[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H9-H15]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



  The House met at noon, and was called to order by the Clerk.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the 
following prayer:
  Holy God, in these days of uncertainty and change, we turn to You who 
are the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Regardless of the 
circumstance, Lord, You are not just present but provisioning, 
supplying us all that we need to forge into and navigate the unknown 
ahead.
  Give us reason, then, to cling to faith and to trust Your guiding 
hand in this liminal period of our Chamber's leadership. Offer us the 
gift of perspective. Bring to our minds the upheaval taking place in 
countries like Ukraine. In the face of chaos, they yet remain resolute, 
ever committed to the defense of their country and the strength of 
their government, bound together and upheld by their faith that You 
will sustain them.
  How can we possibly succumb to our own disquiet and frustration when 
we reflect on the challenges governments around the world struggle to 
resolve in the name of democracy?
  Even as we seek to establish this new Congress, remind us that we 
have a building not constructed by human hands. In our momentary 
distress, may we never lose sight of Your divine hand that guides our 
own Nation.
  Call us to live this day in faith, if not by sight, and seek always 
to make it our goal to please You as we serve the Nation You have 
entrusted to us.
  We lean on You, our rock, and pray in the name of our sure redeemer.
  Amen.


                              the journal

  The CLERK. The Chair has examined the Journal of the last day's 
proceedings and announces to the House the approval thereof.
  Representatives-elect are invited to join in the Pledge of 
Allegiance.


                          Pledge of Allegiance

  The CLERK. The Representatives-elect and their guests will please 
remain standing and join in the Pledge of Allegiance.
  The CLERK led the Pledge of Allegiance as follows:

       I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of 
     America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation 
     under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.


                             Point of Order

  Ms. STEFANIK. Madam Clerk, I have a point of order that a quorum is 
not present.
  The CLERK. The gentlewoman makes a point of order that a quorum is 
not present. The Chair will count for quorum. The Chair counts 351 
Members. There is a quorum present.
  The question recurs upon the election of a Speaker. The tellers will 
please come forward to take their seats.

                              {time}  1215

  The CLERK. The Clerk recognizes the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. 
Gallagher).
  Mr. GALLAGHER. Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate the gentleman from 
California, Mr. Kevin McCarthy, for Speaker of the House.
  Mr. GALLAGHER. Let's all take a second, take a look around. I know 
people are getting frustrated. Take a look at this Chamber and realize 
how lucky we are to serve this country in Congress, how lucky we all 
are, Democrats and Republicans, to be citizens of the greatest country 
in the history of the world.
  I say that because I know last night people were frustrated, wanted 
to go to parties, take pictures with their families. Honestly, we find 
ourselves here in this Chamber for the second day. We know we have got 
work to do. But in some ways, there is no place I would rather be--with 
the possible exception of Lambeau Field on Sunday--no place I would 
rather be.
  But maybe, with the excitement, some of you haven't had an 
opportunity to check what is happening online. Let me fill you in on 
what is happening on Twitter, what the press is writing about. In some 
ways, they are salivating. There are headlines about the chaos, this 
and that. Yesterday, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle were 
tweeting their bags of popcorn that they had out. They love it. They 
are shouting for it. It is palpable.
  But I think my friends on the Democrat side misunderstand what is 
happening here. Sure, it looks messy, but democracy is messy. Democracy 
is messy by design. That is a feature, not a bug, of our system. We air 
it all out in the open for the American people to see. Because at the 
end of the day, the President is not in charge, the Supreme Court is 
not in charge, the Speaker of the House is not even in charge. The 
American people are in charge.

[[Page H10]]

