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Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) second failed Speaker bid is generating more pressure for the House to take up a resolution to expand the powers of the House Speaker pro temp. Even ahead of Jordan’s loss, fellow Ohio Republican Rep. David Joyce said he would introduce a resolution to formally install Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) as…
Lawmakers increasingly see their stand-in speaker as a long term solution to return the House to order
The bowtie-wearing Republican has a far better reputation than Jim Jordan among House Democrats, who say he is "reasonable" and "a listener"
Jim Jordan's bid to be speaker fell short on his first ballot Tuesday. Two long-shot ways to end the gridlock are getting increased attention as the dysfunction intensifies.
Harvard’s Stephen Walt tweet-quoted W.H. Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939” this weekend, “Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return,” and Commentary’s John Podhoretz finds it fitting for a prof infamous for disfavoring Israel.