SoCal Voter Guide: What to Know About the November Election

Table Of Content

• Your guide to Measure LA on the 2022 California midterm ballot
• Democrats renominated Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
• Jordan loses 20 Republicans in first round of voting
• Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it
• One Republican absent for speaker vote, all Democrats in attendance
• Editorial: Speaker Mike Johnson’s Ukraine aid bill is better late than never
• Where and How to Cast Your Ballot in the November Election

Registered voters can cast their ballots in person or return a completed mail-in ballot at each site. On the floor of the House, the presiding officer is always addressed as "Mister Speaker" or "Madam Speaker", even if that person is serving as speaker pro tempore. When the House resolves itself into a Committee of the Whole, the speaker designates a member to preside over the committee, who is addressed as "Mister Chairman" or "Madam Chairwoman". The presiding officer also rules on all points of order but such rulings may be appealed to the whole House.

Your guide to Measure LA on the 2022 California midterm ballot

If you didn't, or you want to know what happened to your ballot after returning it, California offers a ballot tracking system. Click here to track your ballot, find out whether you're registered, locate a polling place and more. Here's what voters in Southern California should know about casting a ballot in the Nov. 8 General Election. California’s 2022 election ballot includes races for governor, attorney general, Legislature and Congress, local contests and statewide propositions. Your sample ballot should have an address printed on it showing your local polling site. If an address isn’t listed, you’ll be able to call the secretary of state’s voter hotline or check online.

Democrats renominated Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

The oath is identical to the one new members will take once a speaker is chosen. Two GOP lawmakers, Reps. Dave Joyce, Ohio, and Mike Kelly, Pa., have each introduced their own resolutions empowering McHenry as interim speaker for a limited period to allow Congress to address time-sensitive issues, such as the looming shutdown. Of the eight candidates in the speaker’s race, it is unclear who can reach 217 votes. The Republicans’ goal is to pick a candidate whom the entire group can coalesce around without a repeat of the multiple-ballot saga that ushered in – and, ultimately, fatally undermined – McCarthy’s speakership.

Jordan loses 20 Republicans in first round of voting

“We’re going to show not only Israel but the entire world that the barbarism of Hamas" is "wretched and wrong,” he said. “We went through a lot to get here, but we are ready to govern and that will begin right away,” Johnson says in his first news conference as speaker. Johnson said Republicans would "dispense with all of the usual ceremonies and celebrations” and get to work. “You’re going to see an aggressive schedule in the days and weeks ahead,” he said. Representative Ken Buck of Colorado said that Mr. Johnson was not involved in postelection efforts to invalidate the results, even though Mr. Johnson was a critical player in those activities. “People can make mistakes and still be really good speakers,” Mr. Buck said. Mr. Johnson immediately faces a host of challenges that dogged his predecessor, Mr. McCarthy.

Gov. Gavin Newsom fended off a recall effort last year and faced more than two dozen little-known challengers in the primary. California state senator Brian Dahle, who received 17% of the vote in the primary, is Newsom's Republican challenger in the General Election. Click the county elections sites below for more details about vote center locations and other options to cast your ballot. More than 3.8 million of those vote-by-mail ballots have already been returned, whether by drop box, drop-off locations like vote centers or mail. In Los Angeles County, the state's most populous, more than 977,000 ballots had been cast as of Sunday.

Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it

Since Republicans control the House with only four votes to spare, a small hard-right minority has flexed its muscles repeatedly to the consternation of the mainstream conservatives who form the bulk of the conference. The refusal of some of them to go along with Mr. Jordan’s election was an unusual show of force from a group that more commonly seeks compromise and conciliation. He later added that if elected speaker, he would "tirelessly work to defend and expand our majority and help every Republican member back at home."

One Republican absent for speaker vote, all Democrats in attendance

Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a chief Republican opponent of Jim Jordan’s speakership bid, told CNN on Wednesday that the speaker designee would lose a “bigger chunk” of GOP floor votes on a third ballot. All register California voters are sent a vote-by-mail ballot from their county elections office. On the other hand, when the speaker and the president belong to opposite parties, the public role and influence of the speaker tend to increase.

