How the House of Representatives elects a speaker Los Angeles Times

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• Central Valley district will vote for a new member of Congress twice in two weeks
• House conservatives signal they'll give Johnson more runway on spending bills
• Republican House speaker Johnson again threatens universities dealing with pro-Palestinian protests
• The Jim Jordan people see in Congress is the one constituents know back home.
• Jordan is defeated again for speaker as the Republican stalemate deepens.

Asked if he would bring a vote to oust Johnson if he put forth a short-term spending bill at current spending levels, Rep. Matt Gaetz said he’s optimistic Johnson will be able to actually pass the individual spending bills. "It gives benefit to Jim Jordan. Even though I’ve supported Jim Jordan, it’s not fair in my view to do that and then give him more time because the other candidates haven’t had that time," Lesko said. It’s just another example of how the divisions within the GOP have reached its upper ranks.

Central Valley district will vote for a new member of Congress twice in two weeks

The House is now in its third week without a leader as Republicans' path forward remained unclear. GOP Rep. Ken Buck, who opposed Jordan in both ballots, predicted that Jordan "bleeds three or four votes" if there are more rounds of voting ahead. "More and more members are going to be able to say, 'I voted for him the first two times, now we have to move on,'" Buck told CBS News' Major Garrett Wednesday on "The Takeout" podcast.

House conservatives signal they'll give Johnson more runway on spending bills

NBC News’ Ryan Nobles reports on the strategy lawmakers could consider to vote on a speaker. It is unclear, according to one source directly familiar, if Jordan will try for a third ballot on the speakership on Thursday. That is up in the air and will depend on how the morning’s conference meeting goes. Asked today whether he backed the resolution to grant him broader powers, McHenry said he was still working to elect Jordan as speaker. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., predicts that Republicans will not bring a resolution to empower McHenry as an interim speaker up for a vote on the House floor. Fallon said he's heard "four or five" names mentioned as possible speaker nominees.

Republican House speaker Johnson again threatens universities dealing with pro-Palestinian protests

In an interview with The New Yorker in December 2020, Johnson dialed down his election rhetoric. Johnson then organized more than 100 House Republicans to sign onto an amicus brief filed in support of a lawsuit from Texas’ Republican Attorney General, Ken Paxton, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate Biden’s wins in four states that gave him his winning margin in the Electoral College — Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Many legal analysts were aghast at the litigation, which was quickly rejected by the high court. Johnson is a former attorney for the religious rights group Alliance Defending Freedom who was first elected to the House in 2016, the year Trump won the presidency. An active member of the House Judiciary Committee, he gained notice as one of the leading Republican questioners of witnesses during Trump’s first impeachment in 2019.

Jim Jordan fails again to win vote to become House speaker - The Associated Press

Jim Jordan fails again to win vote to become House speaker.

Posted: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

But all indications are that Jordan has fallen short once again, with a few more lawmakers than last time rising to oppose him. On Monday night, the eve of the first round of voting to determine Mr. McCarthy’s successor, Ms. Cole was walking through the Capitol basement and rounded a corner to find throngs of reporters waiting for House Republicans to emerge from a closed-door meeting. Representative Byron Donalds, Republican of Florida, said he understood the frustration of his colleagues as Congress enters its third week without a speaker, but didn’t support such a resolution.

The Jim Jordan people see in Congress is the one constituents know back home.

Of course, that’s the opposite of the achievement they promised two years ago, ahead of the midterm elections that gave them control of the House. Back then, some chest-beaters were vowing to impeach President Biden as well as members of his Cabinet, starting with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the administration’s border security czar, and sweeping up Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray (a Donald Trump holdover, by the way), Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Lord knows who else. Earlier Monday evening, Johnson told CNN he hasn’t talked to the congresswoman about her motion to vacate. Yet more than a month later, Greene has declined to force a vote on the resolution, even after Johnson helped to usher both of those bills into law over the howls of conservatives in his GOP conference. McCarthy drew false equivalence between the griping of sour-grape Democrats who lost elections and the pernicious legal and tactical fights Trump and his allies waged to overturn Biden’s victory.

