With Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) confirming there will not be another speaker vote tonight, we are also finished with the blog for the evening and will reconvene with our live coverage tomorrow before the first expected vote in the morning.

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has said there will be no more House speaker votes on Tuesday after only one failed vote earlier in the day.

The next speaker vote of the full House is slated for 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

“We’re making progress. I feel good about it. We’re going to keep going. We’ve had great discussions. Frankly, in our conference, nobody wants to see a coalition government with Democrats,” Jordan said.

The first speaker vote held earlier on Tuesday saw Jordan fail to get 217 votes, as 20 Republicans voted against him.

Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) announced he will vote for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for House speaker in subsequent votes after voting for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on the first ballot.

“Today’s vote for Kevin McCarthy was no aspersion on Jim Jordan. I spoke with Jim after the first vote to confirm my support going forward, and he was happy and understood. The vote of conviction I cast today was done with careful consideration that I would not prevent Jim Jordan from winning on the first ballot. The House needs to get back on track promptly, and I do and will continue to support Jim Jordan in further balloting,” LaMalfa said in a statement on Tuesday.

Jordan has to flip 16 of the 20 Republicans who voted against him to win the speakership while also avoiding any defections from his original vote.

A key GOP holdout vote against Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) speakership bid warned his colleagues they would not be able to elect a new speaker if they pursue a candidate who denies the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“I don’t want someone who was involved in the activities of Jan. 6,” said Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), who was one of 20 Republicans to vote against Jordan’s bid during the first round of speaker votes on Tuesday. “There’s no way we win the majority if the message we send to the American people is we believe in the election was stolen, and we believe that Jan. 6 was a tour of the Capitol.”

Buck’s comments are in reference to Jordan’s defense of former President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, as well as his comments surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Jordan failed to win the speakership during the first round of votes after 20 Republicans chose not to vote for him, putting him well below the 217-vote margin needed to win the majority on the floor.

The House is set to reconvene at 11 a.m. on Wednesday for another round of voting.

Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) listed his demands for a candidate to win his vote for House speaker after he voted for former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin in the first round of voting.

The New York Republican said his four demands included keeping the government open while cutting spending, among other requests.

“For two weeks, I’ve met & and talked with candidates for Speaker, telling them what’s important to my district. I’ve been up front about withholding my support without reliable commitments on these important issues. When I said I’d always put Long Island First, I wasn’t bluffing,” LaLota tweeted.

LaLota is one of 20 House Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for House speaker in the first vote on Tuesday.

Rep. Jim Jordan‘s (R-OH) team is planning to hold a second vote for House speaker around 6 p.m., once Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) returns from a funeral.

Bilirakis has said he would support Jordan but missed the first vote earlier on Tuesday. With Bilirakis present, the number of Republican votes Jordan can lose rises to four.

After reports surfaced about House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) not committing to helping Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) get enough votes to win the speakership, Scalise’s team says he is still supporting Jordan.

“Scalise has been the only candidate throughout this process who has publicly declared he will be supportive of whomever the conference nominates for speaker, and his position has not changed. He voted for Jim Jordan on the floor and will continue to do so,” a spokesperson for the Louisiana Republican said.

An earlier report had suggested Scalise would not commit to helping Jordan after the two met following the first speaker vote. Jordan’s bid for the speakership failed in the first vote, with 20 Republicans voting against the Ohio Republican.

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) claimed his earlier remarks saying he voted for Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) in speaker race to give him the “worst job in America” was a “joke.”

“No, I don’t. I don’t like Tom Emmer. I figured this would be the worst job in America. Mike Rowe would not even do this for his TV show,” Buck said. “This is a terrible job.”

“Just to clarify, this was a joke. The office of Speaker is the hardest job in Washington. I wouldn’t wish that on my good friend [Emmer],” Buck tweeted later on Tuesday.

Buck was one of 20 Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for speaker on the first ballot.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) asked House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) to help him in his bid to secure the speakership, but the Louisiana Republican will not commit.

A source familiar with the matter confirmed to the Washington Examiner the CNN report that Scalise would not commit after the two met following the first speaker vote.

Jordan failed to win the speakership on the first ballot, with 20 Republicans voting against him. He needs 217 of the 221 Republicans in the House to win the speakership.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) joked about wanting to drink a glass of wine as the House remains paralyzed without an elected speaker.

“I’m not sure. I’d like a glass of wine. That’s what I’m gonna do,” Mace told a reporter.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to get the necessary 217 votes to be elected speaker, with 20 Republicans voting against him on the first ballot. A timetable for the second vote has not been set, but a vote is expected later on Tuesday.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to win the House speakership on the first ballot as 20 Republicans voted against him, but he could lose more votes in subsequent ballots.

Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) was noncommittal on whether he would support Jordan.

“I supported him like I said I would on the first one, and if there’s other candidates or other things going on, we’ll go from there,” Joyce said.

