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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise speaks with reporters after departing a House Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill. WASHINGTON — Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel.Next steps are uncertain as the House is essentially closed while Republicans try to elect a speaker after ousting Kevin McCarthy from the job.
“We’re going to get this done,” Scalise had said after an earlier closed-door meeting at the Capitol. The situation is not fully different from the start of the year, when McCarthy faced a similar backlash from a different group of But the math this time is even more daunting. Scalise, who is seen by some colleagues as hero for having survived a 2017 shooting on lawmakers at a congressional baseball game practice, won the closed-door Republican vote 113-99. But McCarthy, R-Calif.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, said the meetings had been marked by “emotional” objections to voting for Scalise.Some Republicans simply took their Chick-fil-A lunches to go.
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