Speaker Battle News Today

speaker after four days and 15 rounds of voting. this was the moment that the longest speaker contest in 164 years came to a close. [ cheers ] but before the house selected its new speaker, the cameras captured a stunning political soap opera playing out on the house floor just before midnight. mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes locked up in round 14, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the end of the ballot process to vote present even though mccarthy neede...

432 elected congressmen or calling them congressmen-elect. he needs three more to close the deal. republicans are hoping at 10:00 p.m. time when they reconvene, he will have the three. that is a stubborn six that is left over. lets get the details from chad pergram with the very latest. chad? >> neil, the speakership is a game of inches. today for the first time since tuesday, kevin mccarthy finally showed he was gaining ground towards securing the votes to become speaker. >> i think y...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene threatened to introduce a motion to remove Johnson as speaker if he brought the bill for Ukraine up for a vote.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) offered a rare insight into the Republican campaign to stop his speaker bid in October following the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced his intention to continue his pursuit of the House speakership on Friday, adding that he's been having discussions with the 22 Republican defectors who voted against him.

Eva, i woke up this morning and asked myself did that really happen? and i guess yes it did. this is a top five episode of "as the gavel turns" i think. what about kevin mccarthy, what did he have to give up to get these holdouts in order to finally win this speaker battle? and will that come back to haunt him? >> reporter: well, jim, you are certainly right. it has been quite the week up here on capitol hill. listen, it will now only require one vote, one member to trigger a vote to potentially...

California, eric bowman will resign. he was accused by ten political activists and staff members of engaging in unwanted touching, making crude comments, other lewd acts. so it raises the question, whatever happened to the congressional hush fund? this paid to settle allegations of sexual abuse by members of congress and used your taxpayer money to do it. a new bill is underway that would lift that veil of secrecy and could be one of nancy pelosis first tests if she wins her speaker battle. here...