Rep. Good on Speakership vote: ‘I’m a no against the status quo’

Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) said that he is voting against the “status quo” when asked if he would back Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) during the House vote for the Speakership. 

“Well, I’m a firm no against the status quo. The Republican Party has not shown a willingness to fight, to use every weapon at our disposal to fight against the radical Biden agenda,” he said on NewsNation’s “The Hill” on Wednesday. 

Good was one of the eight Republicans who sided with Democrats to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the Speakership last week. He also said that he was still supporting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for Speaker in an earlier post on X, the platform previously known as Twitter, after the House GOP voted to nominate Scalise.

“We did not have a majority,” Good said, speaking of the Speakership vote. “But we can’t maintain the status quo. Washington is broken. Congress is failing the American people. There’s nothing we’re doing here that is working. And a Jim Jordan speakership would represent that change the American people want.”

Scalise likely faces an uphill battle for the Speakership after he won the GOP’s internal conference vote 113-99 on Wednesday. While Jordan said he would support Scalise for Speaker after the election, it’s unclear whether Scalise will win the support necessary to be elected to the top spot this week.

Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Max Miller (Ohio), Nancy Mace (S.C.) and Lloyd Smucker (Pa.) are also among those who have said they plan to vote for Jordan on the House floor. Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (R-Fla.) said he plans to vote for McCarthy for Speaker on the House floor.

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