House Republicans started over on the search for the next speaker of the House after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was ousted last week.
Rep. Tom Emmer , the House majority whip, was elected as the GOP speaker nominee on a fifth ballot in an internal race that drew nine Republican candidates. Emmer, who has been in Congress since 2015, previously chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee — the House GOP campaign arm — for four years. He is the third Republican speaker nominee since the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy . It is not clear whether he has enough support to be elected on the House floor.
The conference previously nominated Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan , both of whom were not able to obtain a majority vote of the full House. The GOP conference eliminated candidates with each ballot. The last remaining candidate besides Emmer was Rep. Mike Johnson . The conference previously nominated Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan , both of whom were not able to obtain a majority vote of the full House.as their nominee for speaker of the House after he failed repeatedly to earn the necessary votes to take the gavel. These are theRepublicans can’t open the House, which could shut down the government
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