We expect this afternoon the full House to have another vote (or votes) to choose the Speaker, without whom the House can conduct no business. Some Republican Representatives are indicating that they will not back Jordan for Speaker despite his nomination within the caucus; whether there are enough to block him from the Speakership - and what happens after that - remains to be seen. Besides his own, Jordan requires 217 Republican votes to reach the Speakership. We expect the House Democratic Caucus to remain consolidated behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

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Party Candidate Round 1
Democratic Hakeem Jeffries 212
Republican Jim Jordan 200
Republican Steve Scalise 7
Republican Kevin McCarthy 6
Republican Lee Zeldin[1] 3
Republican Tom Cole 1
Republican Tom Emmer 1
Republican Mike Garcia 1
Republican Thomas Massie 1
Present 0
Absent 1[2]
Votes to Win 217

To see who the hold-outs are and how they’re voting, refer to the election of the speaker Wikipedia article. If your elected representative does not appear in the list of hold-outs, they voted for their party’s nominee.

  1. Zeldin, whose term as a House member had ended with the close of the 117th and previous Congress, was no longer an incumbent representative. ↩︎

  2. Bilirakis missed the vote due to the funeral of his mother-in-law. ↩︎

  • Type 1 [Missouri]OPM
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    1 year ago

    No more votes expected in the House today, with lawmakers set to reconvene at 11 a.m. Wednesday

    No additional votes are expected in the House on Tuesday, closing out another day without a permanent House speaker. The House will meet at 11 a.m. (EST) Wednesday and proceed to a second ballot in an attempt to elect a speaker.