These are the 8 Republicans Gary Palmer faces in Speaker of the House vote

Republicans have already seen two previous nominees in the past three weeks drop out after being unable to secure the 217 votes needed.

Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., makes his way to a House Republican Conference meeting in Washington on Friday, May 14, 2021. Nine Republicans — from the party’s No. 3 leader to an up-and-coming conservative in his second term — are seeking to become the next House speaker, Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.,The exact timing of a vote in the chamber is unclear: Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C.

McCarthy also defended posting for a vote a temporary spending bill that kept the government funded through Nov. 17, a measure that inflamed critics in his conference and fueled the move to oust him., the nine candidates vying to succeed McCarthy were split. Reps. Jack Bergman, Tom Emmer, Dan Meuser, Austin Scott and Pete Sessions voted for the continuing resolution to keep the government open while Reps. Kevin Hern, Mike Johnson and Palmer opposed it. Rep. Byron Donalds did not vote.

The scores cover the member’s entire congressional career, with the longest-serving candidate, Sessions, going back to the 1990s.

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