Posted on 10/14/2023 5:13:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is now signaling that he supports Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as the next Speaker of the House. As we reported just under two weeks ago, McCarthy was ousted by House members in a Motion to Vacate by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). As my colleague, Ward Clark wrote on Friday, Jordan defeated Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) to secure the nomination:
In an earlier vote, Speaker candidate and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) won the nomination but then failed to secure enough votes to guarantee a majority on the House floor, ultimately resulting in his decision to withdraw from the race.
Jordan won the vote against Scott by a margin of 124-81, meaning that not all lawmakers were present for the vote. [...]
....[T]he House of Representatives has adjourned; no further votes will be taken today. As of this writing, the final vote has not been scheduled.
McCarthy's words of support for Jordan came during an interview on the “Cats and Cosby” radio show with host John Catsimatidis.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will support House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan for Speaker: "Jim was a great ally to me." https://t.co/bwwfbpIbd5 pic.twitter.com/jfItE7nSEn— The Hill (@thehill) October 14, 2023
He said that he "support[s] Jim Jordan fully, Jim was a great ally to me. He worked hard. We came into Congress together." McCarthy looked toward the vote next week, noting that 65 votes are still needed for Jordan to cross the 217 threshold:
We’ve got some people not there yet. We just get together, work a little longer and we can have a new Speaker in Jim Jordan next week.
The report on his comments mentioned that he shared some shorthand on what the secret ballot voting can be compared to:
The former Speaker referenced Friday’s secret ballot vote, calling it what the public “would think is the primary … inside the conference.”
In the wake of McCarthy yielding the Speaker's gavel, Jordan received the endorsement of former President Donald Trump.
We'll keep you posted on when a vote for Speaker is scheduled in the coming days.
Do you really think that the House has any power over the Executive Branch when it comes to military actions? Please educate me when this power was exercised in the past 50 years.
Thanks for saving me the effort to have to post that little factoid. The House only controls 1/3 of the govt. Its got nothing to do with the Israeli operation.
This Speakership change to a conservative that somehow miraculously seems to be on the cusp of happening is for some other reason. There is no way this is happening organically. Its being likely orchestrated by Trump To place Jim Jordan in a position to be A player in coming events that have not yet unfolded. The fact that Jordan is only 20 votes short is miraculous.
“Do you really think that the House has any power over the Executive Branch when it comes to military actions?”
I’m not sure. Can’t they withhold funding?
They can but funding takes months and months and the Executive Branch/Pentagon can fund what they deem necessary I.e. Transgender Pronoun videos.
Not if they are using previously appropriated DoD money. That how the Brandon misadministration funded its Ukraine weapons scam at first
You mean you don’t remember who was the Speaker during WWII? Beats the hell out of me, too! lol
The Tight Ass Twenty have had their voices heard, and now it’s time to get in line. They’re likely to get primaried if they persist, so be it.
Agree. Buck is already getting a challenge.
America entered WW2 82 years ago.
That is why I chose 50 years and not 82 years.
Heck, I don’t remember who the Speaker was 50 years ago, either...lol.
Well, that was sort of my point. The Speaker has little power over military actions. If they did, we would remember who said what when. ;)
FYI, Sam Rayburn was Speaker Dec 7, 1941. I remember hearing about FDR and his famous speech. Never heard anything about Rayburn.
Possibly a case of “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
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