The House will hold a vote for speaker later Thursday to give Republican nominee Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio a third shot at the gavel as he struggles to convince nearly two dozen holdouts to back him.
The stalemate, now in its third week, has empowered Democrats in the minority to ambitiously eye a deal to elect a speaker with some frustrated Republicans who would give them more power and perhaps an equal say over the agenda.
A sizable group of House Republicans quickly rejected a backup plan to elect Rep. Patrick McHenry to the role of temporary speaker. Mr. McHenry, of North Carolina, was appointed to serve as emergency speaker after Mr. McCarthy’s ouster but the rules only allow him to gavel in and out of session and hold the election for a permanent speaker.
A small band of moderate Republicans have threatened to work with Democrats on such a plan as the days drag on with no speaker and a House that has been unable to function.“We are willing to take responsibility for moving things forward on a bipartisan path,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat, said. “But obviously, if our votes are needed, we’re going to be substantively involved in the definition of what the agenda is.
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