Jordan’s speaker bid gains steam with key endorsements
Ken Calvert, R-Calif., chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
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Ken Calvert, R-Calif., chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
If the candidate received at least 217 GOP votes in conference by roll call on the question of committing to support that nominee on the floor, Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T.
The delay in the effort to get 217 Republicans to back anyone for speaker is leading some House members to start reconsidering the idea that Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T.
Ryan, R-Wis., have actively aided their conference’s leadership picks during times of transition. Rep.
Scalise, R-La., told Republicans in a closed-door meeting late Thursday night that he would drop out of the race.
Instead of kicking off the formal nominating speeches and votes on the floor Wednesday after coming into session at 3 p.m., Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T. McHenry recessed the chamber. Rep.
But with no clear front-runner between the two chief candidates — Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio — it wasn’t obvious the conference would be able to unite
Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., the speaker pro tempore, asking for a change to conference rules that would temporarily raise the vote threshold within the conference to elect a speaker.
But what about those who wanted change, but not the drama of representatives such as Gaetz — and Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., George Santos, R-N.Y., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo?
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker, lawmakers and aides in both chambers believe.
Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., was among those who never voted for McCarthy, using earlier ballots to support Trump and Reps.
Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., was named speaker pro tempore immediately after the vote, and called for a recess for members to discuss the matter. "The House will be paralyzed.
"If BA.2.86 takes off, it will be a real test of how good our T-cell response can rev up to meet the challenge," Scripps Research Translational Institute Director Eric Topol wrote on Substack late last
"T-Mobile has built out the towers and radios needed to make use of this spectrum in many areas of the country.
Garret Graves, R-La., said leaving Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office just before 7:30 p.m.
I heard my colleague today, Mike Rounds, [R-S.D.], on the radio making much of the same argument I’m making. And [House Financial Services Chairman Patrick T.]
House Financial Services Chairman Patrick T.
responded to letters on the Trump investigation from House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil of Wisconsin and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James R.
Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a member of the House Financial Services Committee.
Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., referring to McCarthy, who has held an initial round of debt ceiling talks with the president.