Rep. Andy Biggs led the effort Tuesday to block Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy from ascending to House speaker, plunging the chamber into a historic muddle with no clear favorite to guide the new GOP majority after three rounds of voting.
The promised challenge to Rep. Kevin McCarthy's leadership left the House without a speaker on the first vote for the first time in 100 years.
The GOP’s first day back in the majority in the House in four years ended with multiple rounds of voting on the speakership for the first time in 100 years.Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, emerged as the preferred alternative to McCarthy for 19 Republicans in the second round, drawing support from Biggs and other members, many of them part of the far-right House Freedom Caucus that Biggs led for two years.
“Three ballots. Three losses for McCarthy. He is obstructing Congress from getting its legislative work done!” Biggs wrote.It capped a day of unusual suspense and at least one surprising moment of apparent comity.House Democrats stripped Gosar of his committee assignments in 2021 after he echoed on social media a violent animation that depicted him killing Ocasio-Cortez and taking aim at President Joe Biden.
He sought contributions from those who “agree a CONSERVATIVE should lead us in Washington … not another RINO Establishment hack like McCarthy.”
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