buck? buck? bucshon? mccarthy. budzinski? jeffries. burchett? mccarthy. burgess? mccarthy. burlison? mccarthy. bush? jeffries. calvert? mccarthy. caraveo? jeffries. carbajal? jeffries. mccarthy. carl? mccarthy. carson? jeffries. carter of georgia? mccarthy. carter of louisiana? jeffries. carter of texas? mccarthy. casar? jeffries. case? jeffries. casten? jeffries. castor of florida? jeffries. castro of cicilline? jeffries. ciscomani? mccarthy. clark of massachusetts? jeffries. clarke of new mccarthy. comer? mccarthy. connolly? so we are waiting for the vote for michael cloud because potentially if he did decide not to vote for kevin mccarthy, that would have put them over the threshold but now we are waiting for andrew clyde. we have the fifth ballot for speaker and the fifth ballot that seems to be moving in the same direction as the first four? exactly. it was 21 on the last ballot. 21 republicans who did not vote for mccarthy. 20 voted for donalds. one voted present. a
the tellers agree that the total number of votes cast is 434 of which the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [ cheers and applause ] the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [ cheers and applause ]. the honorable jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy for the position of speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. [ applause ] thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done, to get big things done, the solve the problems. and i hope when we get through today that all of the members on both sides of the aisle will join together with us to solve the problems, to address inflation that is crushing middle class families, to get control over spending will
the gavel. this morning, he was not able to bring along a handful of far right lawmakers who oppose his nomination and are demanding more big power concessions from him as the price for going forward. we may have a battle on the floor. but the battle is for the conference and the country. that s fine with me. i don t see how a few people maybe it s 5, maybe it s 20 sit because they want a gravel that they can t earn. that s not what the constituents voted them for. this as house democrats united behind hakeem jeffries, with a new younger ship team holding business cards to play as the republicans dissolve into chaos. why is choosing a speaker important? the house cannot form committees or do work on any legislation until there is a presiding officer. it s been a century since it has taken more than one roll call vote to fill the position. at this hour, we don t know how many votes it will take to elect the next speaker or how long it will drag out and da minute dimi
i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. it s good to be with you. i m ayman mohyeldin, a new york. for a year and, have you heard that vice president mike pence was in mortal danger on january six, 2021, when donald trump s mob overran the capitol in an attempt to stop pence from counting joe biden s winning electoral votes. we all saw the video of pence s evacuation on that day. it happened. it was close. but we didn t know how close, until thursday when the house january six committee played audio of secret service agents trying to protect pence as the insurrectionists closed in. they are on the second floor. moving in now. we may want to consider getting out and leaving now. coffee? will we encounter the people once we make our? way repeat. if we made our way to the there are six officers between us and the people that are five feet away. we have a clear shot if we move quickly. got smoke downstairs. standby. unknown smoke downstairs. by the protesters?
Mr. Speaker mr. Speaker, you may agree with this, but we are back here 22 days into this republican manufactured chaos and House Republicans have brought us to the exact same position that we were back then. All of the infighting, all of the disarray, just to end up where we were three weeks ago. These past few weeks we have been left wondering if republicans were truly intent on solving our issues, reopening the house of representatives and rallying around someone to lead this chamber, or has this been about Something Else . Has this been about a focus of House Republicans to find the person who can pass their extreme litmus test to oppose marriage equality, enact a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions, gut Social Security and medicare, and support overturning a free and fair election. Its a fair question. Its a fair question. [ applause ] nowhere nowhere in that Candidate Questionnaire is it about growing the middle class, helping our communities, keeping the cost of Health Car