Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, center, is taking his third run at the speaker's post in the U.S. House.
Ohio firebrand, O-for-2, wants to empower a caretaker speaker so the House can reopen as he wrangles support.
There’s no rule in the House or its GOP caucus that would require him to drop his speaker bid, no matter how hopeless his bid looked.— and call for the House to empower the speaker pro tem, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., to preside over legislative business until January.Giving him the authority of an elected speaker would lift the paralysis that has gripped the House since Oct. 3.
Jordan was the founding chairman of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, created by lawmakers who deemed another conservative bloc, the Republican Study Committee, too soft and too willing to compromise.
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