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Rep. John Rutherford has escalated his increasingly personal attacks against Rep. Jim Jordan as moderates and establishment Republicans continue working to derail the GOP’s Speaker nominee.
Rutherford, who voted against Jordan on both ballots on the House floor this week, references Jordan winning 200 followed by 199 votes in his two rounds, short of the necessary 217, as a reason he should step aside.Yet in January’s speaker election, Rutherford stood by Rep. Kevin McCarthy throughout all fifteen rounds of voting, during which McCarthy’s vote totals similarly hovered around 200 through the first dozen rounds.
The committee by law must submit each of the twelve appropriations bills to Congress by June 10 but failed to do so with all twelve bills. Rutherford, a supporter of Rep. Steve Scalise for Speaker, has referenced Scalise’s support of the majority of the GOP conference as the reason for backing the Louisianan. On Scalise’s winning ballot, Scalise won 113 votes to Jordan’s 99.Yet Rutherford’s statement that Scalise won “by majority rule” is misleading. Three of Scalise’s votes in conference came from non-voting delegates from Guam, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico. These members are unable to vote for Speaker on the House floor.
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