Nearly 3 million Californians at risk of losing home internet service Los Angeles Times

Table Of Content

• Prosecutors at Donald Trump’s hush money trial zero …
• 'I've had four death threats' over speaker vote, Rep. Ken Buck says
• Trump and DeSantis meet to make peace, discuss fundraising for ex-president’s campaign
• Rep. Mike Johnson has been elected speaker. Here's what to know
• Jordan supporter says speaker designee should "step aside" if he doesn't have the votes
• House Democrats discuss support for McHenry
• Jeffries

And after Jordan failed to secure the speakership on the first ballot, Scalise was noncommittal about helping Jordan further, a source added. At the Urbana Brewing Company on Tuesday, patrons gave Mr. Jordan passing marks. Eric Forson, 50, said that when he wrote to his elected representatives during the 2013 government shutdown, Mr. Jordan was the only one who responded. The Senate approval of the TikTok ban bill was tied to a emergency foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The Senate, by a vote, OK’d the bundled legislation after the House passed the resolutions Saturday and sent them on an expedited basis to the Senate for approval on an up-or-down vote. Crane, who told reporters earlier this month that he was “open” to supporting a motion to vacate, said Monday that while he has “left the door open,” the timing is not right for a conservative coup.

House reaches Day 10 without a speaker as Republicans nominate Jim Jordan - NBC News

House reaches Day 10 without a speaker as Republicans nominate Jim Jordan.

Posted: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Prosecutors at Donald Trump’s hush money trial zero …

"We only control one chamber, and I barely have control of that," Johnson said Thursday on Newsmax, explaining why he couldn't include GOP immigration measures in the package as some wanted. Still, the goal of Trump supporters in 2020 was to advance any legal argument against Biden’s win to a Supreme Court where conservative justices have a 6-3 edge, three of whom were nominated by Trump. A speaker who supported Trump’s last effort to stay in power would be well-positioned to do so again if the former president is the GOP nominee next year and loses the election. The House in January 2025 will be filled with the winners of the previous November’s election, so there’s no guarantee a Speaker Johnson would remain in power.

'I've had four death threats' over speaker vote, Rep. Ken Buck says

To be sure, it would be difficult for the speaker to change any of the results. The vice president -- who would be Democrat Kamala Harris at the time — presides over the joint House and Senate session in a ceremonial role and calls votes if there are enough objections to do so. House Freedom Caucus chair Bob Good, R-Va., told reporters on Friday that although he doesn't defend Johnson's performance as speaker, he thinks it's not in the interest of the Republican Party to go through another speakership fight six months before an election. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., spoke to reporters on Capitol Hill following a foreign aid bill vote on April 19. Through six votes in two days, GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy has not been able to get a majority of votes needed to win the speakership. Congress is lurching back into gear, with the House convening to consider several pieces of legislation that amount to conservative messaging platforms with poor prospects in the Democratic-led Senate.

Trump and DeSantis meet to make peace, discuss fundraising for ex-president’s campaign

More Democrats (165) than Republicans (151) voted to pass the “rule,” a procedural step to set up the votes. “He seems to be right on everything, including the things I’m interested in, which is he didn’t accept the election rollover,” said Giuliani, who also praised Johnson for supporting the lawsuit by the Texas attorney general. Democrats kept the issue center stage as the speaker vote on the floor proceeded Wednesday. After the 2020 election, Johnson also echoed some of the wilder conspiracy theories pushed by then-President Donald Trump to explain away his loss. Then Johnson voted against certifying Biden’s win even after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Rep. Mike Johnson has been elected speaker. Here's what to know

But Jordan seemed to suggest Wednesday after he lost the second ballot that it was just a matter of time — possibly months — before his numbers turned around. The House then began its third round of voting for a speaker, with Republicans who opposed Jordan earlier this week largely appearing unmoved. "Every day the majority chooses to engage in a Republican civil war that is threatening their own members instead of engaging with us in the work of the American people is a day that weakens this institution in the standing of our country," she said. Clark blasted Jordan's record on abortion and health care votes, and said Jordan "traffics" in disinformation. She said it's not too late for the majority to choose a "bipartisan path forward to reopen the House."

