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House speakership vote isn't going to be 'pretty,' GOP lawmaker says

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The 119th Congress officially begins today .

Republicans control both the House and the Senate for the first time in five years .

The 1st order of business voting on a speaker so lawmakers can be sworn in is to vote on a new speaker.

Current House Speaker Mike Johnson can only afford to lose one Republican vote.

Former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz used this process, of course, as we know, to oust former Speaker McCarthy . That was October of 2023 . It also states a member and their Co sponsors must be in the majority party. But of course Democrats have already come out and publicly said that they are opposed to this rule.

Congressman Hearn : "We've got a lot of work to do. I sit on Ways and Means and work on the tax subcommittee" Hearn says he's working on codifying the Trump tax policies from 2017 .

Biden is trying to throw up roadblocks ahead of President Trump 's second term before leaving office.

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