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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is drawing mockery for her latest effort to remove Speaker Mike Johnson from the House’s top spot. Republicans crafted a set of rules at the start of the new legislative session that began in Jan. 2023. Among those rules is one agreeing that a very small group of officials could remove the speaker for any reason. That happened first after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was voted out by a small group of irate conservatives led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). After a long battle for a replacement, Johnson was named. Now, after less than a year, …

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