Pro-crypto lawmaker stays interim US House Speaker as frontrunner loses first round of voting By Cointelegraph

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North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry, chair of the United States House Financial Services Committee and crypto proponent in Congress, is still temporarily in the third most powerful role in government after one of his Republican colleagues failed to secure enough votes.

In a vote conducted with members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 17, no candidate for Speaker won a majority of votes needed to secure the position. Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, the Republican Party’s nominee for Speaker, obtained 200 votes — short of the 217 needed to win.

Rep. Patrick McHenry addressing the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 17. Source