the tellers agree that the total number of votes cast is 434 of which the honorable hakeem jeffries of the state of new york has received 212. [ cheers and applause ] the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 203. [ cheers and applause ]. the honorable jim jordan of the state of ohio has received 19. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a 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 ] thank you, madam clerk. we all came here to get things done, to get big things done, the solve the problems. and 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 will
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
money that we don t have weakening that defense, weakening our country in the process, but that s what we just did. ladies and gentlemen, i am asking for us to come together and figure out how to solve these problems. and to do that, i m going to do what i did my very first act as a member of congress or as a congressman-elect and nominate jim jordan for speaker. now, jim has said he doesn t want that nomination. jim has been down here nominating kevin, and i respect that. again, i have no personal animus towards kevin. i ve worked for the past two months to try to get the rules to make this place better, and we ve made progress. but we do not have the tools or the leadership yet to stop the swamp from rolling over the american people. jim has been doing it, he has a track record for doing that. for those reasons i m nominating jim jordan for speaker of the house of the representatives. the reading clerk will call the roll.
member of congress or as a congressman elect and nominate jim jordan for speaker. now, jim has said he doesn t want that nomination. jim has been down here nominating kevin. i respect that i have no personal animous towards kevin. we don t have the tools or the leadership to stop the swamp. jim has a track record of doing it. for those reasons, i m nominating jim jordan from the state of hall of fame for the speaker of the house of representatives. [applause] the reading clerk will call the roll.
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