The House Republican majority is stuck, one week after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with lawmakers unable to coalesce around a new leader in a stalemate that threatens to keep Congress partly shuttered indefinitely.
WASHINGTON — The House Republican majority is stuck, one week after the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with lawmakers unable to coalesce around a new leader in a stalemate that threatens to keep Congress partly shuttered indefinitely. On Tuesday evening, two leading contenders for the gavel, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, were addressing colleagues behind closed doors at a candidate forum. But they appeared to be splitting the vote.
“The party will have to soul- and vote-search,” Heye said. While both are conservatives from the right flank, neither Scalise nor Jordan is the heir apparent to McCarthy. Scalise as the second-ranking Republican would be next in line for the gavel and is seen as a hero among colleagues for having survived severe injuries from a mass shooting during a congressional baseball practice in 2017. Now battling blood cancer, the Louisianan is not a clear lock.
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After one week without a House speaker, Republicans appear no closer to choosing a new leaderThe House Republican majority is stuck and unable to coalesce around a new speaker
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After one week without a House speaker, Republicans appear no closer to choosing a new leaderThe House Republican majority is stuck and unable to coalesce around a new speaker.
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