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Republicans nominate Steve Scalise to be House speaker
by LiSa maSCaRo and
KEVin FREKinG
associated Press
WaSHinGton (aP) — Re-
publicans nominated Rep.
Steve Scalise on Wednes-
day to be the next House
speaker but struggled to
quickly unite their deeply
divided majority and elect
the conservative in a pub-
lic floor vote after the his-
toric ousting of Rep. Kevin
McCarthy from the job.
In private balloting at the
Capitol, House Repub-
licans narrowly pushed
aside Ohio Rep. Jim Jor-
dan, the firebrand Judici-
ary Committee chairman,
in favor of Scalise, the
current majority leader.
The Louisiana congress-
man, who is battling blood
cancer, is seen as a hero
to some after surviving a
shooting on lawmakers at
a congressional baseball
game practice in 2017.
"We have a lot of work to
do," Scalise said afterward.
majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks after a closed-door meeting of House Republicans during which he was chosen as
Continued on Page 2 candidate for Speaker of the House on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, oct. 11, 2023 in Washington.
associated Press
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