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The No. 2 Republican and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee appear to be in the strongest positions in the early stages of the sprint to choose a new speaker.
As the “people’s house” searches for a new speaker, one challenge is that the need for leadership is paired with pressure from an anti-establishment Republican base “more willing to blow up the place,” as one analyst puts it.
Rep. Jim Jordan was the first Republican to announce a bid to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker Wednesday, but he wasn't in the race alone for long. House Majority...
While Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, rejected calls from hardliners to challenge Kevin McCarthy for the speakership in January, it had been widely expected he would run for the position in the case that McCarthy dropped out.
WASHINGTON – In the early skirmishing for the top job in the U.S. House of Representatives, the fault lines between the two announced candidates, Louisiana's Steve Scalise and Ohio's Jim