  I am proud to be part of a party that welcomes debate, that invites 
different views, that isn't afraid of that.
  Now, I listened to some of my colleagues yesterday. Mr. Roy from 
Texas, my good friend, knows I respect his views. I have been his 
partner in anti-proxy voting crusades, pro-regular order crusades. I 
understand. I know that his intentions are pure. I know a lot of people 
are just frustrated with the way Congress works. He knows I believe 
that in my bones.
  But nobody has done more to lay out a plan for how we restore the 
basic functioning of this institution than Kevin McCarthy. Nobody has 
done that.
  Now, you may not have gotten everything you wanted. There are things 
I want that I know it is not possible to get done in this Congress. But 
Mr. McCarthy has gone above and beyond in terms of listening to people 
with concerns and laying out a plan for how we restore the basic 
functioning of the House of Representatives. Furthermore, I believe no 
one has done more to bring us into the majority than Kevin McCarthy.
  Listen, I wish we had a bigger majority. I wish we could do 
everything over the next 2 years. But the American people gave us an 
opportunity. They gave us, Republicans, an opportunity to inject some 
basic common sense into the Federal Government, to pull the emergency 
brake on a lot of the crazy we have seen in the last few years. They 
are asking us to do a job, and nobody has laid out a plan, a proactive 
policy agenda for the direction we want to take this country in more 
detail than Kevin McCarthy. You all had an opportunity to provide input 
into that plan.
  The irony of this current moment and this debate we are having is 
that on the big stuff we all agree; right? We want to secure the 
border. We don't want the executive branch to do everything through a 
pen and a phone.
  We want to work with our Democratic colleagues when it comes to 
standing up to our enemies abroad, right?
  There are basic things we know we need to do. It is time to get to 
work.
  So you might tweet out some more popcorn emojis. I get it. You might 
write your headlines. But what I see right now is energy, a tremendous 
amount of energy in this Republican Conference who want to do the work 
of the people.
  Mr. McCarthy is not asking you to endorse business as usual in the 
House. He has laid out a plan to renew the House of Representatives, 
and, once again, make it an institution where we can credibly look 
ourselves in the mirror and say we are working in the people's House.
  For that and many other reasons, I nominate Kevin McCarthy for 
Speaker of the House.
  The CLERK. The Clerk now recognizes the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Aguilar).
  Mr. AGUILAR. Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate Hakeem Jeffries as 
Speaker of the House.
  Madam Clerk, make no mistake, there is no frustration on our side. We 
are focused on serving the American people. In order to do that, we 
have to unite behind a Speaker.
  Democrats are united behind a Member who will prioritize putting 
better-paying jobs in industries of the future. Growing up in a 
working-class family, he knows that a good-paying job and a good 
education are key to economic mobility. He knows that to tackle the 
affordability crisis in this country, we need to make sure that 
everybody gets paid enough to live and work in any ZIP Code. He knows 
that by creating these jobs, we can once again make it in America.
  Madam Clerk, as chair of the Democratic Caucus, I am directed by vote 
of that Caucus to present for election to the 118th Congress the 
Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, Representative-elect for the State of New 
York, for the office of Speaker.
  The CLERK. The Clerk now recognizes the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Roy).
  Mr. ROY. Madam Clerk, yesterday, my first vote for Speaker of the 
House was for Byron Donalds. Today, I am rising to nominate Byron 
Donalds for Speaker of the House of Representatives.
  Byron is a dear friend, a solid conservative, but most importantly, a 
family man who loves dearly his wife, Erika, his three children, has a 
proven track record as a businessman, public service in the Florida 
legislature, and now as a Member of the United States Congress.

  Now, here we are, and for the first time in history, there have been 
two Black Americans placed into the nomination for Speaker of the 
House. However, we do not seek to judge people by the color of their 
skin but rather the content of their character.
  Byron Donalds is a good man raised by a single mom who moved past 
adversity, became a Christian man at the age of 21, and has devoted his 
life to advancing the cause for his family and for this country. He has 
done it admirably.
  But there is an important reason for nominating Byron, and that is 
that this country needs a change. This country needs leadership that 
does not reflect this city, this town that is badly broken.
  The House of Representatives is the people's House. It represents the 
entirety of our country, and we each represent some 750,000 people. We 
come here, and here we sit in a room filled with those Representatives. 
My friend, Mr. Gallagher--and he is my friend, and I agree with him on 
many things, and I agree with almost everything that he was talking 
about. But we should be in here having this kind of a conversation with 
this many people in the room about Ukraine, and we should debate the 
merits and we should debate the ups and downs being involved. We should 
debate the $45 billion. We should debate whether it should be more or 
less. We should debate whether it should be paid for. We should debate 
what result we should demand. The only way you are going to get that is 
if you change the rules and have the leadership to advance the rules to 
make sure we can do that.
  Now, we have had a conversation for 2 months to try to advance the 
ball, and we have had success in doing that, but we are not there. We 
are not at the place where we need to be to guarantee that we are going 
to be able to stand up in the face of the swamp that continues to step 
over the American people on a daily basis and spend money we don't have 
and continues to leave our borders open and continues to fund 
bureaucrats that are stepping over the freedoms of the American people. 
Byron will stand up and do that. Byron has a track record of doing 
that.
  Importantly, when we are sitting here today and we continue this 
debate and we then have a vote, I just ask my friends on this side of 
the aisle, do you think that the American people support the status 
quo? Yes or no.
  Do you think that the American people want us to continue down the 
road of what we have been doing, with the leadership that is currently 
in place, has been in place? Do you think they want us to continue down 
that path?
  The argument that I would make is that they want a new face, new 
vision, new leadership, and I believe that face, vision, and new 
leadership is Byron Donalds. I am proud to put his name into 
nomination.
  The CLERK. The Reading Clerk will now call the roll.
  The tellers having taken their places, the House proceeded to vote 
for the Speaker.
  The following is the result of the vote:

