TOP NEWS | Speaker Still Unknown, President Biden Weighs in On Speaker Vote, Who is Rep. Byron Donalds? | Jan. 4
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:
- The next speaker of the House is still unknown
- Who is Rep. Byron Donalds?
- President Joe Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez weigh in on the speaker vote
- President Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell discuss the
- An investigation into a Virginia school is announced
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Samantha Shares, I'm Virginia Allen, and this is the daily signal top news for Wednesday, |
| 0:07.0 | January 4th. |
| 0:08.0 | Here are today's headlines. |
| 0:20.9 | The next speaker of the house is still up in the air after the fifth round of voting |
| 0:26.4 | on Wednesday failed to produce a clear winner. |
| 0:30.5 | Republican Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio nominated Representative Kevin McCarthy |
| 0:36.4 | of California, Democrat Representative Pete Aguilar of California, once again nominated |
| 0:43.1 | Representative Hequim Jeffries of New York, and Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado, |
| 0:49.7 | also of Republican, nominated Representative Byron Donalds of Florida to the House |
| 0:55.2 | Speakership position. |
| 0:56.9 | House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the majority of votes in the fourth |
| 1:01.5 | round of voting. |
| 1:02.9 | He received 201 votes in both the fourth and the fifth rounds. |
| 1:07.8 | He needs 218 votes to win the speakership. |
| 1:11.7 | House Democrats already had nominated Representative Jeffries of New York to be the minority leader. |
| 1:17.8 | He succeeds House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California in leading Democrats as Republicans |
| 1:22.5 | take a slim majority in the House following the results of the November 8th midterm elections. |
| 1:28.6 | Jeffries received 212 votes for the House Speaker during the fourth round of voting on Wednesday. |
| 1:35.2 | He received the same amount during the fifth round. |
| 1:37.9 | The New York Democrat received 212 votes for the House Speaker during the first round on |
| 1:43.1 | Monday, which was 9 more than Kevin McCarthy. |
| 1:47.1 | Representative Victoria Sparks, a Republican from Indiana, voted present in the fourth |
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