The House Finally Has a Speaker

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Warning: this episode contains strong language. After 21 days without a leader, and after cycling through four nominees, House Republicans have finally elected a speaker. They chose Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a hard-right conservative best known for leading congressional efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Luke Broadwater, a congressional reporter for The Times, was at the capitol when it happened. Guest: Luke Broadwater, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:04.0	This is The Daily.
0:07.0	Today.
0:13.5	On behalf of the House Republican Conference, I rise today to nominate the gentleman from
0:18.6	Louisiana, Mike Johnson, as Speaker of the People's House.
0:25.4	After 21 days without a leader, and after cycling through four different nominees, House
0:32.9	Republicans have finally elected a speaker to lead the chamber.
0:38.3	Therefore, the honorable Mike Johnson, the state of Louisiana, having received a majority
0:42.3	of the votes cast as duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives for the 118th
0:47.4	Congress.
0:49.8	My colleague, Congressional reporter Luke Broadwater, was inside the Capitol, as it happened.
0:57.2	The committee will retire from the chamber to escort the speaker elected to the chair.
1:10.0	It's Thursday, October 26th.
1:18.4	Luke, it's 2.32 p.m., and you just raced into a phone booth inside the Capitol to talk
1:24.2	to us, which is very nice of you, because it entailed tearing yourself away from a historic
1:29.2	scene that was unfolding, and I want you to describe that scene.
1:34.6	Yes.
1:35.6	I was in the Speaker's lobby watching Republicans elect a new speaker of the House, Mike
1:43.0	Johnson of Louisiana.
1:45.5	He had just won.
1:47.0	They were lining up all the dignitaries in leadership to honor this new speaker, and there
1:54.2	was a bit of a debate going on about who would present him the gavel, would it be the former
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