Washington:
Republicans nominated conservative hardliner Jim Jordan as their candidate for speaker of the US Home of Representatives, the occasion management introduced Friday, because the decrease chamber of Congress remained paralyzed for a tenth day.
The 59-year-old chairman of the highly effective Judiciary Committee noticed off a problem from Georgia congressman Austin Scott to win a secret poll of Home Republicans for the nomination, stated convention chairwoman Elise Stefanik.
However he must win a majority of the 433-member full Home to safe the gavel.
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