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Jim Jordan loses 3rd vote for House speaker; GOP opposition grows to 25 reps (www.usatoday.com)

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Round 1: 200 votes for Jordan

Round 2: 199 votes for Jordan

Round 3: 194 votes for Jordan

Additional detractors this round:

Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): Jordan round 2, McHenry round 3

Tom Kean Jr. (R-NY): Jordan round 2, McCarthy round 3

Marc Molinaro (R-NY): Jordan round 2, Zeldin round 3

Other GOP changes:

Wesley Hunt (R-TX): Jordan round 2, absent round 3

Derrick Van Orden (R-WI): Jordan round 2, absent round 3

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[-] appel@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

What I don't get is if we know about this plan, surely gymbo must know as well. So why not just call it quits? Does he like to be humiliated? Is this some sort of fetish for him?

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

The goal of to whip, convince, strong arm into submission.

[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Thus the Disgruntled Henchmen call-center calls to the “nay” voters.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fucking Nazi Treason shitheads are going to Nazi shithead

[-] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Having just sat through a week of committee meetings where all the parties knew a tender was going to fail, yet we all continued with the meeting like everything wasn't already decided.. humans are a silly species.

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