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
Voting for speaker. This time louisiana congressman mike johnson is the fourth nominee for republicans. Hello, and welcome. Im sandra smith in new york, a big welcome back to you, john. John good to be back, john roberts in washington, and this is america reports. Remains unclear whether mike johnson will have the support to win the job. Chad pergram, of course, has been watching this for what feels like weeks now, because it has been weeks. Chad, whats the latest . They are getting very close to taking yet another ballot here for Speaker Of The House. What they have been doing the past couple of minutes here is putting into nomination the candidate for this particular round, of course mike johnson, the new one here and pete aguilar, the chair of the Democratic Caucus is again nominating Hakeem Jeffries, the democratic leader. This feels different than some of the other chapters we have been through over the past couple of weeks. I talked to a couple members a few minutes ago, members
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] eaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 7, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable Scott Franklin to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the who is willd house will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternative recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five min minutes. Mr. Blumenauer
Nays. The ayes and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the ayes and nays shall rise. A sufficient number risen, the ayes and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 3 of rule 20, the chair directs the clerk to conduct the vote by a call of the roll. The clerk will call the roll alphabetically by surname. The house will be in order. The clerk may call the roll. Adams . Yes. Aye. Aderholt . No. Nay. Aguilar . Aye. Yea. Alford . No. Nay. Allen . No. Nay. Allred . Aye. Yea. Emmaday . No. Nay. Armstrong . No. No. Arrington . No. Nay. O ochenclaus . Yes. Yea. Babbin . No. Nay. Bacon . No. Nay. Baird . No. Nay. Balderson . No. Nay. Ballent . Yes. Yea. Banks . Banks . Barr . No. Nay. Barragan . Yes. Yes. Barragan . Yea. Bean of florida . No. Nay. Beatty . Yes. Yea. Bentz . No. Nay. Berra . Yes. Yea. Birdman . No. Nay. Beyer . Yea. Yea. Bice . No. Nay. Biggs . Aye. Yea. Bilaracas . No. Nay. Bishop of georgia . Yes. Yea. Bishop of North Carolina . Yes. Yea. No. Nay. Bloomhour . Nay. Blunt,