House Republicans scrambled Tuesday to coalesce behind a speaker candidate.
The U.S. Capitol is seen at night as Republicans work towards electing a new Speaker of the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 9, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinHouse Republicans scrambled Tuesday to coalesce behind a speaker candidate one day before their party vote, questioningabout their visions and strategies for the majority.
"There's merit to ... the unity play, where you come out of the locker room all together, no messiness and no drama on the floor," Rep. Jodey Arrington of Texas said. "Doing that in ... the privacy of our conference is going to drag this out for a long time." The two candidates also left colleagues with different impressions of how they plan to avoid a government shutdown in November. Jordan reportedly laid out a proposed stopgap measure that would attempt to pressure the Senate to accept steeper spending cuts -- an approach that conservatives refused to back under McCarthy.
Representative Jim Jordan attends a House Oversight and Accountability Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into U.S. President Joe Biden, focused on his son Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Jim BourgMORE: Detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich loses appeal in Russian court
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