The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives is vot­ing on Jim Jor­dan’s nom­i­na­tion for speak­er two weeks af­ter the cham­ber oust­ed Kevin Mc­Carthy from the top spot.

Jor­dan has been scram­bling to shore up the votes need­ed to clinch the speak­er­ship in the close­ly di­vid­ed cham­ber. He can on­ly lose a few GOP votes to win the nod.

As at 1:30 pm to­day, Jor­dan had 184 votes to Ha­keem Jef­fries' 177.

Jor­dan has now lost well over the three GOP votes he could spare in his quest to be­come House speak­er.

For now, it de­nies Jor­dan the speak­er’s gav­el, but votes can still be changed while the roll is be­ing called.

Reps. Don Ba­con, Lori Chavez-DeRe­mer, An­tho­ny D’Es­pos­i­to, Mario Di­az-Balart and Jake El­lzey are among the Re­pub­li­cans who have vot­ed against Jor­dan.

Loud mur­murs arose af­ter each of the votes for an al­ter­na­tive speak­er, and were es­pe­cial­ly loud af­ter Di­az-Balart cast a po­ten­tial­ly de­ci­sive fourth vote against Jor­dan.

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Source: AS­SO­CI­AT­ED PRESS