The House of Representatives will vote on a new Speaker at noon on Tuesday as Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, seeks to garner the 218 votes required to get him across the finish line. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., failed to get enough support as nominee last week.
House Republicans are currently the majority party in the lower chamber. This means that they control the speakership as well as the helms of the House committees. Currently, the House GOP is working with 221 members in a slim majority that has only shrunk since the Republicans took over the chamber in January. Utah GOP Rep. Chris Stewart’s departure in September to care for his ill wife reduced the GOP majority to just three seats in a fully stocked House.
However, the Democrats are also down a member after Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline’s departure earlier this year. The House of Representatives covers the proportional representation of America, as opposed to the Senate’s equal representation of two senators for every state. Each state has a number of House seats allocated to them based on population, the largest being California and the smallest being several states with only one at-large member.
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