The House Republican Conference advanced its first round of rule changes Wednesday for when it retakes the House in January. 

The GOP is saving more controversial rule change proposals for after Thanksgiving but voted in favor of a change to how a speaker of the House could be ousted from power. The rule proposed by Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) is meant as a way to prevent a Democratic minority from having control over who gets to be speaker.

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"We just made it so you have to have the majority of the conference to vacate the chair. Well, that's good because it gives you stability," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE). "You don't have a gun to the speaker's head on every vote."

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