The Post gives a comprehensive guide to how House speaker elections work and what to expect on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON – The first order of business when the 118th Congress convenes Tuesday is to elect the new Speaker of the House.Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has the declared support ofHere, The Post gives a comprehensive guide to what to expect on Tuesday afternoon:Each new Congress assembles every two years at 12 p.m. on January 3 to begin the legislative year, according to the Constitution.The House will convene Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, to elect a speaker for the new Congress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022.If all 434 members of Congress attend the vote and announce their support of a specific individual, the magic number is 218 . However, if members are absent or vote “present,” the threshold is reduced accordingly.
However, Republicans may be reluctant to take such a step, since a majority vote would increase the odds of Jeffries winning the post and shocking everyone. The anti-McCarthy faction has pinned their hopes on a compromise candidate to emerge on later ballots and unite the conference — though there’s been a notable lack of specificity about who that could be.
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