Republicans spent Sunday morning largely trying to shine the best light on the contentious week that just ended, in which it took 15 votes to elect a House speaker, the longest such battle over that position since the ugly years before the Civil War
Republicans on Sunday defended their contentious process in choosing a House speaker as an example of democracy in action, following a chaotic week of negotiations and more than a dozen inconclusive votes.
Jordan compared the extra votes before Rep. Kevin McCarthy was elected early Saturday to extra innings or overtime in sports, adding to host Shannon Bream: “Whether it’s one vote or 15 votes, Kevin McCarthy is still speaker of the House.”throughout the negotiations and repeated votes, though his own name was briefly thrown in the mix for the position during the week.
“I’m not going to say there won’t be one person who tries to abuse that motion,” Comer said. McCarthy previously said he was “1,000 percent” confident he’d be speaker for a full two years,Roy, who was one of the first anti-McCarthy holdouts to flip after days of negotiations, also addressed the altercation on the House floor Friday night, in which Rep. Mike Rogers ,“When you saw some of the interactions there between Mike Rogers and Matt Gaetz, some of that is — we need a little of that.
He also apologized to his colleagues who may have been offended by his earlier comparison to terrorists, though he defended it as “a turn of phrase.” Crenshaw added: “It’s important to note the reason that the 200 were so upset was because we felt we’d already come to the agreement that we have now.”
“Don’t believe the happy talk that this was a healthy display of deliberative democracy. This was a power play,”“Matt Gaetz is a fraud,” Rep. Nancy Mace said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Every time he voted against Kevin McCarthy last week, he sent out a fundraising email. What you saw last week was a constitutional process diminished by those kinds of political actions.
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