                              [Roll No. 5]

                             JEFFRIES--212

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey

[[Page H11]]


     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             MCCARTHY--201

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bost
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gooden (TX)
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rouzer
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                              DONALDS--20

     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Brecheen
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Crane
     Donalds
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gosar
     Harris
     Luna
     Miller (IL)
     Norman
     Ogles
     Perry
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Self

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Spartz
       

                             NOT VOTING--0

                              {time}  1340

  The CLERK. The tellers agree in their tallies that the total number 
of votes cast is 433, of which the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the 
State of New York has received 212, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the 
State of California has received 201, the Honorable Byron Donalds of 
the State of Florida has received 20, with 1 Member-elect recorded as 
present.
  No Member-elect having received a majority of the whole number of 
votes cast, a Speaker has not been elected.
  The Clerk recognizes the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Davidson).
  Mr. DAVIDSON. Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate Kevin McCarthy as 
Speaker of the House.
  Madam Clerk, now why would I as a conservative, as an Army Ranger, a 
businessman, the first guy that the House Freedom Caucus backed in a 
congressional race, nominate Kevin McCarthy to become the next Speaker 
of the House? Why would   Jim Jordan? Why would other conservatives 
like   Thomas Massie,   Jim Banks, Kevin Hern, and others support Kevin 
McCarthy as Speaker of the House?
  Something in our nature as humans causes us to dehumanize others when 
we engage in conflict. Dehumanizing others makes it easier to ascribe 
bad motives and to engage in the fight, but it also makes it harder to 
understand one another. As actions push further disagreement, arguments 
tend to escalate rather than resolve. We are on the precipice of such a 
destructive argument today.
  I plead with all--all--of my Republican colleagues: Let cooler, more 
rational heads prevail. Let us unite as Republicans to elect the next 
Speaker of the House.
  Unlike Democrats, nearly every Republican at least campaigns on some 
form of smaller, more accountable government. Once we get here, the 
bipartisan consensus keeps growing a bigger, less accountable 
government.
  The American people know that the status quo is broken, that we have 
become less free, less safe, and more burdened by debt. The American 
people are sick and tired of it, and they keep sending us 
reinforcements--reinforcements that today help make up our small 
majority. But a majority is only a majority if we actually work 
together.
  Now, lots of people back home don't trust anyone in this town. 
Perhaps we would be wise to listen to them and some wisdom from Ronald 
Reagan: Trust but verify.
  Trust is a fragile condition and easily broken. As I have listened to 
my friends, 20 of whom have opposed Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the 
House, and others, the root issue is this: They do not trust Kevin 
McCarthy.
  What can heal that divide? Right now, there are a lot of colleagues 
that don't trust 20 or more of my fellow Republicans. Right now, though 
we remain divided, a majority, an actual majority, of House Freedom 
Caucus members do support Kevin McCarthy.
  This summer, a unified House Freedom Caucus started the negotiations 
with a proposal for new rules, a different way to govern that empowers 
committees and regular Members. We proposed that a set of tools could 
be structured to make trust more verifiable and allow recourse if that 
trust is ever broken.

                              {time}  1345

  Following the election, Kevin McCarthy engaged in that negotiation. 
He led the Conference to adopt substantive reforms that will make our 
majority more effective.
  Let me list some of them:
   Andrew Clyde's proposal to restore public access to the Capitol;
  Lauren Boebert's proposal to reduce the linkage between the NRCC and 
the Steering Committee process;
  Gary Palmer's proposal to cap spending on suspension bills;
  Ralph Norman's proposal to limit leadership reports and make 
conference more about engaging all Members;
  Chip Roy's proposal to provide a 5-day notice for suspension votes;
   Dan Bishop's proposal in privileged resolutions;
  Scott Perry's proposal for additional Conference meetings ahead of 
key votes;
   Bob Good's proposal on standalone appropriations bills;
    Andy Biggs' proposal limiting suspension waivers from committees;
  Chip Roy's proposal to make cosponsored amendments in order;
  A firm 72-hour publication of bills before calling for a recorded 
vote;
  An end to proxy voting;
  An end to remote participation in committee work by Members of 
Congress;
  The Holman rule;
  An end to the Gephardt rule;
  CutGo instead of paygo;
  An end to en bloc suspension votes;
  A major reform worked out with Morgan Griffith, what we hope to call 
the Griffith rule, on single-subject bills

