The last time the House was rudderless for any significant time was in 1855, when it took a record 133 ballots over the course of nearly two months, to elect Nathanial Banks as speaker.
The House has been without a speaker for 22 days, and there’s no end in sight since Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., led a group of eight Republicans who voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from the top House position, joined by 208 Democrats.
However, he removed his name from consideration before a floor vote could be held after 26 House Republicans indicated that he wouldn’t have their vote.Many of those Republican lawmakers who indicated they wouldn’t support Emmer may have been influenced by former President Trump. Last week in the process Trump endorsed House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, but he didn’t make the cut when it came to a vote by the full House.But before then they may wanna just get together and chill out.Maybe their hit single, "You Can’t Always Get What You Want."You'll findThey should sip their Shiner Bocks, nod to one another, and let the lyrics sink in until they reach that "a ha!" realization. That should be easy given how past votes have played out.
The Calvin Coolidge Project reported at 5:48 pm that after Emmer’s decision to remove his name from consideration, "There are six candidates running for Speaker of the House," and listed them as follows:Later last evening it was down to the first two: Donalds and Johnson. After a whirlwind late night session they whittled it down to Johnson.
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