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Jim Jordan loses 3rd vote for House speaker; GOP opposition grows to 25 reps (www.usatoday.com)
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Round 1: 200 votes for Jordan

Round 2: 199 votes for Jordan

Round 3: 194 votes for Jordan

Additional detractors this round:

Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): Jordan round 2, McHenry round 3

Tom Kean Jr. (R-NY): Jordan round 2, McCarthy round 3

Marc Molinaro (R-NY): Jordan round 2, Zeldin round 3

Other GOP changes:

Wesley Hunt (R-TX): Jordan round 2, absent round 3

Derrick Van Orden (R-WI): Jordan round 2, absent round 3

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[–] Sanity_in_Moderation@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're doing it on purpose. There was a report a few days ago that outlined a plan to do exactly this. It will continue to get worse for him.

[–] appel@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What I don't get is if we know about this plan, surely gymbo must know as well. So why not just call it quits? Does he like to be humiliated? Is this some sort of fetish for him?

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The goal of to whip, convince, strong arm into submission.

[–] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Thus the Disgruntled Henchmen call-center calls to the “nay” voters.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Fucking Nazi Treason shitheads are going to Nazi shithead

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago

Having just sat through a week of committee meetings where all the parties knew a tender was going to fail, yet we all continued with the meeting like everything wasn't already decided.. humans are a silly species.