Republicans elect Mike Johnson to be House speaker: updates : NPR

Table Of Content

• Mike Johnson becomes the next GOP speaker-designee
• Eric Trump's Remark About Donald Trump's 'Stamina' Sparks Mockery
• House to take up resolution declaring support for Israel
• Sessions eliminated after first round of voting, Emmer receives most votes
• Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer has dropped out of House speaker race
• Republicans begin vote for fourth speaker nominee

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss preparations not yet made public. As the war in Ukraine has dragged on, the U.S. began to send increasingly larger, more lethal and more expensive systems to the warfront. They included entire air defense systems, armored vehicles, sophisticated missiles — even Abrams tanks. Those stocks are pulled from bases or storage facilities in the U.S. or from European sites where the U.S. has already surged weapons to cut down on the amount of time it will take to deliver them once the funding is approved. The Pentagon has had supplies ready to go for months but hasn’t moved them because it is out of money.

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Mike Johnson becomes the next GOP speaker-designee

He is confronting a mid-November deadline to pass a measure to fund the government to avert a shutdown. And he will need to lead a conference deeply divided over foreign policy as Congress considers the Biden administration’s $105 billion funding request for Israel, Ukraine and the southern border. The vote put him second in line to the presidency, capping an extraordinary period of twists and turns on Capitol Hill. It marked a victory for the far right that has become a dominant force in the Republican Party, which rose up this month to effectively dictate the removal of an establishment speaker and the installation of an arch-conservative replacement. The members who ousted McCarthy also told reporters that they have no regrets now about ousting McCarthy. Asked if he would bring a vote to oust Johnson if he put forth a short-term spending bill at current spending levels, Rep. Matt Gaetz said he’s optimistic Johnson will be able to actually pass the individual spending bills.

Eric Trump's Remark About Donald Trump's 'Stamina' Sparks Mockery

The GOP conference voted Friday to drop Rep. Jim Jordan as its nominee for speaker after he failed to win a majority three times, losing more Republican support in each successive round. The Republican conference then held a secret ballot on whether Jordan should remain the nominee. It sent the party back to the drawing board Friday, leaving the House leaderless for at least three more days.

House to take up resolution declaring support for Israel

The House is back to the floor for its 14th vote for speaker, and the one that Representative Kevin McCarthy is saying will finally clinch the deal for him. After Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, who ending up holding the deciding vote, said “present,” most seated at the bar fell quiet. At the time, there was some confusion about whether or not this is over. Even before the votes had been secured, many at the bar seemed convinced that electing a speaker was inevitable as the vote drew closer to a close. Pats on the back and smiles were exchanged, and many turned their attention away from the TVs.

GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik tweeted the full list of candidates shortly before the candidate forum was to begin this evening. Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida, Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee, Mark Green of Tennessee, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Roger Williams of Texas, are running. The race now is a head-to-head contest between Donalds and Johnson as the GOP conference moves on to a third ballot, according to Stefanik.

The House Freedom Caucus appeared to play a crucial role in those contests, largely failing to back either Scalise or Emmer. With Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colorado, recently leaving Congress, the Republican majority in the House shrank even further, which means just three defections would be enough to remove Johnson. As Nicole Wallace put it on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon, “At this hour the House of Representatives is completely and totally paralyzed.

Given that Republicans currently have a five-seat majority, House Democrats would need at least three Republicans to join them and vote in favor of Jeffries to hold the coveted speaker’s gavel. GOP Rep. Tom Emmer of was the party’s House speaker designate for all of a few hours before he dropped out, apparently due to lack of interest from his coworkers. Republicans seem wholly disinterested in acting like a functioning political party, as evidence by Tuesday’s bizarro-world chain of events. The list of the 10 speakers who served in the job longest includes just one Republican (and in the ninth slot at that). That speaker was Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, notorious as the autocratic "Czar Cannon" during three two-year tours as speaker that ended with his party's historic defeat in 1910. His predecessor, Frederick Gillett of Massachusetts, also had the top job for less than five years.

Such a vote requires a simple majority, so if all Republicans sans Greene support Johnson, he will keep his position. But as of Friday, two other Republicans, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Thomas Massie of Kentucky have said they would support a motion to vacate. Following the vote on March 22 on a $1.2 trillion spending package, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, filed a motion to vacate.

