yeah. so as the motion to adjourn is gaveled to a close, we are waiting now the yeas are 155. the nays are 279. the motion is not adopted. for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas arise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house. [ applause ]
in sync on these investigations and holding the biden administration accountable and doing the business of american people and getting rid of 87,000 irs agents. so i m not seeing a policy difference right now. i m seeing rules differences and how are we going to govern as a windy but ultimately the republican party recognizes we just took the house, we retired nancy pelosi, the american people want us to get to business and we have to do that united. yeah. it s interesting to me. it s fascinating. i want to go back to chad pergram chad to get the lay of the land we ve been mulling around on house floor for the better part of 11 minutes now. we don t yet know if the motion to adjourn got enough yeas or nays to be put into motion. what are you hearing. right now the motion to adjourn is failing. okay? only 203 yays, 214 nays so it s failing. if the motion to adjourn fails, the house must stay in session and by rule that automatically triggers that 15th vote.
the military personnel subcommittee to if that was the case, it s not gonna be good for a military. and not good for our country. look at that. the votes are continuing to change. the nays are 2:27 the yeas are and dropping. i m gonna bring simone in. do we need to let the congressman go? are you going back to the floor, congressman? i am. i m gonna head back to the floor. i appreciate it. thank you for your time. simone sanders. i m getting a text message from a democratic congressman on the floor that simply reads, i think they got gaetz. what are you hearing? i just heard the same thing. i have multiple of those same text messages. democrats members of congress and senior staffer these democratic members told me today they were shocked. this is with the texting me. they were shocked because going into this vote tonight folks thought it was done. so the fact that kevin mccarthy could not get it done
0 now they re going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let s listen in. gaetz. present. present. he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed present votes don t hurt. it s at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let s listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries. david scott, jeffries. kevin mccarthy walks off the he does not look happy. kevin mccarthy walks off the floor i m sorry, walks up the floor rather. matt gaetz, he needed him to vote yes not present. he s trying to convince him. he appears to be trying to convince matt gaetz to vote yes and not present. also, right, if he could get lauren boebert to change from present we haven t seen
tomorrow. the question is on the motion that the house stands adjourned until noon tomorrow. those in favor say aye. aye! those opposed no. no! and the opinion of the chair, the no s have it. the yeas and nays request it. those in favor of the vote will rise. a sufficient number have risen. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote.