Steve Scalise

He said he wouldn't get involved in choosing an alternative nominee but election of a speaker "needs to happen quickly"

Republicans nominated Rep. Steve Scalise on Wednesday to be the next House speaker but struggled to quickly unite their deeply divided majority and elect the conservative in a public floor vote after the historic ousting of Rep. Kevin McCarthy from the job. In private balloting at the Capitol, House Republicans narrowly pushed aside Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the firebrand Judiciary Committee chairman, in favour of Scalise, the current majority leader. The Louisiana congressman, who is battling blood cancer, is seen as a hero to some after surviving a shooting on lawmakers at a congressional baseball game practice in 2017. We have a lot of work to do, Scalise said afterward. A floor vote of the whole House was expected, but tensions are still running high among Republicans who have brought the House to a standstill with bitter infighting after McCarthy's stunning removal last week. The House was gavelled into a brief session, then broke indefinitely, with next steps uncertain. It's an .

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Steve Scalise, No. 3 in House of Representatives Republican leadership, was shot in the hip