Jordan supporter says speaker designee should "step aside" if he doesn't have the votes

To seize the gavel, Jordan will need almost the full majority of his colleagues behind him in a House floor vote, as Democrats are certain to back their own nominee, Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York. Wednesday as he and his supporters work to persuade the remaining holdouts to flip in his favor. GOP Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker on Tuesday's first ballot, sent a letter to interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry demanding an immediate second vote on electing a new speaker.

California holds the key to GOP power in the House. McCarthy’s retirement makes everything harder

Joe Biden is scheduled to travel to the key battleground state of North Carolina on Thursday, the White House has said. Anyone who thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene will drop her threat to force the removal of Johnson is “high, drunk, or simply out of their mind”, a senior aide to the far-right Georgia congresswoman said. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, released a letter to Johnson requesting consideration of a bipartisan bill to counter antisemitism.

And given what is expected to be a narrow House majority, he will need nearly every single GOP vote to secure the 218 votes needed to become speaker, and later, to pass legislation. The legislation includes $60 billion for Kyiv; $26 billion for Israel and humanitarian aid for civilians in conflict zones, including Gaza; and $8 billion for the Indo-Pacific region. It would direct the president to seek repayment from the Ukrainian government of $10 billion in economic assistance, a concept supported by former President Donald J. Trump, who had pushed for any aid to Kyiv to be in the form of a loan. But it also would allow the president to forgive those loans starting in 2026. The letter comes after the president signed a $95bn foreign aid package that finalized the Biden administration’s suspension of US funding to the UN agency, a “lifeline for the Palestinian people in Gaza” that Israel has sought to disband.

If Jordan does win them over, it’s still not nearly enough to secure the speakership, given 22 Republicans voted against him on the second ballot and more are expected to oppose him on the third ballot. But Jordan is hoping to show some sign of progress ahead of the next vote, now planned for Friday. Jordan said this afternoon that he plans to call for a third vote on the floor today to see if he can finally reach the 217 votes needed to be elected speaker.

But House rules require that the speaker receive a majority of the votes cast, something neither Mr. Jeffries nor Mr. Jordan got in the first round of voting, because 20 Republicans voted for other candidates. Meanwhile, the group’s matriarch, Carol Icenagel, 87, sits on the political fence. After winning 200 votes on Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee chairman won 199 on Wednesday, after picking up the votes of two Republicans while losing the support of four others. One Republican who had been absent on Tuesday, Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida, voted for Mr. Jordan on Wednesday.

Jordan received even more Republican votes against him — 25 — than he did in earlier rounds, with three more GOP members joining the ranks of the defectors. "I thought it was important that we all know, get an answer to the question if they wanted me to continue in that role," he said. "So we put the question to them, they made a different decision. I told the conference that I appreciated getting to work with everyone, talk with everyone." Evidence cited in the committee’s report was made public over the weekend, but Republicans are seeking to hold back hundreds of thousands of pages of underlying evidence that was scheduled to go into storage for up to 50 years. Rep. Juan Ciscomani, R-Ariz., a first-term member, said that after having several conversations with Jordan, he’s decided to vote for him on the floor. While Jordan has made a reputation as a chaos agent in his time in Congress, the Ohio Republican, unlike previous speaker candidates, has no real legislative chops.

Internet service providers have their own programs for low-income households. People can enter their address on the FCC’s broadband map to find providers in their area. The California Public Utilities Commission also provides a list of providers with low-cost internet plans. The program, which was created after the pandemic forced many Americans to turn to the internet to connect with work and school, has 23 million enrollees nationwide — 1 in 6 U.S. households — including nearly 3 million in California.

Amid the ongoing chaos in the speaker-less House, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz defended his decision to lead the effort to oust Kevin McCarthy from his speakership but did not articulate what he got out of it besides removing the California Republican from the position. “We have a chance today to end that chaos, end that uncertainty,” Cole said. In nominating Jordan, veteran Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma said it was time to end the upheaval that he had warned against with McCarthy’s sudden ouster.