[content id=”79272″] As former President Donald Trump attacked him, some progressives argued that “Democrats should only support a speaker that would disempower the Freedom Caucus through a power-sharing agreement.” Just hours after Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives selected Majority Whip Tom Emmer as their third speaker nominee in as many weeks, the Minnesota […]
[content id=”79272″] Nine U.S. Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives – none of them well-known to the American public – announced by the Sunday deadline that they are running to become House speaker, the leader of the lower chamber of Congress. The House has been without a speaker for nearly three weeks after a […]
[content id=”79272″] Far-right U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, confronting two failed attempts to garner the support needed to be elected speaker of the House, intends to back a plan to empower Rep. Patrick McHenry—named speaker pro tempore earlier this month—to act as a temporary speaker until at least January 3, according to new reporting on Thursday. […]
[content id=”79272″] Nearly two dozen of Jordan’s GOP colleagues opposed him for the leadership role. An aggressive pressure campaign to convince holdouts in the Republican Party to back far-right Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Wednesday was unsuccessful, with 22 GOP lawmakers voting against the Ohio congressman in the second round of voting—two more […]