OnPolitics: What happens next for House speaker?
Hi OnPolitics readers! After the historic House vote to remove Kevin McCarthy from his role as speaker of the House, you may be wondering — what's next?
Paste BN reporter Ken Tran explains what to expect:
📅 House Republicans will hold a closed-door candidate forum Tuesday to discuss potential nominees. House members will return Wednesday for the expected speaker election.
The task ahead: "McCarthy's ouster, which has left the House paralyzed without a successor, leaves the next speaker with an enormous task: uniting the deeply fractured House GOP conference," Tran writes.
👞 Who could step in? Among the names in the ring, Tran and Sudiksha Kochi write, are Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.; Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of the Judiciary Committee; Oklahoma Republican Rep. Kevin Hern, chair of the largest GOP caucus; and even Donald Trump (though that last name is unlikely, per Trump himself). Here's who they are.
"In the meantime, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., a key McCarthy ally, was chosen as acting speaker from a succession list McCarthy provided to the House clerk in January," Tran and Kochi write.
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