Not elect a speaker. Its been two weeks that the house has been without a speaker. After one round of voting and failing to elect jim jordan, the republican nominee to the post, a recess subject to the call of the chair and now they have just come in to gavel out for the day. Jim jordan telling reporters that they will be back tomorrow and he will seek a second round of voting for this top leadership position. 11 00 a. M. Eastern time is when the house will come back in. They will do a quorum call, where they will alphabetically call out members names to do what they refer to as a bed check to see who is there. Because that overall number matters for whoever is seeking the magic 217 votes to become the next speaker. Earlier today, 20 republicans defected, voting for someone else other than jim jordan. Billy house, who is aorter on capitol hill, tweeting out earlier around 5 00 today after he caught up with jim jordan, a question to him. How many ballots are you willing to go through .
The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip , but in o five minutes no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. Gallego, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. In my continuing efforts to highlight the 23rd district of texas, id like to talk about one of my favorite and one of the most rural parts of the 23rd district, the ghost town of tirlengua. It is located near Big Bend National park. There is not a lot of ghosts there. There is a lot of history. The population is about 100 people or so. He name comes from tres lenguas or three tongues. It was founded in the mid 1880s. There are many things to do there every day. You can go rafting or kayaking, motorcycling and many, many other outdoor activities, but on the first saturday in november, more than 10,000 chili heads convenes for the chili cookof
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