GOP Lawmaker Says 2/3 Against Temporary Speaker

“Leaving a closed-door GOP meeting to determine the way forward, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) estimated that about two-thirds of the House Republican conference opposed the idea of electing the caretaker speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), as an interim speaker,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Said Fallon: “The mood of the room was clear. Because of this ugly process, what has this party done? It has enabled the Democrats to determine the way forward in part, because if all 212 Democrats vote for this resolution, it will pass. If all of them oppose it, it will fail. So we’re in the majority and we don’t have a say as to what happens with this resolution. It was completely up to the Democrats. That was not smart.”