Despite being nominated in a closed-door vote on Wednesday, Rep. Steve Scalise is nowhere close to securing the Speaker’s gavel
Rep. Steve Scalise speaks to the media as he leaves a House Republican caucus meeting where the conference voted on a Speaker of House nominee in the Longworth House Office Building on Oct. 11, 2023 in Washington, D.C.in a two-thirds majority vote on Wednesday, by Thursday afternoon House Republicans were publicly stating the speaker negotiations had descended into “utter chaos.
GOP Rep. Troy Nehls on a message to his colleagues: "You want to talk about confusing the American people? They think this whole place is a circus up here and all of a sudden Jim Jordan is nominating Steve Scalise and we're voting for Jim Jordan. That's just utter chaos."to reporters that in the party’s current state not even “the Lord Jesus himself could get 217 votes.” HeGreene raised concerns about Scalise’s recent cancer diagnosis as a justification for her no vote.
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Steve Scalise selected as GOP nominee for speakerCami Mondeaux is a congressional reporter. She started with the Washington Examiner as a copy editor, later joining the breaking news team and eventually settling on the Congress beat. A Utah native, Cami graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City in 2021 and covered state government as a breaking news reporter for KSL News Radio. Follow her on X for the latest updates on news in the D.C. area and beyond: cami_mondeaux.
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