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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 th ....
Like, not just talking about what the problems are, we know what the problems are but how do you fix the problems. we started rolling the bills out. we ve attempted to bring bills on this to address inflation. they can t even buy the food that people need for their families if they can find the food on their shelf. the bills were rejected. if a family has trouble putting gas in the tank to make to it the grocery store because we got such horrible energy policies under what president biden has done to shut down american energy that families can t afford gas. so we brought legislation to lowter cost of gasoline. you know what? the bills were rejected by the previous majority. i use that term for a reason. previous majority. because we won a mo you rety talking about fixing the problems. we can t start fixing the problems until we elect kevin ....