Create a debt commission, a Bipartisan Debt Commission and get at the roots of our spending problem. That takes courage. And republicans ought to support somebody with that kind of courage. Now hes not only focused on one thing. I dont know anybody thats done more to highlight and talk about the border disaster thats underway right now as we speak. I had the privilege of serving here when jay johnson was secretary of homeland security. I have a very high opinion of jay johnson. I think hes wasnt of the finest Public Servants i have ever met. He was asked define what was a crisis on the southern border. Any time you have more than a thousand illegal entries a day, you have a crisis. We have 10 or 11 times that every single day. And in that tide of humanity thats coming across, theres a boat load of fentanyl coming to kill Tens Of Thousands of all of our constituents. There are Human Traffickers who are take ing advantage of young men and young women and frankly predators in our own country and they are bringing them across. Not by the tens or the 20s or the dozens, but i by the hundreds and the thousands. There are amongst that flow of people, people that wish us will. People who are not fleeing from oppression, people who are terrorists or criminals that are coming into our country for no good reason. Now that is not an immigration problem, thats a Border Security problem. They are not the same thing. We can debate immigration. Thats a worthy debate. We should never have to debate Border Security. Nobody has highlighted that issue like my friend jim jordan. Nobody has done more as a Committee Chairman to move legislation that would meaningfully deal with this problem. And this, my friends, on both sides of the aisle, but with all due respect particularly this administration, need to look at this. You need to look at this had seriously. Dont confuse it with immigration. We arent going to have Immigration Reform until we have Border Security. This has been the number one champion of that. Finally, i want to talk about something that can bring us together. There are a lot of things we disagree on. Most of us do not disagree about the security of the state of israel. All of us, on both sides of the ailes, reacted with horror and with deep sympathy and with legitimate outrage at the crime that was perpetrated against the people of israel in the last week. All of us. All of us know that they are within their rights to respond forcefully swiftly to defend their people and punish those who brought that upon them. [ applause ] so in a moment of crisis, and we are in a moment of crisis, we should come together and act. We know we cant do that without the spr the house. Now its a narrow majority, but my friends and are in the majority. We need to produce a speaker. We have a candidate who we know where he will stand on issues important. We know where hes going to stand on spending because its where hes always stood. Its not like hes changed over the course of his career. I know what hes going to do on the border. I have seen what his committee produced. Its not just money. Its policy and change to provide security for the American People. And finally, and i say this on a bipartisan basis, i know he will stand up for israel, and i know in that area, we can come together. That crisis is on us now. We may get a request almost any time to act. We need to be able to act. My friend will act on that crisis. Hes shown it his whole career. Its with a great deal of pride that i have the privilege of nominating my friend, our chairman to the judiciary committee, but a person whose principles you know, whose actions you can trust, and who in a time of crisis will respond with the leadership we need. Jim jordan. [ applause ] the chair now recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. Aguilar. Mr. Speaker, i rise today at the direction of the House Democratic caucus to place into nomination for the position of speaker of the House Of Representatives the Honorable Hah Keep Jeffries of new york. Here we are again, mr. Speaker. I promise to make these speeches shorter if we get closer to ament compromise, but im not certain that thats going to happen at this moment. While the republican candidate for speak er is making latenigt bathroom deals to secure the gavel, leader jeffries has once again extended the hand of bipartisanship for a path forward. One thing was very clear yesterday. The vote total. 220, 212 to 200. Leader jeffries has the support to be speaker that this country needs. Mr. Speaker, 212200, no amount of election denying is going to take away from those vote totals. We shouldnt be surprised at the vote count. I noted yesterday the legislative acumen of the gentleman from ohio. Would it surprise anyone that in addition to not passing a single piece of legislation, hes never put a put a piece of legislation thats made it to a committee. The Speaker Of The House must be a legislator. The gentleman from ohio falls short in that regard. He supports an extreme agenda and is hell bent on banning abortion nationwide. Gutting medicare, gutting social security, and giving cover to january 6th attackers. Those arent the values that we share. If we dont see a speaker elected in this round, theres going to be another candidate and another internal republican conference vote and a Secret Ballot and the country cant afford more delays and more chaos. 