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House GOP meeting is going on 3 hours without clear path yet for McHenry resolution
From CNN's Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju
The House GOP Conference meeting is now going on three hours and has grown increasingly heated, with no clear path forward on a resolution to temporarily empower interim Speaker Patrick McHenry.
Lawmakers in the room are debating the resolution which has received fierce pushback from conservatives and others in the conference, despite the fact that Speaker designee Jim Jordan has gotten behind the idea. Others have argued that such a move is the only viable option to re-open the House given that no speaker candidate seems to be able to get 217 votes.
But some lawmakers say the prospects for the resolution look grim right now.
Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan, who voted against Jordan's speakership bid in the second round of voting Wednesday, said the measure appears dead.
And former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whose ouster earlier this month precipitated the current crisis, said he doesnt think the resolution should come to the floor unless it has the support of a majority of the conference's support which Republicans do not believe it has at this point.
A GOP leadership aide tells CNN that no decisions have been made about if and how theyre going to bring this forward.