Ever since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker of the House by just eight members of Congress,

things have been pretty messy in the chamber. Republicans keep knee-capping their own candidates

for Speaker, and the House is paralyzed. Many members of the caucus aren't happy. Here's

Nebraska Republican Don Bacon expressing that to a CNN reporter.

It hurts the country. It hurts Congress. It's hurting our party. They're putting us in a bad

hole for next November. Does it put a swing district like yours at risk? Yeah, it does.

It's these guys want to be in the minority. I think they would prefer that because I can just vote

no when y'all on screen all the time. The anger and frustration is because none of the candidates

nominated for Speaker have gotten enough votes. The latest one, Jim Jordan, is out after three strikes,

three losing ballots on the House floor. No person having received a majority. The whole number

of votes cast by surname, a Speaker has not been elected pursuant to clause 12A of rule one,

the chair declares the House and recess subject to the call of the chair.

After that third round of votes, Jordan lost a secret Republican only vote to remain his party's

nominee for Speaker. And this party divisiveness, especially ahead of an election,

is not a good look for the Republican Party. In his speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday,

Utah Senator Mitt Romney said the impasse, along with the initial ouster of McCarthy earlier

this month, is proof that shaking things up is not the same as getting things done.

You have people increasingly coming to Washington whose objective is to make noise,

not to make law. It's interesting. Here's the guy who wants to be the Speaker of the House.

Do you know how many bills he's passed that he's authored? None. How does a democracy work

when the people that are most well-known or those that aren't accomplishing things,

but instead are performing?

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