Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) required a vote tonight to adjourn for the day.
This sought the United States House stopped working to pick a Speaker after 11 successive votes.
As reported previously this has actually not occurred in over 100 years.
This hasn’t occurred given that 1859.
HOUSE SPEAKER FIGHT GOES TO 10 TH VOTE, MOST SINCE PRE-CIVIL WAR
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 5, 2023
According to the Washington Post, “the last time a speaker election took more than one tally remained in 1923, when Speaker Frederick Gillett (R-Mass.) was reelected on the ninth tally.”
” But the longest speaker vote started on Dec. 3, 1855, when the 34 th Congress assembled,” the outlet included.
More from House.gov:
At the conclusion of the longest and most controversial Speaker election in House history, your house chose Representative Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts as its administering officer for the 34 th Congress (1855–1857). Sectional dispute over slavery and an increasing anti-immigrant state of mind in the country added to a poisoned and degrading political environment.
As an indication of the factionalism then existing in your house, more than 21 people at first contended for the Speaker’s post when the Members initially collected in December,1855 After 2 months and 133 tallies, your home lastly picked Representative Banks by a vote of 103 to 100 over Representative William Aiken of South Carolina. Banks, a member of both the nativist American (or “Know-Nothing”) Party and the Free Soil Party, served a term as Speaker prior to Democrats won control of the chamber in the 35 th Congress (1857–1859). Banks retired from your house to work as guv of Massachusetts.
If the vote passes your home will reconvene at midday on Friday.
UPDATE: The vote passed 219 to213 Congress will reconvene Friday at twelve noon.
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