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FOURTEENTH vote for Speaker of the House
More than 50% must agree for a Speaker to be chosen.

Everyone showed up for this vote.
The  previously missing ones
(Ken Buck and Wesley Hunt) have returned to the floor.

432 people on the floor, but because two people voted as "present", their votes don't count as votes for people.

In this fourteenth round, 432 votes were cast for people, 
so the majority threshold needed for this round was 217.

No nominee received more than half the votes cast for people, so nobody elected.

People formally nominated for this 14th vote:
Republican Kevin McCarthy
Democrat Hakeem Jeffries
Nobody else was formally nominated in the 14th round.

Results of fourteenth vote:

216 votes - Republican Kevin McCarthy

212 votes - Democrat Hakeem Jeffries

2 votes for Jim Jordan (Republican from Ohio)
. **** (but Jordan voted for McCarthy)
-Those who voted for Jordan:
-Andy Biggs (AZ)
-Bob Good (VA)

2 votes for Andy Biggs (Republican from Arizona)
. **** (but Biggs voted for Jordan)
-Eli Crane (AZ)
-Matt Rosendale (Montana)


2 votes as "present"
-Lauren Boebert (CO)
-Matt Gaetz (FL)


432 voted for people
2 did voted as "present".
_______________
434 total members-elect

 

_________________

There was a motion to adjourn, which lost.
It is after midnight Eastern Time.  They are now voting on the FIFTEENTH vote.

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FIFTEENTH vote for Speaker of the House
More than 50% must agree for a Speaker to be chosen.
Everyone showed up for this vote.

People formally nominated for this fifteenth vote:
Republican Kevin McCarthy
Democrat Hakeem Jeffries
Nobody else was formally nominated in this 15th round.

Results of fifteenth vote:
216 votes - Republican Kevin McCarthy
212 votes - Democrat Hakeem Jeffries

6 votes as "present"
Biggs, Boebert, Crane, Gaetz, Good, Rosendale.

In this fourteenth round, 428 votes were cast for people, 
and six people voted as "present".
so the majority threshold needed for this round was 214.

438 voted for people
6 voted as "present".
_______________
434 total members-elect

McCarthy elected.

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This has to be the most pathetic thing I have EVER seen. Fifteen tries to win something that you obviously weren't meant to win. What a clown. And Boebert and Gaetz are going to further make him look like a clown as their little caucus holds all the true power. He'll get the nice office and painting and that'll be it. 

Congrats to Hakeem Jeffries--the true Speaker of the House in my eyes. 

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(Jeffries gets to speak before McCarthy) Ha!

Jeffries is Pelosi's replacement as Democrat leader, so he gets to speak first, and then turn the gavel over to McCarthy.

Democrat Hakeem Jeffries is giving a formal speech on the House Floor at the podium.  As the Minority Leader but wow, it sounds like a victory speech!
Excellent speech!  Really great speech!  I'll post it as soon as it's up.  Very inspiring!
He just gave an alphabetical list of what the Democrats will do.

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This the end of the speech with the alphabet...
 

Jeffries: "House Democrats will always put. . .
American values over autocracy
Benevolence over bigotry
The Constitution over the cult
Democracy over demagogues
Economic opportunity over extremism
Freedom over fascism
Governing over gaslighting
Hopefulness over hatred
Inclusion over isolation
Justice over judicial overreach
Knowledge over kangaroo courts
Liberty over limitation
Maturity over Mar-A-Lago
Normalcy over negativity
Opportunity over obstruction
People over politics
Quality of life issues over QAnon
Reason over racism 
Substance over slander
Triumph over tyranny
Understanding over ugliness
Voting rights over voter suppression
Working families over the well-connected
Xennials over xenophobia
'Yes We Can' over 'You can't do it,' and
Zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation"

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During each voting round, the Clerk calls the roll alphabetically of everyone to ask them to state their vote. Then after the end of the alphabet, the Clerk says the names of anyone who didn't reply the first time, to ask them to state their vote.  Then here is a pause given to allow anyone to change their vote.



This was during the 14th round, Gaetz remained silent when his name was called the first time. When the Clerk finished the alphabet and asked for those who hadn't spoken up, she called Gaetz's name and he said "PRESENT".    Then Kevin McCarthy walked up to Gaetz on the floor to try to get him to change his vote and he wouldn't, and McCarthy started to walk back to his own seat, but then walked back over to Gaetz again.  During this, various people congregated around Gaetz and there was a near-brawl, which is what that tweeted AP image is taken from.

During speaker-selection, multiple cameras are allowed on the floor, so in various clips of the scene from different sources, you can see different camera angles/views of the scene.


Here is the entire sequence:

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Here is just the part where Rogers confronts Gaetz and Hudson pulled him off.  This is a clear view from a different camera:
 

 

You asked what time
Using the timestamp of the footage on c-span.org ...
Gaetz said "Present" at 10:58pm Eastern time Friday Jan 6.
Hudson pulled Rogers away (grabbed him and put his hand on his mouth) at 11:01 pm.

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