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Republican candidate says he’ll ‘keep working on it’ after losing more votes in second ballot With the House in its weeks-long gridlock, there are increasing calls from across the aisle to expand the powers of the chamber’s acting speaker, North Carolina’s Patrick McHenry.Oregon’s Republican representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer (who opposes Jim Jordan), tweeted:“It’s time to empower the speaker pro tempore. The Republican conference is still deeply divided. While we continue working on finding a consensus candidate for speaker…we must resume the business of governing.”“By electing Representative McHenry as Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives, the House will be able to hold votes necessary to fund the government beyond the expiration of our current fiscal year.” Continue reading...