The House held their first vote for a Speaker of the House to replace Rep McCarthy who was removed from that position earlier this month. Rep Jordan (R,OH), the Republican nominee, did not receive the requisite majority of the votes cast (432), losing20 Republican votes [added link to vote tally, 21:56 10-17-23] to other, unnominated candidates (including McCarthy and Scalise). The House recessed subject to the call of the Chair.
Interestingly, the missing 20 votes is the same number
(different folks to be sure) of votes that Jordan received in Roll Call #4 on January 3rd,
the maximum number of votes against McCarthy in the earlier fiasco.
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