The House can’t move forward on its legislative process until a speaker is chosen.
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday failed to elect a new speaker in the second round of voting, as Right-wing Republican Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, lost more votes from his own party compared with the first round amid continued Republican infighting.
Among the 22 Republican holdouts, five voted for former speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was removed from the position two weeks ago, and seven voted for House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who previously won the Republican speakership nomination but failed to unite the party and dropped out of the race.
With a slim 221-212 Republican majority in the chamber, Jordan can only afford to lose four votes from Republicans if all members are present in order to reach the majority threshold and win the gavel. “If Jordan becomes speaker, it will signal Republicans putting a hardliner in charge of the House and someone who is used to confrontational politics. A number of Republican House members seem to have doubts about having a far-right member in charge,” Brookings Institution senior fellow Darrell West told Xinhua.
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