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☆ Boebert continues stoking controversy amid intense battle to keep her job
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Melanie Zanona | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“It hasn’t encumbered her job performance,” GOP Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida told CNN. I’m not afraid of a challenge though,” Boebert told CNN before the House left for a two-week break. And unfortunately, I’ve had a front row seat,” Boebert told CNN. “I did it because we don’t have to have two separate elections and cost the taxpayers two separate elections,” he told CNN. And she’s probably made more jokes about her own stupidity in that movie theater than I’ve heard elsewhere,” one GOP lawmaker told CNN.

Persons: Lauren Boebert, Donald Trump, Boebert, Trump, MAGA, carpetbagging –, Byron Donalds, we’re, I’m, ” Boebert, ”, Ken Buck, –, Buck, Greg Lopez, “ Greg, they’re, “ You’ve, Buck Still, Mike Johnson, Boebert’s, There’s, I’ve, “, ” Buck, Marjorie Taylor Greene –, She’s, Lauren Organizations: CNN, Colorado Republican, New York Young Republican, Trump, GOP, Pueblo Jobs, Democrat, Republican, Colorado Republicans, Boebert, Democratic, “, Caucus, Freedom Caucus Locations: Denver, Manhattan, Colorado, Florida, Colorado’s, Boebert

☆ Congress passes stopgap bill to avert government shutdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Clare Foran | Ted | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The House and Senate both passed a stopgap bill on Thursday to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week. The House vote was 320 to 99 with 113 Republicans voting in favor and 97 Republicans voting against. “The appropriations process is ugly,” Johnson told reporters on Thursday. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who will vote against the stopgap bill, swiped at the speaker over cutting a deal with Democrats on government funding. Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who was one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy, said he opposed the stopgap bill and broader funding deal but was sympathetic to Johnson’s circumstances.

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☆ House Speaker Mike Johnson faces a defining dilemma on Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —House Speaker Mike Johnson has the fate of a democracy and a people in his hands. It’s not the United States, which will survive – even if the coming general election results in another existential test for the constitutional system. Johnson, a backbencher who was the last-ditch choice to lead the mutinous House GOP majority last year, could relieve Ukraine’s agony and help ensure its survival as an independent nation in the coming days. Nothing can be guaranteed in a fractious Congress, with a House GOP majority that has rendered the United States close to ungovernable and is threatening America’s global leadership role. And history is watching whether Speaker Johnson will put that bill on the floor.

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☆ Florida Republican Byron Donalds said IVF helps people 'breed great families' which the 'country desperately needs'
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Katie Balevic | John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . On Sunday, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida took to NBC's "Meet the Press," where he stated that he fully supports IVF, which helps people "create great families, which is what our country desperately needs." "The IVF procedure is very important to a lot of couples in our country," Donalds said. AdvertisementLast week, former President Donald Trump spoke of the need for IVF availability on his Truth Social platform. Beshear was reelected to a second term by 5 points in a state that Trump had won by 26 points in 2020.

Persons: —, Byron Donalds, Donalds, Trump, Donald Trump, Roe, Wade, Andy Beshear, needling, Beshear Organizations: Service, Alabama's, Republicans, Sunday, Press, MSNBC, GOP, Democratic Locations: Florida, Alabama, America, Kentucky

☆ How Johnson wooed Trump to back a GOP congressman targeted by Gaetz
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Manu Raju | Melanie Zanona | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“Seeing as how President Trump endorsed Mike Bost, Matt always finds himself on the wrong side of history,” Miller told CNN. After the GOP leadership’s candidate, Craig Riedel, was caught on tape criticizing Trump, multiple Republicans pulled their endorsement, including Miller and House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik. And now, Miller is inserting herself into another incumbent primary race in Illinois: She also is backing Bailey over Bost, her House GOP colleague. But this time, Miller and Gaetz are on the opposite side of Trump in the race. “Darren Bailey proudly stands with President Trump despite disagreeing with him on this endorsement,” a campaign spokesman said.

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☆ A Nerve Center for the Right Wing Rises in Washington
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Robert Draper | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the lobby of the grand Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, Fla., where a sprawling new force in Washington’s right-wing ecosystem, the Conservative Partnership Institute, was holding its winter conference, the former Trump legal adviser Cleta Mitchell was exultant. “Did you hear the ‘War Room’ today? Bannon was on fire!” she said to a friend. She was referring to the podcast hosted by Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump White House senior adviser who had been condemning Republican senators for supporting billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine and Israel earlier that day. Ms. Mitchell was among some 150 conservative donors and activists who gathered in Coral Gables earlier this month to celebrate the ascendancy of a group that has become a well-paying sinecure for Trump allies and an incubator for the policies the former president could pursue if elected.