[[Page H12]]

subject to germaneness, points of order, and amendment;
  Diverse viewpoints on every committee;
  Lastly, a Church-style commission added to the Judiciary Committee 
focused on the abuses our own Big Government has unjustly collaborated 
with Big Business and Big Tech to silence, persecute, or even prosecute 
our fellow citizens.
  As   Thomas Massie pointed out, Elon Musk bought a crime scene.
  Now that we know, and the public knows, the question is: What in the 
hell are we going to do about it? Well, the select committee answers 
that question, with oversight and leadership by our most effective 
Member, my friend and colleague, the future chairman of the House 
Judiciary Committee, Congressman   Jim Jordan.
  We as Republicans are a big and diverse Conference. The real question 
goes back to strategy. Can we accept incremental progress? Can we work 
for a victory one first down at a time, or can we only accept the high-
risk trick plays?
  Can we set about the hard work of winning debates with our 
colleagues, as we have done through this process? Can we take a win 
every now and then and give hope to the forgotten men and women of 
America who no longer believe this place, this people's House, cares 
about them?
  Or, having achieved nearly every concession that we have asked for, 
including a motion to vacate the Chair with one privileged resolution, 
does it really boil down to this: 20 or more of my colleagues will 
never trust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker?
  I feel at this time we risk a worse outcome if we cannot unite behind 
the man that has helped us achieve these substantive reforms, reforms 
that offer all of us, this whole body, hope for change in the broken 
status quo; reforms that our voters have demanded; reforms that we have 
worked hard together to achieve; and, finally, reforms that we risk 
forfeiting if we do not work together as Republicans to elect the next 
Speaker of the House.
  Now is the time for deeds, not words. I nominate Kevin McCarthy for 
Speaker of the House. I humbly ask for your support.
  The CLERK. The gentleman from California (Mr. Aguilar) is recognized.
  Mr. AGUILAR. Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate Hakeem Jeffries as 
Speaker of the House.
  Madam Clerk, the lead vote-getter in the last four tallies, Democrats 
are united behind a Speaker who will work to codify the right to seek 
an abortion into law.
  Like all of us, Hakeem has spoken about consistently the disastrous 
Dobbs decision; he has spoken time and time again that it is well past 
time to codify Roe v. Wade into law; and he knows that young women 
should not grow up in a world with fewer rights than their parents and 
grandparents. He will ensure that reproductive freedom is enshrined 
into law.
  That is why, Madam Clerk, as chair of the Democratic Caucus, I am 
directed by the Caucus to present for election Hakeem Jeffries, 
Representative-elect from New York, as our next Speaker.
  The CLERK. The gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert) is 
recognized.
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate Congressman Byron 
Donalds, my friend, an amazing man of Florida, an amazing leader, 
someone who almost even took leadership here in our Republican Party 
and came very close in doing so. It was a very brave run that he took.
  He is a man who understands what tough times look like and has come 
out of those tough times even stronger, more liberated, and as a 
leader.
  We just heard from my respected colleague from Ohio, and he stated 
some amazing rules that we have been able to get an agreement on, I 
think.
  We were threatened pretty heavily in Conference, saying if we don't 
do as we ought, then some of those rules may just go away.
  But even naming the germaneness rule, which is really fantastic, 
after Morgan Griffith, well, that was our idea, too.
  My question is, why didn't the supposed leader of the Republican 
Party present these rules? Why were we fought so hard on these rules?
  The barrier that still stands in the way of these rules is the 
structure that prevents us from rolling over.
  As my friend, Chip Roy, stated, we need the tools and the leadership 
to do our job correctly, and I believe that Byron Donalds is the man to 
lead us to that path of getting America on track and uniting the 
Republican Party.
  My colleagues and I have worked tirelessly for months to build 
consensus, to negotiate in good faith, to help unify our party on 
border security, energy security, debt reduction, term limits, and 
earmarks, among other many commonsense policies. But too often, our 
efforts have fallen on deaf ears. Our border is wide open. Inflation is 
out of control. The Senate just passed $1.7 trillion without our input.
  So, let me be clear: Our job is not to coordinate the biggest 
fundraiser or rubberstamp the status quo or keep on going along to get 
along. It is to use our votes to elect a Speaker who will enable us to 
get our country back on track.
  Getting the job done is what we were elected to do, and that starts 
with having a leader who supports Republican principles, builds 
consensus, and has a proven track record of success.
  Byron Donalds is that leader. Republicans, including many moderates, 
have been impressed by Byron Donalds. They are impressed by his ability 
to work together. They respect his leadership. We see him as someone 
who can communicate what we are all wanting to do in this House to 
Americans.
  He represents so much more than just his district in Florida. Many 
millions of Americans all over this Nation praise the work and the 
leadership of Byron Donalds.
  So, let's work together. Let's stop with the campaign smears and 
tactics to get people to turn against us, even having my favorite 
President call us and tell us we need to knock this off.
  I think it actually needs to be reversed. The former President needs 
to tell Kevin McCarthy that, sir, you do not have the votes, and it is 
time to withdraw.
  The CLERK. The Reading Clerk will now call the roll.
  The tellers having taken their places, the House proceeded to vote 
for the Speaker.
  The following is the result of the vote:

