(The Center Square) — House Republicans have nominated Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to be speaker of the House, but it remains unclear if Jordan can get the needed 217 votes from his own fractured party.
Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., a lesser known member, threw his name in the hat for the position as well and got significant support in the nomination vote, though possibly only as a vote against Jordan instead of a true vote for Scott.
Later, though, Scott threw his support behind Jordan.
“I highly respect Jim Jordan. He is an asset to the Republican Party and our nominee for Speaker,” Scott wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Our conference has spoken, and now we must unite behind Jordan so we can get Congress back to work.”
Jordan has conservative chops and support from the party base, but many moderates may not be willing to go his way.
“For years, I’ve stayed out of House leadership elections, but this time I endorsed [Jordan],” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote on X. “Jim is a good friend and a strong conservative. My philosophy on political endorsements is to support the strongest conservative who can win. That is Jim Jordan.”
U.S. House Republican Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was the leading contender to be the speaker of the House Thursday morning, but he later withdrew his bid before taking it to a public vote after he failed to get enough support.
Meanwhile, lawmakers in the House face a partial government shutdown in mid-November along with growing pressure to supply funds, ammunition, and weapons to both Ukraine and Israel, which has declared war on the terrorist group Hamas.
Until lawmakers land on a speaker, legislation cannot move forward.
As The Center Square previously reported, another key issue for lawmakers to handle is whether one lawmaker will still be able to file a motion to vacate the speaker, an unusual allowance given by McCarthy to secure the needed votes after the series of speakership votes earlier this year. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., used that very allowance to file the motion that led to the ousting of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
The current Speaker Pro Tempore is Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., who will determine the times of any speaker votes until a lawmaker wins the speakership.
“The DC Uniparty does not want a Speaker who would threaten their status quo,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., wrote on X. “We need a strong conservative for Speaker of the House!”
As Franklin warned our founders in Congress in Philly,, if Republicans do not hang together, they will indeed hang separately. Holding out to trade support for financial and political advantage to the detriment of the interests of THE PEOPLE makes you not a member of the American Congress, but a member of the Biden Democrat Party Crime family. If you cross and double cross the Jordon, as a party you will never arrive at the American promised land.
Jim Jordan would be a great Speaker of the House, But there are treasonous Democrat RINOs who would like to see our country destroyed by the treasonous, destructive, dishonorable, unethical, immoral, lying, woke, socialist Democrat Party and their corrupt, sock-puppet Joe Beijing Biden. 😯
they seem too busy infighting, to care.
The disruptive forces can’t seen to agree on anything, they unseated one speaker but they really didn’t offer an alternative, just the sense of negativity about Rep Scalise. How is that helping the party? It’s not!
OR helping our nation?!
Congress and Biden Being unable to raise our taxes, create more free social welfare that now even Hamas can qualify for in reditributed American dollars and weapons may not be such a bad thing. Since they cannot do work maybe they should forgo taking a paycheck until they prove worthy of our tax dollars. The JEws will do just fine without the Biden Crime family handcuffing their ability and willingness to do the politically incorrect, but neccessary moves to kill those who seek the death of Israel and have sworn to eliminate America, the so called great Satan. With Biden in charge theymay not be so politically incorrect to call out his realy true colors that now fundementally have changed the USA from the image of great CREATORS into the image of the Great Consumer whose native tongue is lying.
That’s what i have been advocating for, for years..
EVERY TIME THEY FAIL TO do their bloody job, and pass a PROPER BUDGET (not just a cr), they lose out on SIX MONTHS OF PAY!
There should be NO such thing as “moderate” GOP.
They either stand united with the strong pro American law & order constitutional conservative leaders like Jordan, Roy, Cotton & Trump or they are craven self serving hypocrites afraid of fighting & defeating the worst bunch of lawless, corrupt, power mongering Marxists, profiteers, terrorist sympathizers, violent criminals & elite globalist tyrants that now makes up & defines the current Dem Party, in & out of govt.
No one in GOP can be “bi-partisan” with Dem Party while they treasonously allow multi millions of foreign nationals into US to be supported at taxpayer expense or while they make slimy John Kerry deals that bankrupts US to enrich “death to Israel & America” Iran or other hostile nations in the name of climate change.
I would rather take my chances with death by climate change in the next hundreds of years than have to learn to speak Chinese or Russian or be forced to convert to Islam & learn Arabic when one or all of them destroys us thanks to our current Dem Party.