Persons: Trump, Cleta Mitchell, Bannon, Stephen K, Mitchell, Ben Carson, Byron Donalds, Florida — Organizations: Conservative Partnership Institute, Trump White House, Trump, Housing, Urban Development Locations: Coral Gables, Fla, Washington’s, “, Ukraine, Israel, Florida

☆ Speaker Johnson to House GOP: Senate immigration deal ‘absolutely dead,’ members say
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Clare Foran | Manu Raju | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Leaving their conference meeting, House Republicans said Johnson made clear the immigration deal is “absolutely dead.”“I just heard Speaker Johnson saying it’s absolutely dead, which is what I wanted to hear,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told CNN. “I have talked to former President Trump about this issue at length and he understands that we have a responsibility to do here.”Johnson added, “The president of course, President Trump, wants to secure the country. President Trump is the one that talked about border security before anyone else did. Biden said in a statement on Friday the deal that Senate negotiators have worked toward is both tough and fair. Senior House Republicans on Tuesday attacked the Senate’s immigration compromise, despite not having final text, and vowed that it will not pass the House.

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Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio was removed as GOP nominee for speaker in a secret ballot after he lost his third bid. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the previous speaker, was ousted three weeks ago. Mike Johnson of Louisiana was chosen as House Republicans’ latest nominee for speaker in a conference vote late Tuesday, hours after the party elected and then derailed a different member in its search for the elusive candidate who can actually win the gavel. At the end of a marathon day of internal debate and votes, Johnson, the vice chairman of the House Republican conference, bested Byron Donalds of Florida, a Trump ally popular with many of the House’s most conservative lawmakers. In a shift, lawmakers left the Capitol on Tuesday night optimistic that Johnson could unite them after a series of failed attempts to find a successor to former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.), who was ousted three weeks ago.

Persons: Jim Jordan of, Kevin McCarthy, Valerie Plesch, Mike Johnson of, Republicans ’, Johnson, Byron Donalds of Organizations: Bloomberg WASHINGTON —, Republicans, House Republican, Trump, Capitol Locations: Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Byron Donalds of Florida, Calif

Johnson of Louisiana, a lower-ranked member of the House GOP leadership team, becomes the fourth Republican nominee in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy's ouster as GOP factions jockey for power. “I made my decision based on my relationship with the conference,” he said, referring to the GOP majority. House Republicans returned behind closed doors, where they spend much of their time, desperately searching for a leader who can unite the factions, reopen the House and get the U.S. Congress working again. In the end, Johnson won 128 votes on the evening ballot, more than any other candidate. With Republicans controlling the House 221-212 over Democrats, any GOP nominee can afford just a few detractors to win the gavel.

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3 House Republican, dropped his bid only hours after securing the nomination. A social conservative, Mr. Johnson is a lawyer and the former chairman of the Republican Study Committee. This conference that you see, this House Republican majority, is united. Some on the right opposed to Mr. Emmer cited his vote in favor of codifying federal protections for same-sex couples. Mr. Emmer had attempted to mollify Mr. Trump by calling him over the weekend and praising him, according to the former president.

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Having dispatched their speaker then rejected two popular GOP figures as replacements, the House Republicans on Tuesday will be voting instead on a hodge-podge of lesser-known congressmen for speaker, a powerful position second in line to the presidency. No one is expected to emerge from first-round voting and Republicans are planning to stay behind closed doors until they can agree on a nominee. Launched over right-flank complaints about McCarthy's leadership in budget battles, it's no longer clear what the House Republicans are fighting for and if they will end up with a more acceptable speaker. Trump has intervened from the sidelines backing hard-charging Rep. Jim Jordan over Majority Leader Steve Scalise. “You’re gonna have to use persuasion.”Trump, brushing back suggestions that he take the gavel himself, suggested Monday that no one is capable of uniting the House Republicans.

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☆ The Republican House speaker crisis is part of its identity crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Tuesday marks three full weeks without a House speaker and 24 days until the government runs out of money, to say nothing of aid packages many lawmakers want for Israel and Ukraine. Most Republicans voted for all three men as speaker, but the outside edges of the party were too big to get a majority. Only two of the current speaker candidates supported the 2020 election results: Emmer and Scott. Four of the current speaker candidates voted no, including Sessions. But Trump’s power within the House GOP is limited.

