After two House Republican Conference meetings today (without phones allowed), countless individual Member calls and meetings, hundreds of press and X hits, and no votes on the floor, House Republicans finished the day no closer to electing a Speaker of the House than when they started.  Amidst this backdrop, Steve Scalise announced to the Conference […]

The House Republican nominating conference for Speaker of the House began just after 10:00 a.m. this morning.  The first order of business was consideration of a Chip Roy amendment to Conference rules requiring that the Speaker-nominee reach 218 votes in Conference before advancing to the House floor.  This amendment was widely viewed as an obstacle […]