House GOP approach to Israel aid risks eroding US leverage
New Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing a bill that could hit the floor as soon as Thursday that proposes sending over $14 billion in aid to Israel.
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New Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is pushing a bill that could hit the floor as soon as Thursday that proposes sending over $14 billion in aid to Israel.
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., from the speaker’s office, said Wednesday.
The exact timing of a vote in the chamber is unclear: Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T.
Kevin Hern, R-Okla.; Byron Donalds, R-Fla.; Jack Bergman, R-Mich.; Austin Scott, R-Ga.; and Pete Sessions, R-Texas, were among immediate entrants.
Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., who voted instead for Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C.; Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr., R-N.J., who backed McCarthy; and Rep.
behind closed doors yelling at one another as they could not reach consensus on pushing pause on their prolonged speaker fight by trying to cut a deal with Democrats to give Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T.
House Republicans shelved a proposal to install Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T. McHenry in a more official role possibly through December just hours after the speaker-designate, Rep.
Rutherford pointed to Jordan’s treatment of Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., who dropped out of the race last week amid concrete opposition from Jordan supporters.
Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, and senior committee members Steve Womack, R-Ark., and Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, earlier had reposted Diaz-Balart’s message on X, previously known as Twitter
Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, succeeds in Tuesday’s expected floor vote by bludgeoning GOP moderates into submission, his time as speaker would probably be limited to less than 15 months.
Ken Calvert, R-Calif., chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
Mike Kelly, R-Pa., also said he’d vote for Scalise on the floor.
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.
Among those seen entering the meeting were Freedom Caucus members Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Bob Good, R-Va., who continue to support 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?
Speaker pro tempore Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., on Wednesday evaded reporters on Capitol Hill, and McCarthy did not respond to a request for comment. But Rep.