It’s perhaps not unusual that the most contentious House speaker’s race in history happened just five years before the nation was ripped apart by a bloody Civil War.
Factionalism was a major problem in December 1855, when 21 House members initially ran for speaker. Issues dividing the country were both slavery and immigration; the American Party, also known as the Anti-Mason or “Know Nothing” party, had elected members to the House, as had the antislavery Free Soil Party.
The Republican Party, founded the year before, was still in its infancy.
The House continued voting for about two months and cast 133 ballots before settling on Rep. Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts, a member of both the American Party and the Free Soil Party. Banks won 103 votes and Rep. William Aiken, D-S.C., won 100. What's your hurry?
Put up Scalice and be done with it. Someone take McCarthy aside and have him read this: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/kevin-mccarthy-is-a-dead-man-walking/
A Record 133 Ballots
It’s perhaps not unusual that the most contentious House speaker’s race in history happened just five years before the nation was ripped apart by a bloody Civil War.
Factionalism was a major problem in December 1855, when 21 House members initially ran for speaker. Issues dividing the country were both slavery and immigration; the American Party, also known as the Anti-Mason or “Know Nothing” party, had elected members to the House, as had the antislavery Free Soil Party.
The Republican Party, founded the year before, was still in its infancy.
The House continued voting for about two months and cast 133 ballots before settling on Rep. Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts, a member of both the American Party and the Free Soil Party. Banks won 103 votes and Rep. William Aiken, D-S.C., won 100. What's your hurry?
This is just a colossal waste of money...but why should they care, it's not their money being wasted.