Persons: Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Donald Trump’s, Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, Tom Emmer, CNN’s Stephen Collinson, Kevin Hern of, Jack Bergman of, Austin Scott of Georgia, Byron Donalds of, Mike Johnson of, Pete Sessions, Gary Palmer of, Dan Meuser, CNN’s Dana Bash, Scott, Sessions, Bergman, McCarthy, Johnson, Meuser, – Donalds, Palmer –, Trump, Jordan, Liz Cheney –, –, CNN’s Jake Tapper, “, ” Cheney, ”, we’re, Steve Womack, Tapper Organizations: CNN, Republican, Representatives, ►, Pro Tempore, GOP, Marine, Jordan, Caucus, Black Republicans, Pete Sessions of Texas, Trump, Republicans, Republican Party Locations: Israel, Ukraine, Minnesota, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Jack Bergman of Michigan, Byron Donalds of Florida, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Gary Palmer of Alabama, Pennsylvania, Hern, Wyoming

☆ Republicans: House circus embarrasses senior party leaders as the country and the world wait for a speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

The uprising that began nearly three weeks ago with the toppling of Speaker Kevin McCarthy has now weakened three of the most powerful figures in the House GOP. Twisting colored squares together in the right order seems simple by comparison with attempts to unite a House Republican conference unable to comprehend how clownish it looks. “We need (a speaker) because the House can’t do anything without a speaker,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “This is probably one of the most embarrassing things I’ve seen because if we don’t have a speaker of the House, we can’t govern. “This is embarrassing for the Republican Party.

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CNN —As the House enters its third week without a speaker, nearly a dozen Republicans are vying to earn the support of their conference to wield the gavel, throwing the chamber into even more uncertainty. The chamber has been without a speaker since House Republicans ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy earlier this month. Nine House Republicans are running for the position, announced House GOP conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, including GOP Whip Tom Emmer, who is endorsed by McCarthy. Emmer has moved to lock in support across the ideological and geographic spectrum in the conference, giving him what many House Republicans believe is an advantage, according to GOP sources. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, the vice chairman for the House Republican conference.

Persons: Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Elise Stefanik, Tom Emmer, McCarthy, Emmer, Donald Trump, Jack Bergman of, Byron Donalds of, Kevin Hern of, Mike Johnson of, Dan Meuser, Gary Palmer of, Austin Scott of Georgia, Jordan, Pete Sessions, Joe Biden, McCarthy’s, Steve Scalise’s speakership Organizations: CNN, Republicans, Nine, GOP, US Marines, Republican, Committee, House Republican, Texas Republican, Trump, White, Senate, Hamas Locations: Jack Bergman of Michigan, Byron Donalds of Florida, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Gary Palmer of Alabama, Ukraine, Israel

☆ Tucker Carlson says he has 'no plans to get involved' in the House GOP speaker race despite bad blood with frontrunner Tom Emmer
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Tom Emmer is widely seen as the frontrunner for the GOP nomination for speaker of the House. But some in Trump's orbit don't like him, and he's got bad blood with Tucker Carlson. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementThe bad blood between Emmer and Carlson is somewhat convoluted. On Friday, House Republicans voted to remove Jordan after he put up the worst showing for the majority party's speaker nominee since before the Civil War.

Persons: Tom Emmer, he's, Tucker Carlson, Carlson, —, Kevin McCarthy, Jim Banks, Banks, Carlson's, Buckley, Carlson —, Emmer, Trump, Trump's, MAGA, Jim Jordan, McCarthy, Kevin Hern of, Mike Johnson of, Byron Donalds of, Jordan Organizations: GOP, Service, Minnesota Republican, Trump, Fox News, Emmer, Jim Banks of, Republicans, Caucus Locations: Minnesota, Jim Banks of Indiana, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, Byron Donalds of Florida

☆ Nine Republicans are vying to become the next House speaker. These are the candidates
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry of North Carolina said he wants the nominee to face a House vote as soon as Tuesday. His failure came after the party's original nominee, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, bowed out of the race because he could not secure enough GOP votes. Meuser said Monday whoever wins the nomination needs to ensure that speaker's office is inclusive so the narrow GOP majority remains unified. The Pennsylvania Republican told Fox Business that Republicans' failure to elect a speaker has made the party "part of the dysfunction of Washington." US House Of Representatives | via ReutersRep. Gary Palmer is chairman of the House Republicans' policy committee.

