House Republicans are in disagreement on multiple fronts ahead of their Wednesday closed-door vote for a speaker candidate.
House Republicans walked out of a nearly three-hour conference meeting on Monday night united over a sense of urgency in needing to pick a new speaker — and little else. One of the most prominent debates to surface, less than 72 hours before the Republicans are set to gather behind closed doors for their speaker election, is whether to raise the threshold needed to put a candidate on the House floor. 'I don't think we ought to be changing rules in the middle of an election.
It'll probably lend itself to some unity in the conference, but I think it's also prudent to have some sort of escape hatch if that strategy doesn't result in a bonafide speaker,' LaLota said. Meanwhile Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, who is backing Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for speaker, also threw into the mix a suggestion to give lawmakers an extra week before voting for speaker. 'I don't think we're gonna get a speaker this week at all,' Miller said.
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