House Vote Count: How Each Member Voted on Removing McCarthy as Speaker The New York Times

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• Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it
• Rep. Mike Johnson wins GOP nomination for speaker
• Mike Rogers lunges at Matt Gaetz during House speaker voting, other members forced to intervene
• Johnson, who came in second, helping Emmer flip holdouts: "We are going to finish this tonight"

Earlier in the day, Gaetz voted for Trump for House speaker even though he was not nominated, but Trump has so far received no other votes. Republican Rep.-elect Kevin Hern, a House Freedom Caucus member nominated to be House speaker by Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert, received seven votes from opponents of GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy in the 10th round of balloting on Thursday. Lawmakers said they believe these changes could get McCarthy exactly 218 votes at some point, after a few remaining issues are settled with a handful of members. That implies that McCarthy’s side expects four GOP lawmakers to remain opposed to him, but he can lose that many and still win the speaker’s gavel if all others support him. The House voted to adjourn until noon on Friday after five more rounds of balloting to elect a speaker failed on Thursday. A group of 20 Republicans threw their support behind Rep.-elects Byron Donalds and Kevin Hern during votes on Thursday.

Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it

The California Democrat was the first female speaker of the House and was known for her ability to coalesce her members behind her. She famously never took a vote to the floor without knowing what the outcome would be. Twenty Republicans voted for alternatives to Jordan on Tuesday, and he must pick up most of those to reach the 217 majority threshold. Jeffries said Tuesday evening after Jim Jordan lost the speaker’s vote that it’s fine if the next speaker is a Republican. But he made clear that Democrats would want rule changes that would allow them to advance legislation that has bipartisan support.

Rep. Mike Johnson wins GOP nomination for speaker

WASHINGTON — They helped lead the efforts to keep former President Donald J. Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. They spread lies that helped ignite a mob of Trump supporters to storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Such steps, however, would inevitably prolong the process of approving spending bills. When Representative Chip Roy of Texas, then a freshman and now one of Mr. McCarthy’s most vocal opponents, forced roll call votes on every amendment in spending bills in 2019, the process of approving them dragged on for two weeks. They had demanded the ability to hold a vote on the House floor for each individual earmark.

Mike Rogers lunges at Matt Gaetz during House speaker voting, other members forced to intervene

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., rebuked former President Donald Trump's call for Republicans to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to become speaker of the House on Wednesday. "I hope whoever House Republicans elect speaker will be fully committed to conservative principles and restoring function and fiscal sanity to the federal government," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital. “For the first time in one hundred years, there was not an agreement for speaker of the House on the first ballot.

Johnson won the speaker's gavel in a single round of voting, with the support of all Republicans in attendance. The new speaker has been in Congress since 2017 and has no experience in the House leadership. The Senate and the White House are still controlled by Democrats and any spending bill passed will need Democratic support to become law and avert a shutdown. But what you hear from conservatives – at least in the minutes before and after Johnson won the speaker’s election – is they are willing to give some room for Johnson to maneuver in his new role. She said the school’s administration has consistently suppressed student support for Palestinians and now, after more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, the students decided to take more public action. The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization, called on political leaders and university officials to stop “endangering” Jewish, Muslim, Palestinian and other students who conducting peaceful protests.

After 11 votes in three days that went nowhere, signs emerged Thursday night that Kevin McCarthy may finally have a viable path to becoming the next House speaker. A new deal could deliver some new votes to McCarthy that have so far been voting against him. Like Gaetz, Biggs, who has strongly opposed McCarthy's bid for speaker, also sent out a campaign email requesting financial assistance from his supporters, according to New York Times reporter Nick Confessore.

During the roll call vote on the House floor, each member elected to Congress is called on to say the name of the person they wanted for House speaker. A 21st GOP lawmaker, Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz of Indiana voted for McCarthy earlier this week but more recently has been voting "present" to reflect her assessment that Republicans need to confer further before voting. McCarthy won 201 votes in three votes Wednesday and remained there in the first vote held on Thursday. Twenty Republicans again voted for another GOP lawmaker to deny him the 218 votes he needs – 19 of those went to Rep.-elect Byron Donalds of Florida, and Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida voted for former President Donald Trump. Kevin McCarthy will need at least 8 votes on the House floor to become speaker. "A deal is NOT done," Perry tweeted as the House casted votes in its seventh failed speaker election.

