# House Speaker Contest **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 12, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770 "2022-11-12T00:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 84
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1661 "2023-01-06T19:18:45Z")
I think that’s three others now (Boebert, Crane, and I think Biggs). If Gaetz and Good stay no, it’s done. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1662 "2023-01-06T19:19:27Z")
No flip-backs this time. These are the remaining 7: Biggs, Boebert, Crane, Gaetz, Good, Harris, Rosendale. This round none of them flipped (through Crane). Gaetz is a firm “no” too, so no progress this round. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1663 "2023-01-06T19:20:55Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Something that gets lost in how much of a circus the entire party (really the entire government and system of governance) is: given what their goals are, these lunatics are several standard deviations above the norm in terms of being effective at their jobs as representatives. I don’t think they have any wish to be representatives. I think they want to be inquisitors, given how much they go on about investigating Hunter, his laptop, and the entire “Biden crime family.” They seem to have no interest in representing their constituents in policy debates; just in nailing Biden _et al_. for something. It’s payback time for what the Democrats did to Trump, in other words. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1664 "2023-01-06T19:26:43Z")
Sounds like maybe Harris flipped? Wonder what he got… ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1665 "2023-01-06T19:26:51Z")
Harris, one of the holdouts, just voted for McCarthy, so there is some movement. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1666 "2023-01-06T19:30:14Z")
Well, of course, from your perspective. From the perspective of all the sickos making the $5 and $10 donations, these people are heroes. It’s extremely bleak. I think people are ignoring what it signals for the future. People always talk about how to “move the party” one direction or another. This is how you do it. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1667 "2023-01-06T19:34:04Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > Well, of course, from your perspective. From the perspective of all the sickos making the $5 and $10 donations, these people are heroes. Right. Their followers feel their job is “fighting”. And those followers feel that the purpose of fighting is NOT to achieve something, but to hurt your adversary in a way that distresses him more than your own injuries distress you. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1668 "2023-01-06T19:46:14Z")
Who just voted for Jeffries that got a huge round of applause? ---
**Author:** ![MulderMuffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldermuffin/32/2862_2.png) [@MulderMuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MulderMuffin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1669 "2023-01-06T19:47:23Z")
Do you think the rallying of the holdouts around Jordan is a signal that they’d actually vote for him if McCarthy stepped aside? Saying, in effect, this could all be over if McCarthy stopped being stubborn, but WE are going to be stubborn forever. Or is it just more trolling? > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Who just voted for Jeffries that got a huge round of applause? The Democrat who missed the vote earlier due to surgery. He dragged himself in. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1670 "2023-01-06T19:48:22Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Who just voted for Jeffries that got a huge round of applause? Trone. He had surgery this morning (he was in a sling so on his shoulder?) and he came back to vote. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1671 "2023-01-06T19:54:50Z")
> [@Max\_S](#): > > Ben Cline missed this one, I think. nevermind about that ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1672 "2023-01-06T19:55:51Z")
What are we up to now, alphabet-wise? I can see the tally on CNN, but the audio has cut to Biden’s speech for the January 6 heroes. Going by the numbers, it must be at or very close to the end. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1673 "2023-01-06T19:56:29Z")
Just finished. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![MulderMuffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldermuffin/32/2862_2.png) [@MulderMuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MulderMuffin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1674 "2023-01-06T19:56:46Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > What are we up to now, alphabet-wise? I can see the tally on CNN, but the audio has cut to Biden’s speech for the January 6 heroes. Going by the numbers, it must be at or very close to the end. The vote is over for the 13th round. Just doing the official tally now. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1675 "2023-01-06T19:57:06Z")
Thanks, folks. Much appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1676 "2023-01-06T19:57:41Z")
McCarthy and Jeffries picked up 1 this time, So 214 for McCarthy, 212 for Jeffries and 6 for Jordan. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1677 "2023-01-06T19:59:46Z")
I haven’t kept up with all the proceedings today. Does that mean that 2 McCarthy Republicans are out of town? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1678 "2023-01-06T20:00:04Z")
From what the commentator said, Hunt is the other non attendee besides Buck. If they get those two back, it’ll increase the required vote to 218, whereas it was 217 for the last vote. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1679 "2023-01-06T20:01:02Z")
Yes, 2 out of town. Trone, for the Democrats, missed the earlier proceedings today for a previously scheduled surgery but got to the House chambers in time for the 13th vote. In hospital socks and slippers, no less. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770/1680 "2023-01-06T20:01:19Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > If they get those two back, it’ll increase the required vote to 218, whereas it was 217 for the last vote. It will increase it to 218 but both of them will vote for McCarthy so he gains two with the magic number only increasing by one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770.md?page=83) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-speaker-contest/974770.md?page=85)