Majority Leader Steve Scalise has been nominated by private balloting to be the Republican nominee for House speaker.
Scalise, the party’s second-ranking member, will now contend for the top spot with a full House vote that could come as soon as Wednesday afternoon.
Scalise, seen as a hero to some after surviving a mass shooting on lawmakers at a congressional baseball game practice in 2017, is now battling blood cancer.“He has proven his conservative bona fides,” Burgat said of Jordan. Democrats will support Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for speaker, but at best Democrats will be five votes shy of winning the speaker’s gavel.
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