Jim Jordan still facing opposition on eve of House speakership vote  

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“We need to get a speaker tomorrow,” Jordan told reporters after the meeting. “The American people deserve to have their Congress, their House of Representatives, working, and you can’t have that happen until you get a speaker, so we need to do that.” Diaz-Balart expressed displeasure at Jordan’s apparent pressure strategy to put holdouts on the spot Tuesday despite lacking unanimous support from the conference.Several Republican lawmakers emerged from Monday night’s House GOP conference meeting saying that they won’t vote for Jordan on the eve of his speakership election.

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