Hello, Virginia. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Sam. Happy 2023. We made it. We did.

We're at the beginning of a new year. Set some New Year's resolutions. Hopefully follow through. Yes, hopefully.

It's only day three. It's only day three. I'm feeling good so far. How long is it acceptable to say Happy New Year?

I think I think a week. Okay. Or even more maybe. I guess it depends who you're talking to.

We're definitely in the safe zone right now though. Yeah, we are. So Happy New Year. Yeah. Happy New Year.

I'm Samantha Sharis. I'm Virginia Allen. And this is the daily signal top news for Tuesday, January 3rd.

Here are today's headlines.

The battle for the speaker of the house position continues after representative Kevin McCarthy of California failed to secure the majority of votes on Tuesday.

The 108th Congress convened at noon and voted shortly after for the speakership position.

McCarthy received 203 votes. The vote then advanced to another round.

Democrat Hakeen Jeffries who was nominated for the position received nine more votes than McCarthy for a total of two hundred and twelve votes.

Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona nominated representative Andy Biggs of Arizona for the speaker position.

Gosar Matt Gates of Florida Biggs Bob Good of Virginia Scott Perry of Pennsylvania Eli Crane of Arizona Ralph Norman of South Carolina.

Andrew Clyde of Georgia Dan Bishop of North Carolina and Matt Rosendale of Montana all voted for Biggs.

Representatives Michael Cloud of Texas and Paulina Luna of Florida Andy Ogles of Tennessee Mary Miller of Illinois Keith Self of Texas and Lauren Bobert of Colorado cast their votes for representative Jim Jordan of Ohio.

Now we also had representative Andy Harris of Maryland voting for former representative Lee Zeldin while Texas representative Chip Roy voted for representative Byron Donalds and representative Josh Burkine voted for Jim Banks of Indiana.

McCarthy also appears to have lost the second round of voting according to Fox News.

Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis took the oath of office on Tuesday morning surrounded by his wife and children he began his second term as the governor of Florida.

Let's take a listen to some of his inaugural speech per Mary Margaret Olehons Twitter.

Florida has led the way in preserving what the father of our country called the sacred fire of liberty.

It is the fire that burned in Independence Hall when 56 men pledged their lives their fortunes and their sacred honor to establish a new nation conceived in liberty.

It's the fire that burned at a cemetery in Gettysburg when the nation's first Republican president pledged to this nation a new birth of freedom.

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