                              [Roll No. 6]

                             JEFFRIES--212

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar

[[Page H13]]


     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             MCCARTHY--201

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bost
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gooden (TX)
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rouzer
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                              DONALDS--20

     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Brecheen
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Crane
     Donalds
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gosar
     Harris
     Luna
     Miller (IL)
     Norman
     Ogles
     Perry
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Self

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Spartz
       

                             NOT VOTING--0

                              {time}  1513

  The CLERK. The tellers agree in their tallies that the total number 
of votes cast is 433, of which the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the 
State of New York has received 212 votes, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy 
of the State of California has received 201 votes, and the Honorable 
Byron Donalds of the State of Florida has received 20 votes, with 1 
voting present.
  No Member-elect having received a majority of the votes cast, a 
Speaker has not been elected.

                              {time}  1515

  The Clerk recognizes the gentlewoman from Florida (Mrs. Cammack).
  Mrs. CAMMACK. Madam Clerk, I rise today to nominate Kevin McCarthy as 
Speaker of the people's House.
  Madam Clerk, well, it is Groundhog Day again. If it is all right with 
you, I would like to address not my colleagues, but the American people 
because, quite frankly, they are our boss, and we work for them.
  Yesterday, as we were here on the House floor, our constituents from 
all around the country made their voices heard. Today, the calls, the 
text messages, emails, they all continue. People are letting their 
voices be heard. That is a very, very good thing because that is what 
we are, after all, a constitutional republic that serves all Americans, 
not just a select few.
  To all Americans watching right now, I would tell you that we hear 
you. We hear you, and we will get this right. No matter how messy this 
process is, we will emerge better for having been through this because 
nothing great ever comes easy.
  For the last several months, negotiations have gone back and forth 
over a rules package to make this Chamber, your Chamber, a better 
place, to deliver better results for you, the American people.
  And I remind everyone watching, listening, here in this Chamber, that 
this Chamber and this body, our country, we are bigger than a single 
person or a single moment in time. We are a Nation collectively of 
great people, great patriots, and great moments of courage.
  The rules package that has been highlighted by so many of my 
colleagues dictates how this Chamber functions, how bills come to the 
floor, how much time we get to read these bills, whether or not we will 
get single-issue bills, and whether or not we can vote proxy.
  As you have witnessed from events yesterday, so many people have 
asked:
  What are the next steps?
  What will we accomplish if we continue down this current path?
  Will we wake up tomorrow and be in this exact same place?
  The people calling my office have said over and over and over again: 
It is time to get to work. Anything less is unacceptable.
  As we stood on this House floor yesterday and again today, over 200 
people were poisoned from fentanyl; fentanyl that came from an open 
border because of the Biden open border policy. Over 5,000 people were 
encountered at the border because of Biden's open border policies.
  These are the issues that people care about. They don't sit around 
their kitchen tables at night saying, I wonder who is going to be 
Speaker. No, they elect people to come here to do the things that 
matter, the issues that impact them every single day.
  In an era of uncertainty, the last thing they need is uncertainty 
within this Chamber. We were elected to be the voice of our 
constituents. We are their voice in this Chamber, and they didn't send 
us to be perpetual critics. They sent us to get things done. As we all 
know--because after all, we are in politics--the line of critics is 
always long. But the list of those that are actually rolling up their 
sleeves and doing the difficult job of leading, of uniting, of 
delivering results, especially in a Chamber like this, well, that list 
is very short.
  Kevin McCarthy has proven that he can get things done. He has proven 
that he is willing to stand up in the face of critics and not only 
prove them wrong but work with them.
  The only thing sovereign in this Republic are its people. They have 
deemed it right to place a check on the Biden administration and put 
our party, the Republican Party, in control of this Chamber.
  Now is the time that we take control. I understand a lack of trust 
amongst some of our colleagues. I do. But what I am asking is that we 
all trust the American people who sent our colleagues here. This House 
is the only part of the Federal Government that stands for election 
every 2 years. Therefore, this Chamber is an instrument of the people's 
will, and the people have overwhelmingly voted for Kevin McCarthy. If 
we continue down this road, if we continue with the actions of 
yesterday and today, we stifle the will of the American people.
  The changes to the rules of this place and how it functions have been 
overwhelmingly positive in the last few weeks. Legislation stands 
ready. It is time to unite, roll up our sleeves, and get to work doing 
the people's business.
  The gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), my friend, has done 
more than anyone in this Chamber to secure a Republican majority. Many 
of the people who are Members here today are, quite frankly, here 
because of his leadership, because they have trusted him, and he has 
gone out of his way to make sure that every single one of us has had a 
voice at the table.
  Furthermore, every single returning Republican in this Chamber who 
cast a vote 2 years ago in the last Congress voted for Kevin McCarthy 
as our leader. We were united then and we must unify now. That is the 
only way to start the people's business--the very reason that we are 
all here--is to unify and get to work because we must commit to unity 
instead of division.
  We owe it to the American people who sent us here. We must choose to

