Ballmer did the same for Hoyer, House Chief Deputy Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va.
But outgoing New York Rep. Bill Paxon, a veteran of the Gingrich's team who left the leadership in the wake of an aborted coup, says the game may have a new player, Deputy Whip Dennis Hastert of Illinois.
Mr Howells is replaced as minister for lifelong learning by George Mudie, formerly deputy chief whip.
When an impasse was reached, Mr Brown, who at the time was deputy chief whip of the parliamentary Labour Party, tried to narrow the areas of disagreement.
The vote was delayed by 10 minutes due to what deputy chief whip Lord Shutt of Greetland described as a "medical emergency" in one of the division lobbies.
His fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday, when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on.
"Either you support more integration or you will end up not in a currency union, " argues Michael Meister, the deputy chief whip of the German Christian Democrats and a close ally of Angela Merkel.
Mr Mitchell's fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday, when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on, following a stormy prime minister's question time.
Smiles were brought to the face of Tories inside the Treasury when the little known Lord Tunnicliffe, Labour's Deputy Chief Whip in the Lords, made the mistake of assuming that no-one listens to what's said in the House of Lords.
He is also deputy government chief whip and Lib Dem chief whip in the House of Lords.
Scottish National Party chief whip Bruce Crawford raised the matter in the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, asking Deputy Presiding Officer Murray Tosh if the executive was making a statement to Holyrood later this week.
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