After this week’s drama, Capitol Hill is braced for another fraught battle among Republicans
Former speaker of the house Kevin McCarthy walks back to his office after the House of Representatives voted to remove him from his position on Tuesday. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAThe clock is ticking for Republicans on Capitol Hill to elect a new leader, after the dramatic removal of Kevin McCarthy this week left the House of Representatives without a speaker and brought the dysfunction in Washington to a new level.
Any new speaker will need a simple majority of the 435-member House, or at least 218 votes, to be elected. That will be a tall order, given the unprecedented rancour among congressional Republicans.Further, any replacement will need to win over at least a handful of the eight Republican rebels who voted against McCarthy, as Democrats will almost certainly refuse to back a Republican.
Some hardline Republican House members, notably Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, have made the far-fetched suggestion that Donald Trump, the former president, throw his hat in the ring. The US Constitution does not specify that the speaker must be an elected member of Congress – although every speaker has been one.
“If I can help them during the process, I would do it. But we have some great people in the Republican Party that could do a great job as speaker.”Jim Jordan has pushed for the impeachment inquiry into president Joe Biden over his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA The Republican congressman from Oklahoma owned more than a dozen McDonald’s franchises and started several other small and medium-sized businesses before being elected to Congress in 2018. Hern , chairs the influential Republican Study Committee, a conservative faction of House members who have long pushed for budget cuts. While Hern has not officially said he is running for Speaker, he told reporters on Wednesday he was considering it.Patrick McHenry was among Kevin McCarthy’s closest allies.
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