"I rise to nominate Jim Jordan for the speaker of the House," McCarthy said to scattered applause. The other seven Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy were Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Matt Rosendale of Montana. Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, who is the third highest-ranking Republican in the House as majority whip, is making calls about a possible run for speaker, according to a person familiar with his plans.

McCarthy team makes an offer to conservative opponents who are reviewing it now

With President Biden in the White House and Democrats retaining control of the Senate, Washington could see a return to gridlock, outside of must-pass legislation for government funding and raising the debt ceiling. McCarthy is eager to avoid a repeat of his failed bid for the speakership in 2015, when opposition from the GOP’s right-flank House Freedom Caucus doomed his chances after the ouster of Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). He beat back an 11th-hour challenge from House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who received 31 votes to McCarthy’s 188.

Asked if he intends to take roll-call vote after roll-call vote until there's a speaker, Jordan responded, "Look, there's been multiple rounds of votes for speaker before — we all know that," a reference to Rep. Kevin McCarthy's 15 ballots to win the speakership. Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the majority whip, has been floated as a speaker candidate and even received a handful of votes on the floor. When asked Friday afternoon if he were getting into the race, he replied, "Too soon." Hern had earlier considered running after McCarthy's ouster and said in a letter to colleagues that he "called, texted or met" with all 221 Republicans in the conference to ask what they wanted to see in their next speaker.

It will need to come up as a suspension vote — an expedited process that requires a two-thirds majority for passage. House Speaker Mike Johnson entered the speaker's office for the first time after being sworn in, with his new name plate hanging above the door. CNN was first to report earlier this week that Jordan had asked Scalise to give a nominating speech on his behalf but that Scalise was noncommittal.

Jordan has so far lost nine GOP votes, well more than the three he could spare. They have instead backed Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Steve Scalise, former Rep. Lee Zeldin or others. But Scalise’s support was likely cold comfort to Jordan, who is on the brink of losing the first round unless votes change before the end. Twenty Republicans have voted against Jordan, an outcome way worse than his allies were hoping for.

“I don’t deny that TikTok poses some national security risks,” Markey said. No. 1, TikTok poses a serious risk to the privacy and mental health of our young people.” But he said the bill likely would result in “widespread censorship,” and he suggested that the bill’s supporters object to liberal political viewpoints popular on TikTok. “Instead of suppressing speech on a single application, we could be addressing the root of the mental health crisis by targeting Big Tech’s pernicious, privacy-invasion business model of teenagers and children in our country,” Markey said. A number of conservatives, however, opposed the legislation — and sending further aid to Ukraine in particular.

They can leave isolation after 10 days if they have no fever without the use of fever reducing medications such as ibuprofen or Tylenol and if other symptoms are improving. The New York Democrat went on to list the areas where the party has worked with President Trump, including criminal justice reform, USMCA and the end of surprise medical billing. One vacancy is GOP Congressman-elect Luke Letlow who died last month after battling Covid-19.

McCarthy said the Republican conference would regroup and talk to the members who have “differences of opinion” on who the next House speaker should be. McCarthy says he does not expected another vote on House speaker right away. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is calling on Republicans to work with Democrats to elect a speaker. There’s one main thing to know about Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who does not yet have the votes to become speaker of the House of Representatives. He pointed to the fact on the first ballot he had a similar number of defections as former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy who was still able to win the gavel in January after 15 ballots. And now, McCarthy has been counseling Jordan on his speaker’s race strategy, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, a far more active role than he appeared to be playing when Scalise was the speaker nominee.

After holding one failed speaker vote this morning, the House is now done for the day. There will be no more votes today, and lawmakers plan to reconvene for another vote tomorrow, according to a person familiar with the schedule. Those moderate lawmakers normally seek compromise, and the bet was that they would want to quickly patch over Republican divisions and move forward to get the House working again in regular order. “We picked up some today, a couple dropped off,” Mr. Jordan said after the vote. “But they voted for me before, I think they can come back again.” He noted that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the top job had also stalled after around 20 holdouts opposed him on multiple ballots.