House GOP picks Mike Johnson for speaker in latest vote

SRN NEWS

U.S. Republicans nominated Mike Johnson to lead the House of Representatives on Tuesday, though it was unclear whether he would merely become the latest hopeful to fall victim to party infighting that has paralyzed Congress for over three weeks.

Representative Johnson, of Louisiana, is the fourth Republican this month to win the party’s nomination for the speaker’s chair, which has sat vacant since a small faction of party rebels ousted Kevin McCarthy on Oct. 3.

Republicans’ disarray has left lawmakers unable to respond to the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine or take steps to head off a partial government shutdown that would begin on Nov. 18 without congressional action.