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...He now faces the daunting prospect of protecting the party’s tiny majority in the lower chamber in 2024. “Never met him or had a call from him,” said an adviser to a Republican megadonor....
...Jim Jordan, the hardline Republican congressman from Ohio, lost a third vote to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives on Friday, paralysing the lower chamber and raising doubts about Congress’s ability...
...Jordan lost the secret ballot of House Republicans on Friday 112-86, according to representatives who were involved in the vote....
...Because Republicans control the chamber by a razor-thin margin, Jordan can only afford to lose a handful of votes from his own party....
...But Republicans have a majority of just nine votes in the 435-seat chamber, meaning that if all representatives vote Jordan cannot lose more than a handful of votes from his own benches....
...McCarthy’s removal left the lower chamber of Congress rudderless, as Republicans struggled to coalesce around a successor and the House was unable to take up key pieces of legislation, including more foreign...
...A vote is not expected until next week, at the earliest, leaving the lower chamber unable to legislate and deepening the turmoil in Washington just as the US contends with an escalating crisis in the Middle...
...The abrupt downfall of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week has created chaos in the House, leaving the lower chamber unable to do anything of consequence....
...Sitting astride a sheer-sided rock spur, with the bustling town clustered around the bottom, it is a chiaroscuro labyrinth of vaulted halls and underground chambers burrowing into the hill on seven levels...
...Because Republicans control the lower chamber by a narrow margin — and Democrats steadfastly voted for their own candidate — Jordan cannot afford to lose more than a handful of votes from his own benches...
...Because Republicans control the lower chamber of Congress by a razor-thin margin, and Democrats have rejected Jordan as an “extremist extraordinaire”, he cannot afford to lose more than a handful of votes...
...Steve Scalise narrowly won the Republican nomination to serve as the next House of Representatives Speaker, as the party struggles to determine who will lead the lower chamber of Congress and address pressing...
...In a dramatic afternoon in the lower chamber on Tuesday, members voted 216-210 to unseat McCarthy — the first time in history a House Speaker had been removed from the post....
...But several of his allies had rallied around Jordan’s candidacy in recent days. It remained unclear on Thursday night whether Jordan would once again pursue the Speakership....
...While Steve Scalise, the House majority leader, initially beat Jordan in a secret ballot among Republicans in the chamber, he withdrew his candidacy hours after Trump told a Fox News interviewer that he...
...Arab balancing act: Jordan is facing scrutiny at home for helping to repel the Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel....
...Jordan backers....
...Johnson, 51, has until now been a lower-profile member of Congress than Scalise, Jordan or Emmer....
...Trump initially endorsed Jordan for Speaker....
...A former college wrestling coach, Jordan has long been a vocal ally of Donald Trump. As a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, Jordan is popular with the party’s right wing....
...Under rules guiding the House, the lower chamber of Congress cannot deal with any legislative business until a new Speaker is elected....
...In Washington, meanwhile, Lauren Fedor covered the mutiny that removed Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker (or leader) of the lower chamber of Congress....
...When the piped water reaches the hospital, it flows over metal chambers in the basement, cooling the fresh water inside them....
...US Republicans have rejected plans for a temporary Speaker of the House, meaning the lower chamber is still unable to pass any legislation....
...Monday Germany: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meets Jordan’s King Abdullah II on a state visit to Berlin South Africa: five-day Africa Energy Week conference begins in Cape Town, where business executives...
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