Jordan says he’s been picking up support every day and feels good ahead of the vote for House speaker. Donald Trump is reupping his support of his top ally in the House ahead of the vote for speaker. To seize the gavel, Jordan will need almost the full majority of his colleagues behind him in a House floor vote, as Democrats are certain to back their own nominee, Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Members of the House are getting settled in for what is expected to be multiple rounds of votes for speaker. Ahead of the election, he appeared to be short of the Republican votes needed to win the gavel, but he has sounded confident that he can pressure the holdouts to eventually vote for him. He has said he wants Jordan to clearly state that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.

Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana, who had voted “present” in previous ballots, also voted for Mr. McCarthy in the 12th vote. With Mr. McCarthy elected, he immediately turned to swearing in the 434 members of the House to officially seat the 118th Congress. Republicans announced that they would wait until Monday to consider a package of rules for the chamber, which is expected to enshrine many of the compromises Mr. McCarthy made to win his post.

Representative-elect Eli Crane of Arizona and Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana — the two holdouts who seemed most likely to move — both voted against him, leaving his fate in the hands of his lead tormentor, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida. Emmer voted to certify the 2020 election results after Jan. 6, 2021, but signed onto an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election results. Rep. Carlos Giménez of Florida, who supported McCarthy over Jordan, called Johnson a "straightforward leader" who can unite the Republican conference in a post to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Republicans on Capitol Hill are gearing up for a potentially long night as Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is expected to wear down his opposition with multiple votes in his bid for Speaker on Tuesday. McCarthy has already offered a compromise, saying he would allow any five members to initiate a vote to remove the speaker. McCarthy faces criticism from an extensive list of his members as he attempts to maintain his leadership role in the party to become Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress. The statement from Perry follows a letter he sent Sunday to McCarthy along with eight members of the House Freedom Caucus that detailed their plan for the structure of party leadership. Perry added Tuesday that he would support McCarthy if he heeds to their demands. He then laughed when asked if he'd back a Speaker Steve Scalise if McCarthy fails to get the votes needed.

One of Trump’s most fervent supporters in the House is nominating Jordan for House speaker. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska voted for Kevin McCarthy, the first Republican to break from Jordan. With one Republican absent today, Jordan cannot afford to lose more than three GOP votes.

In an effort to win them over, Mr. McCarthy has offered to give rank-and-file lawmakers more influence in the process of writing spending bills. One official briefed on that emerging compromise said if a lawmaker took issue with a certain earmark, they could force such a vote. Proponents of earmarks argue that they allow rank-and-file lawmakers to deliver for their constituents and smooth the process of keeping the government running, by giving members of Congress a tangible reason to vote in favor of spending bills.

Exhausted from the feuding, which unleashed a barrage of recriminations and violent threats against lawmakers, both the right wing and mainstream Republicans finally united to elect Mr. Johnson, 51, in a 220-to-209 vote. Nevertheless, it appears that McCarthy will not have the numbers required to win the speakership in the first round of voting. McCarthy still faces opposition from at least twelve members of his party, and he must convince seven of them to change their tune after the voting starts at noon. McCarthy has made several concessions in the days leading up to the vote, and he met with many of his staunchest detractors personally this week.

Nor did Jordan’s speech nominating McCarthy in the second round, despite the staunch support the Ohioan has won from the party’s right wing as a co-founder of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. A small number of right-flank Republicans had for weeks vowed to oppose McCarthy on the floor when the new Congress convened, even as he continued to negotiate with members and make concessions on rule changes. How the weeks-long stalemate between the majority of the House Republican Conference and the growing pocket of GOP antagonists will be resolved remains unclear.

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Some on the right opposed to Mr. Emmer cited his vote in favor of codifying federal protections for same-sex couples. Others railed against Mr. Emmer’s vote in favor of a stopgap spending bill put forward by Mr. McCarthy, the speaker at the time, to avert a government shutdown. Still others said he was insufficiently loyal to Mr. Trump, because he voted to certify the results of the 2020 election won by President Biden. But by late Tuesday night, Mr. Johnson appeared to have put together a coalition that brought him closer to capturing the speakership than any candidate has been since hard-right rebels deposed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy three weeks ago. Though it was not certain he had the votes to be elected, he said he planned to call for a floor vote on Wednesday at noon. No credible evidence has ever emerged to support the conspiracy theories about Dominion and another voting machine firm having helped to ensure Mr. Trump’s defeat.