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Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday settled on Rep. Tom Emmer as the party's speaker-designee after multiple rounds of voting by secret ballot. Emmer is the third candidate chosen as speaker-designee by Republicans.
With the GOP only holding a slim majority in the House, it only takes a handful of Republicans to break ranks for a majority not to be reached. Democrats have united behind Leader Hakeem Jeffries as their speaker nominee. "I will tell you they're all very highly qualified," he said Monday night."They all did a really great job tonight in the forum. And I am certain, quite frankly, that one of them will be elected tomorrow as the next speaker of the House."The protracted battle over House speakership doesn't have precedent in U.S. history.
"It was the big spending measures that Kevin McCarthy garnered more votes from Democrats than he did from Republicans that put him in this position and forced us to remove him as speaker congressman," Rosendale said.
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