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itemprop="name" content="Patrick McHenry should 'already' have the authority to govern House: McCarthy" /> House Republicans plan to go to the floor Tuesday to vote for a speaker, but after a closed-door conference meeting ended Monday night, it became evident that Speaker Designate Jim Jordan still doesn’t have the votes necessary to become speaker.
Coming out of the closed-door meeting, at least six Republicans said they were still planning not to support Jordan on the floor. Some members said they feel that electing Jordan as speaker would be “rewarding bad behavior” of those who not only tanked Scalise’s speakership but also ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy .
Like many of the other holdouts, Womack is upset with how the process has played out and with how Jordan’s allies, and Jordan himself, didn’t rally to support Scalise after he was rightfully elected in conference. The pressure campaign by Jordan and his allies to flip votes worked on some of the holdouts, such as House Armed Services Chairman Mike Rogers , who on Friday said he would never support Jordan to be speaker.
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