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☆ Matt Gaetz blasts the House GOP secret ballot process that knocked off Jim Jordan as the party's speaker nominee: 'It's as swampy as swamp gets'
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-21 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Matt Gaetz on Friday expressed dismay at Jim Jordan's removal as the GOP speaker nominee. "It's as swampy as swamp gets, and Jim Jordan deserved better than that," Gaetz told reporters. The decision sank the House chamber into further disarray, more than weeks after Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California was ousted as speaker. "It's as swampy as swamp gets, and Jim Jordan deserved better than that." Democrats could potentially be in the mix to back a particular GOP speaker nominee if some sort of legislative deals are made, but it is unclear what those terms would look like or if it would actually happen.

Persons: Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan's, Jim Jordan, Gaetz, —, Jim Jordan's speakership, Kevin McCarthy of, Jordan, Tom Emmer, Byron Donalds of, Jack Bergman of, Austin Scott of Georgia, McCarthy's, McCarthy, Steve Scalise, who's Organizations: Service, House Republican, Republican, United States Congress, Florida Republican, Rep, Jack Bergman of Michigan, Republicans, GOP Locations: Kevin McCarthy of California, Washington, Jordan, Minnesota, Byron Donalds of Florida, Louisiana

☆ Here's what we know about Jim Jordan and the Ohio State University wrestling scandal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Questions are resurfacing about his role in the sexual abuse scandal at Ohio State University. AdvertisementAdvertisementRep. Jim Jordan of Ohio could become the next speaker of the House, and questions are resurfacing about his role in a sexual abuse scandal at Ohio State University. Jordan has long denied any wrongdoing since the allegations were first brought forward in 2018, and at no point has any former wrestler accused Jordan himself of commiting sexual abuse. Jordan worked as a wrestling coach at Ohio StateA high school and college wrestling champion himself, Jordan worked as an assistant coach at Ohio State University in Columbus from 1986 to 1994 immediately after graduating college. AdvertisementAdvertisementThere is a chance, however, that Jordan will be deposed as part of an ongoing lawsuit related to the sexual abuse scandal.

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On Tuesday, 20 Republicans voted against his candidacy – far more than the handful he could afford to lose given the party’s narrow majority in Congress. These are the House Republicans who voted against Jordan in each ballot:First ballot1. Don Bacon of Nebraska voted for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy2. Anthony D’Esposito of New York voted for former Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York4. Kelly voted for former House Speaker John Boehner15.

Persons: Jim Jordan of, Jordan –, Kevin McCarthy’s, Jordan, Don Bacon of Nebraska, Kevin McCarthy, Lori Chavez, McCarthy, Anthony D’Esposito, Lee Zeldin, Mario Diaz, Steve Scalise, Jake Ellzey, Mike Garcia, Andrew Garbarino, Carlos Gimenez, Tony Gonzales, Kay Granger, Mike Kelly, Jennifer Kiggans, Nick LaLota, Mike Lawler, John Rutherford of, Mike Simpson, Steve Womack, Ken Buck, Tom Emmer, John James of Michigan, Tom Cole, Doug LaMalfa, Victoria Spartz, Thomas Massie of, Bacon, Vern Buchanan, Byron Donalds, Buck, Chavez, DeRemer, D’Esposito, Diaz, Balart, Ellzey, Garcia, Drew Ferguson, Garbarino, Gimenez, Gonzales, Granger, James, Candice Miller, Kelly, John Boehner, Kiggans, Lawler, LaLota, Mariannette Miller, Meeks, Rutherford, Simpson, Pete Stauber, Bruce Westerman, Womack Organizations: Washington CNN — Republican, House Republicans, New York, Michigan Locations: Jim Jordan of Ohio, Oregon, New, New York, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, California, Virginia, John Rutherford of Florida, Idaho, Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Indiana, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Georgia, Iowa

☆ A former McDonalds franchise owner dubbed 'McCongressman' wants to be the GOP's next House Majority Leader — and he's handing out McGriddles to win his colleagues over
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

GOP Rep. Kevin Hern, a former McDonald's franchise owner, wants to be House Majority Leader. AdvertisementAdvertisementRep. Kevin Hern wants to be the next House Majority Leader, and he's got at least one unconventional trick up his sleeve to try to pull it off: McDonald's. "I fucking wish," one House GOP staffer told Insider via text when asked if they'd received a delivery. "Pissed," a staffer from another House GOP office wrote, saying they also hadn't received any McGriddles. Hern, the current chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, launched his campaign for majority leader on Wednesday after House Republicans nominated current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise to replace McCarthy as speaker.

