“We don’t need to be in a room yelling and screaming at each other.”
Share on email The House is capping off its second week without a speaker and no clear path forward as lawmakers leave Washington, D.C. for the weekend."This chaos has consequences," said Rep. Hillary Scholten . "Ten days without a speaker means ten days we are not working on the farm bill ... border security and comprehensive immigration reform.
Jordan will spend the weekend calling holdouts to try to shore up the support he needs to get 217 votes on the House floor, according to his allies. Reps. Josh Gottheimer , Ed Case , Susie Lee and Jared Golden "strongly support an immediate vote to expand the Speaker Pro Tempore's authories" in 15-day increments, they wrote in a letter to McHenry, a
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