U.S. Representative Tom Emmer announced his voluntary resignation from the candidacy for the position of Speaker of the House. [AFP 연합]
The U.S. House of Representatives is having difficulty electing a new speaker. While two candidates from the majority party, the Republican Party, voluntarily resigned, the third candidate, Tom Emmer (62), senior vice-president of the National Assembly, also resigned voluntarily, unable to overcome the opposition within the party.
According to foreign media outlets such as Reuters on the 24th (local time), Senior Deputy Leader Emmer voluntarily resigned from his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives four hours after the party’s vote.
Rep. Emmer ranked first in the Republican General Assembly voting against eight lawmakers running for Speaker of the House. He won the ticket to run for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives. However, in the intra-party vote held with Representative Emmer as the sole candidate, he failed to secure 217 votes, which is the quorum for election to the House of Representatives. At least 20 lawmakers voted against it.
Currently, there are only 9 seats in the House of Representatives, with 221 Republicans and 212 Democrats. It is difficult to become Speaker of the House without overwhelming support from Republican lawmakers.
In the end, Rep. Emmer decided to give up his bid for the position of Speaker of the House. He, a fourth-term member of the Federal House of Representatives, is known to have a difficult relationship with around 20 pro-Trump figures.
In the process of selecting a new House Speaker following the dismissal of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on the 3rd, three people have already failed to run.
The first candidate, Republican House Leader Steve Scalise, was elected as the party’s candidate and then withdrew from his candidacy amid resistance from opposing forces, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan withdrew until the third vote in the House plenary session, but was ultimately unable to overcome the party’s opposition vote.
As the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives was delayed, the ‘security budget’ worth 105 billion dollars (approximately 141 trillion won), which President Biden applied for to spend on military support for Ukraine and Israel, which are at war with each other, strengthening border control, and keeping China in check, was processed, and the government The outlook for negotiations on the main budget, which will be applied after mid-November, when the interim budget ends, is also unclear.
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2023-10-24 23:37:13
