In its thirteenth day without a Speaker, the House meets at 12:00 P.M. for legislative business and will begin a quorum call by recorded vote prior to the vote for election of the Speaker. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is currently short of the votes he needs to be elected speaker, even after the Ohio Republican… Read More
House Republicans are planning to hold a full House vote Tuesday on electing a Speaker, but their nominee, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), is still working to lock down support. Jordan won the nomination with 124 votes within the GOP conference and then claimed 152 votes when members were asked if they would… Read More
“If you see smoke, it’s not a speaker. Someone just set the place on fire,” Ronny Jackson (R-Texas). House Republicans have gone 10 days without a Speaker and seem even further from electing their next leader. House Republicans are meeting again this morning after Representative Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) announced at a Republican conference meeting Thursday… Read More
House Republican members are gathering again this afternoon behind closed doors, to try to hash out a way forward as Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) is scrambling to lock down the votes to become the next House speaker, but protracted opposition to the Louisiana Republican inside the GOP conference and the numerical realities of the… Read More
While the Senate is in recess today, House Republicans just nominated Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) to be the next Speaker, sending his candidacy to the House floor following former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-California) stunning ouster last week. Scalise secured the nomination 113-99 in a closed-door GOP conference meeting, defeating House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim… Read More
House Republicans are bracing for what could be a divided and drawn-out fight to elect a new Speaker of the House this week as they appear to struggle to unify behind one candidate. The Republican conference will meet at 5:00 P.M. today to hear from the two candidates running to be speaker of the House:… Read More
Kevin McCarthy (R-California) is now the first speaker in history to have been voted out of his job — 216 to 210 — with a mere eight Republican detractors in his slim majority sealing his fate and siding with Democrats to oust him. The eight Republicans who voted against McCarthy are: Andy Biggs of Arizona,… Read More
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) moved on Monday to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) from his post, a move that poses the clearest threat yet to Mr. McCarthy’s troubled tenure and could plunge the House into chaos. After days of warnings, Mr. Gaetz rose on Monday evening to bring up a resolution declaring the speakership vacant,… Read More
Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown on Saturday as the House, in a stunning turnabout, approved a stopgap plan to keep the federal government open until mid-November. After Senate passage, President Biden signed the bill shortly before midnight. In tumultuous day of events on Capitol Hill, a coalition of House Democrats and Republicans voted to… Read More
Both the House and Senate spent Thursday working on a path forward on their respective continuing resolutions with a shutdown now looking inevitable. The House did mange to pass three of four appropriations bills late Thursday, although that does nothing to keep the government open in the short term. The House passed: State Department and… Read More