Johnson enters speaker’s office for first time since being sworn in

This is “The Daily.” Today, the story of how Columbia University has become the epicenter of a growing showdown between student protesters, college administrators, and Congress over the war in Gaza and the limits of free speech. I’m a producer with “The Daily.” Just walked out of the 116 Street Station. And it’s day seven of the Gaza solidarity encampment, where a hundred students were arrested last Thursday. The original Neutra VDL Research House, a living laboratory for architect Richard Neutra’s theories on residential design, was built for $8,000 (including the site!) in 1932; it burned down in 1963 and two years later his son oversaw the rebuilding of an updated version.

This conference that you see, this House Republican majority, is united. And what they understand about this, is this is servant leadership. And the hard-right Republicans who voted to oust Mr. McCarthy, setting into motion the three-week stretch of chaos that left the House without a leader, said Mr. Johnson’s ascension to the top job made their decision to depose the California Republican worth it.

Jordan is one of the most fervently far-right members of the House Republican conference, and was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus. He gained a national profile as one of Trump's biggest defenders during his two impeachments. He has voted against government spending deals, bipartisan farm bills and emergency aid packages, and was part of a group of Republicans pushing to defund Obamacare back in 2013 in a fight that led to a government shutdown.

They would later hold a Seder, actually, with some of the pro-Palestinian Jewish protesters in their ranks. But those videos are reaching members of Congress, the very same Republicans that Shafik had testified in front of just a few days before. And now they’re looking and saying, you have lost control of your campus, you’ve turned back on your word to us, and you need to resign. "The rules are the rules, and practice and custom in our conference has always been make your case, get a majority of the majority, become the nominee. ... That's the way it should be. And I would hope that's the way it will be this week," Womack said. GOP Rep. Don Bacon, from a swing district in Nebraska, attacked the eight Republicans who voted to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker ahead of a closed-door meeting of the conference Monday.

Today it’s the centerpiece of Barnsdall Park and is open for tours during the park’s popular Friday night wine tasting events. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine within days once Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill. That’s because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe that already hold the ammunition and air defense components that Kyiv desperately needs. Rep. Ralph Norman called the conference meeting “good” and that “sure” some members were upset but that ultimately he thinks they’ll coalesce around a Speaker candidate. He also said that if his preferred candidate doesn’t get the votes then he would support Rep. Steve Scalise.

She talks about the number of students that have been suspended, but also the number of faculty that she’s had removed from the classroom that are being investigated for comments that either violate some of Columbia’s rules or make students uncomfortable. Columbia stands guilty of gross negligence at best and at worst has become a platform for those supporting terrorism and violence against the Jewish people. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. The nearby maintenance hubs hasten the turnaround time to get needed repairs done on the Western systems. Among the weapons that could go very quickly are the 155 mm rounds and other artillery, along with some air defense munitions.

Mr. Trump’s call into the chamber came on the two-year anniversary of the riot by his supporters to block congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s win over Mr. Trump. At the same time, Mr. Gaetz had reportedly sought a subcommittee chairmanship in the House Armed Services Committee. The dramatic moment was captured on C-SPAN’s video cameras, which, lacking the typical restraints placed upon them in a House with a speaker, were free to show whatever moments from the floor its operators deemed newsworthy. Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, had declined yet again to vote for Representative Kevin McCarthy of California on a 14th ballot, helping sink McCarthy’s chances at speaker that round. Even by the heated standards of the tensions that flared among House Republicans during their four-day push to elect a speaker, what happened on the House floor around 11 p.m.

Scalise has voted in favor of Ukraine funding, including $40 billion in aid last year and $300 million earlier this month that would provide Ukrainian troops with training and American-made weapons. The $300 million was later dropped from a temporary spending bill. Mr. McCarthy watched as the hard-right flank of that majority ran John A. Boehner of Ohio from his speakership in 2015 and blocked his own first attempt at securing the job, after 40 of its members announced that they would not support him, questioning his conservative credentials. Such steps, however, would inevitably prolong the process of approving spending bills.