WASHINGTON ― A series of meetings this week has seemingly failed to move House Republicans any closer to settling on a plan to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House.
Meanwhile, without a speaker, the House can’t even perform the routine task of passing a symbolic resolution supporting Israel, much less pass legislation providing material support to Israel or Ukraine. “There’s vagaries. There’s ‘he’s been here too long,’ there’s ‘my constituents want Jim Jordan,’” Rep. Dan Mueser said, noting that Jordan has indicated he backs Scalise.
Scalise painted the latest meeting in a positive light, as another step toward eventually his election to speaker and the reopening of the House floor for business.“We’re going to be talking some more as a smaller group but a cross-section representing every swath of our conference,” he said.