An overwhelming number of House Republicans voted with Democrats to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s (R-GA) motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday, leaving just 10 Republicans joining Greene in her efforts to remove the speaker.
On Wednesday, 359 members of the House voted to table the motion to oust Johnson, with 43 people voting against it. Eleven Republicans and 32 Democrats voted not to table the motion, a threat that has been hanging over Johnson’s head since Greene introduced the motion in March.
After the defeat, Greene noted her effort to oust Johnson netted more GOP support than the successful move to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year with just eight Republicans. The difference is no Democrats voted to save McCarthy last year, while most sided with Johnson on Wednesday.
“I would say the Democrats validated him to the rest of the Congress,” Greene said after the vote. “Democrats saved him, Nancy Pelosi voted for him — Nancy Pelosi doesn’t vote for Republicans unless she has full control of the House — Hakeem Jeffries, the entire leadership team, Jerry Nadler, Jamie Raskin, they all voted for Mike Johnson. That is the most terrifying thing to our constituents and to the American people.”
Greene brought the motion to vacate forward during the House vote series and was instantly met with loud boos from her own party. She launched into a lengthy speech detailing her grievances against Johnson.
While Greene was speaking on the House floor Wednesday on moving her motion forward, several members of the Main Street Caucus left the chamber and gathered before reporters on the Capitol steps. Chairman Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and several others blasted Greene for throwing a “tantrum.”
“All of us in life get to decide how we handle disappointment: you can be productive or you can be destructive,” the South Dakota congressman said. “Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene is choosing destructive.”
“Most of us by the time we turn 12 years old figured out the tantrums don’t actually work, but apparently not everybody in Congress got the memo,” the congressman added.
Here are the 11 Republicans and 32 Democrats who voted against tabling a motion to vacate:
Republicans who sided with Greene
- Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)
- Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
- Eric Burlison (R-MO)
- Eli Crane (R-AZ)
- Warren Davidson (R-OH)
- Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
- Thomas Massie (R-KY)
- Alex Mooney (R-WV)
- Barry Moore (AL)
- Chip Roy (R-TX)
- Victoria Spartz (R-IN)
Democrats who joined Greene
- Nanette Barragan (D-CA)
- Jamaal Bowman (D-NY)
- Cori Bush (D-MO)
- Greg Casar (D-TX)
- Joaquin Castro (D-TX)
- Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
- Gerry Connolly (D-VA)
- Diana DeGette (D-CO)
- Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
- Veronica Escobar (D-TX)
- Maxwell Frost (D-FL)
- John Garamendi (D-CA)
- Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)
- Robert Garcia (D-CA)
- Jimmy Gomez (D-CA)
- Josh Harder (D-CA)
- Jonathan Jackson (D-IL)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA)
- Barbara Lee (D-CA)
- Summer Lee (D-PA)
- Rob Menendez (D-NJ)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
- Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
- Pat Ryan (D-NY)
- Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- Nydia Velazquez (D-NY)
- Maxine Waters (D-CA)
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
- Nikema Williams (D-GA)
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Present votes
- Judy Chu (D-CA)
- Jesus “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
- Mark Takano (D-CA)
- Norma Torres (D-CA)