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Table Of Content

• Scalise brings a fresh face but a similar policy vision as McCarthy, Republicans say
• Jim Jordan fails to win House speakership on first ballot
• January 5, 2023 GOP deadlocked over House speaker vote
• Kevin McCarthy is out as House speaker. Here’s what happens next
• McCarthy: Republicans need to figure it out
• Gauging Kennedy’s support
• House adjourns for second day without electing a speaker. Here's what you need to know

Even if McCarthy is able to secure the votes he needs, he will emerge as a weakened speaker, having given away some powers and constantly under a threat of being voted out by his detractors. But he would also be potentially emboldened as a survivor of one of the more brutal fights for the gavel in U.S. history. The chamber could convene to hold a vote to elect a speaker today — or take days trying to wrangle the votes. Self was a member of the group of holdouts in the nomination process for McCarthy in January. One of the rule changes the group negotiated was the change requiring only one member to bring a motion to vacate the speaker, the rule used by Gaetz last week. Scalise told reporters that House Republicans had a "very constructive two-and-a-half-hour long meeting" this afternoon, and now members will continue to speak in smaller groups.

Scalise brings a fresh face but a similar policy vision as McCarthy, Republicans say

GOP Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker on Tuesday's first ballot, sent a letter to interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry demanding an immediate second vote on electing a new speaker. Jordan is now meeting with key chairmen and top Republicans in House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s office as they try to lean on holdouts and make offers to win their support. It’s now been two weeks of high-stakes chaos over the speaker’s gavel following the unprecedented ouster of Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Jim Jordan fails to win House speakership on first ballot

Although Rep. Don Bacon said he thinks the House would have a speaker Tuesday night, saying "people are so discouraged by what's happened the last three weeks, that they want to come together," some of his colleagues weren't so sure. If no candidate wins a majority, the House will continue to hold votes until one does. That has happened only 15 times in the chamber’s history, 13 of them before the Civil War.

January 5, 2023 GOP deadlocked over House speaker vote

He is confronting a mid-November deadline to pass a measure to fund the government to avert a shutdown. And he will need to lead a conference deeply divided over foreign policy as Congress considers the Biden administration’s $105 billion funding request for Israel, Ukraine and the southern border. Many Republicans want to prevent the spectacle of a messy House floor fight like the grueling January brawl when McCarthy became speaker. Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, reaffirmed his support for Trump as speaker; the position does not need to go to a member of Congress.

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But Jordan wouldn't answer any other questions about the fate of his candidacy or if there would be another speaker floor vote tonight. One attendee told CNN that the purpose of the meeting was to make it crystal clear that “it’s over" and that Jordan should now know he has no path to become speaker. Trump’s campaign isn’t premised on winning a majority, something a Republican has managed only once in the past eight presidential elections, (George W. Bush in 2004). One reason it’s hard to guess how much support Kennedy will win this fall is that polls have a hard time measuring how much support he has now.

“I just think the conference as a whole has to figure out their problems, solve it and select the leader,” he said. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. McCarthy’s ouster from a job he long coveted was induced by far-right Republicans with the support of vengeance-minded Democrats. This is the first time in U.S. history that a House speaker has been ousted in the middle of his term. Gaetz had said he would try to dethrone McCarthy if the GOP leader worked with Democrats to pass a stopgap government funding bill. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is no longer speaker of the House, following a revolt led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).

McCarthy: Republicans need to figure it out

The visit came as college campuses continue to be roiled by protests and tensions related to the Israel-Hamas war. Many of the protesters are demanding universities to divest financial holdings in Israel. At Columbia, demonstrators have taken over a portion of the New York City campus, creating an encampment.

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Gauging Kennedy’s support

He soon eclipsed the party's leader, Robert Michel, who was nearing retirement. Greene had vowed to press her challenge after Johnson announced a strategy to pass $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan earlier this month. About two-thirds of that money was for Ukraine, an issue Greene had called her "red line" for moving against the speaker. Just such a "motion to vacate the chair" was filed against Johnson in March by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

House adjourns for second day without electing a speaker. Here's what you need to know

“It doesn’t mean there’s not healthy conversations for us as a conference,” Cloud told reporters. Scalise confirmed to reporters he was dropping his bid for speaker a day after his nomination. The challenge for House Republicans is they still have eight more spending bills to pass including two that have been stuck in committee because of disagreements within GOP ranks.

“Obviously, overwhelmingly, there's a viewpoint that we do get that the American people are frustrated with the processes that we've gone through. I would say back to the American people that I think that these few weeks have given us a better chance to learn about each other,” Sessions said. The vote has not yet been scheduled, but Jordan’s team has vowed to force another floor vote today.

Mere minutes after a slim majority of Republicans voted in a closed-door party meeting to select him as the party’s candidate, Mr. Scalise’s fate was thrown into doubt. Several Republican lawmakers announced they would not back him on the House floor without concessions, complaining of a rushed process to choose a new speaker and voicing skepticism that he could unite their fractious conference. The move to recess came as it became clear that Scalise would not have the votes to win the gavel on the House floor today, and members complained of a rushed process.

Before he ousted Mr. McCarthy from the speakership last week, Mr. Gaetz said he would consider voting for Representative Steve Scalise, the Republican majority leader, as a replacement — and also wouldn’t discount the prospect of looking externally. Steve Scalise just spoke but took no questions and didn’t address whether he had the votes on the House floor to win the speakership. He laid out the priorities for his party — passing spending bills and securing the border — and said the conflict in Israel illustrated the need for border security.

He added that there are "some folks that really need to look in the mirror in the next couple of days and decide are we going to get back on track? Are they going to try to pursue their own agenda? You can’t do both. And I think we’re going to get there." So McHenry will have to go back to the floor at some point to adjourn until a specific time. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., said Republicans are still working out the process of whether they nominate a new speaker or go straight to Jordan.

The House remains leaderless with an intraparty Republican fight over who should be the next speaker overshadowed by Hamas’ brutal attack on close U.S. ally Israel, which quickly escalated into war. McCarthy was ousted from power six days ago, but he’s still acting like he’s speaker of the House — at least when it comes to the Israel-Hamas war. McCarthy says that despite the support he’s still getting from some members of the GOP conference, he is asking that he not be placed in nomination when the process of picking a new speaker formally begins. Leaving the ongoing closed-door conference meeting, McCarthy said his advice to the next speaker is to "do what is right."

“I feel like there are a lot of members in our conference that have what it would take to be the speaker of the House. I do not in any way, shape, form or fashion think I'm the only person in the Republican conference that has what it takes to be the speaker of the House. I told my colleagues if you want someone who's honest, who's got courage and a strong work ethic, I would love to be your speaker. He added, “I think there's only so many times you can go through this process, go to the floor, make a mistake, and I think that it's made us more cognizant of the need to get things done."

In dozens of recent interviews across the country, voters young and old expressed a broad pessimism about the next presidential election that transcends party lines, and a teetering faith in political institutions. But on Wednesday as Republicans met to select a new speaker to replace Mr. McCarthy, Ms. Houchin was set to deliver a nominating speech for Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the right-wing hard-liner who co-founded the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. Mr. Scalise’s support for Ukraine assistance was one of the reasons that Republican hawks backed his candidacy and initially refused to fall in line behind Mr. Jordan. Last month, 117 House Republicans — a majority of the caucus — voted against $300 million to train and equip Ukrainian fighters. The bill ultimately passed, as the G.O.P. opponents are still an overall minority in Congress, where Democrats broadly back such assistance.