15 days should be enough. House democrats are united on this path forward. Were united behind Hakeem Jeffries, united to put people over politics, united to lower costs, create betterpaying jobs, build safer communities, and defend democracy. Once again, were coming together to achieve this common goal and that is to make Hakeem Jeffries speaker of the House Of Representatives. Almost, mr. Speaker pro tem. Hakeem jeffries has done what we havent seen from the other side of the ailes, and that is to keep a caucus united. When extreme maga republicans vowed to send our country into a devastating default, it was leader jeffries who led House Democrats to reject the extremism and keep the government open. We have the vote totals to back that up. It has been Leader Jeffreys and House Democrat who is have shown a willingness and conviction to keep our promise to deliver for american families. It will be Hakeem Jeffries who will move our body and our country forward on a bipartisan path. Who on the other side of the aisle will take yes for an answer and work with us to achieve three common goals. My colleague and good friend from oklahoma mentioned one of them. Supporting assistance to israel, but what he left out was assistance to ukraine and our National Security objectives. Second, above all else, we must commit to keep this government open and functioning. And finally, we need to put this body on a bipartisan path to achieve real results for the american public. That is what we were set to do. Thats what we need to do. Thats why Hakeem Jeffries is the leader we need at this time to lead this chamber. Id like to nominate Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker Of The House. I yield back. No further nominations, the clerk will now call the role. Adams . Jeffries . Jordan. Aguilar. Jeffries. Alford, jordan. Allen . Jordan. Allred . Jeffries. Amaday . Jordan. Armstrong . Jordan. Arrington . Jordan. Auchincloss . Jeffries. Babbin . Jordan. Bacon . Mccarthy. With that vote from House Republican don bacon in favor of Kevin Mccarthy, which is essentially a no vote for jim jordan, we start to take note of the votes against jim jordan. Remember, he can only afford three House Republicans voting against him. We have a few in the bs that were going to keep an eye on. The next one that were going to keep an is buchanan of florida. He voted for jordan yesterday, but he might flip and peel away. Also ken buck of colorado. Those are the ones were keeping an eye on in the bs. We anticipate that Congressman Jordan will not be able to get the 217 votes he needs today. Is it 217 . 217. He can only afford to lose three because one democrat is missing. He cant lose more than three. Three against him is fine. Four is not. Lets listen in to Pay Attention to is buchanan, which comes in a few votes. Buchanan of florida voted for jordan yesterday, but we opportunity there are going to be a few republicans who voted for jordan yesterday in a show of spirit, but now are going to start voting against him. Hes going to start to lose votes in this second ballot. Lets listen in. Buchanan and buck are the next two that were really having ourer ears peeled for. Lets listen in. Boebert . Jordan. Bonamici . Jeffries. Bosse . Jordan. Beauman . Jeffries. Boyle of pennsylvania . Jeffries. Brown . Jeffries. Brownlee . Jeffries. Buchanan . Donalds. Buck . Emmr. All right. So that is three no votes essentially for jim jordan from House Republicans because we have don bacon of nebraska voting for mccarthy and we have buchanan of florida voting for donalds, his fellow floridian and buck voting for tom. Thats three no votes. He lost a vote because buchanan voted for jim jordan yesterday. So again, this is as of now, worse for him than it was yesterday. He could still pick up votes, its possible that people who voted against him yesterday will vote for him. None of these votes are final until the comes down. People change their votes even after they have et voted no, they might change to yes. They could change to no. But as of right now, if i were jim jordan, i would be feeling worse. The next names were going to be looking for in the cs are chavez from oregon. She voted for mccarthy yesterday. Shes in a biden district. A lot of republicans in biden districts think that jordan is just a little too toxic for their voters. And then lets listen in to see what Congresswoman Chavez has to say. Cartwright . Jeffries. Case yb. . Jeffries. Casten . Jeffries. Castro of florida. Jeffries. Castro of texas . Jeffrjeffries. Chavez . Mccarthy. There you have it. Assuming no one will switch their votes, with that fourth vote against him has lost the speakership. Hes now lost four with the caveat that people switch their votes, but as of right now, if i were jim jordan, hes doing worse than yesterday. Well be looking next at congressman of new york and congressman of diazbalart. Kasie hunt, once again, im confused why he felt the need to call the vote given did not have the 217 votes sewn up. Yet in show of force, he decided he wanted to force the issue. I just remind myself of the confusion about whats going on in the house. I have covered it for decades, and we have never seen this before. Were just in territory that is hard to understand. Its hard to explain. The people involved dont actually know whats going on right now. And so we just have to follow along with it as they are and take it as it comes. I think the strategy that jordan was using, people have called him a bully. They say his tactics are bullying. And making a public show is one way to do that. Its basically forcing people to put their money where their mouth is. Put on the record where they are. Kevin mccarthy, obviously, found this strategy to be effective for him in the end. He wore people down. Mccarthy