4/5 of the freedom caucus was elected after president obama took office on an anti-obama, anti-obama tea party wave. the third were elected in the tea party heyday of 2010 and now they're causing the current leadership crisis in the party. now, there are 435 members of the house. 247 are republicans. to become speaker somebody's going to need 218 votes. right now 40-some members are blocking any speaker from getting elected. that is why we have a slew of people being floated as possible speakers. as of friday we had 20-some candidates. now we can add texas congressman bill flores to that group and texas congressman michael mccaul. and i have one more to add from texas, congressman pete sessions. that makes five total from texas. we also got utah congressman rob bishop's name being floated over the weekend and congressman mike popio from kansas increasing our