Hardline Republican Jim Jordan is set to take his sputtering bid for speaker to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, hoping to bulldoze opposition from dozens within his own party by applying pressure in a series of public votes. The political civil war that has consumed House Republicans largely behind closed doors since former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's ouster on Oct. 3 has already consumed two weeks that Congress could have spent funding federal agencies ahead of a Nov. 17 shutdown deadline and aiding the war efforts of U.S. allies Israel and Ukraine. With more than 50 Republicans opposed to Jordan, the show of dysfunction stands out for being driven by Republican infighting rather than Congress' more customary partisan squabbles.
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