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The gavel Jim Jordan does not get THE RECEIPTS The gavel Jim Jordan does not get November 11, 2026 Behind a closed door on Tuesday Behind a closed door on ...

The gavel Jim Jordan does not get THE RECEIPTS The gavel Jim Jordan does not get November 11, 2026 Behind a closed door on Tuesday Behind a closed door on Tuesday — Tuesday, November 10, 2026: House Republicans met in a closed-door conference meeting — They elected a new leader for the party in the next Congress — The ballot was secret, and it went 106 votes to 73 — It came one week after the party lost more than forty seats and control of the House The ballot, in numbers The ballot, in numbers 106 votes for Jordan, in a secret ballot of the conference 73 votes for Steve Scalise, the sitting majority leader 103 - 76 the whip race, which Tom Emmer held against August Pfluger 120th the Congress Jordan leads, seated in January 2027 The man they chose The man they chose — Jim Jordan has sat in the House since 2007 — He chairs the Judiciary Committee and has led Republicans at Oversight as well — He co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, the conference’s hardline bloc — His twenty years in the chamber were built on investigations rather than legislation The leader they passed over The leader they passed over — Steve Scalise of Louisiana went into the meeting as the sitting majority leader — He was the continuity candidate, and he took 73 votes — The case made against him: too closely tied to the failed midterm effort — The conference agreed, by thirty-three votes The Speaker who did not run The Speaker who did not run — Mike Johnson had been Speaker of the House — He did not put his name forward for the leadership election — He is stepping aside and is not seeking another leadership position for the next two years — Lisa McClain of Michigan takes the conference chair; Brian Jack of Georgia takes the campaign committee The House they will walk into The House they will walk into — On the day of the leadership vote the count stood at 254 Democrats to 166 Republicans — Fifteen races had still not been called, and the numbers were moving by the hour — A tally published five days earlier had different figures in all three columns — The figure every count agrees on: Republicans lost more than forty seats, and the chamber What he says he will do “When Democrats offer more government, we’ll offer more freedom. And we will bring that fight in committee, on the floor and on the stump every single day.” — Jim Jordan, speaking on November 10, 2026, after House Republicans elected him their leader for the next Congress The record he brings The record he brings 2007 the year he arrived in the House None bills he introduced as sponsor that have been signed into law 118th the Congress in which GovTrack recorded none enacted, including by incorporation 4th from last among House Republicans scored for lawmaking in the 117th Congress The vote that decided it The vote that decided it — 106 votes against 73, by secret ballot of the conference — A margin of thirty-three in a party that had just lost more than forty seats — The same meeting kept the sitting whip in his job by 103 to 76 — Four independent news organisations reported the same counts that afternoon His own case for the job “For too long, we have operated without a clear plan to survive the hour or the day in front of us.” — Jim Jordan, in the letter to House Republicans that launched his bid, published by his office on November 4, 2026. The same letter calls the election result a staggering day for our Conference and argues that over the next two years the party’s job cannot be merely to spotlight how radical the Democrats are Where a committee subpoena comes from Where a committee subpoena comes from Where a committee subpoena comes from Where a committee subpoena comes from Where a committee subpoena comes from The gavel is the job The gavel is the job On the day they elected him, the new Republican leader said his party would bring the fight in committee. In January, committee is the one room where he will not hold the gavel. House Rule XI gives the power to authorise a subpoena to the committee, or to the chair it delegates to, and chairs come from the majority. The ranking minority member gets consulted, and gets notified. For twenty years the investigation was the instrument. The party that just lost the House has handed it to the man who used that instrument best, at the exact moment it goes back in the drawer. Stay up to date with Dataspheres AI Stay up to date with Dataspheres AI Sign up and get the Dataspheres AI Weekly: the week's key stories and what to watch next. dataspheres.ai/signup Scan to sign up