Persons: Kevin Hern, he's, Bacon, —, they'd, hadn't, Steve Scalise, McCarthy, Hern, Byron Donalds of, Tom Emmer, Elise Stefanik Organizations: Republicans, GOP, Service, Oklahoma Republican, Washington Examiner, Republican, Committee Locations: Oklahoma, Punchbowl, Hern, Byron Donalds of Florida, Minnesota, New York, Scalise

☆ Chaos in House GOP intensifies with Scalise’s speakership bid in peril
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

GOP lawmakers did select Steve Scalise as their nominee for the job that is second in the line of presidential succession on Wednesday. The worsening debacle in the House follows the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week by eight Republicans voting with Democrats. But some GOP leaders are irritated that the jockeying is distracting from the imperative to find a speaker. He was still well short of the 217 votes – a majority of the current House – needed to claim the speakership on the floor. “He has no path to 217,” one top House Republican said on condition of anonymity.

Persons: Steve Scalise, Scalise, CNN’s Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona, Steve, ”, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, McCarthy, Tom Emmer, Kevin Hern, Byron Donalds of, ” Scalise, –, grandstanding, Donald Trump, Michael McCaul, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “, Xi, Putin, Matt Gaetz, – it’s, holdouts, Joe Biden, Marjorie Taylor Greene –, Trump, Jordan, Scalise –, ” Greene, Nancy Mace, David Duke, Mace, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Lauren Boebert, ” Boebert, …, Mike Lawler, Laura Blessing Organizations: CNN, The House Republican Party, Louisiana Republican, Republican, GOP, Ohio Republican, Texas, Foreign Affairs, Georgia, ” South Carolina Rep, Scalise, Ku Klux, ”, Republicans, New York Rep, Senate, Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute Locations: Wednesday’s, Washington, –, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Byron Donalds of Florida, Jordan, Israel, Florida, ”, Colorado

CNN —House Republicans picked Rep. Steve Scalise as their nominee for speaker on Wednesday, but the Louisiana Republican lacks the votes needed to win the gavel and it remains unclear whether he will be able to win over holdouts. Scalise won out over Rep. Jim Jordan in a closed-door vote by the House GOP conference to pick their speaker nominee on Wednesday. House Republicans hold a narrow majority and Scalise can only afford to lose four GOP votes on the floor and still win the speakership. McCarthy’s ouster, which was driven by a group of hardline conservatives, has intensified deep divisions within the House GOP conference and escalated tensions. Scalise is a veteran of House GOP leadershipScalise has risen through the ranks of leadership during his time in Congress.

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☆ Republicans are asking their Twitter followers to help them decide who should replace Kevin McCarthy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

House Republicans are set to choose a new speaker next Wednesday, and it's unclear who that will be. Some of them have apparently turned to Twitter to help their decision-making — or to make a point. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . As House Republicans try to settle on a candidate to take the reigns after Kevin McCarthy's sudden defenestration this week, some of them are polling their Twitter followers on who they'd like to see in the top job. "That said, who would you like to see as the next Speaker of the House?," wrote LaLota.

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☆ Who leads the House now? The top Republicans who could be the next House speaker.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementFor the first time in American history, House lawmakers have ejected the Speaker of the House from power. 3 House Republican and formerly led the House GOP's campaign arm. Donalds, who is not in House leadership, did not speak on the floor before the historic vote. She was catapulted into House leadership after Republicans booted then-Rep. Liz Cheney from her post as the N0. Once a more liberal Republican, Stefanik has become one of the biggest Trump supporters in the entire House Republican conference.

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Again, Republicans have not produced evidence that Joe Biden got paid in any of these arrangements. Jim Jordan falsely claims Hunter Biden said he was unqualified for Burisma boardRepublican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio repeated a false claim about Hunter Biden that CNN debunked when Jordan made the same claim last week. “We learned yesterday, in the search warrant…examining Hunter Biden electronic communications, they weren’t allowed to ask about Political Figure 1,” Jordan said. Facts First: Mace’s claim is false; we do not “already know” that Joe Biden took any bribe. Burchett on Hunter Biden’s taxesRep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican, falsely claimed that Hunter Biden never paid taxes on his foreign income.

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