Table Of Content
- Republicans begin vote for fourth speaker nominee
- Sessions eliminated after first round of voting, Emmer receives most votes
- Rep. Michael Cloud says little progress made on winning over Scalise holdouts like himself
- NOW That’s What I Call An 80's Party
- Here's a list of items that are stalled until a House speaker is elected
- What comes next after House Republicans nominated Scalise
- GOP representative: "We're going to be doing this for a long time"
California “is, along with New York, one of the two most important paths to potential Democratic control of the House,” said Dave Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Longtime author and critic Lis Harris, a Columbia writing professor, defended the students' right to form the encampment she called a "tent city,'' and said police should not have taken it down and arrested protesters last week. At Columbia, student protesters gathered on campus early Wednesday for another day of demonstrations while just outside the gates protesters were chanting in support of the students. At least 20 people were arrested after a large number of law enforcement officers in riot gear descended upon the University of Texas' Austin campus Wednesday and broke up a peaceful antiwar protest, the Austin American-Statesman reported. At least nine of those arrested were handcuffed and loaded into police vehicles.
Republicans begin vote for fourth speaker nominee
The New York Police Department said officers arrested 208 demonstrators who blocked traffic at Grand Army Plaza. "We refuse to let our traditions be used to starve, displace, and massacre Palestinians," the Jewish Voice for Peace said in a tweet during the protest. "Taking seriously the mandate of the Jewish holiday of liberation requires us to show up with everything we have on the doorsteps of those still arming and funding these historic atrocities." In Brooklyn, police made scores of disorderly conduct arrests when a street protest reached a standoff Tuesday night. The protesters, organized by the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace, had gathered at Grand Army Plaza, near the home of Schumer, who has led the effort in Congress to provide funds for the Israeli military.
Sessions eliminated after first round of voting, Emmer receives most votes
In October, he moved to El Monte from Virginia, and previously lived in Orange County. Rep. Grace Napolitano announced her retirement from Congress on Saturday, setting off an intra-Democratic Party battle for her San Gabriel Valley seat. The longest fight for the gavel started in late 1855 and dragged on for two months, with 133 ballots, during debates over slavery in the run-up to the Civil War.
Rep. Michael Cloud says little progress made on winning over Scalise holdouts like himself
Pressed on the possibility of adjourning after this vote, he replied "it's still in process. We still have miles to go." He said he just came out of a meeting with 80 to 90 members who he called "Main Street Republicans." Democrats are telling their members to prepare for a potentially long night, per a senior Democratic aide. GOP Reps. Byron Donalds and Kevin Hern and Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries were nominated for House speaker in the 10th round of voting, along with Kevin McCarthy. 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.
NOW That’s What I Call An 80's Party
The chamber is set to vote Monday to adopt a rules package governing the 118th Congress, which includes some of the concessions made by McCarthy in talks with conservative holdouts. House Republicans ended Monday in a state of uncertainty, as some members expressed optimism there could be a new House speaker by tomorrow night, while others said they fear no candidate can get the 217 floor votes needed to win the gavel. Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a chief Republican opponent of Jim Jordan’s speakership bid, told CNN on Wednesday that the speaker designee would lose a “bigger chunk” of GOP floor votes on a third ballot.
House reaches Day 10 without a speaker as Republicans nominate Jim Jordan - NBC News
House reaches Day 10 without a speaker as Republicans nominate Jim Jordan.
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“I do think the McCarthy supporters would probably rally behind one or the other two if it meant unity within the conference for a speaker,” he added. McCaul added that enemies can take advantage of dysfunction and urged the conference to work behind the scenes to pick a speaker before going to the floor. “Pretty good discussion, a lot of opinions; we’re kind of like a scattergram, we're all over the map in terms of the way forward. Some of it about rules changes, some of it about, you know, hard feelings about what happened on Tuesday,” Womack said. Rep.Tom Cole also said that he “would hope” that the conference would consider ongoing world events with the crisis in the Middle East and rapidly reach a consensus on a candidate.
