After a plan to support the interim leader fails, Jordan is "Still Running for Speaker."

 After a plan to support the interim leader fails, Jordan is "Still Running for Speaker."

After supporting a measure to give a temporary speaker more authority, GOP contender Jim Jordan said he would return to the House floor for another vote, guaranteeing that the leadership saga would continue.

After one was removed, one candidate withdrew, and another failed twice to win the gavel, the House is approaching the conclusion of another week without a speaker. Additionally, the prospects of appointing a temporary speaker seem to have been crushed just as an exit ramp was beginning to appear after days of rumblings and growing support.

Greetings from the unruly House of Representatives

The speakership must get 217 votes in the whole house, and lawmakers have warned for days that no Republican would be able to reach that number in their bitterly split conference. Rep. Jim Jordan, a former conservative firebrand, has yet continued to try despite this.

Until Thursday morning, that is, when the Ohio Republican seemed to hear the cautions of his colleagues and became the latest member of the House Republican conference to submit to the fractious conference after weeks of discord and disagreement over how to move the chamber forward. GOP legislators said Jordan would not push for a second vote and would instead support a motion to name Rep. Patrick McHenry the acting speaker until the conference met.

However, Jordan then said that he would really seek another speaker vote when fresh party divides emerged. Jordan told reporters after the lengthy meeting that "we made the pitch to members on the resolution as a method for lower the temperature and get back to work," alluding to a plan to make Rep. Patrick McHenry the acting speaker.

Jordan stated, "We concluded that wasn't where we're heading. "I'm still running for speaker, and my plan is to go to the floor, get the votes, and win this race."

The reversal leaves the future's course uncertain. Jordan didn't get enough votes to win the speakership in the first round of voting, and his chances only became worse in the second round. However, some GOP lawmakers are cautioning that they only expect things to get worse for Jordan, for example, in the third round due to his subsequent strong-arm tactics in working to secure the nomination and a solid opposition due to his affiliation with the party's Trump wing while it was raising doubts about how the process to elect a new leader ends.

President Donald Trump's key friend Jordan, who was elected to Congress in 2006, has boosted his bogus election claims. His amount of engagement in the events leading up to January 6 is unknown since he declined to appear before a congressional committee looking into the uprising, which described him as a "significant player in President Trump's efforts" in its report. He is regarded as one of the most conservative members of Congress due to his founding membership in the House Freedom Caucus and record-setting number of votes cast in support of conservative causes.

Jordan enjoys the support of the majority of House conservatives, unlike former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Jordan still has to contend with resistance from a variety of sources, including McCarthy and the friends of Majority Leader Steve Scalise as well as moderates and appropriators.

The possibility of giving McHenry more authority entered at that point. Some believed it would be a temporary solution that the conference could support while giving Jordan or another candidate time to compete for the position with the tiny number of opponents.

A majority of the chamber's votes would have been necessary to pass the measure to support McHenry. It could be difficult to pass the bill with only Republican support given the tiny GOP majority. Although Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has consistently said that his caucus has "respect" for McHenry, Democrats have yet stated that they are willing to cooperating with Republicans on the project.

The Republican conference, however, reacted angrily to the idea of working with Democrats, and as the debate continued, legislators voiced doubt about the proposal's chances.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told reporters on Thursday that the conference was "completely broken." And since Republicans collaborated with Democrats to create this situation, we are shattered. It's revolting.

Jordan's support for the resolution designating McHenry as "some sort of a short term speaker," according to Greene, is disappointing since "we voted for him to be our speaker nominee."

In fact, within a few hours, things seemed to change at the GOP conference meeting. According to Florida Representative Byron Donalds, the votes "just aren't there" for a resolution to give McHenry more authority. But. The plan, according to Virginia Rep. Jen Kiggans, is still alive since McCarthy has shown support for it.

McCarthy placed McHenry's name on a covert list in January to serve as speaker pro tempore in the event that anything happened to him. When he was fired two weeks ago, McHenry assumed interim control, although it is generally agreed that his duties were limited to assisting the chamber in electing a new speaker.

McCarthy told reporters of McHenry: "He's been here for a while so he understands how Congress works, he has respect on both sides of the aisle - he could carry out the job."

After being at a stalemate for more than two weeks since McCarthy's removal, the action would enable the chamber to pass legislation. After Hamas' assault on Israel and the approaching budget deadline, lawmakers have been impatient to get the House back to work.

The House has been unable to adopt a resolution in favor of Israel or discuss funding for the nation due to the absence of a speaker. After Congress adopted a temporary measure to provide more time for discussions on full year funding legislation last month, a deadline of Nov. 17 to finance the government is now in effect, adding to the strain.