Kevin McCarthy loses 6th vote for Speaker

[Rev. Rye]

If this horseshit keeps going on past January 13, Congress won’t be able to pay itself. And now, I wonder if this might actually end up being the thing that convinces the abstainers to actually do something. Especially with Biden not doing anything and my not finding any articles explaining any nuclear option he could potentially take.

Is there something Biden can do?  I mean, according to law or precedence?  Multiple votes have happened before.

I found a few cases where they've had more ballots than we've had so far, and while I don't know how 1820, 1821, and 1859-60 ended up getting decided, I did find out that the elections of 1849 and 1855-6 finally ended when they decided to change the rules up to accept a plurality of votes rather than a majority.