Talk:Motion to vacate the chair

Merge from Declare the chair vacant
I'm merging the content of Declare the chair vacant into this article. That article is about the motion to vacate in the parliamentary context, which is what the bulk of this article is about. The single short paragraph about the motion to vacate in the legal context doesn't warrant having a separate article – and if that ever gets expanded to the point where it should have an article of its own, there should be separate articles on the parliamentary and legal senses, not, as currently, one about both and an overlapping one about the parliamentary sense only.

Declare the chair vacant has two sections – I'm merging the one about manuals of parliamentary procedure into this one; the other one about examples is largely redundant with the section here on the U.S. House of Representatives (except for a motion in the Texas legislature, which seems like an arbitrary non-notable example, so I'm not adding that here). Joriki (talk) 12:03, 5 October 2023 (UTC)


 * P.S.: After performing the merge, I noticed that Declare the chair vacant is linked to in the "Disciplinary procedures" section of the Parliamentary procedure template. The first sentence of the article had been "In disciplinary procedures, the motion to declare the chair vacant is used as a remedy to misconduct or dereliction of duty by the chairperson of a deliberative assembly, when the rules allow it." I didn't add that here because it seems too narrow; a motion to vacate doesn't have to be based on any behaviour by the chair that warrants disciplinary measures. (Note that this is not because the articles were actually about different kinds of motions: The examples in the source article were almost all about motions to vacate in the U.S House of Representatives, and none of those motions were "disciplinary".) I'm not sure what to do about the link in the template – I'm leaving it as is for now. Joriki (talk) 12:43, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Article focused on Republican legislative problems/Republican-Democrat informal coalition
I think the issues that Republicans are having with governing in the House and their reliance on Democrats to pass key legislation may warrant its own article. I have created a draft, Draft:2023–24 House of Representatives legislative coalition, which I think talk page watchers of this page may be interested in. I would love help and suggestions, including those from people who don't believe this warrants an article at all. Thanks! Esolo5002 (talk) 19:54, 19 April 2024 (UTC)