Senate Republicans Criticize House GOP for Failure to Elect Speaker

Senate Republicans on Jan. 3 criticized the House GOP for failing to elect a speaker despite holding a majority in the lower chamber in the new Congress.
“If it’s this hard to elect a Speaker, imagine how hard it’s going to be to pass any legislation,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told The Hill.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the three failed votes on Tuesday, which featured more than a dozen Republican members not voting for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), was “not a good start” and questioned whether the GOP-held House would ever pass a bill that President Joe Biden would sign….}