Voting for Speaker (Update — Boehner reelected)
Updates: John Boehner was relected, but just barely. It looked for a short while like he may not make it, but once it became clear he would get a majority of those voting, some “conservatives” who had not voted when first called decided to vote for Boehner.
Final certified numbers: Of total 426 voting, Boehner received 220.
Here are some tweets explaining how it went:
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Going on as I post this. No other Republican names were put in nomination other than Boehner.
I’ll embed my Fiscal Cliff feed, which seems appropriate.
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