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The Speaker of the House can be chosen by a plurality - but we may have to wait awhile.
House Practice ^

Posted on 01/04/2023 3:40:50 PM PST by FarCenter

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In two instances the House agreed to choose and subsequently did choose a Speaker by a plurality of votes but confirmed the choice by majority vote. In 1849 the House had been in session 19 days without being able to elect a Speaker, no candidate having received a majority of the votes cast. The voting was viva voce, each Member responding to the call of the roll by naming the candidate for whom he voted. Finally, after the fifty-ninth ballot, the House adopted a resolution declaring that a Speaker could be elected by a plurality. 1 Hinds Sec. 221. In 1856 the House again struggled over the election of a Speaker. Ballots numbering 129 had been taken without any candidate receiving a majority of the votes cast. The House then adopted a resolution permitting the election to be decided by a plurality. 1 Hinds Sec. 222. On both of these occasions, the House ratified the plurality election by a majority vote.


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1 posted on 01/04/2023 3:40:50 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

Okay

I can wait


2 posted on 01/04/2023 3:45:27 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: FarCenter

That would be awful! Speaker jefferies would love it though.


3 posted on 01/04/2023 3:46:22 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: FarCenter

Wouldn’t that mean Speaker Jeffries? The dem caucus is a voting block.

I thought they couldn’t do anything before they elect a Speaker.


4 posted on 01/04/2023 3:46:49 PM PST by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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To: FarCenter

McCarthy doesn’t have the votes, unless the Dem’s help him out.

If they do, then that’s 100000% proof that they have him and he’ll do whatever Pelosi wants him to.

That being said, it would be awesome if one of the folks not voting for him went to one of the podiums and nominated Pres Trump. It won’t matter and it’ll be fun watching a sizable number of the House, Republican and Democrat, go into spasms.


5 posted on 01/04/2023 3:48:10 PM PST by qaz123
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To: CrazyCatChick

>>Wouldn’t that mean Speaker Jeffries?

Unlikely. The Republicans would have to come to agreement before the vote.


6 posted on 01/04/2023 3:53:20 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

This whole thing is getting ridiculous. I understand the message, but I really want to get to law making and government oversight


7 posted on 01/04/2023 3:55:57 PM PST by guido911
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To: FarCenter

But if the Republicans vote no on the follow up majority vote confirmation then Jeffries would not get it and we will be back to zero again


8 posted on 01/04/2023 3:57:01 PM PST by pghbjugop
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To: FarCenter

But if the Republicans vote no on the follow up majority vote confirmation then Jeffries would not get it and we will be back to zero again


9 posted on 01/04/2023 3:57:09 PM PST by pghbjugop
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To: FarCenter

Interesting.

Not an analogous situation.


10 posted on 01/04/2023 3:57:23 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: qaz123

Yeah, I would love to see the political theater for a President Trump nomination.


11 posted on 01/04/2023 3:57:38 PM PST by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: FarCenter

If McCarthy had morals, he would step aside.


12 posted on 01/04/2023 3:58:23 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: FarCenter

Currently, if it’s a win by plurality, Jeffries has the most votes.

But I don’t think they can change the rules before the House is seated.


13 posted on 01/04/2023 4:00:24 PM PST by CrazyCatChick (DEATH POKE!)
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To: FarCenter

Heard the speaker does not actually have to be a member of congress. Was wondering if the speaker could be a bear?


14 posted on 01/04/2023 4:01:35 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: FarCenter
It will never happen in a televised Congress.

-PJ

15 posted on 01/04/2023 4:01:46 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: FarCenter

Eye patch McCain said that there was terrorists in 1849 too.


16 posted on 01/04/2023 4:04:52 PM PST by cp124 (80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
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Not so many in 1849. But by the 1856 election “Bleeding Kansas”, the guerilla war between slave and anti-slave faction in Kansas, had been underway for some time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas#Summer_of_1856


17 posted on 01/04/2023 4:09:42 PM PST by FarCenter
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bump


18 posted on 01/04/2023 4:10:11 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: AndyTheBear

Thinking something about the woods or being Catholic...🧐.


19 posted on 01/04/2023 4:11:03 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: AndyTheBear

Caligula made horse a Senator so there could be a precedent here.


20 posted on 01/04/2023 4:12:18 PM PST by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification. )
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