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VIDEO: Jim Jordan loses third House speaker vote with less support than in first two. Sunday 22 October 2023 04:00, Benji Salmon. By Friday afternoon, Mr Jordan had been booted as the GOP nominee ...
The speaker of the House of Representatives is the House's presiding officer, and the position is explicitly established by the Constitution of the United States. [10] The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position by a vote held during an active term.
The House gavelled in and out of session in a matter of minutes on Wednesday (11 October) as a vote of the full House on a new speaker appeared to be coming – before it quickly became clear that ...
The Louisiana Republican only got 113 of his fellow GOP-ers’ votes today, well short of the 217 total votes Mr Scalise would need to formally win the speaker’s gavel on the House floor in a ...
In the January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, Hern was nominated for Speaker of the House as a protest candidate against Kevin McCarthy. During the October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election Hern initially announced he would seek the nomination, before withdrawing from the ...
Rep. Jim Jordan lost 20 Republican votes Tuesday in his first round of balloting for House speaker, creating an uphill climb to win the gavel. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is calling on ...
Nancy Pelosi of California, the outgoing speaker, retired from the position and announced her support for Hakeem Jeffries of New York.. During the run-up to the 2019 speaker election, Nancy Pelosi, who had been the Democratic Caucus' leader and nominee in every speaker election since 2003, [28] struck a deal with several caucus members in which she promised that she would retire from the ...
Jim Jordan is a conservative hellraiser in the House. Now he’s Trump’s top choice for speaker. Friday 13 October 2023 21:00, Eric Garcia. Early in the morning of 6 October, former president ...