The Crackdown on Student Protesters The New York Times

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• Trump declines to endorse this round, but has spoken with several of the contenders
• Mike Johnson's days as House Speaker may be numbered, but his ouster would cause chaos
• GOP Rep. Bice considering running for Johnson's former leadership role
• Johnson wins speaker vote 220-209
• McCarthy, so far, is still absent from tonight's House GOP meeting

Two other previous candidates, Reps. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, withdrew their names from consideration earlier in the process after failing to unite the party's various factions. Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, who ran for speaker as a protest candidate against Jordan in the House GOP conference, also voted to certify the 2020 election. Rep. Steve Scalise, House Majority leader and candidate for speaker, told reporters after a marathon two-hour conference meeting tonight that the GOP needs to get back to work and choose a speaker quickly. Gaetz, a Florida Republican, has become increasingly critical of Johnson in recent days, but has not gone as far as to support the motion to vacate. Still, he told reporters on Thursday that he believes at least one member of Congress could make a better leader than Johnson, according to the Washington Examiner.

Trump declines to endorse this round, but has spoken with several of the contenders

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Mike Johnson's days as House Speaker may be numbered, but his ouster would cause chaos

But when he left after the 1924 session, his party was still firmly in control and had just elected President Calvin Coolidge to a full term. The 30-year saga began with Gingrich of Georgia, who was the first member of his party to gain "the big gavel" since the early 1950s and the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Gingrich had been a backbench rabble-rouser since coming to the House in 1978 and built up a cadre of supporters until he won the party's No. 2 power position as minority whip in 1989. He soon eclipsed the party's leader, Robert Michel, who was nearing retirement. Joyce, a moderate, may have supported Jordan in the first vote but has not committed to supporting his fellow Ohioan in future ballots.

GOP Rep. Bice considering running for Johnson's former leadership role

But there are also communities that rely on people being able to trust each other and being able to carry out their classes and their academic endeavors as a collective so they can learn from one another. Students who feel strongly about the Palestinian cause feel like the point is disruption, that something so big, and immediate, and urgent is happening that they need to get in the faces of their professors, and their administrators, and their fellow students. We have seen intense feelings about this conflict play out in Hollywood. We’ve seen them in our politics in all kinds of interesting ways.

What happened when tempers really got out of control on the House floor.

He also called on Congress to address the situation at the U.S. border with Mexico, combat inflation and curb federal spending. They also were unhappy that he had suggested in an interview on Fox News that the House committee investigating the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, had the political aim of damaging Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. It also helped Mr. McCarthy’s cause that no viable challenger, like Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, his whip, or Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina, ever stepped forward to offer themselves as a consensus candidate who could end the deadlock. Mr. Roy, an initial holdout against Mr. McCarthy, led negotiations to try to bring about a deal that would make Mr. McCarthy the speaker in exchange for changes to House rules. Representative Chip Roy of Texas started out as an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Trump’s claims of a stolen election but gradually grew alarmed about the push to invalidate the results and ultimately opposed Mr. Trump’s bid to get Congress to overturn them on Jan. 6, 2021. In 2021, Democrats, newly in control of Washington, agreed to overhaul and rebrand the practice, changing the name from earmarks to “community project funding,” and introducing more limits and transparency.

The House GOP thought it was moving past internal drama. Then more showed up. - The Washington Post

The House GOP thought it was moving past internal drama. Then more showed up..

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Johnson wins speaker vote 220-209

When pressed on whether the eight rebels who voted last week to oust McCarthy understand the urgency, McCaul said if the attacks against Israel don't "wake up members of my conference, then I don’t know what else will." “The House needs to get back to work, and that means we've got to select the speaker, and you saw strong resolve to make sure that we can come together quickly and get our speaker elected,” he told reporters. Last time, the ensuing vote on the motion led to the historic removal of then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Oct. 3, followed by weeks of Republicans struggling to unite around a new leader.

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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. The new speaker has been in Congress since 2017 and has no experience in the House leadership.

The Republican leader claws his way to the post in a dramatic late-night vote.

"We continue to look forward to finding bipartisan common ground whenever and wherever possible." "From the very beginning of this Congress, House Democrats have made clear that we will find bipartisan common ground with our Republican colleagues wherever and whenever possible for the good of the American people, and House Democrats have repeatedly done just that," Jeffries said. The Democratic leader then took his place at the dais and delivered a speech cheering the work of House Democrats so far this Congress, while decrying the dysfunction that gripped the House over the last three weeks.

McCarthy, so far, is still absent from tonight's House GOP meeting

But college campuses, at least in their most idealized form, are something special. They’re a place where students get to go for four years to think in big ways about moral questions, and political questions, and ideas that help shape the world they’re going to spend the rest of their lives in. That reality, that taking a different tack that was supposed to be full of learnings and lessons from the stumbles of her peers, the fact that didn’t really work suggests that there’s something really intractable going on here. And I wonder how you’re thinking about this intractable situation that’s now arrived on these college campuses. So students who aren’t feeling safe in this protest environment don’t necessarily have to go to class.

Shortly after 1 p.m., the House began voting for speaker, with Johnson as the Republican nominee and Jeffries as the Democratic nominee. Johnson won the speaker's gavel in a single round of voting, with the support of all Republicans in attendance. Before the vote in the House, Johnson said he had not spoken to the president, but said he assumed he would soon.

” Later on, after some key votes for Mr. McCarthy, applause and cheers filled the bar. Mr. Trump called Mr. Gaetz, according to two people briefed on the call who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. CNN reported that Mr. Trump also called Representative Andy Biggs, who switched from voting against Mr. McCarthy to voting “present” on the 15th round. “I think the House is in a lot better place with some of the work that’s been done to democratize power out of the speakership, and that’s our goal,” he said. 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.

Jordan's fellow Ohio Representative David Joyce (R) has brought up the need for empowering McHenry as it still remains unclear if Jordan has enough votes to gain the Speaker title. Jordan, a staunch former President Donald Trump ally, became a member of the House in 2007. From Ohio, Jordan has been known for being a thorn in the sides of GOP leadership.

Yes, it certainly came as a surprise, especially at “Spectator.” We’re nerds of the University in the sense that we are familiar with faculty and University governance. But even to us, we had no idea where this policy was coming from. And this suspension was really the first time that it entered most students’ sphere. Eliminate the encampment and send a message, this is not going to be tolerated.

Do they hold back, like at Harvard, where there were dramatic videos of students literally running into Harvard yard with tents. And so Columbia, really, I think, at the end of the day, may have kicked off some of this. But they are now in league with a whole bunch of other universities that are struggling with the same set of questions. And it’s a set of questions that they’ve had since this war broke out. And I think if we zoom out for a second, it’s worth bearing in mind that she tried to choose a different path here than her counterparts at Harvard or Penn.

Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The Times, walks us through the intense week at the university. And Isabella Ramírez, the editor in chief of Columbia’s undergraduate newspaper, explains what it has all looked like to a student on campus. We don’t know if students are going to leave campus for the summer.