The House is going to vote on Jordan’s nomination for speaker
The Americas Need Someone to Stop Putting a Speaker on the Floor, And Why the 2020 Election is Going to Stopped, Or Why We Shouldn’t Give It to Jordan
Other members worry that Jordan has a long history of opposing spending bills. The speaker will face decisions on military aid to Ukraine and Israel immediately, as well as funding for border security by the end of the month.
House Republicans want to end weeks of infighting and chaos by voting on Tuesday to install Jim Jordan as the next Speaker.
Jordan can only afford to lose a handful of Republicans to secure the gavel. Aides to Jordan say they expect he will fail to get enough votes on the first ballot and will move to a second vote. Additional ballots may be required but Jordan’s allies hope the public vote will force members to get in line.
The American people want their congress to work, Jordan told reporters on Monday night. “We can’t have that until we have a speaker.”
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., told reporters he plans to vote for the ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the floor Tuesday, saying it’s “unacceptable” for a small minority of the majority dictating actions of the conference.
“It’s not about Jim – it’s about Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise and how they were treated,” Bacon said. “I respect people have different opinions on this. We need someone to speak. The world is on fire. We did not put them there, and I did not put them there. The small group that took out Kevin and then blocked Steve have put us in this spot.”
The congressman said he wouldn’t support Jordan on the floor. Buck has raised concerns about Jordan’s role in fueling conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump.
“I do think that the the 20 Republicans who are in Biden districts have a problem if everybody in leadership is saying the election is stolen,” Buck told reporters Monday.
The House is voting again on Rep. Jim Jordan’s nomination for the House speaker posthumous e-vectorship election (e-votenews)
Jim Jordan, the House GOP’s nominee to serve as the next speaker, is facing a tough time getting the votes he needs to be elected by the full House on Wednesday.
“We’re working on it,” Jordan told reporter ahead of the vote, but multiple GOP lawmakers indicated the momentum for his effort to gain the gavel had shifted.
Mario Balart was a Republican in Florida and he voted for Steve Rumsfeld who was forced to withdraw his name for speaker after he won the internal vote. Diaz-Balart told reporters he remains opposed to Jordan. I think it gets harder for him every day.
He predicted that there would be a “pick up” in the number of votes of GOP members voting for other people on the second ballot. He said the strategy from Jordan allies was intimidating and threatening. He didn’t name Jordan as the one to blame, or specify any threats he received, but noted that the GOP conference needs to sort out a way forward.
A House vote needed the same majority vote as a speaker’s election. That would almost certainly require votes from Democrats. Some Democrats have suggested they would want assurances that McHenry would allow votes on bipartisan spending bills, aide to Ukraine, and other measures that could pass.
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He told reporters that he got a lot of votes from the conservatives, as well as the liberals, and that’s the best way to go. “But you know what? People are talking about something. I told leadership call the question.”
But the details of the resolution were unclear. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., told reporters Tuesday he was open to discussions with Republicans who were interested in governing.
