![]() Republicans will hold 222 seats as they take over the House majority, leaving a razor-thin margin for McCarthy, who can’t afford to lose more than a handful of votes.ĬNN’s Clare Foran, Melanie Zanona and Tierney Sneed contributed to this report. That amounts to 218 votes if no member skips the vote or votes “present.” To be elected speaker, a candidate needs to win a majority of members who vote for a specific person on the House floor. Andy Biggs (Andrew Steven Biggs) was born on 7 November, 1958 in Tucson, AZ, is an American politician from Arizona. Republicans are now bracing for the possibility of multiple ballots, something that hasn’t happened since 1923. Andy Biggs (Ariz.) on Monday night announced that he’ll challenge House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) to become the Republican conference’s nominee for Speaker of the House. ![]() It’s inappropriate to use the House Ethics Committee-a committee with more pressing matters to attend to-to help reach the J6 Committee’s pre-determined conclusions,” he said in a statement. “This referral is their final political stunt. He served as the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus – a group of some of the most right-leaning members in the House – from 2019 to 2021.īiggs was also one of several Republican lawmakers referred to the House Ethics Committee by the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol after the members did not comply with the panel’s subpoenas.īiggs called the referral a “political stunt” in response to the news. ![]() “Kevin McCarthy was created by, elevated by, and maintained by the establishment.”īiggs was just reelected to his fourth term in the House, representing Arizona’s 5th District which lies on the eastern outskirts of Maricopa County outside of Phoenix. “I’m running for Speaker to break the establishment,” Biggs wrote on Twitter at the time. McCarthy has defeated the Arizona congressman before – by a resounding vote of 188 to 31 in November when the House Republican conference voted for McCarthy to be its leader.īut despite losing to McCarthy in the November internal House GOP election, Biggs announced he would run for speaker in early December.
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