House Republicans meet privately in search of speaker nominee
Staff members bring in food before Republicans meet to decide who to nominate to be the new House speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
| October 24, 2023 8:25 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three weeks now since the ouster of Kevin McCarthy, House Republicans are meeting privately Tuesday to try nominating a new House speaker to accomplish the seemingly impossible job of uniting a broken, bitter GOP majority and returning to the work of governing in Congress.
No candidate is expected to quickly emerge as the top choice among the hodge-podge list of mostly lesser-known congressmen for speaker, a powerful position second in line to the presidency...
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