While dueling crises — the war in Israel and a government funding deadline — may add urgency to the situation, Republicans were not confident the process would conclude quickly.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who along with Rep. Jim Jordan is vying for the speakership, talks to the media Tuesday.House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who along with Rep. Jim Jordan is vying for the speakership, talks to the media Tuesday.The conference will meet behind closed doors and is expected to cast an initial vote for a nominee.
The conference may find itself again deadlocked, but Massie said this election has key differences from McCarthy's January campaign. Cammack said that Scalise also voiced support for a CR during the candidate forum, and noted that opposition to a continuing resolution is what put Republicans in this position in the first place: The conference was unable to pass one with only Republican votes, and when McCarthy worked with Democrats to stave off a shutdown, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., filed a motion to vacate the chair.
"You're empowering a very few number of people to have a veto. That's what got us into this mess in the first place," he said."Let's just go back to the traditional way of doing things: Have an election. We're doing that. The person who gets the most, the conference should support them...you literally would have two or three or four members deciding when we were going to the floor.
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