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MrMarcello said:
The grandstanding that is about to emanate from that position will be comical, ironic, and ridiculous.
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The next 20ish days are going to be quite something.

Will he be holding the gavel in the Biden impeachment hearing or will he have to relinquish it?
 
calodo2003 said:
The next 20ish days are going to be quite something.

Will he be holding the gavel in the Biden impeachment hearing or will he have to relinquish it?
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Traditionally, unlike other Members, the Speaker does not serve on committees or participate in floor debate. - so in theory I guess he could as it seems to be a tradition rather than a rule
 
Red in STL said:
Traditionally, unlike other Members, the Speaker does not serve on committees or participate in floor debate. - so in theory I guess he could as it seems to be a tradition rather than a rule
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No way he gives up that media spotlight.
 
calodo2003 said:
Can't find any bookie odds, but I'd say +/- 7
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I'm not so sure, I don't think Jordan really wants this job, I reckon he may say feck this after 2-3 goes, because if it goes any further he's really in the same boat as McCarthy was
 
Will Jordan beat McCarthy, as in, require even more rounds to become speaker? Time will tell.
 
He can only afford to lose 4 GOP votes

So he will have to have some that refuse to vote for him at least just vote present and make it easier. Then they can claim they didn't vote for him at least in their campaigns

Representative Mario Díaz-Balart, a Florida Republican who voted for Scalise, said his position had not changed, even after speaking with Jordan on the floor following the vote. “I will not be pressured or intimidated,” he told reporters, predicting Jordan would lose votes on the next ballot.
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On the first ballot, 12 Republicans from Biden districts voted for Jordan. A half-dozen others picked someone else. It’s really a lose-lose proposition for them: either they cast a vote that confirms them as supporting a hard-right member of the MAGA wing, or they add to the sense that House Republicans are incapable of governing because they can't even choose a speaker.
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Has it always been such a pointless and ineffective institution? I don’t remember thinking growing up, “oh we could delete the house and American democracy would be no worse off”
 
owlo said:
Has it always been such a pointless and ineffective institution? I don’t remember thinking growing up, “oh we could delete the house and American democracy would be no worse off”
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The House's road to its nadir started with the Tea Party ascension in 2010 & fully metastasized today (well, whenever Jordan gets elected).
 
Not looking good for Jordan on the second round here either. Some of these are completely random votes for people not in Congress. He only got one to flip so far.
 
calodo2003 said:
Probably a tangent somehow of the McCarthy 'it's the Dems who have caused all this chaos!'
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The only way I see this getting resolved is if a few moderate Republican's do a deal with the Dems, but then Gaetz would just file a motion to vacate every day!
 
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