4:07 p.m. ET, October 20, 2023
How this Congress retains setting data with its speaker votes
From CNN’s Christopher Hickey
The Republican-controlled 118th Congress has set many firsts.
On Jan. 3, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy grew to become the primary candidate within the majority get together to lose a bid for the Home speakership in 100 years. He gained the gavel within the fifteenth spherical of voting, making his election the longest since earlier than the Civil Conflict.
Then, on Oct. 3, McCarthy then grew to become the primary Home speaker in historical past to be eliminated by a movement to vacate.
Now, because the Home seeks a brand new speaker, the 118th is the primary ever Congress to want two speaker elections with a number of ballots. Rep. Jim Jordan, who on Friday misplaced his third spherical of voting and later misplaced in a secret poll, is now not a nominee.
Right here is the historical past of multiple-ballot Home speaker elections:
