Table Of Content
- Electing the next speaker
- Fleischmann eliminated in 1st round of speaker votes and Republicans are moving to a 2nd ballot
- After opposing Emmer bid for speaker, Trump says his "strong suggestion" is to support Johnson
- Johnson says he's never voted against Ukraine aid. That's not what his record says.
- d Republican joins motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker
Johnson listed a number of his priorities, including border security, cutting federal spending and establishing a bipartisan debt commission "immediately." Johnson also acknowledged that the chaos of the last three weeks has chipped away at Americans' confidence in the lower chamber. "I want to say to the American people on behalf of all of us here, we hear you. We know the challenges you're facing. We know that there's a lot going on in our country, domestically and abroad, and we're ready to get to work again to solve those problems and we will," he said. "Our mission here is to serve you well, to restore the people's faith in this House in this great and essential institution." "The challenge before us is great, but the time for action is now and I will not let you down," Johnson said.
Electing the next speaker
The elevation of Mr. Johnson, 51, an architect of the effort to overturn the 2020 election and a religious conservative opposed to abortion rights, homosexuality and gay marriage, further cemented the Republican Party’s lurch to the right. It came after a historic fight that began when the hard right ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Oct. 3, and raged on as the divided House G.O.P. nominated and then quickly discarded three other candidates to succeed him. The challenge for House Republicans is they still have eight more spending bills to pass including two that have been stuck in committee because of disagreements within GOP ranks. In his letter to colleagues, Johnson set out an aggressive time table for passing the bills, but the issue will be finding a way to pass the legislation in just a narrow GOP majority.
Who are the Republican House speaker candidates who've run and dropped out? Here's a full list - CBS News
Who are the Republican House speaker candidates who've run and dropped out? Here's a full list.
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Fleischmann eliminated in 1st round of speaker votes and Republicans are moving to a 2nd ballot
Representative-elect Eli Crane of Arizona and Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana — the two holdouts who seemed most likely to move — both voted against him, leaving his fate in the hands of his lead tormentor, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida. Rep. Gary Palmer of Alabama announced ahead of the closed-door conference meeting that he is dropping out of the race to be speaker, leaving seven candidates vying for the position. Republican Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota is now the GOP nominee for speaker, besting Rep. Mike Johnson in Republicans' final secret ballot, according to House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik. "One of the things that I think won a big round of applause inside the room was that Tom Emmer said, 'Listen, we're not gonna do this shell diplomacy," Johnson told reporters.
After opposing Emmer bid for speaker, Trump says his "strong suggestion" is to support Johnson
Gimenez, former chief of the City of Miami Fire Department, highlighted that both Johnson and McCarthy are the sons of firefighters. As Johnson made his way from his House office to the floor, he told CBS News that he "feels very good" about the vote and believes he can secure the necessary 217 votes on the first round. But last month, he voted for a Rep. Matt Gaetz amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have cut off all security assistance for Ukraine. That amendment failed, , with a majority of Republicans voting against the amendment.
Speaking after the vote, Johnson vowed to hit the ground running and get the House back to work. A government shutdown is fast approaching, and the White House has requested a $106 billion emergency aid package for Israel, Ukraine and other priorities. On October 25, 2023, Congressman Mike Johnson (LA-04) was elected as the Speaker of the House. As a Congressman, Speaker Johnson represents the northwest and western regions of Louisiana.
The Republican divisions obstructing Mr. McCarthy’s decade-long ambition of becoming speaker of the House have been playing out on both the national stage in Washington and a far smaller though equally telling one in his hometown and home district. It is easier to find detractors on his far-right flank than die-hard supporters, in what should be friendly home turf for California’s top Republican — one of the reddest cities in one of the bluest states in the country. Mr. Gaetz, Mr. McCarthy’s chief antagonist, has accused the G.O.P. leader of selling his soul to lobbyists and of pursuing the speakership because of his own vanity.
