Jim Jordan

Florida's Matt Gaetz nominated Jordan as Speaker after Jordan delivered a speech to support California's Kevin McCarthy.

“Our conference needs to recess and huddle and find someone or work out the next steps, but these continuous votes aren’t working for anyone,” said Donalds. “Maybe Jim Jordan is the right person for Speaker of the House because he is not beholden to the lobbyists and special interests who have corrupted this place and corrupted this nation under the leadership of both Republicans and Democrats.” He said that no Congress member currently has the 218 votes needed to secure the job. “But we do not have the tools or the leadership yet to stop the swamp from rolling over the American people. “Maybe the right person for the job of Speaker of the House isn’t someone who wants it so bad,” said Florida Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, was nominated Tuesday to serve as the next Speaker of the U.S.

Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan got it exactly right in his speech re-nominating Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House ahead of the second ballot Tuesday afternoon.

Not for the voters. Not for the country. Jordan took the high road; the saboteurs refused to join him.

For much of the last 16 years Republican Jim Jordan's combative, in-your-face style of politics made the former college wrestler a constant source of ...

But it also would have granted a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the United States illegally for years and had committed no serious crimes. He turned out to be right in an embarrassment to Boehner. In 2011, with a newly installed Republican majority in the House, Jordan made President Barack Obama's life miserable by demanding deep budget cuts opposed by Democrats. Jordan ignored pleas, including from the U.S. Twenty Republicans voted for Jordan - fewer than a tenth of those backing McCarthy, but enough to stop his progress. Senate for the next two years.

But Jordan nominated Kevin McCarthy. U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz nominated a close ally, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, for Speaker of the House. The Panhandle Republican ...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries went for Jordan. Unlike on the first vote, all votes that did not go for McCarthy or Democratic nominee U.S. It has appeared [unlikely](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/558112-report-no-sex-trafficking-charges-likely-against-matt-gaetz/) recently that the investigation will ever lead to charges. It also did not include Jordan, who supported McCarthy. Notably, that total did not include Gaetz, who supported U.S.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Tuesday said there was no chance that he would become House Speaker after lawmakers adjourned without electing a new leader, ...

[had teased that they had a candidate waiting in the wings](https://thehill.com/homenews/3795474-gop-lawmaker-teases-true-conservative-alternative-to-mccarthy-ahead-of-speaker-vote/) to throw their support behind. McCarthy and the group of his defectors had spent the week negotiating a deal to secure him the gavel. [The idea was met with skepticism by other Republicans](https://thehill.com/homenews/3796476-house-republican-calls-conservatives-opposing-mccarthy-childish/). But the Ohio Republican, who offered the nominating speech for McCarthy before the second round of voting, continued to support McCarthy. After the first round of voting, the opposition support for McCarthy was divided among Jordan, Rep. But 19 of the McCarthy detractors switched their support to Jordan in the second ballot and even picked up a 20th vote in the third round for Jordan.

Florida representative-elect Mike Waltz gives his take on the fight over Rep. Kevin McCarthy's possible House speakership on Tuesday's 'Special Report.

We have to get to antitrust. [Special Report](https://www.foxnews.com/shows/special-report)" to explain why some Republicans are not supporting Rep. Heck, tonight we were supposed to vote to rescind funding for the 87,000 IRS agents, but we can't get to that because we have a group that's pushing for someone who doesn't want the job. [BYRON DONALDS SETS HOUSE FLOOR ABUZZ BY SWITCHING VOTE FROM MCCARTHY TO JORDAN](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/byron-donalds-sets-house-floor-abuzz-switching-vote-mccarthy-jordan) We have to hold big tech accountable. Conservatives and moderates, which we also have to have many moderates who just won Biden districts, also support him and as Aishah just said, we can't get to our agenda, the reason we were elected into a majority, on China, on big tech, on border.

An upstate New York elections official becomes the latest in a long line of conservatives to perpetrate the very crime they claim is being done against ...

“If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world,” King George III is thought to have said upon learning of Washington’s resignation. Just as Washington didn’t really want to be president and did anyhow, the thinking goes, so this moment calls for Jordan to rise to the occasion. “He may not want it right now, but George Washington did not want to be president.