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- Opinion: The Supreme Court just showed us that Trump is not incompetent. He’s a master of corruption
- No secret deals for Emmer, colleague says
- Kevin McCarthy falls short on first three votes for speaker in historic defeat
- Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it
- The Republican leader claws his way to the post in a dramatic late-night vote.
If Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio was the most prominent public face of the congressional effort to fight the results of the 2020 election, his mentee, the newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana, was a silent but pivotal partner. Johnson says that he will bring to the floor “in just a little while” a resolution in support of Israel. “We’re going to show not only Israel but the entire world that the barbarism of Hamas" is "wretched and wrong,” he said. “We are unified and so proud to have elected Mike Johnson as speaker of the People’s House,” Elise Stefanik says to kick off a news conference on the Capitol steps.
Opinion: The Supreme Court just showed us that Trump is not incompetent. He’s a master of corruption
In a letter to colleagues earlier Wednesday, Johnson outlined his first priority will be trying to pass the remaining spending bills that have so far languished in the House one by one. The House is now voting to pass a resolution in support of Israel in the war against Hamas – the first measure to come to the floor to be passed after Speaker Mike Johnson was elected this morning following three weeks of a speakerless-House. The House passed a resolution in support of Israel in the war against Hamas – the first measure to come to the floor after Speaker Mike Johnson was elected earlier Wednesday following three weeks without a speaker. Their paper-thin House majority is so riven — antigovernment hardliners squaring off against more moderate legislators, isolationist America Firsters versus Reaganesque internationalists — that it was dysfunctional from its start, in January 2023. It took Republicans an unprecedented 15 votes to elect a speaker, and 10 months later they ousted that leader and finally settled on the novice Johnson.
No secret deals for Emmer, colleague says
Johnson, a little-known lawmaker who is now second in line for the presidency, attracted the support of all 220 Republican members in attendance, surpassing the 215-vote total that was required to win. All 209 Democrats voted for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the party's House leader. Mr. McCarthy watched as the hard-right flank of that majority ran John A. Boehner of Ohio from his speakership in 2015 and blocked his own first attempt at securing the job, after 40 of its members announced that they would not support him, questioning his conservative credentials. Under pressure to step aside when there appeared to be no chance that he could clinch the speaker’s gavel, he hung on anyway. Mr. Gosar, who voted against Mr. McCarthy on multiple ballots but changed his vote to support him on Friday, spread numerous lies about the 2020 election and spoke at “Stop the Steal” rallies arranged by Ali Alexander, a prominent organizer. Other hard-right holdouts who for days have refused to vote for Mr. McCarthy were Representatives Matt Gaetz of Florida, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Andy Harris of Maryland.
Kevin McCarthy falls short on first three votes for speaker in historic defeat
Jordan has now lost well over the three GOP votes he could spare in his quest to become House speaker. The votes against Jordan for House speaker are looking to be more than his allies were expecting. The Jordan holdouts are a mix of pragmatists, ranging from seasoned legislators and committee chairs worried about governing to newer lawmakers from districts where their voters back home prefer President Joe Biden to former President Donald Trump. It takes a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting. Leading up to the vote, some Republicans were resentful of the pressure put on them by Jordan’s allies and complained they were being threatened with primary opponents if they didn’t support him as speaker. A congressman who has opposed Jordan’s quest for speakership from the start says the conference made a decision in January in backing Kevin McCarthy and should stick to it.
Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it
Some cheered on the House floor and waved blue-and-yellow flags of Ukraine. In a statement Saturday, President Biden thanked lawmakers for coming together to pass the funding for U.S. allies that he has been pushing for months. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the press after the chamber passed a major aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan on April 20. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene maintained Sunday that she plans to follow through with an effort to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson if he doesn’t resign after the House passed a $95 billion package that includes foreign aid for Ukraine. Rebellious Republicans who had voted for alternatives in the first round of balloting voted in unison the second time around for Jordan, who also picked up Donalds’ support in the third round. A small number of right-flank Republicans had for weeks vowed to oppose McCarthy on the floor when the new Congress convened, even as he continued to negotiate with members and make concessions on rule changes.
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The ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus has derided the legislation as the “America Last” foreign wars package and urged lawmakers to defy Republican leadership and oppose it because the bills do not include border security measures. Aid to Israel and the other allies also won approval by healthy margins, as did a measure to clamp down on the popular platform TikTok, signs of how unlikely coalitions formed to push the separate bills forward. The whole package will go to the Senate, where passage in the coming days is nearly assured. There was speculation that Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene would trigger a motion to vacate the speaker after Saturday's vote. Greene first filed the motion to vacate resolution a month ago, in part over frustration with the speaker on how he handled a $1.2 trillion spending package. "Our process, in the end, ensured that each member was able to consider the individual supplemental elements on their own merits, which is exactly how the House is supposed to work," Johnson said after the vote on Saturday afternoon.
The Republican leader claws his way to the post in a dramatic late-night vote.
The House is expected to vote on a resolution in support of Israel on Wednesday afternoon, according to a notice from the House Democratic whip. House conservatives are signaling they’ll give the newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson some runway and flexibility as the House barrels toward a November 17 spending deadline to fund the government. Liberal and conservative justices seemed to grasp the cruelty and futility of fining or jailing people simply for sleeping outdoors when there aren’t enough shelters. Israel’s conduct in war against Hamas has eroded international support since Oct. 7 and threatens its special relationship with the United States. Never mind that they are unfairly assigning racist motives to thousands of people protesting the killing of more than 34,000 Palestinian people, most of them women and children. It’s clear that these Republican politicians are less concerned with the wave of antiwar protests than using them for their own political ends.
But even if they accept it, it’s not enough to get to 218 votes, the source acknowledges. Other concessions will have to be made to other opponents who have raised different concerns. House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s team has made an offer to his conservative opponents filled with “substantive” rules changes and other process issues they have demanded, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Follow the latest US political news here or read through the updates below.
Republicans gave Rep. Steve Scalise a standing ovation after he cast his vote for Jordan for speaker. McCarthy says he does not expected another vote on House speaker right away. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is calling on Republicans to work with Democrats to elect a speaker. McCarthy said no deal has been reached yet, but said progress is being made as talks are ongoing.
Emmer and his allies have been trying to win over a couple dozen GOP holdouts. He did not respond to reporters' questions about whether he was still in the race. Rep. Tom Emmer has dropped out of the race for speaker, mere hours after Republicans elected him as the GOP nominee, according to several House Republicans. A vote on the next House speaker won't happen Tuesday night, according to the Democratic Whip's office.
The Bakersfield congressman’s ideological flexibility, fundraising prowess and management of Donald Trump have helped him hold House Republicans together as they head into the midterm elections. Republicans are gearing up for another attempt at seating a House speaker, hoping to elevate a chief ally of Donald Trump’s to a center seat of U.S. power. Continue reading here for what you need to know going into the speaker’s election. Jordan’s journey to the cusp of House speakership would have once seemed far-fetched. Jordan was spotted heading into the speaker’s office, about a half hour before the vote was expected to start. A handful of Republicans are still opposed to Jordan, but his allies think they will break from their opposition as they go through multiple rounds and come under intense pressure to elect a speaker.
This is the first time Hal Rogers of Kentucky swears in the speaker, following the death of Don Young of Alaska in 2022. Left unmentioned was that many of the same rebels who helped lead the effort in Congress to overturn the 2020 election, giving rise to the assault that day, were also among the final holdouts working to block Mr. McCarthy’s ascent. Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana, who had voted “present” in previous ballots, also voted for Mr. McCarthy in the 12th vote.
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