House Speaker Vote, Day 2 - Vote 4
In Congress, Mr. Johnson has voted for a national abortion ban and co-sponsored a 20-week abortion ban, earning him an A-plus rating from the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. After the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in June last year, he celebrated. Mr. Johnson said Mr. Jordan called him when he was running for office, because “he knew I was a conservative,” contributed money to his campaign and invited him to Washington for a meeting with him and other Freedom Caucus members. Over a year later, on “Truth Be Told,” the Christian podcast he hosts with his wife, Kelly, Mr. Johnson continued to argue that he and his colleagues had been right to object to the election results. In December 2020, Mr. Johnson collected signatures for a legal brief in support of a Texas lawsuit, rooted in baseless claims of widespread election irregularities, that tried to throw out the results in four battleground states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Emmer leaves Republican conference meeting, won't say if he's still in the race
The chamber’s failure to elect a speaker in multiple ballots is the first in almost a century. It took the House nine ballots to elect a speaker in 1923 and 133 ballots to choose one in 1855. The 15th ballot ended a standoff by ultra-conservative Republicans opposed to McCarthy. The new speaker won with 216 votes after six of his GOP opponents voted "present," which lowered the victory threshold to 216 from 218. Now that a House speaker has been selected following a days-long stalemate and members have finally been sworn in, the chamber can look toward picking back up business and organizing GOP-led committees.
d Republican joins motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker
And some hard-right Trump supporters outside Congress have sought to block Mr. Emmer from winning the speaker’s gavel, claiming he has been insufficiently supportive of former President Donald J. Trump. Tom Emmer, the House G.O.P.’s No. 3 leader, narrowly won his party’s nomination but drew an immediate backlash from right-wing colleagues and former President Donald J. Trump. Ahead of the vote, Democratic leaders had not committed to supporting the rule, as text was not yet available. But they said they were open to the possibility and they were committed to getting foreign aid passed. But Johnson went on social media Thursday to say the House will "continue to govern under the existing rules." Gosar's announcement came shortly after a House vote to advance foreign aid bills to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel, which required Democrats' support to offset GOP defections.
The House has 434 of its total 435 members at the moment, with 222 Republicans and 212 Democrats. "I had more debate this week in Congress — more meaningful debate — more intermingling," Burchett told CNN's Jim Acosta Saturday, saying he was chatting with everyone from the prominent progressive lawmakers known as The Squad to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But the speech infuriated Mr. Trump, and Mr. McCarthy quickly worked to get back in the former president’s good graces, traveling to his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, three weeks later to meet with him. “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. WASHINGTON — They helped lead the efforts to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
But hours after Emmer won the nod in a closed-door vote by the conference Tuesday morning, the former president lambasted the Minnesota Republican, writing on Truth Social that "voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake." The new speaker has been in Congress since 2017 and has no experience in the House leadership. If no one succeeds in meeting that threshold, the House simply continues to hold elections until someone does. If the entire House is in attendance, that means a nominee needs at least 217 votes to be elected speaker. (There are currently 433 members of the House and two vacancies.) The math can change if there are absences, or if any lawmakers vote “present” rather than in support of a candidate. The process of electing a new speaker is low-tech and transparent, as the world learned in January during Mr. McCarthy’s once-in-a-century floor fight to win the gavel.
Several members have said Emmer initially wanted to go to the floor today, but that seems highly unlikely unless he can flip some of the holdouts during the open forum. GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik tweeted the full list of candidates shortly before the candidate forum was to begin this evening. Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida, Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee, Mark Green of Tennessee, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Roger Williams of Texas, are running.
Tom Emmer of Minnesota wins the speakership nomination, making him the third to do so since Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. Republicans are now expected to take another closed-door vote to see how many members in the conference will pledge support for Emmer on the House floor. Shortly after the vote, Mike Johnson, the other finalist, endorsed Tom Emmer and encouraged the conference to coalesce around the party's nominee. Mike Garcia of California tells reporters that 20 members voted against Emmer and that five voted present in the roll.
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