Speakerless

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Republicans made history when they ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and they continue to make history in their inability to replace him. Vox’s Andrew Prokop explains. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Tien Nguyen, engineered by David Herman, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hoyer, Jeffries, Hoyle of Oregon, Jeffries, Hudson, Jordan.
0:08.0	Hakeem Jeffries is not trying to be the speaker of the house.
0:11.7	Not right now, at least.
0:13.0	But Hakeem Jeffries keeps getting the most votes to be speaker.
0:16.4	It happened on Tuesday.
0:17.8	The Honorable Jim Jordan of the state of Ohio has received 200 votes.
0:22.0	The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the state of New York has received 212 votes.
0:27.5	It happened again on Wednesday.
0:29.2	The Honorable Jim Jordan of the state of Ohio has received 199.
0:33.6	The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries of the state of New York has received 212.
0:38.1	The only problem with Hakeem Jeffries getting the most votes is that he's a Democrat.
0:43.0	And Republicans actually control the United States House of Representatives.
0:47.2	The Democrats are united.
0:49.5	The Republicans have never looked more fractured.
0:53.0	What to do about an even more broken usual Congress?
0:57.4	Comment up on today's explained.
1:00.5	Support for the show today comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about
1:03.6	joy and justice produced with Vox Creative Florida School Teacher Andrea Phillips.
1:08.4	Always loved her job and she says she spent years collecting hundreds of books to help
1:12.3	struggling readers discover new interests and possibilities.
1:14.9	But then Andrea says her district informed her and her colleagues that the classroom
1:20.0	libraries were off limits until every book was reviewed and approved.
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