Kyle Stewart is an associate producer covering Congress for NBC News.
In a surprise move, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will back a plan to temporarily empower interim speaker Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., until January, according to three sources, allowing legislative business to continue in the face of two wars and a looming government shutdown. Jordan, the GOP’s latest nominee for speaker who lost two rounds of votes this week, will continue to run for speaker and try to shore up votes in the meantime, the sources said.
3, may also not have the votes, according to this source, so a lot is up in the air. 'It's the biggest F-U to Republican voters I've ever seen,' one conservative Jordan ally, Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said as he left the meeting. 'We need to elect a speaker. We were sent here to elect a speaker. It's a cop out. ... It's a big mistake, and over half the Republicans in that room are against it.
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