“Is this the 11th vote? Or the 12th?' As a historic story turns into a slog, Capitol Hill journalists still can’t get enough.
They descended hungrily on Jim Jordan the minute he emerged Thursday evening from the office of Minnesota Republican Tom Emmer.The Ohio Republican dipped an unjacketed shoulder through the coagulating throng and attempted to push through. “It’s moving in a good way,” Jordan muttered, without stopping. A photographer squatted in the congressman’s path, firing off shots, only to be toppled onto the marble floor by a stray reporter caught up in the pursuing mob.
“It’s a privilege,” said Michael Jones, who has covered Congress for the past two years for his fledgling politics newsletter Supercreator. “This is historic. The last time this happened was in 1923,” when it took nine ballots to elect a speaker. “It’s amazing to be here, really.”“It’s exciting because this is not normal,” said Tia Mitchell, Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We’re covering events that are going to be discussed and debated for years to come.
The concentration of members within the relatively tight House confines produced rolling scrums all day long, as members walked and talked with reporters. Staffers struggled to enforce some basic rules of decorum and fire codes that journalists were either disregarding or oblivious to.“There are a lot of new people here who don’t know the basics,” grumbled one staffer.
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