House Speaker Mike Johnson now has President Biden's support for his plan to vote this week on foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, but there is growing criticism from within Johnson's Republican Conference and the looming threat of being ousted from his post. The speaker told reporters yesterday that he's doing this because the world is on fire. A GOP candidate will need to win a simple majority of the House to be elected speaker — at least 217 of the 221 Republicans (no Democrats are expected to join Republicans, and two seats are empty).
This is also the first round in which McCarthy has more votes than Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. But no McCarthy detractors rose to nominate a GOP alternative to McCarthy, as they have done in the last dozen rounds of voting. GOP Majority Whip Steve Scalise moved to adjourn, and the votes are being recorded. Rep. Ken Buck, who left Washington for Colorado for a non-emergency medical procedure, returned and voted for McCarthy. McCarthy himself stalked up the aisle of the House floor to speak directly with Gaetz.
Ciscomani previously worked at the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and was a senior adviser to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey. Rep. Lauren Boebert again threw Hern's name into the ring, calling him "a true leader" who can unify the conference. In the following Congress, which started in 1861, after Southern states seceded, House membership went down from 238 to 183 and Republicans had a very strong majority.
Now that we're through nine ballots, tying the 1923 process, it's the longest contest in 164 years, since the Congress during which states began seceding from the Union to kick off the Civil War. Gaetz also called Bost a “fine gentleman” who sometimes gets emotional but noted that he had apologized. Amid the ongoing chaos in the speaker-less House, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz defended his decision to lead the effort to oust Kevin McCarthy from his speakership but did not articulate what he got out of it besides removing the California Republican from the position. Unlike the other holdouts, the New Yorkers have specific asks and priorities that are pertinent to their districts, such as the state and local tax deduction. Allies to Rep. Jim Jordan and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise are divided over a proposal to change how the speaker nomination process would work, which would have major implications for who would be able to prevail.
After giving his speech at tonight’s candidate forum, Rep. Dan Meuser dropped out of the speaker’s race, per members in the room. “I think people are so discouraged by what's happened the last three weeks, that they want to come together. They're making some great cases, and I think we'll have a speaker tomorrow night.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will call a separate special election after McCarthy’s official resignation to temporarily fill the 20th District seat until January 2025. Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. Early results for the primary election have already flip-flopped several times, but the most recent tranche showed Fong with a strong lead in first place, followed by Boudreaux and Democrat Marisa Wood.
That was also the first vote in which the California Republican earned more votes than Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Republicans broke out in raucous applause, and Rep. Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, embraced McCarthy, as the final Republican in the alphabetical roll call, Rep.-elect Ryan Zinke of Montana, cast his vote. Meuser said Trump supported his decision to withdraw from the race, adding that he believes the GOP will get a strong speaker. GOP Rep. Chip Roy, who has also endorsed Donalds, said he wouldn’t necessarily support the conference nominee. GOP Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, who has endorsed Rep. Byron Donalds, said he could support any of the eight candidates. There is also disagreement about whether members will automatically fall in line behind whichever candidate gets the most votes, foreshadowing that the same divisions that have trapped the House GOP in this crisis are not showing any signs of letting up.
House of Representatives began holding an extremely rare intra-term election for speaker of the House on October 17. In the 118th Congress, McCarthy's House Republican Conference holds the majority of seats. He had previously been elected on January 7, 2023, after an unusual fifteen rounds of voting in the January speakership election. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, also a Republican, served as speaker pro tempore until a new speaker was elected. This was the 129th speaker election since the office was created in 1789. On the fourth ballot of voting on October 25, 2023, the Republican Party's fourth nominee, Mike Johnson of Louisiana was elected the 56th speaker of the House.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who had pledged her support for Jordan as speaker, said that she won’t support Scalise’s bid. The House didn't seem any closer to electing a speaker after today's meeting. Joyce said that the House has to get to the floor and figure out if Scalise will win as the next speaker and move on from there.
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