January 5, 2023 GOP deadlocked over House speaker vote

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• January 5, 2023 GOP deadlocked over House speaker vote
• Jeffries: GOP needs to 'end the House Republican civil war'
• Jeffries: Democrats will continue finding common ground with GOP "whenever and wherever possible"
• Power 2 Change Crusades with Pastor Jim Daugherty
• The House is voting on whether or not to adjourn
• Committee assignments
• Power ebbed and flowed

And he will need to lead a conference deeply divided over foreign policy as Congress considers the Biden administration’s $105 billion funding request for Israel, Ukraine and the southern border. Elected to Congress in 2016, Mr. Johnson is the most junior lawmaker in decades to become speaker. The durations mentioned below are calculated based on date differences; if one were to count by the number of calendar days, all the values would be one day longer.

January 5, 2023 GOP deadlocked over House speaker vote

WASHINGTON — They helped lead the efforts to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. They spread lies that helped ignite a mob of Trump supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. While it was long before the dawn of Twitter, super PACs and C-SPAN, things really haven’t changed all that much in Congress.

Jeffries: GOP needs to 'end the House Republican civil war'

And in one sign of a breakthrough, a McCarthy-aligned super PAC agreed to not play in open Republican primaries in safe seats -- one of the big demands that conservatives had asked for but that McCarthy had resisted until this point. The House GOP majority has been stuck at a contentious stalemate amid opposition to McCarthy from a group of conservatives. The fight, which began on the first day of the 118th Congress, has thrown the new House GOP majority into chaos and undercut the party's agenda. House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s team has made an offer to his conservative opponents filled with “substantive” rules changes and other process issues they have demanded, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

Jeffries: Democrats will continue finding common ground with GOP "whenever and wherever possible"

The presiding officer also rules on all points of order but such rulings may be appealed to the whole House. The speaker is responsible for maintaining decorum in the House and may order the Sergeant-at-Arms to enforce House rules. Historically, there have been several controversial elections to the speakership, such as the contest of 1839. In that case, even though the 26th United States Congress convened on December 2, the House could not begin the speakership election until December 14 because of an election dispute in New Jersey known as the "Broad Seal War". Two rival delegations, one Whig and the other Democrat, had been certified as elected by different branches of the New Jersey government. The problem was compounded by the fact that the result of the dispute would determine whether the Whigs or the Democrats held the majority.

Power 2 Change Crusades with Pastor Jim Daugherty

Some on the right opposed to Mr. Emmer cited his vote in favor of codifying federal protections for same-sex couples. Others railed against Mr. Emmer’s vote in favor of a stopgap spending bill put forward by Mr. McCarthy, the speaker at the time, to avert a government shutdown. Still others said he was insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump, because he voted to certify the results of the 2020 election won by President Biden.

The brief claimed that the officials and courts in each of the battleground states unconstitutionally usurped the power granted to state legislators by changing election rules in 2020. Rep. Carlos Giménez of Florida, who supported McCarthy over Jordan, called Johnson a "straightforward leader" who can unite the Republican conference in a post to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Gimenez, former chief of the City of Miami Fire Department, highlighted that both Johnson and McCarthy are the sons of firefighters. Democrats will nominate Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and they are being urged to vote for him, according to a notice from Democratic whip Katherine Clark's office. Rep. Pete Aguilar , the Democratic caucus chair, will deliver the nominating speech for Jeffries. Rep. Elise Stefanik, the chair of the House Republican conference, will deliver the speech nominating Johnson for speaker, according to a Republican aide.

The House is voting on whether or not to adjourn

Johnson has gained stature and won bipartisan praise for letting the whole House vote on the aid package. He also got strong support in the Senate, where even an outright majority of Republicans voted for the aid on Tuesday. But this time around several Democrats have indicated they would cross the aisle to support Johnson and frustrate Greene & Co. if it came to a vote.

Committee assignments

"In the meantime, as we all know, the world is on fire. And we need to address these problems ... it's important that we get back to the business of running this country," he said. Joyce said that the House has to get to the floor and figure out if Scalise will win as the next speaker and move on from there. Scalise told reporters that House Republicans had a "very constructive two-and-a-half-hour long meeting" this afternoon, and now members will continue to speak in smaller groups. “It doesn’t mean there’s not healthy conversations for us as a conference,” Cloud told reporters. Walking out of Scalise’s office, Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, one of the Scalise holdouts, said he didn’t think Scalise had flipped any votes to the yes column. In a note to House Democrats, Clark told members to plan on being present and voting and that a speaker vote is possible tomorrow.

Democrats weigh helping Johnson avoid being ousted as House speaker - The Associated Press

Democrats weigh helping Johnson avoid being ousted as House speaker.

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“The door to the speaker’s office now is open to the members and to the constituents, not just the lobbyists,” Rep. Matt Rosendale told reporters. Asked if he would bring a vote to oust Johnson if he put forth a short-term spending bill at current spending levels, Rep. Matt Gaetz said he’s optimistic Johnson will be able to actually pass the individual spending bills. Today, the role of the speaker is influenced especially by changes instituted by Speaker Newt Gingrich, who took the gavel after the 1994 elections. Under pressure to step aside when there appeared to be no chance that he could clinch the speaker’s gavel, he hung on anyway. “He will have to live the entirety of his speakership in a straitjacket constructed by the rules that we’re working on now,” Mr. Gaetz said. Representative Chip Roy of Texas started out as an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Trump’s claims of a stolen election but gradually grew alarmed about the push to invalidate the results and ultimately opposed Mr. Trump’s bid to get Congress to overturn them on Jan. 6, 2021.

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On the eve of the Jan. 6 votes, Mr. Johnson had honed his arguments undermining the election to be more palatable. He presented colleagues with arguments they could use to oppose the will of the voters without embracing conspiracy theories and the lies of widespread fraud pushed by Mr. Trump. Mr. Johnson instead faulted the way some states had changed voting procedures during the pandemic, saying it was unconstitutional.

The party settled on Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who had not sought the gavel but agreed to take it. In 1994, two years into the presidency of Democrat Bill Clinton, Gingrich organized a campaign around a 10-item agenda called the "Contract with America." It provided a unified message for the party's nominees, who flipped more than 50 seats and stormed into the majority. House GOP lawmakers will huddle behind closed doors once again this afternoon, two members told NBC News. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who had pledged her support for Jordan as speaker, said that she won’t support Scalise’s bid. Self was a member of the group of holdouts in the nomination process for McCarthy in January. One of the rule changes the group negotiated was the change requiring only one member to bring a motion to vacate the speaker, the rule used by Gaetz last week.