[[Page H14]]

lead in the face of a liberal Senate and Obama's JV team in the White 
House. We owe it to the American people. The American people sent a 
conservative majority to govern this body, but we cannot even begin to 
govern because, heck, we can't even be sworn in as Members of Congress.
  I have traveled the country for the last 2 years as the youngest 
Republican woman in the 117th Congress helping to secure a majority of 
Members who are on both sides of today's Republican vote.
  Diversity of thought is a good thing. It is one of the things that 
sets us apart from our friends on the other side of the aisle. Yes, 
diversity of thought is a good thing, but they want us divided. They 
want us to fight each other. That much has been made clear by the 
popcorn and blankets and alcohol that has come out over there.

  The CLERK. The Clerk will ask all Members-elect to abide by the 
established decorum of the House while making nominations.
  Mrs. CAMMACK. As evidenced by my colleagues' actions.
  Today, I am asking my friends and colleagues: Are we the party of 
Reagan Republicans? Reagan who said, someone who is with me 80 percent 
of the time is a loyal and good friend not a 20 percent traitor.
  Are we the party of Reagan? That is the question that I ask you to 
answer as we embark on this next ballot. It is upon us to remain a 
Nation of equal opportunity not equal outcome. That is what is on the 
line here today and that is why I am nominating Kevin McCarthy, and I 
humbly ask for your support.
  The CLERK. The Clerk recognizes the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Aguilar).
  Mr. AGUILAR. Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate Hakeem Jeffries as 
Speaker of the House, the lead vote-getter in the final and last five 
rounds.
  Democrats are united behind a Speaker who will build safer 
communities. He is a leader in gun violence prevention. He has worked 
to make our criminal justice system more fair, more equitable, and more 
effective, and has done it working with both sides of the aisle. A 
leader who has a track record in actually getting things done, and he 
understands that public safety, public health, and economic opportunity 
must go hand in hand.
  That is why at the direction of the Democratic Caucus, I advance the 
name of Hakeem Jeffries from Brooklyn, New York, as our next Speaker 
for the 118th Congress.
  The CLERK. The Clerk recognizes the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Perry).
  Mr. PERRY. Madam Clerk, I rise to nominate the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Donalds).
  Madam Clerk, ladies and gentlemen, no matter what side of the aisle 
you are on, no matter your political persuasion, one thing is 
universally recognized across this country: Washington is broken. 
Washington is completely broken.
  Whether it is a wide open border, millions of people streaming 
across--terrorists, criminals--fentanyl coming right to your community, 
not at the border but into your community; overdoses happening in your 
towns, funerals happening in your towns because the border is open 
because this place is broken.
  Twelve days ago, in the middle of the night, 4,000 pages showed up 
here: $1.7 trillion in spending, 7,200 earmarks, 24-hour time to read 
it, like a Christmas tree right before Christmas that nobody outside of 
this town wanted.
  If you have been here for 1 year, you voted on that once. If you have 
been here for 3 years, you have voted on the same thing 3 times. If you 
have been here for 10 years, you have voted on it 10 times.
  Washington is broken. You have crime running across the streets, no 
matter what community you are in because now, this town has decided 
that somehow the criminals aren't understood, and we have abandoned the 
victims.
  This is what people in our country are dealing with.
  We are funding wars in other countries while we are destroying our 
own military because this town is broken.
  We have an administration that has contempt for the American people 
and is using these big corporations to spy on Americans and using the 
instruments of Federal power to persecute and prosecute them because 
this town is broken. This place is literally broken. There hasn't been 
an amendment on the floor for 6 years in this town. So if you are not 
on the committee of jurisdiction but it affects your citizens, well too 
bad for you. You just vote ``yes'' or you just vote ``no.''
  That is not how this place was designed to be. We vote on bills that 
have all kinds of things that have nothing to do with the bill itself. 
Everybody came here because they said to their constituents: This town 
is broken, and I want to fix it.
  Well, how are you going to fix it if you come to this town and just 
stepped right in line and keep doing the same things that everybody has 
done before you? It is not going to fix it, and the American people 
know it.
  I would say this: I think the person that has done the most to make 
this fabulous, this wonderful Republican majority is Speaker Pelosi and 
her policies. That is what has achieved this majority over here because 
the American people are sick and tired of it and they have had enough 
of it.