Editorial: Speaker Mike Johnson’s Ukraine aid bill is better late than never

Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack derided what he referred to as the “attack, attack, attack” tactics of allies of Speaker designee Jim Jordan against those members who have voted against his speakership bid. Because of the intraparty divisions, Democratic support would likely be needed to approve the measure. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CNN earlier today that his caucus has not yet made a decision on whether they'd back such a temporary solution. Diaz-Balart has voted for House Majority Leader Steve Scalise for speaker on both floor votes so far. Jordan told CNN the plan is for the House to gather again for a third speaker vote at noon ET Thursday. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan again failed to win the House speaker’s gavel in a second vote on Wednesday, faring worse than he did during the first round of voting one day earlier.

Davidson, a retired Army captain, was the first primary candidate endorsed by the House Freedom Fund, the political arm of the House Freedom Caucus that was co-founded by Jordan. Cole praised Jordan's directness and his "spine of steel" and emphasized Jordan's work on the border. He received a bipartisan standing ovation for his emphasis of the House's support of Israel and its right to self defense.

She didn't want to support the hardliners who are trying to block his speakership, but she did want to signal to McCarthy that he needs to wrap this up or move aside. However, the trick only works up to this point since the Democratic nominee, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, has had 212 votes. There is already one open seat caused by the death of Virginia Democrat Rep. Donald McEachin.

Because Republicans have now emerged with a candidate, McHenry can bring the vote up on the floor. In the past when a speaker died in office or resigned, the House usually moved directly to electing a new speaker. Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania had proposed a rules change that would temporarily have required a Republican candidate to get 217 votes of the 221 GOP members to be considered the party’s nominee. On the eve of the Jan. 6 votes, Mr. Johnson had honed his arguments undermining the election to be more palatable.

The power of the speaker was greatly augmented during the tenure of the Republican Thomas Brackett Reed (1889–1891, 1895–1899). Reed, however, declared that members who were in the chamber but refused to vote would still count for the purposes of determining a quorum. Through these and other rulings, Reed ensured that the Democrats could not block the Republican agenda.

Every lawmaker voting “present” lowers the overall tally needed to reach a majority. Choosing a speaker will be the first vote the House will take before new and returning lawmakers are even sworn into office on Tuesday. As set out under the Constitution, the session will begin at noon Jan. 3, with all the lawmakers seated on the House floor and members from both parties joining in the vote for speaker.

Republicans nominate Mike Johnson for House speaker in latest attempt to break impasse - NBC News

Republicans nominate Mike Johnson for House speaker in latest attempt to break impasse.

Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Jordan, who was abandoned by the conference as the nominee, and Scalise, who voluntarily withdrew from the race, both had a handful of their own detractors that prevented them from ever drumming up the support required to be elected speaker. But there are still many holdouts – including Marjorie Taylor Green of Georgia and Nancy Mace of South Carolina that are blocking Scalise’s path to speakership. Some say they will still vote only for Jordan, the Trump-backed candidate. Scalise spent Wednesday evening meeting them one by one to try and make progress.

Trump has given a nod of support to Johnson, who dashed to the former president's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida last month to shore up backing. In pressing ahead next week, she said that "every member of Congress needs to take that vote." “We need leaders in the House of Representatives that are going to get this done,” said Greene, R-Ga., holding up a red “MAGA” hat from Trump's “Make America Great Again” campaign movement. Greene, Massie and Gosar were not among the other seven Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy.

A bloc of Republicans had objected to the speaker bid of Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the hard-right co-founder of the Freedom Caucus, because of his role in helping lead Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Mainstream conservatives who backed Mr. Johnson said they hoped to quickly move to pull the House out of its funk. Almost immediately after Mr. Johnson was elected, lawmakers began debating a resolution expressing solidarity with Israel and condemning Hamas, which passed overwhelmingly. Exhausted from the feuding, which unleashed a barrage of recriminations and violent threats against lawmakers, both the right wing and mainstream Republicans finally united to elect Mr. Johnson, 51, in a 220-to-209 vote.