Hardline Republican Jim Jordan plans second bid for US House top job
WASHINGTON -Outspoken conservative Jim Jordan planned to take a second shot at the top job in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, while some fellow Republicans began to explore other options with the chamber in its 16th day without a leader.
Surveying the stalemate from the sidelines, two former Republican speakers advocated for the option of empowering acting Speaker Patrick McHenry to lead the chamber, at least through the end of the year. That has left Congress unable to respond to crises in the Middle East and Ukraine, and consumed more than two weeks of the time they had allowed themselves to fund the government past Nov. 17, when a stopgap spending bill runs out.
Republicans control the House by a narrow 221-212 majority and can afford no more than four defections on controversial votes. Jordan rejected the idea a bipartisan deal, predicting that House Republicans would oppose"any type of coalition government with Democrats."
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