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How Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation voted for a new House speaker

It was mostly Hakeem Jeffries vs. Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday from Pennsylvania’s members of Congress.

Scott Perry leaves a meeting in the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy at the U.S. Capitol Building.

Scott Perry leaves a meeting in the office of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy at the U.S. Capitol Building. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

By Harrison Cann

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If you had “Harrisburg lawmakers coming together before those in Washington, D.C.” on your 2023 bingo card, you’re off to a great start. As the state House elected state Rep. Mark Rozzi as its speaker Tuesday, lawmakers in the nation’s capitol were at an impasse over who should lead the newly-elected, GOP-controlled House of Representatives. 

U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican, has failed to garner the votes necessary to be elected Speaker of the House as a conservative wing of the party is preventing him from winning the majority of votes. And amid the chaos in Washington, Pennsylvania lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, are playing a pivotal role in the votes for speaker.

A member needs 218 votes if every member of Congress casts a ballot, meaning McCarthy can only afford to lose four Republican votes. Thus far, he’s come up short on eight occasions, with Democrats voting for Hakeem Jeffries from New York and several GOP members bucking McCarthy and voting for the likes of U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican from Ohio, and U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, the Republican from Florida. 

Here is how the commonwealth’s congressional delegation has voted for speaker in each of the first seven ballots: 

Brian Fitzpatrick

1st: McCarthy

2nd: McCarthy

3rd: McCarthy

4th: McCarthy

5th: McCarthy

6th: McCarthy

7th: McCarthy

8th: McCarthy

Brendan Boyle

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

Dwight Evans

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

Madeleine Dean

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries 

Mary Gay Scanlon

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

Chrissy Houlahan

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

Susan Wild

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

Matt Cartwright

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

Dan Meuser

1st: McCarthy

2nd: McCarthy

3rd: McCarthy

4th: McCarthy

5th: McCarthy

6th: McCarthy

7th: McCarthy

8th: McCarthy

Scott Perry

1st: Biggs

2nd: Jordan

3rd: Jordan

4th: Donalds

5th: Donalds

6th: Donalds

7th: Donalds

8th: Donalds

Lloyd Smucker

1st: McCarthy

2nd: McCarthy

3rd: McCarthy

4th: McCarthy

5th: McCarthy

6th: McCarthy

7th: McCarthy

8th: McCarthy

John Joyce

1st: McCarthy

2nd: McCarthy

3rd: McCarthy

4th: McCarthy

5th: McCarthy

6th: McCarthy

7th: McCarthy

8th: McCarthy

Guy Reschenthaler

1st: McCarthy

2nd: McCarthy

3rd: McCarthy

4th: McCarthy

5th: McCarthy

6th: McCarthy

7th: McCarthy

8th: McCarthy

GT Thompson

1st: McCarthy

2nd: McCarthy

3rd: McCarthy

4th: McCarthy

5th: McCarthy

6th: McCarthy

7th: McCarthy

8th: McCarthy

Mike Kelly

1st: McCarthy

2nd: McCarthy

3rd: McCarthy

4th: McCarthy

5th: McCarthy

6th: McCarthy

7th: McCarthy

8th: McCarthy

Summer Lee

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

Chris Deluzio

1st: Jeffries

2nd: Jeffries

3rd: Jeffries

4th: Jeffries

5th: Jeffries

6th: Jeffries

7th: Jeffries

8th: Jeffries

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