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The Senate pro tem’s office has said the house would be “ready to convene, establish our process and act swiftly to provide the relief all Californians deserve” after the Assembly took action.

She is a former Senate president pro tem and a former Assembly speaker, the first legislator since 1871 to hold both leadership posts.

In the case of McCarthy, the role of speaker pro tem fell to his close confidant Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., the chair of the House Financial Services Committee.

Plocher later recused himself, allowing the speaker pro tem to sign off on subpoenas.

He spent much of his adult life in Michigan, moving up through the ranks of the state Legislature and serving as the speaker pro tem twice before sojourning to Arizona.