                              {time}  1530

  It is not about personalities. It is about the policies that come out 
of here. This is not about personalities on this side of the aisle or 
that side of the aisle.
  We believe, and we want to believe, that every person that comes 
here--left, right, center--has the best intentions for our country.
  It is not about the personalities in this contest. It is not personal 
for us. But because we all acknowledge and all know that Washington is 
broken, we must take a new path.
  There must be a new vision so that Congress works for the American 
people because the American people are watching what is happening here. 
They have watched what has happened here, and they are sure in their 
hearts, and they can prove it, that this town works for this town. That 
is who this town is working for.
  Ladies and gentlemen, we are making history today. We are making 
history in this process, and we are showing the American people that 
this process works.
  Yes, it has been about 100 years. It has been about 100 years since 
this happened before, but we have said that we are not going to take 
any more of Washington being broken. We are going to do something for 
the American people, and we are going to fix it.
  Is it going to be painful, and is it going to be difficult? Yes, it 
probably is. That is why it took 100 years. It probably is, but we are 
going to do it.
  We can also make history today by electing the first Black Republican 
Speaker of the House.
  Yes. Thank you.
  Now, as my colleagues probably know, the first Black Members of 
Congress to serve in this body were Republicans. As a matter of fact, 
you probably also know that Frederick Douglass, who went and worked 
with Abraham Lincoln to emancipate the people of color in this country, 
said he would never be anything but a Republican.
  I am here to nominate Byron Donalds because he has accomplished many 
things. He is a man of faith; he is a family man; he is a businessman; 
and he is a man of community service.
  He has come from the school of hard knocks because not all outcomes 
in life are equal, but America is the place where we can each do great 
things regardless of our humble beginnings--each one of us.
  Now, Byron is the product of a single-parent family where it is not 
easy, but he has succeeded in America, and that is a testament to what 
we have created here and what we are trying to save.
  He has a record of accomplishing things. He has a record of being on 
the right side. He is respected. He is trusted. He is capable. He 
achieves results.
  Now, Byron has a big mind, and he is big in stature, as well. He is 
very nice, but I will tell you this: In a negotiation with Chuck 
Schumer, I sure wouldn't want to be on the other side of Byron Donalds.
  He knows who he is. He knows what his foundation is. He knows that 
Washington is broken and what Chuck Schumer sends over here isn't going 
to work out for the American people.
  Ladies and gentlemen, Washington is broken. Byron Donalds will 
inspire us

[[Page H15]]

and restore our citizens' faith that this institution actually works 
for them.
  It is my highest honor to nominate the gentleman from Florida, Byron 
Donalds, to be the next Speaker of the House.
  The CLERK. The Reading Clerk will now call the roll.
  The tellers having taken their places, the House proceeded to vote 
for the Speaker.
  The following is the result of the vote:

                              [Roll No. 7]

                             JEFFRIES--212

     Adams
     Aguilar
     Allred
     Auchincloss
     Balint
     Barragan
     Beatty
     Bera
     Beyer
     Bishop (GA)
     Blumenauer
     Blunt Rochester
     Bonamici
     Bowman
     Boyle (PA)
     Brown
     Brownley
     Budzinski
     Bush
     Caraveo
     Carbajal
     Cardenas
     Carson
     Carter (LA)
     Cartwright
     Casar
     Case
     Casten
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Cherfilus-McCormick
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clark (MA)
     Clarke (NY)
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Correa
     Costa
     Courtney
     Craig
     Crockett
     Crow
     Cuellar
     Davids (KS)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (NC)
     Dean (PA)
     DeGette
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deluzio
     DeSaulnier
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Escobar
     Eshoo
     Espaillat
     Evans
     Fletcher
     Foster
     Foushee
     Frankel, Lois
     Frost
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia (IL)
     Garcia (TX)
     Garcia, Robert
     Golden (ME)
     Goldman (NY)
     Gomez
     Gonzalez, Vicente
     Gottheimer
     Green (TX)
     Grijalva
     Harder (CA)
     Hayes
     Higgins (NY)
     Himes
     Horsford
     Houlahan
     Hoyer
     Hoyle (OR)
     Huffman
     Ivey
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson (NC)
     Jackson Lee
     Jacobs
     Jayapal
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Kamlager-Dove
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Khanna
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kim (NJ)
     Krishnamoorthi
     Kuster
     Landsman
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Lee (NV)
     Lee (PA)
     Leger Fernandez
     Levin
     Lieu
     Lofgren
     Lynch
     Magaziner
     Manning
     Matsui
     McBath
     McCollum
     McGarvey
     McGovern
     Meeks
     Menendez
     Meng
     Mfume
     Moore (WI)
     Morelle
     Moskowitz
     Moulton
     Mrvan
     Mullin
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Neguse
     Nickel
     Norcross
     Ocasio-Cortez
     Omar
     Pallone
     Panetta
     Pappas
     Pascrell
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peltola
     Perez
     Peters
     Pettersen
     Phillips
     Pingree
     Pocan
     Porter
     Pressley
     Quigley
     Ramirez
     Raskin
     Ross
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan
     Salinas
     Sanchez
     Sarbanes
     Scanlon
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Scholten
     Schrier
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Sewell
     Sherman
     Sherrill
     Slotkin
     Smith (WA)
     Sorensen
     Soto
     Spanberger
     Stansbury
     Stanton
     Stevens
     Strickland
     Swalwell
     Sykes
     Takano
     Thanedar
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tlaib
     Tokuda
     Tonko
     Torres (CA)
     Torres (NY)
     Trahan
     Trone
     Underwood
     Vargas
     Vasquez
     Veasey
     Velazquez
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watson Coleman
     Wexton
     Wild
     Williams (GA)
     Wilson (FL)

