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• McCarthy counseling Jordan on speaker strategy, sources say
• House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
• House SpeakerJohnson Elected Speaker of the House, Ending Weeks of Chaos
• h speaker vote: House Republicans on track to come up short again
• House moves to 13th ballot after McCarthy picks up several GOP holdouts
• House of Representatives elects Kevin McCarthy to serve as speaker

The House GOP caucus will meet early Wednesday morning to strategize before returning to Capitol Hill at noon to resume voting. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., defended his decision to flip his vote for House Speaker away from Kevin McCarthy in the third round of voting on Tuesday. “We’ll continue to seek a candidate who’ll put an end to this horrible practice,” Perry wrote.

McCarthy counseling Jordan on speaker strategy, sources say

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. Find out with these voting guides for local and California races and state propositions. The House is reconvening to potentially vote for a seventh time for speaker.

House Approves $95 Billion Aid Bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

The votes against Jordan for House speaker are looking to be more than his allies were expecting. The Jordan holdouts are a mix of pragmatists, ranging from seasoned legislators and committee chairs worried about governing to newer lawmakers from districts where their voters back home prefer President Joe Biden to former President Donald Trump. The Ohio congressman did even worse than Kevin McCarthy did on the first balloting of his election back in January. It takes a majority of the votes from House members who are present and voting.

House SpeakerJohnson Elected Speaker of the House, Ending Weeks of Chaos

The House GOP caucus is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning to strategize as McCarthy continues to push forward for now. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., flipped his vote away from McCarthy on the third vote after concluding that there was not path forward for McCarthy to become speaker. Former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to end the stalemate and vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to become Speaker on Wednesday. Biden made the comments while speaking to reporters outside the White House before boarding Marine One. Support for McCarthy is uncertain as some factions of the Republican Party continue to oppose his nomination.

“This affirms the path that we took,” Representative Bob Good of Virginia, one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, tells reporters. And the hard-right Republicans who voted to oust Mr. McCarthy, setting into motion the three-week stretch of chaos that left the House without a leader, said Mr. Johnson’s ascension to the top job made their decision to depose the California Republican worth it. Mainstream conservatives who backed Mr. Johnson said they hoped to quickly move to pull the House out of its funk. Almost immediately after Mr. Johnson was elected, lawmakers began debating a resolution expressing solidarity with Israel and condemning Hamas, which passed overwhelmingly.

Republicans have now spurned all three of their top leaders over the past few weeks. The chamber has been frozen for the better part of a month as Republicans feud over who should be in charge, even as wars rage overseas and a government shutdown approaches. He has also opposed continued funding for the war in Ukraine, which has emerged as a bitter fault line in the G.O.P. and in the spending battles that any new speaker will have to navigate in the coming days. Representative Mike Johnson, a little-known social conservative from Louisiana, emerged on Tuesday night as the latest contender for the post after Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, dropped his bid only hours after securing the nomination.

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The second round resulted in 203 votes for McCarthy, 212 for Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and 19 Republican votes that went to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Jordan was nominated in the third round by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who said the House has rarely met in such large numbers for such a long time to debate. Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan faced off again in the third round of voting for House speaker. House of Representatives resulted in Rep. Kevin McCarthy failing to get enough votes to become the next House Speaker, one member is asking why he is still allowed to operate out of the Speaker’s Office.

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Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., a member of the House Freedom Caucus, nominated Rep.-elect Kevin Hern to speaker. House Republicans were expected to try to adjourn Thursday after this ninth vote and take up the 10th attempt on Friday. The ninth vote ties the number of votes needed in 1923 to decide on a speaker – 2023 will now exceed that, as a 10th vote will be needed at least. After nine votes, McCarthy is still short of the 218 votes he needs to become House speaker. On the specifics of the deal, Fitzpatrick said, "It's with the rules package... it's the guardrails around the budget process, and then making sure that committee assignments are distributed throughout... the conference." McCarthy will need at least 11 votes if he's going to become House speaker.

With Republicans having 222 members in the chamber, McCarthy could only afford four defectors. Several holdouts remained in the vote, including Reps-elect Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., who voted for Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; Eli Crane, R-Ariz., who voted for Biggs, and Matt Rosendale, R-Maryland, who voted for Biggs. Kevin McCarthy failed to be elected in the previous contest by a single vote. The Speaker’s contest started on Tuesday with 19 Republicans refusing to back McCarthy for the speakership and as the week wore on the total had grown to 21 members.

Pressed by reporters on Tuesday night about his efforts to overturn the election, Mr. Johnson smiled and shook his head, saying, “next question,” as Republicans beside him booed. “I look forward to meeting with Speaker Johnson soon to discuss the path forward to avoid a government shutdown,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement. "I'm not going anywhere," McCarthy told reporters after a private meeting with his party where he delivered a speech. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., was nominated as an alternative Republican candidate to McCarthy in the first round, a move he said he would make after he challenged McCarthy in a GOP conference meeting late last year. Biggs won 10 of the 19 anti-McCarthy GOP votes in the first round of voting.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the outspoken Georgia representative, immediately filed a resolution demanding Johnson’s removal, called the bill a “sham”. House Republicans are exhausted by weeks of infighting over who will lead the conference and frustrated by the inability of the chamber to pass legislation, particularly in response to the Israel-Hamas war. Continue reading here for what you need to know going into the speaker’s election. “I feel confident,” he said Tuesday while trailed by a scrum of reporters in the Capitol. Loud murmurs arose after each of the votes for an alternative speaker, and were especially loud after Diaz-Balart cast a potentially decisive fourth vote against Jordan.

Voters around the nation will head to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 8, to cast their ballots in the 2022 General Election. Both have served the last eight years in City Hall and both have big ambitions to dig the city out of a $40 million deficit. There are no cameras allowed in the court where Trump is being tried on 34 felony counts stemming from a "hush money" payment before the 2016 election. Asked what he hoped to accomplish that he couldn't do today, Jordan said Republicans are going to keep working.

In the latest attempt, anti-McCarthy Republicans nominated both Rep.-elect Byron Donalds of Florida and Rep.-elect Kevin Hern of Oklahoma. Each had collected a handful of votes in early the vote – enough to deny McCarthy a 218 majority. House Republicans failed to reach a consensus in the 10th floor vote on Thursday, as members awaited the outcome of ongoing negotiations that some said were leading to some progress in the stalemate. Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz of Florida on Thursday nominated former President Donald Trump to be the next House speaker, as part of the 11th round of voting for a speaker. Rep.-elect Matt Gaetz nominated Donald Trump as the next House speaker Thursday night.

That was on display on Wednesday, when he vowed to try to find common ground with Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader. But even more than his election denialism, Mr. Johnson’s political career has been defined by his religious views. The exchange reflected the lawmaker’s deeply conservative views, particularly on social issues, and his tendency to express them in inflammatory ways.

Though McCarthy had the support of most House Republicans, there were enough opponents within his party to cost him the speakership. The House is expected to vote on a resolution in support of Israel on Wednesday afternoon, according to a notice from the House Democratic whip. The members who ousted McCarthy also told reporters that they have no regrets now about ousting McCarthy. 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.