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
The chair directs the clerk to conduct the vote bid a call of the roll. The clerk will call the Roll Alphabetically by sur name. Youre watching history in the making. Im neil cavuto. Theres never been a successful effort to remove the Speaker Of The House. That could be happening. We dont know. This is putting up for a vote. A measure that was first sponsored by florida congressman matt gaetz to remove the speaker because he hasnt lived up to his job. Theyre going to do this verbally so we can hear from each and every member. Chad pergram on what is at stake and what is going on here. Chad . Good afternoon. Theyre going to go through this entire roll, 433 members and call their names and ask whether they support this motion to vacate the chair, to say theres no speaker or say they do support the fact that they have a speaker. This a definitive vote for Kevin Mccarthy saying were trying to oust him. Kevin mccarthy indicated earlier this morning he was confident that he would still be Sp
Minutes to record their resence. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker on this roll call, 375 members have recorded their presence. A quorum is present. The chair the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from llinois, mr. Rodney davis. Mr. Davis please join us in the gallery. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it ands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker the house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from califor