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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) to send a letter to the Regional Administrator of FEMA Region 6 – responsible for coordinating emergency management and disaster response efforts in the southwestern states – to express their strong support for the City of Corpus Christi’s appeal of FEMA’s rejection of additional

A handful of Texas Republicans back the Ohio Republican’s speaker bid after initially backing the former frontrunner, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise

A handful of Texas Republicans back the Ohio Republican’s speaker bid after initially backing the former frontrunner, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise

The next step for Scalise will be garnering the support of nearly all his GOP colleagues to win a floor vote for House speaker.

Looks like its gonna take 15 votes again to elect a new GOP House Speaker.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, selected by his party to be House speaker, can only afford to lose four Republican votes in the House floor election.

The two Texas holdouts, combined with a handful of other members who have vowed to vote against Rep. Steve Scalise, could delay the selection of the next House speaker.

The vote of the Republican Conference only intensified the political crisis in Washington, as it appears the House of Representatives will be deadlocked for days, if not weeks, in selecting another presiding officer.

A majority of Republicans picked Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise as their nominee to be House Speaker behind closed doors on Wednesday.

The two Texas holdouts, combined with a handful of others who have vowed to vote against Rep. Steve Scalise, could delay the selection of the next House speaker.