The majority of GOP voters say the Republican-controlled House should choose a speaker who is loyal to former President Donald Trump and supports the impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) declined to reveal support for either of the two contenders for Speaker on Sunday’s episode of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Gaetz, who led the effort to boot former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) last week, did not reveal whether he would support Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) announced on Sunday that she intends to support Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) bid for Speaker, following her vote last Tuesday to remove former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his post. “I will tell you today, I am going to be supporting Jim Jordan for speaker for a number of reasons,” Mace...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) assessed on Sunday that it would be “absolutely” worth it for him to lose his seat in Congress for spearheading the removal of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the top leadership post last week. “Absolutely,” Gaetz said when NBC’s Kristen Welker asked him on “Meet the Press” Sunday whether the...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday characterized the U.S as being in a “serious weakened position” given a vacancy in the Speakership while Israel formally declared war following an unprecedented coordinated attack by Hamas the day before. Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo asked Greene on “Sunday Morning Futures” whether the Speakership election will be “expedited”...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Sunday criticized the historic move last week to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and suggested he had not yet decided whom he would support as his replacement. "It wasn't my idea to oust the speaker. I thought it was dangerous,” McCaul said in an interview...
Arabs in general, and the Palestinians in particular, have been waging a century-long war of attrition against Zionism, against the Jewish right to have a nation in the land of Israel.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who is vying to become the next Speaker, says he is feeling “very good” about securing enough conservative votes to attain the top leadership post. “We've got amazing feedback and incredible feedback from our colleagues across the country across the spectrum in the Republican conference, we got conservatives to what's termed...
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said Sunday that some Republicans’ floating to elect former President Trump as Speaker of the House won't come to fruition. Buck told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that some GOP members’ push to nominate the former president as Speaker is “not going to happen” in the wake of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.)...