House speaker election drags into third day as McCarthy searches for support - CBS News

Entering the Capitol soon earlier 10 a.m., McCarthy sounded a enactment of optimism: "I deliberation we're making progress, I deliberation radical are talking and that's a bully sign. I deliberation that's precise good. Look, we're each moving unneurotic to find a solution."

Asked if helium has the votes, McCarthy responded, "We'll see." 

The House of Representatives adjourned for a 2nd time without electing a House speaker, aft Rep. Kevin McCarthy fell abbreviated for a sixth time, failing to triumph a bulk of support. CBS News main predetermination and run analogous Robert Costa reports connected what's next:

Three apical Republicans who are acceptable to instrumentality implicit the House Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence Committees issued a joint statement Thursday reiterating their enactment for McCarthy for talker and informing that a continued nonaccomplishment to capable the relation leaves the White House, Pentagon and State Department without oversight.

"The Biden medication is going unchecked and determination is nary oversight of the White House, State Department, Department of Defense, oregon the quality community," Reps. Michael McCaul of Texas, Mike Rogers of Alabama and Mike Turner of Ohio said. "We cannot fto idiosyncratic authorities spot the information and information of the United States astatine risk."

McCaul is the apical Republican of the Foreign Affairs panel, Rogers is the pb Republican of the Armed Services Committee and Turner is the apical GOP subordinate of the Intelligence Committee. All 3 are acceptable to instrumentality implicit arsenic president of their respective panels, but cannot bash truthful until a talker is elected and the House organizes.

The trio said McCarthy's docket outlines a "stronger approach" to China, a program to analyse the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan successful 2021 and plans for however the GOP-led House volition clasp the Biden medication accountable.

It has been astir a period since a talker ballot took aggregate ballots. Only 8 different times successful U.S. past has it taken much than 3 rounds.

According to the House of Representatives, determination person been 127 talker elections since 1789. In the modern era, a nominee needs a bulk of the House members voting — 218 if each 435 are contiguous — to go speaker. Members of Congress cannot beryllium sworn successful until there's a speaker. 

Prior to this week's votes, 14 talker elections required aggregate ballots, with 13 of those occurring earlier the Civil War. The lone clip it happened successful the post-Civil War epoch was successful 1923, erstwhile it took 9 tries.

Six of those 14 elections were decided connected the 2nd oregon 3rd ballot, but others took much than that — with the longest predetermination yet ending aft astir 2 months and 133 ballots.

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The quality of a azygous House subordinate to question to "vacate the chair" — oregon to bring to the level a ballot of nary assurance successful a talker — is simply a cardinal sticking constituent for immoderate of the Repubicans voting against House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy's bid to beryllium speaker. And it's 1 of the reasons, among others, that McCarthy has truthful far failed successful each circular of voting for speaker on the House floor. 

Some of the astir blimpish members of the Republican league gave McCarthy a database of demands that included arsenic a cardinal information allowing a azygous subordinate to bring specified a ballot to the floor. McCarthy countered with a projected regularisation that would let a question to vacate the seat with the enactment of 5 members, alternatively than one. That didn't fulfill immoderate of the astir blimpish members of his caucus, including Reps. Scott Perry and Byron Donalds, some of whom person voted against him connected each ballot.

In an unfastened letter, Perry and 8 different Republicans said McCarthy's rules connection "continues to suggest to restrict the availability of the accepted question to vacate the seat arsenic a means of holding enactment accountable to its promises."

The request by the holdouts would reconstruct the House rules connected vacating the seat to what they were earlier Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elected talker successful 2019. Under Pelosi, a question to vacate could beryllium offered connected the House level lone if a bulk of either enactment agreed to it. Before that rules change, a azygous subordinate could determination for a ballot to unseat the speaker.

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After gathering down closed doors with immoderate of his detractors for astir 3 hours Wednesday night, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters helium does not judge different ballot that night, which would person been the seventh round, would effect successful a antithetic outcome.

"I deliberation it's astir apt champion that radical enactment done immoderate more," helium said. "I don't deliberation a ballot contiguous does immoderate difference, but I deliberation a ballot successful the aboriginal will."

The California Republican said advancement was made successful negotiations with the Republicans opposing his bid for speaker, but did not judge different circular of voting Wednesday nighttime would beryllium "productive."

Stepping retired of the gathering with McCarthy and his allies, Republican Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Lauren Boebert of Colorado, 2 staunch McCarthy opponents, told reporters their absorption to his bid had lone been reinforced.

"Look, he's a hopeless feline whose ballot stock is dropping with each consequent vote, and I'm acceptable to ballot each night, each week, each period and ne'er for that person," Gaetz said.

Boebert, meanwhile, predicted "increased opposition" to McCarthy and said she would stay firmly opposed to his nomination.

"You cannot negociate successful a deficiency of trust. There is nary trust," she said.

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Allies of House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy successful his efforts to go talker are telling colleagues his gathering Wednesday nighttime with his critics was an airing of grievances that wasn't a disaster. Many issues stay unresolved, but the huddles successful House Majority Whip Tom Emmer's bureau person astatine slightest been sustained conversations, they said. McCarthy is not dropping out and inactive sees a way to the speakership, respective House Republicans said.

The presumption among immoderate connected the GOP broadside contiguous is that the radical of McCarthy critics is not a monolith, and portion Reps. Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert and a fewer others mightiness ne'er ballot "aye" connected McCarthy, promises regarding the handling of primaries and House committees could nudge the absorption a bit. They accidental the talks request clip to unfold, however.

Part of the crushed House GOP leaders wanted to adjourn Wednesday nighttime was that they felt they were making advancement with immoderate House Freedom Caucus members connected a imaginable acceptable of parameters that mightiness coax immoderate of the critics to ballot "aye" — oregon astatine slightest present, which would little the threshold needed by McCarthy to prevail successful the talker election. They privation to springiness the Freedom Caucus members clip to deliberation done Wednesday night's talks.