Bill coming at the end of the year, all kinds of spending, all kinds of garbage in it. Were still in that fight. To matts point, we dont know how that one is going to shake out. But we do know this, we know this. On saturday we didnt take the senates bill. They tried to send it over and shove it down our throats. We didnt take that bill. It was a tough position he was in. There were five options on the table last week. Option one was send a longterm cr over there that would have leveraged cuts, something a bunch of us voted for. Couldnt get the votes. Second option was to focus on the one issue the compuntry is completely focused on, the border issue. We couldnt get the votes for that one either. When the senate tried to send us that bill, he said no to it. I think the speaker has kept his word. I think he has kept his word on those three things that we talked about on january 3rd and frankly that entire week. Hes kept his word. I think we should keep him as speaker. I yield back. [ applause ] gentleman from florida is recognized. The problem with my friend from ohios argument is that many of the bills he referenced as having passed are not law. We are on a fast track to an am bus bill, and it is difficult to champion oversight when House Republicans havent even sent a subpoena to hunter biden. Its hard to make the argument that oversight is the reason to continue when it sort of looks like failure theater. I yield time to my colleague from arizona. The gentleman from arizona is recognized. How much time . What he consumes. So much as he macon assume. Thank you, mr. Speaker. This is a serious time. My mind immediately goes to the while trying to apprehend a Runaway Vehicle Smuggling Humans across the border suffered major injuries, transported to pima county where hes in A Tucson Hospital Fighting for his life. Im talking about a border that remains wide open, where drugs come through. The tucson sector, the most known and unknown of any sector along the border. Terrorists coming in, people conducting criminal conduct coming in, Criminal Gang members, human smugglers, sex traffickers. Theyre coming across our border to the tune of Hundreds Of Thousands every month. Now, i appreciate my colleagues and their position, but i would suggest something. I dont think you can just skip to last weekend and say, oh, my goodness, a cr came out last weekend on saturday. I think we need to go back to january. Ill say this. This body came together on the republican side, and we passed a good Border Security piece of legislation, hr 2. Thats good. Last week we passed the dhs bill and the dod bills which had funding for cvp, i. C. E. , military men and women. But why were we successful in doing that . What happened to motivate us to get there . For one thing, we didnt bother to pass the 12 Appropriations Bills as required under the Budget Control and im pounds law of 1974. Do you know how many times thats not been done . 25 years in a row. You know how many crs this body has passed in that same period of time . 130. You know what that gets you . A 2 trillion plus structural deficit like we had in fiscal year 23. You know what that leads you to, a 33 trillion National Debt which is where we sit today. It 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 got those 12 bills done, do you know why you do 12 bills . Because it allows you to reduce spending, get rid of raceful duplicative 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. And when that happened, i was in there for some of those negotiations on where that number would be, and itches astonished how that 1. 5 trillion number was negotiated. Unbelievable, unbelievable. I will tell you this. To his credit the speaker told us one thing i believe to be true. Basically the ante in the poker game, he can sit down at the table, and i told my colleagues that supported that, that 1. 5 trillion in eight months that youre willing to raise the debt ceiling, thats the opening marker. 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 money is not offset. Were not paying for it. We havent designated how were going to pay for them. The same with the disaster pac package. The irs remains 80 increased. It will tell you, i can go down the list. Ill tell you why this happens. When you dont do your 12 budget bills and you rely ultimately on a cr ill get to the calendar northbound 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 law s. We can pass them until were blue in the face. Until you leverage the budget and the spending, you will not see enforcement by this administration. So take a look at the calendar that we were just provided last week. Were 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 weve resolved this. I dont believe that 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 and ill be voting for the motion to vacate. Yield back. Gentleman yields back his time. The gentleman from florida reserves. 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, mr. Westerman. Recognized for two minutes. Sela, scattered throughout the song signals the reader to pause, reflect, consider and maybe take a deep breath before moving on. Solomon used it to emphasize the significance of a statement. Blessed be the lord, god that is our sale investigationsela. That is a profound statement with huge implications. It deserves more than a cursory communication. Within the next hour, this house will vote yea or nay to vacate the speakers chair, a profound action with huge implications. This was last tried in 1910. Joseph khan flon won the vote, 113 years later my office is in the Cannon Office building and uncle joe cannons statue sits just outside this chamber. No living human has taken the vote were about to take. It deserves we pause, we reflect, that we consider deeply the ramifications 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 your wishes, your plan. Convince the mass majority of the republican conference that strongly disagrees with you to follow you. If you cannot do that, which you have failed to do so far, then voting yes is at the least a disruptive overreaction. In reality its selfish, bad for conservative policies and bad for america. Thats why i strongly support speaker Kevin Mccarthy and why without hesitation or reservation,ly vote no on this disastrous resolution. I yield back. [ applause ] all right. As the two sides go back and forth explaining why Speaker Mccarthy should be ousted or why he should not, let us take one moment here to gather our thoughts about the arguments being made. First of all, we should note, dana bash, of the 11 republicans who joined with all the democrats to say that there should, in fact, be a vote on whether or not to oust Speaker Mccarthy, not all of the 11 are going to vote to oust Speaker Mccarthy. Were told Congresswoman Sparks of indiana will not vote to oust him. Krong man crenshaw, republican of texas, said that some of the republican defections surprised him. He acknowledged that some may be trying to leverage their votes for concessions from mccarthy before the final vote. I got a text from somebody who is