has been in jordans camp and encouraging to go to the floor and keep going and keep going until the opposition wears down. But Kevin Mccarthy never phased what it looks like jordan is about to face here, which is that every time Kevin Mccarthy took another vote, it was the same or better than the vote before. Until he only had a handful of holdouts. This is worse for jordan. So suddenly, there are conversations going on about possibly trying to empower Patrick Mchenry, who is viewed as something of a consensus pick, somebody that there are conversations going on among democrats about what to do to try to get the House Of Representatives to a place where they can pass aid to israel, aid to ukraine, keep the government open past thanksgiving, and just do the very basic things of governance. Thats part of a live conversation today. So i dont blame people for being confused. Its an odd maneuver by jordan to force these votes when hes potentially even less popular today than yesterday. He says its his nature to be a fighter. And after one round, he probably figured he had to show he needed another round. But what we were talking about Kevin Mccarthy, what he had im sorry to interrupt. I want to listen to the ds coming up. Desonya . Jeffries. Sdel zeldon. Diazbalart . Scalise. Sos thats six votes from House Republicans against jim jordan. This is worse for jim jordan than it did yesterday. Were going to hear from Congressman Jake Elsie of texas in a second. And he did not vote for jordan either yesterday. Lets listen in. Edwards . Jordan. Ellzey . Mike garth see kwa. Garcia. Thats a 7th vote against jim jordan. What i was saying about the difference between Kevin Mccarthy and jordan is that mccarthy had a lot of built up good will. He spent years fundraising for people, Recruiting People to run for congress, negotiating with people, putting people on committees and there was a sense of loyalty to mccarthy that wasnt Strong Enough the second time, but there was that sense this he could go many rounds and wear people down. With jordan, it worked in the other direction. We have buchanan of florida, which is a flip from tuesday. And youre going to see more flips from people who feel that if hes going to lose, im not going to take ta political risk, particularly if youre among those more moderate republicans. Yesterday he lost a half dozen of them. Woolsey if he loses more today. Let me bring in former congressman adam kinzinger. Congressman, before i invite you to talk about jordan, i wonder what you think about the passionate speech you heard from congressman tom cole in which he praised Congressman Jordan as a man of ethics and principle. He called him had a man of integrity. Is that the jim jordan you know . No, its not. It was disappointing becauses i know tom cole well. Hes an institutionalist, a pretty normal guy. Not sure why he took up the mantle in nominating jim jordan, because he doesnt like jim jordan unless something changed in the last year. It was disappoint ing to me, bu it was not as bad as calling jim jordan the moses of our time. So at least there wasnt that in that process. So this is an interesting day. I was remembering something that i had forgotn. When i was elected as a freshman, i was the nominator, i no nominated jim jordan for the Republican Study Committee for that position. Very quickly i resigned. Its amaze og to watch how far hes fallenen. Somebody earlier was talking about his lack of good will built up. This is a guy thats worked against everybody on the floor there at one point or the another to defeat them in a primary or make sure their bills dont get passed. So im pretty amazed hes only lost 20 and im shocked hes doing the second round. Were about to hear another no. Mike garcia . Jordan. Jeffries. Garcia of illinois . Jeffries. Fwagarcia of texas . Jeffries. Jimenez . Mccar thi. Were going to listen in to see who who Congressman Gonzales votes for. Gomez . Jeffries. Tony gonzales . Scalise. 11 votes against Congressman Jordan. Hes doing worse now than he did yesterday. Let me throw it to dana bash. As we continue to listen, he is doing worse. And what is noteworthy is when you look back at the only other time we have covered anything close to this, which is in january when Kevin Mccarthy did this 15 times, he didnt go down. He didnt get worse. He got better or staid the same. And that is certainly not where jim jordan is right now. So what is happening on the house floor right now, as the reality is there, jim jordan will not become speaker in this vote, it is whats next. We had been talking about these very real conversations going on about giving Patrick Mchenry, the temporary speaker, more power. And as these conversations have become more and more public, i am told that the opposition, particularly from the right inside the conference, has become more loud, stronger, and i had just one text from somebody who wants this to happen eventually, who said we should be cautious because timing is everything in politics. Forgive me, im outside the capitol. Theres Law Enforcement going behind me. But the timing is everything in politics and the timing may not be right yet for that to happen. The reason is because the House Republicans are quite split on this because republicans, in order to give mchenry more power, in order to get the basic business of functions of the government done, they will need democratic support. And that is a very divisive notion inside the House Republican conference. Yeah. The idea that you would have the majority in the house and then have essentially a Coalition Government with dem