Republican party member Jim Jordan, left, and Steve Scalise made their pitches for the role of speaker of the US House of Representatives on Tuesday.Republican party member Jim Jordan, left, and Steve Scalise made their pitches for the role of speaker of the US House of Representatives on Tuesday.
“We’re going to go get this done tomorrow, and the House is going to get back to work,” Scalise told reporters after the candidate forum, which ran more than two hours. “We need to handle this inside the caucus and not go through what we did in January,” said Representative Ralph Norman, who opposed McCarthy at the time. McCarthy on Monday said he would take the job back if asked to by House Republicans, but on Tuesday told reporters, “I asked them please not to nominate me.”
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