The House will now reconvene at noon on Thursday for yet another session beginning without a House speaker.
GOP representatives from the camp supporting McCarthy’s bid for speaker met with a bloc of Republicans staunchly opposed to him before the House reconvened at 8 p.m. in an effort to “get a sense of where everybody is at” after six failed attempts at electing a House speaker Tuesday and Wednesday. “Tonight was really not about exchanging offers. Tonight was just getting a sense of where everybody is at and what areas are most fruitful for progress,” pro-McCarthy Rep.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy arrives to the House chamber after six failed votes to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress on Jan. 4, 2023.Rep. Scott Perry , a McCarthy critic, couldn’t say Wednesday night whether a seventh try at electing a House speaker would take place and suggested that it could be several more days before the GOP coalesce around a leader.
“Tonight was just getting a sense of where everybody is at and what areas are most fruitful for progress,” said pro-McCarthy Rep. Dusty Johnson.Getty Images/ Will McNamee “I don’t think voting tonight would make a difference but I think a vote in the future will,” McCarthy told a crowd of reporters.before the House adjourned until 8 p.m.after Victoria Spartz chose to vote “present” beginning on the fourth ballot.
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