House Majority Leader Steve Scalise has to quickly rescue his floundering bid for speaker. That effort will start now at the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol basement. But it’s a huge challenge with very little time to do it.
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October 12, 2023
What Scalise will tell House Republicans
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Scalise's epic struggle to become speaker
Scalise apparently is trying to grind his way to 217. After winning the GOP speaker nomination on Wednesday — barely — Scalise dispatched a wave of surrogates to call and lobby members who had been backing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
Scalise's uphill battle
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