Republicans were struggling to restart their effort to pick a new leader for the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday after party infighting led nominee Steve Scalise to withdraw from the race for speaker.
As the House entered its 10th day without a leader, Republicans were still trying to decide how to conduct a second internal election to choose a new nominee. Many expected that pick to be House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, whom Scalise had bested in a secret ballot on Wednesday.
"We were elected for a reason, but we are reversing an election because we can't even find a speaker," he added. "That is not what the American people voted for in 2022." "I'm grappling with that," Bacon told reporters. "We had five individuals today who said they would only vote for Jim and not Steve. So, many of us ... feel that's rewarding bad behavior, if we do that."Without a speaker, the House remained in state of paralysis despite increasingly urgent calls for action to help Israel in its war against Hamas and to avoid a possible federal government shutdown after current funding expires on Nov. 17.
Scalise's withdrawal followed days of closed-door stalemate that prompted some Republicans to demand that the election be taken to the House floor.
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