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1:40Now PlayingHere's what we know about the stalemate for the speaker of the House.
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The House remained gridlocked Thursday after Republican lawmakers were unable to herd their majority behind a speaker candidate for a third consecutive day since the new Congress convened.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy failed to meet the needed 218-vote threshold on five separate ballots as he tied – and then vaulted past – a 100-year record for one of the longest speaker races.
McCarthy's foes pushed the California Republican into the history books after the ninth ballot made this one of the longest speaker battles. He lost three ballots each on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In 1923, it took Massachusetts Rep. Frederick Gillett nine rounds of voting to win his speaker bid. This time, the House will have to go to at least a 12th ballot – the most since before the Civil War.
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