                             MCCARTHY--201

     Aderholt
     Alford
     Allen
     Amodei
     Armstrong
     Arrington
     Babin
     Bacon
     Baird
     Balderson
     Banks
     Barr
     Bean (FL)
     Bentz
     Bergman
     Bice
     Bilirakis
     Bost
     Buchanan
     Buck
     Bucshon
     Burchett
     Burgess
     Burlison
     Calvert
     Cammack
     Carey
     Carl
     Carter (GA)
     Carter (TX)
     Chavez-DeRemer
     Ciscomani
     Cline
     Cole
     Collins
     Comer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Curtis
     D'Esposito
     Davidson
     De La Cruz
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duarte
     Duncan
     Dunn (FL)
     Edwards
     Ellzey
     Emmer
     Estes
     Ezell
     Fallon
     Feenstra
     Ferguson
     Finstad
     Fischbach
     Fitzgerald
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Flood
     Foxx
     Franklin, C. Scott
     Fry
     Fulcher
     Gallagher
     Garbarino
     Garcia, Mike
     Gimenez
     Gonzales, Tony
     Gooden (TX)
     Granger
     Graves (LA)
     Graves (MO)
     Green (TN)
     Greene (GA)
     Griffith
     Grothman
     Guest
     Guthrie
     Hageman
     Harshbarger
     Hern
     Higgins (LA)
     Hill
     Hinson
     Houchin
     Hudson
     Huizenga
     Hunt
     Issa
     Jackson (TX)
     James
     Johnson (LA)
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson (SD)
     Jordan
     Joyce (OH)
     Joyce (PA)
     Kean (NJ)
     Kelly (MS)
     Kelly (PA)
     Kiggans (VA)
     Kiley
     Kim (CA)
     Kustoff
     LaHood
     LaLota
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Langworthy
     Latta
     LaTurner
     Lawler
     Lee (FL)
     Lesko
     Letlow
     Loudermilk
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Luttrell
     Mace
     Malliotakis
     Mann
     Massie
     Mast
     McCarthy
     McCaul
     McClain
     McClintock
     McCormick
     McHenry
     Meuser
     Miller (OH)
     Miller (WV)
     Miller-Meeks
     Mills
     Molinaro
     Moolenaar
     Mooney
     Moore (AL)
     Moore (UT)
     Moran
     Murphy
     Nehls
     Newhouse
     Nunn (IA)
     Obernolte
     Owens
     Palmer
     Pence
     Pfluger
     Posey
     Reschenthaler
     Rodgers (WA)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rose
     Rouzer
     Rutherford
     Salazar
     Santos
     Scalise
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sessions
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smucker
     Stauber
     Steel
     Stefanik
     Steil
     Steube
     Stewart
     Strong
     Tenney
     Thompson (PA)
     Tiffany
     Timmons
     Turner
     Valadao
     Van Drew
     Van Duyne
     Van Orden
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Waltz
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westerman
     Williams (NY)
     Williams (TX)
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Womack
     Yakym
     Zinke

                              DONALDS--20

     Biggs
     Bishop (NC)
     Boebert
     Brecheen
     Cloud
     Clyde
     Crane
     Donalds
     Gaetz
     Good (VA)
     Gosar
     Harris
     Luna
     Miller (IL)
     Norman
     Ogles
     Perry
     Rosendale
     Roy
     Self

                        ANSWERED ``PRESENT''--1

       
     Spartz
       

                             NOT VOTING--0

                              {time}  1631

  The CLERK. The tellers agree in their tallies that the total number 
of votes cast is 433, of which the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the 
State of New York has received 212, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the 
State of California has received 201, the Honorable Byron Donalds of 
the State of Florida has received 20, with 1 Member as present.
  No Member-elect having received a majority of the votes cast, a 
Speaker has not been elected.

                          ____________________