Until a speaker is chosen, none of the members elected in November – including those who won reelection – can be sworn in.
10 p.m. with the 14th ballot under way.
As the 14th ballot started, the Republican leader and his allies were seeking to persuade at least two of the six remaining holdouts to support him or at least vote “present” in order to lower the threshold required for victory. This was the most contested speaker election since 1856, a race that took 133 ballots and two months to resolve.
Highlighting the complicated internal politics, Republican Tony Gonzales of San Antonio tweeted that he planned to oppose the rules. It was unclear heading into the Friday night session how many Republicans in the McCarthy camp would shun the proposed new rules, and whether that could upend the deal for the speakership.
Nominating Jim Jordan of Ohio, who has stuck with McCarthy and prefers to become Judiciary chairman, Gaetz called McCarthy a tool of special interests who can’t be trusted. He countered arguments that the Californian had “earned” the speakership by saying the only way to do that is to secure enough votes, and that McCarthy didn’t seem capable of that.
For Roy and the other conservatives, it was worth holding up the process to force changes in House rules. McCarthy has made a long list of concessions since the GOP scored its disappointingly narrow five-seat majority in November. The McCarthy-affiliated leadership PAC would steer clear of Republican primaries in safely red districts, addressing conservatives’ complaints that party bosses have intervened to protect establishment candidates.
The IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service initially refused to respond to inquiries from members-elect, though it later clarified that employees will work on existing congressional cases and process new ones. But the IRS did say it could not communicate taxpayer-specific information to House offices “pending the swearing-in of members or future guidance providing a work-around.”
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