the honoring kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [applause] the honoring jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. [applause] no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by sur name of 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] the gentleman is recognized. thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done. to get big things done. to solve the problems. 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 that is driving unflagrants will the gentleman yield? will the house be in order? and we all know what those problems are. we ve been talking about them for
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
news with prigozhin on that passenger list. we are hearing some from russian state media. i want to read you some of what russia media is quoting from the federal russian aviation administration, quote, an investigation has been launched into the crash of the embra aircraft which occurred tonight in a region north of moscow and south of st. petersburg. according to the list of passengers, among them is the sur name of yevgeny prigozhin. we are also hearing possibly ten people in total were on board that air crash, embra air 160, like that owned by prigozhin s company so possibly this could be very big news. the russians are treating this
with me here. first, we want to go to chad pergram over on the hill. hi, chad. hi, martha. what we know right now, they re well in to this second ballot for speaker, the second one this afternoon. we know they re going to have to go to a third ballot because it s clear that kevin mccarthy for any other candidate has the votes to become speaker of the house here. right now as we re tracking this, jim jordan, republican from ohio, he was nominated by matt gaetz, somebody that was not actually seeking the speakership. he used to be a rival with kevin mccarthy a few years ago. he s gotten on board. he has gotten 15 votes. i always say it s about the math. during the first vote there were 19 republicans that cast ballots for somebody else besides kevin mccarthy by name. voting for somebody by sur name is very important in this process. so if that number for jim jordan
the honoring kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [applause] the honoring jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. [applause] no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by sur name of 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.