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), who voted against Jordan on the first ballot, said it is a “fair guess” that the Ohio Republican will lose support in subsequent speaker votes, according to Axios.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spokesperson Russell Dye said he expects the House to reconvene for a second speaker vote on Tuesday.

“The House needs a speaker as soon as possible. Expect another round of votes today. It’s time for Republicans to come together,” Dye said in a statement.

Jordan failed the first speaker voter earlier on Tuesday, with 20 Republicans voting against his speaker bid.

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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) placed the blame for the chaos within the House on Democrats for joining the eight Republicans in the vote to oust him from the speakership two weeks ago.

“We wouldn’t be here right now if every Democrat didn’t vote to shut this place down,” McCarthy said after the first speaker vote.

The first House speaker vote saw Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) come short of the necessary 217 votes to be elected. The chamber has been without an elected speaker since McCarthy was removed.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) says Rep. Jim Jordan has his “full support” for his speakership bid despite falling short in the first vote of the full House of Representatives.

The Florida Republican said he is “confident” in Jordan and that the Ohio Republican will meet with the House Republicans who voted against him.

“You know, we need to get this business done today. That’s my whole thing. Right now, he’s doing a wise thing by taking the opportunity to go talk to those members who have voted for somebody else to be able to decide whether to call another vote,” Donalds said.

“I’m confident in Jim, and he’ll be able to get with these individual members who have now identified themselves,” he added. “And then we go from there.”

Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) said he “has not moved” on his decision to vote against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for House speaker.

Gimenez, who was one of 20 Republicans who voted against Jordan on the first ballot, also said the powers of Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) should be expanded.

“We need to do that. It’s not just about this — the situation now. It’s about in the future. If we have an incapacitated speaker of the House in the future due to illness or injury or whatever, this place can’t stop working. So, we need to we need to fix that problem. That’s an inherent problem inside the houses,” Gimenez said.

The House of Representatives has recessed after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to secure enough votes to clinch the speaker’s gavel in the first ballot vote.

It is unclear when the House will reconvene.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) lost the first round of speaker votes after 20 House GOP members voted against him.

Those who voted against Jordan are Reps. Don Bacon (R-NE), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Jake Ellzey (R-TX), Anthony Garbarino (R-NY), Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Kay Granger (R-TX), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Jen Kiggans (R-VA), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Mike Lawler (R-NY), John Rutherford (R-FL), Mike Simpson (R-ID), Steve Womack (R-AL), Ken Buck (R-CO), John James (R-MI), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), and Victoria Spartz (R-IN).

Bacon, Chavez-DeRemer, Giminez, Kiggans, Lawler, and LaMalfa voted for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Diaz-Balart, Gonzalez, Granger, Kelly, Rutherford, Simpson, and Womack voted for House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA).

D’Esposito, Garbarino, and LaLota voted for former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin.

Ellzey voted for Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA), Buck voted for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), Spartz voted for Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and James voted for Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK).

Some House members resorted to name-calling during the speakership vote on Tuesday.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) an “insurrectionist,” causing Jordan to laugh.

A House Republican then loudly said, “Huh? What did the communist say?”

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) appears on track to lose the first ballot for the speakership after at least four House Republicans voted against him.

Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) voted for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) and Rep. Anthony Garbarino (R-NY) voted for former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart voted for House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-TX) voted for Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA).

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) is the first member to vote against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for speaker.

Bacon instead voted for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the former House speaker ousted two weeks ago.

Representatives are casting votes in alphabetical order on the House floor.

Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) also voted for McCarthy.

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) is the only absence in the House chamber on Tuesday for the speaker vote.

Bilirakis, who is absent in order to attend a funeral, is expected to be back at 6 p.m. He will miss the first vote and possibly several others afterward.

Jordan can only lose three votes on the GOP side if he wants to become speaker.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) will vote for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as speaker in the first round of voting.

Miller-Meeks was marked as “lean no,” but she now will vote for Jordan on the first ballot, the Washington Examiner confirmed.

This adds another holdout in favor of Jordan, who can only afford to lose three GOP votes in the first round.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said he is feeling “really good about where we’re at” heading into the speaker vote expected this afternoon.

“Whatever it takes to get a speaker,” Jordan said. “We need to get a Speaker today and we feel really good about where we’re at.”

The chamber has been without its constitutionally mandated leader.

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) said he would make a motion to vacate the speaker if House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) wins on Tuesday.

If Jeffries becomes speaker because of some side deal, I’ll be making a motion to vacate,” Collins posted on X. “And will have no regrets.”

If Collins decides to vacate Jeffries, it would push the House even further into gridlock. The lower chamber has been without a speaker, the first time ever in U.S. history, for two weeks.

Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) is opposed to expanding his authority to govern the House.

Some centrist Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), floated the idea of expanding McHenry’s powers to allow the House to vote on appropriations bills and foreign aid.

However, McHenry is adamantly against the idea, according to CNN.

Jeffries reportedly told his Democratic colleagues the important focus of this suggestion would be to convince Republicans who are skeptical about voting for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as the next speaker to back their plan, rather than get into the specifics of how it would work.

The House is convening to vote on the next speaker on Tuesday at 12 p.m.

Republicans are expected to nominate Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Democrats will nominate House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Other Republican candidates could be put forward by dissenters.

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) promised colleagues who are against his speaker nomination that he would prioritize the Farm Bill despite never voting for the bill during his tenure.

In his 15 years in Congress representing a largely rural district in Ohio, Jordan has never voted to pass the Farm Bill. The legislation contains key funding for federal food assistance programs and conservation initiatives, which must be reauthorized every five years. It expired on Sept. 30.

Jordan opposed the Farm Bill of 2008’s reauthorization, stating that it would raise taxes. In 2018, he came out against the bill as one of the founding members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus. Similar to the 2013 bill, conservatives in 2018 voted against the legislation over immigration policy.

“I am not sure where Rep. Jordan lands on climate policy because he has not prioritized it,” Heather Reams, president of the right-leaning Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, told Politico’s E&E Daily.

The Farm Bill could serve as an early test of Jordan’s leadership style, particularly as the legislation is set to cost over $1 trillion for the first time, per the Congressional Budget Office.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will have an even more difficult time securing the speakership on Tuesday, as one House GOP member will be absent during the first round of voting.

With all 432 members of the House voting, Jordan needs a majority of 217 votes and can only lose four. However, Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) will not attend the first vote due to a funeral.

House Democrats are expected to be in full attendance today, so any GOP members who vote “present” will narrow Jordan’s margin to three. If Bilirakis comes back before a second or third round, the threshold will increase to four again.

If enough Republicans voted present in addition to those who voted against Jordan, that would lower the number of voting members to 423 and change the majority to 212 — the same number of House Democrats.

That scenario would hand House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) the speakership.

The Club for Growth sent a “key vote alert” to all House Republicans pressing them to vote for Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

The influential conservative group said the House speaker vote “will be included in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2023 congressional scorecard.”

Jordan is believed to be several votes short of the necessary 217 votes in a full House floor vote.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has made significant progress in his bid for House speaker, but some Republicans appear to be ready for a long battle on the House floor.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a Jordan ally, said he believes there will be eight to 10 holdouts in the first vote on speaker, and “then we’re going to have to go talk to those individuals” to get the Ohio Republican elected on a subsequent ballot.

Jordan can only afford to lose four Republican votes to be elected speaker in a vote of the full House of Representatives if all Democrats are present for the vote.

Both Republican and Democratic whips are advising that members stay on the floor on Tuesday because of the possibility of additional votes, a standard procedure for when whip counts are not clear.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) suggested to the Democratic caucus empowering House Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) rather than electing a new speaker.

Jeffries reportedly told his Democratic colleagues the important focus of this suggestion would be to convince Republicans who are skeptical about voting for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as the next speaker to back their plan rather than get into the specifics of how it would work, according to Punchbowl News.

Democrats have been flatly opposed to selecting Jordan for House speaker and have proposed a “bipartisan path to reopening” the House after two weeks without an elected speaker.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is using her campaign office to urge people to call the offices of Republican lawmakers and ask them not to vote for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for House speaker.

The campaign paints Jordan as a “vocal opponent of abortion rights, a 2020 election denier, and one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters.”

As part of the effort, her campaign office has provided a script for callers to follow, along with phone numbers to the House offices of the GOP members. House Democrats also launched a robocall campaign urging people to call their GOP representatives to vote against Jordan for House speaker.

The House is set to reconvene for the first time in two weeks to vote on who will become the next speaker, with Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) hoping to shore up enough support among the GOP conference to secure the speaker’s gavel by the end of the day.

There are 433 members in the House of Representatives after two seats became vacant earlier this year due to retirements in both parties, leaving 221 Republicans and 212 Democrats. That means to secure the majority, Jordan needs to secure at least 217 votes if all members are present on the floor.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) would be elected House speaker on Tuesday because “this is not a time for the House Republican Party to look childish and in disarray.”

The former Georgia representative was speaking on Hannity about how he feels the battle for the House’s top leader will shake out as Jordan is in the driver’s seat for the position but doesn’t have the requisite votes.

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The House is expected to vote for a new speaker on the floor around noon on Tuesday, with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) seeking to snag the title.

Despite various holdouts flipping for the Ohio Republican on Monday, there are a few Republicans who remain in opposition, putting his election in jeopardy. Initially, just 152 members of the Republican conference committed to voting for Jordan on the floor during a closed-door vote — far from the 217 he needs. He was nominated in the conference by a vote of 124-81 against Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA).

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House Republicans plan to go to the floor Tuesday to vote for a speaker, but after a closed-door conference meeting ended Monday night, it became evident that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) still doesn’t have the votes necessary to become speaker.

After an intensive pressure campaign and whip operation by Jordan and his allies, the Ohio Republican was able to whittle down his opposition on Monday to a more manageable number than where he stood on Friday, when 55 Republicans vowed to vote against him.

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